Setting templates with the Background Images tool
by Enrico Valenza, Pierre-Armand Nicq, Romain Caudron
Blender 3D: Designing Objects
- Blender 3D: Designing Objects
- Table of Contents
- Blender 3D: Designing Objects
- Blender 3D: Designing Objects
- Credits
- Preface
- 1. Module 1
- 1. Straight into Blender!
- 2. Robot Toy – Modeling of an Object
- Let's start the modeling of our robot toy
- Using the basic modeling tools
- Modeling the head
- Modeling the antenna
- An introduction to the Subdivision Surface modifier
- Modeling the thunderbolts
- Modeling the eyes
- Modeling the chest
- Modeling the neck
- Modeling the torso
- Modeling the buttons
- Modeling the fork
- Modeling the main wheel
- Modeling the arm
- Using Blender Internal to render our Robot Toy
- Summary
- 3. Alien Character – Base Mesh Creation and Sculpting
- 4. Alien Character – Creating a Proper Topology and Transferring the Sculpt Details
- 5. Haunted House – Modeling of the Scene
- 6. Haunted House – Putting Colors on It
- 7. Haunted House – Adding Materials and Lights in Cycles
- 8. Rat Cowboy – Learning To Rig a Character for Animation
- 9. Rat Cowboy – Animate a Full Sequence
- 10. Rat Cowboy – Rendering, Compositing, and Editing
- 2. Module 2
- 1. Modeling the Character's Base Mesh
- 2. Sculpting the Character's Base Mesh
- 3. Polygonal Modeling of the Character's Accessories
- 4. Re-topology of the High Resolution Sculpted Character's Mesh
- 5. Unwrapping the Low Resolution Mesh
- 6. Rigging the Low Resolution Mesh
- Introduction
- Building the character's Armature from scratch
- Perfecting the Armature to also function as a rig for the Armor
- Building the character's Armature through the Human Meta-Rig
- Building the animation controls and the Inverse Kinematic
- Generating the character's Armature by using the Rigify add-on
- 7. Skinning the Low Resolution Mesh
- 8. Finalizing the Model
- 9. Animating the Character
- 10. Creating the Textures
- Introduction
- Making a tileable scales image in Blender Internal
- Preparing the model to use the UDIM UV tiles
- Baking the tileable scales texture into the UV tiles
- Painting to fix the seams and to modify the baked scales image maps
- Painting the color maps in Blender Internal
- Painting the color maps in Cycles
- 11. Refining the Textures
- 12. Creating the Materials in Cycles
- 13. Creating the Materials in Blender Internal
- 14. Lighting, Rendering, and a Little Bit of Compositing
- 3. Module 3
- 1. Overview of Materials in Cycles
- 2. Managing Cycles Materials
- 3. Creating Natural Materials in Cycles
- Introduction
- Creating a rock material using image maps
- Creating a rock material using procedural textures
- Creating a sand material using procedural textures
- Creating a simple ground material using procedural textures
- Creating a snow material using procedural textures
- Creating an ice material using procedural textures
- 4. Creating Man-made Materials in Cycles
- Introduction
- Creating a generic plastic material
- Creating a Bakelite material
- Creating an expanded polystyrene material
- Creating a clear (glassy) polystyrene material
- Creating a rubber material
- Creating an antique bronze material with procedurals
- Creating a multipurpose metal node group
- Creating a rusty metal material with procedurals
- Creating a wood material with procedurals
- 5. Creating Complex Natural Materials in Cycles
- 6. Creating More Complex Man-made Materials
- 7. Subsurface Scattering in Cycles
- Introduction
- Using the Subsurface Scattering shader node
- Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Translucent shader
- Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Vertex Color tool
- Simulating Subsurface Scattering in Cycles using the Ray Length output in the Light Path node
- Creating a fake Subsurface Scattering node group
- 8. Creating Organic Materials
- Introduction
- Creating an organic-looking shader with procedurals
- Creating a wasp-like chitin material with procedural textures
- Creating a beetle-like chitin material with procedural textures
- Creating tree shaders – the bark
- Creating tree shaders – the leaves
- Creating a layered human skin material in Cycles
- Creating fur and hair
- Creating a gray alien skin material with procedurals
- 9. Special Materials
- Bibliography
- Index
In this recipe, we'll set the character's templates by using the Background Images tool.
As in the former recipe, no need for any particular preparations; just carry out the preparatory steps as mentioned in the Getting ready section of the previous recipe.
So let's start by adding the templates as background images; that is, as reference images only visible in the background in Ortho view mode and, differently from the previous recipes, not as 3D objects actually present in the middle of the scene:
- Press 1 on the numpad to switch to the orthographic Front view and press Alt + Home to center the view on the 3D Cursor.
- If not already present, press N to bring up the Properties sidepanel to the right-hand side of the 3D window; scroll down to reach the Background Images subpanel and enable it with the checkbox. Then click on the little arrow to expand it.
- Click on the Add Image button; in the new option panel that appears, click on the Open button and browse to the
templatesfolder to load thegidiosaurus_front.pngimage. - Click on the little window to the side of the Axis item and switch from All Views to Front, and then set the Opacity slider to 1.000.
- Increase the Y offset value to make the bottom/feet guideline of the reference image aligned to the horizontal arm of the first Empty (you have to set it to 0.780).
- Scale Size smaller, using both the Empties that we set as references for the 2.5 meters height of the creature (you actually have to set the Scale value to 0.875).
The background image scaled and positioned through the settings in the N sidepanel
- Click on the little white arrow on the top-left side of the
gidiosaurus_front.pngsubwindow to collapse it. - Click on the Add Image button again; then, in the new option panel, click on the Open button, browse to the
templatesfolder, and load thegidiosaurus_side.pngimage. Then, set the Axis item to Right, Opacity to 1.000, Scale to 0.875, and Y to 0.780. - Repeat the operation for the
gidiosaurus_back.pngimage, set Axis to Back, and so on.
Press 3 on the numpad to switch to the Side view, 1 to switch to the Front view, and Ctrl + 1 to switch to the Back view, but remember that you must be in the Ortho mode (5 key on the numpad) to see the background templates:
The N sidepanel settings to assign the background image to a view
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