PacktLib: Blender 3D 2.49 Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery

Blender 3D 2.49 Architecture, Buildings, and Scenery

About the Author

About the Reviewers

Introduction to Blender and Architectural Visualization

Architectural visualization

How about Blender 3D?

Hardware and software requirements for Blender

Other tools for visualization

CAD and 3D architectural modeling

3D models from the Internet

Visualization with Blender

Blender 3D: Quick Start

Windows and menus

Keyboard shortcuts

3D visualization

Selecting objects

Renaming objects

Creating Objects

Transforming Objects

Types of objects

Mesh primitives

Modeling example

Proportional editing

Modeling for Architecture

Architectural modeling

Planning is the key to success

Precision modeling

Modeling in practice

Starting from a CAD drawing

Modeling Details

Level of detail

Modeling Furniture

Create models or use a library?

How to get started?

Modeling a chair

Modeling a sofa

Creating and organizing materials

Wireframe materials

Self-illumination

Procedural textures vs. Non-procedural textures

Texture library

Applying textures

What is UV mapping?

Marking the model

Unfold the model

Smart projections

Lighting exercise

Radiosity and Ambient Occlusion

Global Illumination (GI)

Ambient Occlusion

Global Illumination with YafaRay

Installing YafaRay

Blender and YafaRay

YafaRay materials

YafaRay render methods

Animation for Architectural Visualization

Animation and frames

Managing keyframes

Animating a camera

Rendering animation

Video Sequence Editor

Interactive animation

Post-Production with Gimp

Selection tools

Color adjustment

Blender 2.50 and Architectural Visualization

Development of Blender 2.50

Materials and textures