Chapter 22. Special modelling techniques

Table of Contents

Introduction
DupliVerts
DupliVerts as an Arranging Tool
DupliVerts to Model a Single Object
DupliFrames
Modelling using DupliFrames
Arranging objects with DupliFrames
More Animation and Modelling
Modelling with lattices
How does it work?

Claudio "malefico" Andaur

Introduction

Relevant to Blender v2.31

Once we have overcome the “extrusion modelling fever” and started to look at more challenging modelling targets, we might start the quest for alternative methods to do the job. There are a group of modelling techniques in Blender which not only make our modelling job easier but sometimes make it possible.

These so called “special” modelling techniques involve not only some vertex manipulation but the use of non-intuitive procedures which require a deeper knowledge or experience from the user than the average beginner.

In this chapter we will describe these techniques in detail and explain their utility in several modelling applications which could not have been solved any other way.