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How to make a Christmas Star - for Beginners
Hi all, this is my first tutorial I have written. I am still learning this wonderful software and every "simple" tutorial was for me (and still is) very helpful to understand thinking with the 3D tools. I hope it will help beginners.
The steps:
A - Start with a "disc object" with 10 corners and section radius = 2
B - Make it editable with a double click (green symbol in object manager).
C - In point mode select the 10 points from the inner circle. Then use the collapse tool (you will find the tool easy with a right mouse click).
D - In point mode select now every second point (marked red) and use the transform tool to "scale". When you move your mouse to the left, the points will move all towards the center. Now you have the ground shape of the star.
E - By selecting the point in the middle and moving it up the star turns from flat to 3D. You can use then the symmetry modifier to create the counterpart. So the 3D form is complete.
Chose a colour/material of your choice and have a nice render!
- Novus
Hi all, this is my first tutorial I have written. I am still learning this wonderful software and every "simple" tutorial was for me (and still is) very helpful to understand thinking with the 3D tools. I hope it will help beginners.
The steps:
A - Start with a "disc object" with 10 corners and section radius = 2
B - Make it editable with a double click (green symbol in object manager).
C - In point mode select the 10 points from the inner circle. Then use the collapse tool (you will find the tool easy with a right mouse click).
D - In point mode select now every second point (marked red) and use the transform tool to "scale". When you move your mouse to the left, the points will move all towards the center. Now you have the ground shape of the star.
E - By selecting the point in the middle and moving it up the star turns from flat to 3D. You can use then the symmetry modifier to create the counterpart. So the 3D form is complete.
Chose a colour/material of your choice and have a nice render!
- Novus