#Rey model blender software#
#Rey model blender plus#

#Rey model blender plus#

This included adding an Intro and Outro plate (a bit like opening titles and end credits) plus I added a transparent overlay that had my Copyright watermarks on (sorry I have to do that but I have had my images and content used without my permission before and this helps dissuade such activity!). But that aside after an hour I worked it out and I set about arranging the footage. However Blender has a few quirks where things don’t work as they should or as I’d expected.

#Rey model blender software#

Luckily I used to be a musician so I am fairly comfortable using “Sequencer” style software having worked in recording studios. That fixed the animation but I still had work to do to make a “video” out of it, and that is where the Video Sequence Editor in Blender 3D played it’s part! As the title suggests the Video Sequence Editor (or VSE for short) is a section of Blender that allows you to edit your video footage and add special effects and soundtracks etc. Now the saber hinged and swung downward like this… I had already spent several hours merging objects in my 3D model to make animating easier (you can combine multiple parts into single objects which means each saber – blades, emitters, handles and pommels are each one solid piece). I admit it wasn’t as difficult to do the second time but was just time consuming. but when I realised, I found I couldn’t just flip the footage as you would be able to tell it was upside down! So I had to re-program the animation and re-render the footage. As you can see from the trailer Rey holds her saber and the BOTTOM half hinges and swings downward, but guess what wallybrain did? Yep, I animated the TOP saber to swivel up and over like this…. Believe it or not, this little clip took about three days to produce, partly down to hardware and partly down to the fact my first animation I programmed incorrectly. YAY! My efforts paid off I think, at least the video played. I’ll talk about this later in this post but first here is my little attempt…(it is short for a video but I have a limited laptop!)…. Well the fact Rey might have a red lightsaber made SW fans excited but not only that but it folded out to form a saberstaff,Īround the 1min 45sec mark we see Darkside Rey brandish, then extend her staff and I realised that static images didn’t really show my replica off at it’s best….it needed some MOTION! So I animated the opening sequence…and then did a bit of Video Sequence Editing in another section of Blender 3D.

I built a replica 3D model of Daisy Ridley(?)/Rey’s new “Switchblade” double ended lightsaber based on what I saw in the trailer for The Rise of Skywalker. And I will attempt to accomplish this by showing you a little animation video that I put together after thinking about my post last weekend. Selection modes, as well as shading modes it’s likewise missing (but snapping does have them).īecause the template insists on a solution I declare that the selection modes buttons: Vertex Select, Edge Select, Face Select the Show Overlays button (if indeed there is a shortcut Googling required) the X-Ray button and the Viewport Shading Modes: Wireframe, Solid, Look Dev, Rendered should have their respective keyboard shortcuts displayed in the tooltips.Hello Everybody, today I hope to show that I am always trying to stretch my skills and the limits of my laptop. But what if I haven’t Googled it? I might be using my mouse to switch for months! Based on my experiences (and the 637 peoples who viewed this forum) I believe this issue to be a problem that deserves a fix.Īlso, X-Ray isn’t the only one that doesn’t have the shortcuts in the tooltips. So I got around to Googling it and discovered there is, in fact, a shortcut (Alt-Z). So my assumption was that there wasn’t one but can probably set my own. Upon hovering my mouse over the icon, a tooltip popup appears with no mention of a shortcut.

I’m a new Blender user (less than 10 hours under my belt), and I realized I was toggling X-Ray frequently.