Hi. This is my first post. I am new to 3D. I downloaded Blender and I am trying to learn it. I browsed the net and downloaded many tutorials and I even bought the Blender Book (C. Wartmann) which I am following. I like this program a lot, but I couldn’t find how to do a very simple thing:
I have a plane which I extruded, so it looks like a square board or like a pizza box, laying flat.
I need that square to be repeated many times on top of itself, but each instance of the square should be rotated about 10 degrees. (this is not an animation).
I know I could do this by duplicating and rotating it manually but I am sure such a powerful application like Blender must have a feature like that (compared to “Step and Repeat” in QuarkXpress, or “blend tool” in Illustrator), but I can’t figure it out (well, it’s been only 3 days since I downloaded it). Any way to copy repeatedly an object being able to specify shape of the path it should follow as well as number of times and the rotation?
Thank you very much in advance for any help you guys can give me, and congratulations for such a nice message board and community
That one… um… well… there is a spin dup tool, but that would be difficult to get… you could get a curve, and have it follow the curve, and have it dup frames… but that would be difficult, or you could get a curve circle, and make it big according to one box on top, like you have the two boxes, and you try the dup frame, and see how well it matches up…
nonono, he said NO EXTRUSION… I don’t think he made it capital, but that is what he said, He wants pizza boxes, so I’m guessing that he is making an arch out of pizza boxes… so his best bet is to make a Beizer Circle, parent the pizza box to the beizer circle, move it to where the pizza box touches the beizer circle, go to the “animation” tab at the bottom of the screen… and press the little dupframe button, and then just… um tweak it
What I want is: a tower made out of those pizza boxes-like polygons, but each box is rotated (along the Y axis, the one that goes up. Their centers are on top of each other in exactly the same X and Z coordinates). The overall shape is a tower that looks sort of like a screw. No extrusion, no animation.
The Dupliframes tutorial seems to be the right one. I am printing it right now.
Oh well : one more example, less involved than the chaise longue could not hurt ; examplifying DupliFrames is needed since it such a rich and vast domain.
