Hello,
I’m relatively new to Blender, and, for an image I just finished, I needed some pencils.
I modeled them with 4 separate objects (body, body paint, conic tip, and bottom circle),
and ‘hook’ed some vertices inside the objects to a common ‘empty’, which worked well
enough to control the pencils’ length.
I had a harder time with the material for the 3 colored parts (I used a single material
for the 3). I tried to ‘link’ the materials, but as soon as I 'duplicate’d a pencil group,
the link seemed broken, and, anyway, I had to define a new material for each color,
which was tedious.
Say I’d want to create an image with quite a quantity of pencils :
-
is the hook method valid, or would it be better to set up an armature to
control the length of the pencils ? -
is it possible to have the pencil’s color as some kind of parameter, without
the need to define a new material for each color and synced between the 3
parts that need it ?
