I have now added Assignment 2!  Now, I’d like to clarify some details about my Blender classes.  There are actually two parts of each assignment.  The first one is something you must do aided by a walkthrough of each step (or “projects”–Suzanne was the last one) and part two is when you are told to do something and are shown the minimal requirements (which are just called assignments–the eggs).  Now here is my second project: build a house.  This involved constraining my camera to a path, which I believe is part of the parenting family. Paths are new to me; I just learned them during the class.  A path is a one-dimensional line that can’t be seen while being rendered (made into a picture/movie), and one can constrain any object to it to make the object follow it.  Anyway, my “special addition” to the house is: interior decoration! What, adding a table and a Minecraft-inspired bed isn’t enough for you??  *Sigh*. okay, whatever you...

This actually happened some time before this post.  As I said earlier, I’m taking classes of Blender using K12.com, and quite a few of my posts will from now on have to do with the assignments I have to do.  Starting with my first assignments: “Put a hat on a monkey” and “Put a dozen randomly sized and rotated eggs in a carton”.  First is Suzzane: I used my “assign multiple materials” trick from the previous post for the eyes and pupils, and I also used the “Mirror” setting on the Materials properties (no relation to the Mirror modifier) to make the ground reflective.  Interestingly though, I had to be careful about how reflective I made the plane, as too much would completely reflect the sky, which would make it seem like there was no plane at all: Quite interesting, but not the goal of my activity.  As a side note, the stars don’t seem able to be reflected. Second of all (some of you who read Zoom Times may already know this): Eggs. ...