All language subtitles for 05 - Advanced 3D modelling tools in Blender

- [Instructor] Now let's look

at how we can mirror our changes from one side to the other.

As you might remember from the previous video,

we turned on X mirroring.

And it generally works for moving tools,

but it starts to fall apart when you go ahead

and start extruding new faces.

So, what we want to do is go to Loop Cut

and hover our mouse right around here

and cut right down the middle.

Now be careful if you move your mouse,

you might add more cuts.

So, just go ahead and hit Enter as soon as you left-click.

There we go.

And so now we have a nice cut all the way down the middle.

Go back to the Move tool

and on the right, click on this little blue wrench,

and then, click on Add Modifier.

Go to Generate and look for a mirror.

And for good measure, click on Clipping.

Now, a few things.

If this doesn't happen

and you see a different kind of mirroring happen,

maybe something like this?

Well, consider changing what axis you are mirroring on.

Maybe you didn't rotate initially

or maybe you were working down the X axis, not the Y,

which happens to be this green color.

It doesn't matter which access you work down,

just make sure you can correctly mirror.

The next thing we need to do is address

all of these overlapping faces that are on this side.

And we're going to need to turn off symmetry

because now the mirror modifier

is going to take care of it for us.

To fix all these overlapping faces,

click on the Wireframe mode.

Click on faces up here,

and then look right down the middle,

left-click and drag a box.

You want to highlight all of these little dots

right down the middle.

See that?

From there, just hit the Delete key on your keyboard.

You'll be greeted by a new menu

and you just want to go ahead and delete faces.

Go ahead and click on Solid mode,

move and let's just go to vertices really quick.

Let's go move our vertices

Look at that. No more overlapping faces.

And to prove that this works really nicely,

I'll go ahead and click on face.

Just click on any random ones here really quick

and just extrude them out.

And look at that.

Our mirroring happens on the other side.

Pretty cool.

The mirror modifier is a really, really handy tool

when you're working in 3D and you want to make sure

that what you're modeling on one side appears on the other.

Now, there's a couple other tools

I want to discuss really quick.

Let's go ahead and click right about here.

There we go. Just this face right here.

And we can click on Inset Faces.

At first you might say, "Wait, what's going on here?"

If I left click and drag,

you can see it adds like a little face within a face.

From here, I can move up and down.

Now admittedly, I don't like

this little triangle situation happening,

so I'm actually going to Control + Z that.

And maybe I'll just inset back here.

They can be like engines, right?

So right there, just click on that one right here,

inset face, just grab and drag this in.

And actually what I can do now

is click on Extrude and extrude inwards,

and then scale that a little bit.

There we go.

Now you've got an engine of sorts going on.

Another cool tool that you can use is a beveling,

and I love beveling.

So, let's go ahead and come up here and click on Edge.

And one thing that you can do

is hold down Shift and select a bunch of different edges.

There we go.

And then click on Bevel,

and just left click and drag this.

Hey, that looks pretty cool.

Let's do that again.

Let's grab this area over here.

You want to grab these edges.

And hold down Shift to drag this box

and select all these edges.

I actually think I want to try

to grab a few more of these here.

Just want to try to grab all of these kind of hard edges

and then just drag a bevel.

Now, I got to be careful.

It starts to get a little weird back here.

So, let me undo that and just grab these edges too.

There we go.

Now, let's just drag a bevel.

And beveling, as you can imagine,

allows you to get a nice kind of corner going on here.

But be careful.

Once you do a bevel, if you do it again,

it bevels your bevel.

I know it's kind of weird, but just be aware.

Once you do the tool once,

these options and everything, they disappear.

'Cause if you do it again,

it's like doing the tool on top of itself twice.

So, I'm going to undo that.

You'll see my options disappear, but that's okay.

At least I was able to get the bevel where I wanted it.

Between beveling, insetting faces, extruding loop cutting,

and the mirror modifier?

You're sure to make a really awesome spaceship.

Go ahead and take some time,

and see what you can do with your newfound tools.