A Simple Winter Scene

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Just thanking you, DuskBlue. The only thing I couldn't get was the shadows from the spot. My snowman looks pretty good otherwise and Blender doesn't seem so unattainable anymore.

Thanks again,
Ward

This tutorial has been mi first step in the 3D world and I've very enjoyed it:
that was useful and simple with lots of nice tips!

[gonadsonfire]

This is what I ended up with.



This is a really good tutorial, tells you exactly what to do and makes it easy for you to make your first 3d render actually look good.

I'm not a Blender user. But, as I was exploring Blender's web site, I came across your tutorial.

I appreciated your 'snowman' tutorial very, very much. THe writing style and clarity were wonderful. Thanks for a great job.

[Shawn1965]

I just got blender and am looking forward to learning. I have a problem with the winter scene snowman tutorial. When you make the cone you are supposed to select one edge and change the shape of the cone/nose. Yet it does not say HOW to select just the edge/base of the cone and do this.. it just says do it. I know it is simple, but a mountain for one that does now know how.

Shawn

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[legs2004]

Hi,
I'm totally new in this so I started with the winter scene tutorial.In step 13
you have to click image in the textures menu but that button just isn't there as also the 'env map' button.Did I miss anything or did I get a bad blender download?Can anyone help me?
thx
Karel.

hello, i am a new user to blender and i have the same problem as shawn1965 i can draw the cone but i do not no how to resize the bottom of the cone? could someone please help me?

[Pigophone]

really well written and laid out. I love all the screenshots, they help a lot. A great way to start out in Blender. This is what I ended up with... But I felt it needed a shovel and a few snowballs...[IMG][/IMG]

[majorbob]

Originally Posted by Shawn1965

I just got blender and am looking forward to learning. I have a problem with the winter scene snowman tutorial. When you make the cone you are supposed to select one edge and change the shape of the cone/nose. Yet it does not say HOW to select just the edge/base of the cone and do this.. it just says do it. I know it is simple, but a mountain for one that does now know how.

Shawn

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All You Do is deselect the vertices using A then reselecting only the end ones using b the using s to make it larger or smaller

[Drsneaky]

thanks this is my first time using blender... although it looked kind of challenging i tried it out and was able to finish it successfuly. your tutorial was very detailed and helpful, thanks for posting this tutorial, keep up the good work

[björn_björn]

hello henryjohnson.

To resize the base of the cone select all verices in the base and scale (S) it.
You could also scale the whole cone an restrict the scaling to only two axis using X,Y and Z key. (to restrict to two axis press shift and and the key for the axis that you want it NOT to be restricted to)

Hope I can help, I'm new to Blender too.

/Björn

[Prohi]

The cone problem:
To change shape of the cone you will need to de-select all other objects (pressing a-key), afterwards to select the base of the cone, press b-key to be able to draw a sqare around the base part of the cone, then by pressing s you will be able to change size...
I'm newbi too, but this tutorial is just great to make you enter the world of blender... Very pro!!!!!

[helpless]

I am doing the snowman tutorial. It says the uvsphere will turn pink. It doesn't.

And where is the back button on the program? (I'm on a mac)

[helpless]

I have now joined the snow man head and body (still on the tutiorial).

I have yet to see anything pink like the tutorial says. I am now trying to figure out the nose. But still haven't figured out how to undo anything.