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An Introduction To Blender

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<application>Blender</application> is a 3D graphics application, released under the GNU General Public License. Blender provides a broad spectrum of modeling, texturing, lighting, animation and video post-processing functionality in one package. Blender can be installed from the package manager <application>KPackageKit</application>; <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>System</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Software Management (KPackageKit)</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

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Blender Basics

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<application>Blender</application> is a powerful application that can be used to perform advanced and complex tasks, such as video editing, 3D modeling and animation. This guide is an introduction to the Blender interface, and also covers basic functions like Exporting and Importing an image.

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Open blender by going to <menuchoice><guimenu>Kickoff Application Launcher</guimenu><guisubmenu>Applications</guisubmenu><guisubmenu>Graphics</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>3D Modeller (Blender)</guimenuitem></menuchoice>

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Blender Window

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The <application>Blender</application>'s splash screen will appear, followed by a window similar to the one below: <placeholder-1/>

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The center of the screen is the main view for creating and viewing 3D models. The bottom portion of the screen is the 'Panel', which has controls to modify mesh models.

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Rotating View

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By default there is a square in the center of the main view. With the cursor in the main window, the view can be rotated by pressing the middle mouse button and dragging the mouse. As the mouse is dragged, the object can be viewed from different angles. Three arrows represent the three axes: X, Y and Z. <placeholder-1/>