Modifiers Flashcards
What does it mean to work in a non-destructive manner?
Working in a non-destructive manner allows you to return to the original object at any time.
How do you work non-destructive in Blender?
By using modifiers
What are Modifiers?
Modifiers are automatic operations that affect an object’s geometry in a non-destructive way.
With modifiers, you can perform many effects automatically that would otherwise be too tedious to do.
Few polygons or faces give what kind of appearance?
Jagged and faceted
What modifier do you add to smooth a mesh that preserves the vertices that are currently there?
Subdivision surface modifier
What is the difference between Catmull Clark and Simple?
Catmull Clark will divide and smooth the model, whereas a simple one will only add the vertices without smoothing the model at all.
How do you apply the modifier to your mesh?
Ctrl + A : This will remove the modifier stack because the mesh is no longer being modified. It takes all the vertices we were previewing and bakes them into the mesh data,
What is a mirror modifier?
It looks at your entire mesh it will duplicate and flip the direction of all the points on your mesh across either the X, the Y or the X axis
What is a Boolean modifier?
A way that you can programmatically combine the data of two objects that would otherwise be too complicated to do manually.
What does the Array modifier do?
Duplicates and move your mesh a designated number of times in a non-destructive way.
What is an empty object?
It is a way to create an object in blender that has no mesh information so it won’t show up in final renders.
What does “apply the location” do?
It is going to snap the object to the world origin without affecting the placement of the mesh in world space.
