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Contents

Linking to dummies ................................................................................................257
Tutorial: Circling the globe .....................................................................................257
Summary ..........................................................................................................................258

Part III: Modeling Basics 259

Chapter 10: Accessing Subobjects and Using Modeling Helpers . . . . . . 261
Exploring the Model Types ...............................................................................................261
Parametric objects versus editable objects ...............................................................261
Converting to editable objects .................................................................................263
Understanding Normals ....................................................................................................264
Viewing normals .....................................................................................................264
Tutorial: Cleaning up imported meshes ...................................................................265
Working with Subobjects ..................................................................................................266
Using Soft Selection.................................................................................................267
Tutorial: Soft selecting a heart shape from a plane ...................................................269
Applying modifiers to subobject selections ..............................................................271
Using Modeling Helpers ....................................................................................................271
Using Dummy and Point objects .............................................................................271
Measuring coordinate distances ...............................................................................272
Summary ..........................................................................................................................274
Chapter 11: Introducing Modifiers and Using the Modifier Stack . . . . . 275
Exploring the Modifier Stack .............................................................................................275
Understanding Base Objects ....................................................................................275
Applying modifiers ..................................................................................................276
Other Modifier Stack entities ...................................................................................276
Using the Modifier Stack .........................................................................................276
Reordering the Stack ...............................................................................................279
Tutorial: Creating a molecular chain .......................................................................279
Holding and fetching a scene ..................................................................................280
Collapsing the Stack ................................................................................................281
Using the Collapse utility ........................................................................................281
Using gizmo subobjects ...........................................................................................282
Tutorial: Squeezing a plastic bottle ..........................................................................282
Modifying subobjects ..............................................................................................283
Topology dependency .............................................................................................283
Exploring Modifier Types ..................................................................................................284
Object-Space versus World-Space modifiers ...........................................................285
Selection modifiers ..................................................................................................285
Parametric Deformer modifiers ................................................................................288
Free Form Deformer modifiers ................................................................................304
Summary ..........................................................................................................................306

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