Make A Space Station with Blender In 30 Minutes - No Add-ons Required! 

Thanks so much pompa! So glad you appreciate the vanilla blender approach :-)

i thought add-ons are supposed to make stuff easier to do...is using hardops and boxcutter difficult?

@@rohit.reborn addons are not universal tools..... hardops and boxcutter addons exists only for blender and hopefully you are aware that blender is not industry standard software, not yet. At some point, for your job, you will be required to 3d model professionally (like maintaining good topo, good poly density etc) which, currently can happen only with maya or 3ds max. Besides you should also be aware ngons and booleans create nasty artifacts in renders, slow viewport and NOT AT ALL SUITABLE FOR ANIMATIONS. No matter what people and artists say, quad topo is the real winner. Unless you are targetting for a nice looking portfolio with still image renders, then there shouldn't be any problem with these addons.

Exactly :-)

I appreciate that!

Whoohoo!!!

You are welcome!

I love you, I was stuck and I was looking for this cooment, thank you

Huzzah!

It doesn't work for me. I mean, it doesn't snapping at all.

@@vengefulone6282 lmaooo

@@vengefulone6282 it doesn't worf for me to but thats not a problem at all

how to solve this??

12:59 look at the objects menu how did he grouped the to solar panels into one ?

@@silverfang1644 It looks like he used an empty as a parent for the objects. Use Ctrl + P to do this. However, this is not a fundamental step in the process, this is only a way he decided to organize his scene.

@@perlam.5164 Thanks for the help I just parented both panels to eachother, hope it won't trouble me in future

12:59 look at the objects menu how did he grouped the to solar panels into one ?

12:59 look at the objects menu how did he grouped the to solar panels into one ?

@@silverfang1644 do you mean the empties? I think he created empties and parented the panels to them. This way you can use the empties in modifiers like mirror, array and such as well as animate them easier by just moving the empty instead of meshes or "collections"

@@DiverseDinge thanks it worked !!

select the faces. Press Shift S and select cursor to selected, that will put the cursor at the center of the selected faces. Select Object>Transform>Origin to 3D cursor (or Ctrl Shift Alt C ).

@@glstefan4 just saved my project TY was losing my mind a little trying to figure out why it wasn't orienting properly

I think the particles system only distrubutes its randomly and that would not look good on the ship.

@@unprophete503 You can use weight painting, I guess.

@@Enderplays12 yeah weight painting may kinda work if you're on to it but it's a lot of work to get it right and why bother if you've an easier way :)

go to shading panel, switch from object to world, add a noise texture and a color ramp, put the scale of the noise texture to something really high like 600, and play with the color ramp until you get a sky full of stars just like you want

Did you solve this problem ? I also encountered this problem

@@zyjjkl yeah, I placed a circle at the front ratted it 90 degrees, then that allows you to select the faces of the circle

Same thing happening to me

Did you solve this problem ? I also encountered this problem

@@zyjjkl hey, I changed "individual origins" to "bounding box center" in "transform pivot point"

hey, I changed "individual origins" to "bounding box center" in "transform pivot point"

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select your cube, right click, set origin to geometry, it should work :)

@@Madix81 Not quite. He selected the bottom face, set the 3D cursor, then set origin to 3D cursor.

@@Enderplays12 Both methods work. For the first I used origin to geometry, for the second I used the point as told in the vid

@@Madix81 THANK YOU

Took me a while to figure out too. Snapping the modules together, you need to have the mouse-pointer at the edge you want to snap to. For the vertices snapping it's the same: (g)rab the vertice by (x)-axis, and mouse-pointer to the vertice you want to snap to. A little orange circle will appear, and.. snap! The thing I've discovered with blender is that what seems counter-inuitive at first really makes sense later when understanding the logic behind 3d'ing!

Did you solve this problem ? I also encountered this problem

hey, I changed "individual origins" to "bounding box center" in "transform pivot point"

@@dvrkrvin931 THANKS SO MUCH IT WORKED FOR ME NOW!!!!

@@dvrkrvin931 can where are these i cant seem to find them

It really doesn't take that long unless you're focusing on the details. I rushed it in 50 first try. Granted it looked bad, but I wasn't thinking about form.

@@Enderplays12 Yeah, I exaggerated. But the title continues misleading! :P