Making a (Fast n' Easy) Train Car in Blender 3.1 | Blender Tutorial 

Aww thank you, I’m so glad to have been of help! Good luck on your 3D journey 🫡

Aww thank you so much, this made my day to hear :)

Yes! Great call! I was recently working on a project and I forgot to apply scale and I was wondering why my insets were so wonky…

Thank you! I have a tutorial on making train interiors too, if that’s helpful

@@renderedinblender I have seen it, but my only issue is for interiors, should I overlay it and make it from another part instead of using the exterior's shape? Because my train's interior I can't even line the walls due to the fact that extruding the faces will, as usual remove the exterior walls since it drags it

Okay so if you want a train car with both interior/exterior, duplicate the exterior and drag the walls in/ceiling down so that you have some depth to the walls (but windows still stay in the same position). Then you can select edge loops you wish to be connected (the inside of the window and the outside of the window) and bridge them using the “bridge edge loops” option

@@renderedinblender Thanks a lot, I will apply these and hope it goes well!

Thank you so much! I’m going to be doing a requested video soon on how to model a real-life train with dimensions and stuff :)

@@renderedinblender nice! I'm doing a major work for year 12, and for one of the scenes I wanted to do a flying train that goes through some kind of nice scenery, haven't decided yet. Just gotta learn how to animate it and then should be good! I really appreciate the tutorial though it was really good.

@@firippu2808 thank you, I’m so glad! Let me know if I can help you in any way with animation tips for your project:)

It works but can you provide image for the wheels too?

@@DarkLvrd yessiree

link up above :)

@@renderedinblender thanks again bro

Select the cylinder and apply the scale to reset it, that should even out the insets :)

Hmm good question! I have not worked with Unity, so I’m not entirely sure. However, I was having a similar issue with exporting to Unreal Engine. Perhaps if you go to ‘File’ and go down to the ‘External Data’ tab, you might be able to pack the resources (like image textures and stuff) into the file automatically? That’s what I do when I’m sharing blender files to other people

Hit ‘Z’ on the keyboard and that should toggle transparency

I’m so glad you found it!

Normally you can just drag the image you want into the shader editor and then plug the image texture into the Principled shader

@@renderedinblender Thanks I Finished up my bogie a while ago tho, Now time to start work on my Train :D

I would, but unfortunately it's on his Patreon :(

Are you new to blender? I can’t think of why it wouldn’t be moving but if you are new to the app there’s probably something that I didn’t mention to do in the tutorial that wouldn’t be obvious if you are just starting out?

alright it might have to do with transform pivot point :D @@renderedinblender

That could do it! Try resetting the pivot/applying the scale transformations to see if it’s something in those settings

Hey what tutorial did you figure out to start with as an absolute beginner? I have no clue about the technical terminology the creator of this video used so I'd appreciate a point in the right direction. Thanks

@@mozeki Check out Grant Abbitt on youtube. He has a great beginner tutorial 2 part series. And of course Blender Guru Donut tutorial (I did that one first then Grant's)

@@MediaBrighton Thank you! I'll be watching later this morning with my notepad ready haha.

You take the basic default cube and add a mirror modifier (found in the modifier tab) to it. Then in edit mode, add multiple edge loops to bisect both sides of the cube so that you can delete all but 1/4 of the cube. Make sure to check the X and Y for the mirror mod so that it displays both

@@renderedinblender How thanks for your help got there in the end. How do you do the part in 1:42? As my one just moves the cube.

My main guess is you aren’t in edit mode? Make sure to press tab to enter it so you can manipulate the faces/edges/vertices separately without messing up the whole cube

@@renderedinblender I am confused how you make the cube bigger.

Press “s” on the keyboard to scale objects. I have a beginner tutorial with helpful navigation and hotkey commands that you might find useful?

Pinned a link in the comments! Lemme know if it doesn't work

@@renderedinblender ok bro

I did not use a reference image, but I based the train on Amtrak coach class and Acela cars. I also have the image textures I used listed in another comment

@@renderedinblender ok thank you♥

What’s the time-stamp? Are you talking about when I bevel or when I drag edges out?

@@renderedinblender Mirror and wheels i am completly new to blender

@@njtransitrailfan4031 ahhh okay, well I have a few videos (like the useful hotkeys video and the blender beginner video) that might help answer some of your questions on where stuff is and how to do it! Also, in my building a spaceship video, I review how mirror modifiers work (so you can check that out too!) If you still have unanswered questions, please let me know and I can record and upload a specific video next week on how to do mirrors and the train wheels :)

@@renderedinblender Do you think you could give me the links?

Absolutely! So here is the hotkey video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6porrg9JOH8.html , here's the blender beginner video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hywXXLnYj3A.html , here's the spaceship video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yN3mTo61g7Q.html Hope these can help you out!

“I” is the shortcut to inset faces! It’s very useful for making windows, doors, and other things that are extruded and inset from the main object.

And how to use “I” to individual faces to inset faces？（sorry my English not very good I use “I” just make them same center inset faces.

No worries! Okay so if you want to do individual faces, you double tap “I” and it should inset each face individually

@@renderedinblender Oh！Thanck you！！

Thanks! Sorry about the sound-design. There‘s been a few videos where I realized the sound-levels are a bit off. There’s another train tutorial coming, so I’ll fix the music issues for the next videos