Published: 15th March 2013M / 3 Jamadilawal 1434H, Fr.
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Assalamualaikum.
After creating the Bunga in Blender, see this post:
Bunga Blender
http://ubuntudigest.blogspot.com/2013/03/bunga-blender.html
... I went on to try create the letter Dad in Blender. Dad is the 15-th letter of the Arabic alphabet and the 16-th letter of the Jawi alphabet. The early result looked like a letter made of modelling clay, see Pic 1.
Pic 1 - Blender. The early result.
To create a better-looking letter, I thought of importing a file then tracing the letter but some how couldn't import the SVG file into Blender and didn't know why.
After watching this tutorial:
Blender Tutorial Import .svg file from Inkscape, Edit, Apply Texture, & Export 3d Image
http://youtu.be/jD0MBYmnJSk
... I realized that my mistake was I tried to import text instead of path. The text has to be converted to a path first, and then can it be imported into Blender. Referring to Pic 2, in Inkscape, select the object (text) then go to Path > Object to Path.
Using the Edit path by nodes cursor (see Pic 3), click the now-path object. The outline of the now-path object should have nodes like that in Pic 4 .
Pic 2 - Inkscape. Converting object to path.
Pic 3 - Inkscape. The Edit path by nodes cursor.
Pic 4 - Inkscape. Nodes, after converting object to path.
Shown in Pic 5 is the imported SVG Dad after some rotating, scaling and texturing. Shown in Pic 6 and Pic 7 are the final results of Pic 5.
Between Pic 6 and Pic 7:
- Pic 6 has a thicker extrusion and dimmer lighting
- Pic 7 has a thinner extrusion and brighter lighting.
Pic 5 - Blender. The flat SVG Dad.
Pic 6 - Blender. The final result 1.
Pic 7 - Blender. The final result 2.
More about Blender, here:
blender.org
http://www.blender.org/
More about Inkscape, here:
Inkscape. Draw Freely .
http://inkscape.org/
Alhamdulillah. Wassalam.
