First Try at Blender

I have successfully managed to create a stretched hexagon in Blender. That may not sound like much of a deal, but my current experience with Blender is largely "I've looked at some tutorials, and got confused a lot".


Snap to Grid (S 1) was very handy for making this hexagon, and although I lost the scale of the grid half-way through, by accidentally resizing the whole shape with an inadvertent random modifier click and drag, with no undo available (perhaps because it was a view change) it still came out ok.

That first step done, I can move on to the next bit of modelling my spaceship, which largely consists of concentric hexagons in various configurations. I shall start at the cockpit end, and work my way through the main body, and then the propulsion systems (two massive rotatable rockets on each side of the ship).

The unusual thing about this ship is the way the cockpit is separated from the main cargo bay by a long "neck", which can move the cockpit independently for various reasons.

I know the idea is to start small, and work up, so the first draft of the spaceship will be made of several cubes joined together, and probably look nothing like the finished article.

Oh, and the finished article will need to be walkable through in some modes, and be the player in other modes. It may be necessary to have two seperate objects for that, but I'm such a newbie that I couldn't say at the moment.

I'm still not sure why it's got a pink dot in the bottom half. It doesn't appear to be a vertex, but I'm sure I'll figure it out at some point.