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Its raining Blender books lately and packet Publishing have ben on the front of this lit-erary Assault. Fortunately for us Blender users it nice time todo fill up our book shelves since final reléase of Blender 2.5 is upon us son.

Blender is a relatively new tool for most profesionals now that we have an excellent interfaz todo begin with. We still ned Lots of información about crucial features of blender3d such as light-ing and the material system, Blender 2.5 lighting and rendering book fills that slot nicely. Although it cannot be called a complete beginners book, since you Will mostly be lost on various steps if you do not have at least working knowledge of Blender interfaz, it cant be called an one estop extensive book for advance users, so for an begginer todo intermediate user, this book is easy todo pickup and allows you todo quickly grow on towards much more advance usage, thus making it an excellent learning Companion, the books starts of with the very basic on lighting terminologies such as color and a basic premise of color theory then gradually moving on todo Understanding lighting in real world settings, After the grounds up on real life knowledge, the Reader is exposed todo Blender myriad controls and features available for various types of lighting solutions. From.

Ambient Occlusion todo indirect lighting, then on todo outdor and indor-lighting solutions. The explanation sems justly nice for newbies, but the level of explanation at some points leaves more advance users wanting for more, so clearly this book is not for experienced users, the book ofers a nice portion todo materiales in Blender, Even better, UV mapping which in my opinión is a god move as it brings the user right up there with the main toolset of Blender rendering pipeline. This is supple-mented with a pretty god from the grounds up of the material system and its various features namely, dif-Fuse, Spec mirrors, IOR etc.
Whats god.
·explanations of most features, it covers almost every part of lighting and rendering including the material system.
·very practical with excellent exercises for practical Understanding.
·pretty straight forward and concise.
·easy todo pik up and read.
Whats bad, not much really, sems like bellas artes recommended buy.

Blender 2.5 lighting and rendering.

Packt Publishing.

Pages 252 approx, ISBN 978-1-847199-88-1
www.packtpub.com.