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Chapter 30b: New Blender 5.0 feature: circle array - modeling a flower

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Hello everyone! I am SaTales, and today it’s time for a new Blender lesson

If you haven’t heard already, Blender 5.0 is out!

You can download it from the official Bender page,Blender.org

The new Blender version is full of amazing features. I wanted to show all of them, but fornow, I decided to first go with one of my favorites - the circle array.

So let’s get started!

(Full video on my YouTube channel:https://youtu.be/2b3mqOPaAZQ)

Firstly, select the camera and light and delete them with “X”.

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Select the cube with LMB, and go to modifiers.

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Go to Add modifier → Generate → Subdivision subsurface.

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Change Levels Viewport and Render to 3.

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Click RMB and choose Shade Smooth

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Switch to edit mode with “TAB”.

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Scale it with “S+Z” for around 0.25.

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Add a loop with “CTRL+R”

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Switch to selecting vertices with 1 and select these two vertices.

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Move them with “G+Y” for around 1.5.

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Add a new loop with “CTRL+R”

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And add one more

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Switch to selecting edges with 2 and choose both loops

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And move them up with “G+Z” for around 0.4

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Switch to selecting edges with 2. Select these two edges.

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Move them with “G+Y” to the left for around 0.6

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Switch to object mode with “TAB”

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Go to modifier → Add Modifier → Array (not Array Legacy, that is the old one)

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Change Shape to Circle.

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Change radius to around 0.95

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And count to 6 (or any other number you want)

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And now adjust the radius again. I changed it to 1.38

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You can play even more with count and radius if you don’t like how your flowercurrently looks. In the end, I decided to count 9 and with a radius of 1.84.

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Go to Add → Mesh → UV Sphere

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Scale it with “S” as you think it is the best. RMB and choose Shade Smooth.

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Scale it with “S+Z” as you think looks the best.

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And move it up a bit with “G+Z”. Press “CTRL+A” and apply the scale.

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You can again change the look of your flower by adjusting the number in the count.

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This is just one example of how a new array can simplify modeling in Blender.

Did you think of anything else?

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