Blender Quicktip: The Mirror Modifier
The mirror modifier operates in the same framework as the subsurface modifier from the previous tutorial: the modifier stack. Blender keeps track of a wide variety of operations in this stack, allowing a user to perform transformations without making them permanent or removing the original information that defines the base object.
Let’s start with the output of one of the third-party scripts, the human head generator:
This isn’t much use as half a head, so we hit the same Add Modifier button from the subsurface tutorial:
With the mesh mirrored, we can edit it in edit mode and the edits get copied to the other side:
Hitting the apply button will save the mirrored mesh points into the mesh, which is useful if you want to start with something symmetrical and then begin modifying only one side:
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Roger Waggener Said,
June 18, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
It’s generally a good idea to hit the ‘Do clipping’ button in the mirror modifier pane. It prevents you from pulling verts across the plane of the mirror.
СтройТермины Said,
July 27, 2009 @ 6:05 am
Строительный элемент, соединяющий два узла каркаса, фермы и т. п. Расроложен по диагонали замкнутого контура и обеспечивает жесткость конструкции.
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rohan Said,
August 21, 2011 @ 2:40 am
hey guys i have blender 2.59 but i cannot find my modifier tools. please help!!
Modifier Tools in the New Blender Said,
August 22, 2011 @ 8:23 pm
[...] the comments, rohan notes that the old Blender quicktip on the modifiers doesn’t work with the 2.5 series, so I thought I’d drop a quick post [...]