final exam chess game

Sahar Mosleh & Ahmad R. Hadaegh California State University San Marcos

Final Exam

Chess Game


• We will create a simple scene consisting of a chessboard, a few pawns and a few move of the chess games.

Creating a pawn

• To create the pawn you need to use a technique called 'Spinning'. You will only need to draw an outline of the pawn Using Bezier Curve and use the Spinning technique to make the pawn.

Front View


• Now switch to object mode and go to the side view

• If the curve is not straight as shown in the next slide rotate it to look like what is shown in the picture.

• Convert the curve to mesh

• Move the center of the curve to be in the middle if it is not there already.

Side View


• Move to edit mode and in the” Mesh tool” of the Editing Panel (F9) under Spin set Degr to 360 and steps to 21

• This value determines the resolution of the resulting object

• higher values increase the smoothness.


• Now select all vertices

• Locate the 3D courser at the left side of pawn

• Switch to the top view (you should see the object on top view similar to the picture)

• Now Press the 'Spin' button. • LMB click anywhere in the Top View and

Blender will “Spin” the vertices creating

• The curve has been extruded and rotated, leaving behind a complete pawn as you see in the picture


• select all vertices, press [W] to bring up the Specials menu, use the 'Remove Doubles' option to weld the double vertices together

• After performing this operation, Blender reports on the amount of vertices that have been deleted. Just confirm it.

• Click on 'Set smooth‘

• Create a duplicate of the pawn

• Make one copy black and the other copy white

• Make 7 copies of the black and another 7 copies of the white

• You should now have total of 8 pieces of black and 8 pieces of white


Creating the Chessboard

Top view

Front view


• Before you give it any color, move to object mode and make a complete duplicate of the board

• Now make the first copy red and the other one white or glassy white and put them on top of each other.

• join them into one piece

white Red


Placing the Pawns on the Board

• Add a camera and make the camera to track the board to be able to see the board and pieces in camera view

• Before we start playing chess, this is how the board should look like in all views

Top view Camera view

Side view

Front view


Lets Play Some Chess

• lick F10 to move to editing panels and from the ANIM panel click on “Do Sequence” to turn it on.

• Start from frame 1 and in the top view, • press A to select everything• press the I in the keyboard• select “LocRotScale” to set the starting keyframe


Animation sequences

• Move to frame 10 and move the third black piece from the right two squares up as shown in the pictures on the right and record

• Move back to frame 1, and move the black piece back to its original position, if it is not there already


• Move to frame 20 and move the third white piece from the right two squares up as shown in the pictures.

• Move back to frame 10, move the white piece back to its original position, if it is not there already


• Move to frame 30 and move the second black piece from the right two squares up as shown in the pictures.

• Move back to frame 20, move the black piece back to its original position, if it is not there already


• Move to frame 40 and move the fourth white piece from the right one square up as shown in the pictures.



Attacking time

• Move to frame 50 and move the black piece on the top of the white as shown in the picture



• Move to frame 60 and move the attached white piece out of the game as shown in the picture



• White wants to revenge. So move to frame 70 and move the white piece on the top of the black piece as shown in the picture



• Move to frame 80 and move the attached black piece out of the game as shown in the picture


• You Are done. Now you can test your animation.

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