Learn Blender 3 - Drawing Polygons in Blender

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Polygon Mesh - Drawing Polygons in Blender

• Create a mesh object
  • Lets use a plane
• Go into edit mode and delete all vertices
• Go to top view
  • 7 on the numpad
  • Hold alt and orbit in viewport to snap to a view
  • Click on the positive z-axis in the top right corner
• To add a vertex
  • Ctrl + Right Mouse Button Click in Edit Mode
  • NOTE: If the last vertex is selected it will draw a edge
    • You can click an empty area in the viewport to unselect
• Select all the vertices and press the f button to create a face
• Can check orientation of faces with Overlays -> Geometry -> Face Orientation
  • Make sure Overlays is enabled
  • Make sure backface culling is off
• You can check backface culling with Viewport Shading -> Options Backface culling
• You can flip normals of a polygon by
  • Going into edit mode
  • Select the face
  • In viewport menu Mesh -> Normals -> Flip
    • Can just do Alt + N