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A few months ago I was modeling the building for my earthquake animation, when I stumbled across any easy way to create realistic cracks without pesky scripts, or plug-ins. It’s simple, easy, and it uses a powerful tool built right into blender. Trust me, when you see it you’ll be kicking yourself.
It is perfect for rubble, ceramics or splitting any object in two.
Who owns a ceramic picture frame anyway?
Hope it wasn’t too fast 
i tried this and had no problem up until the jagged line is made and im supposed to select one half of the sphere. help?
Once you click P click on seperation. After thats don you might see is as an other object without wireframe. I got the same problem but you better just don’t stop because of that.
very good! the shortest tutorial amd i can complete in 10 minutes.
Hi…..i’m a beginner and tried to do this but had a problem…..how do you scale up that thing to make the distortion for random falloff??? thanx.
Ethita use the middle mouse scroll
Kinda too fast, you select all blah blah blah, how do you do that?
For me enough clear, just a question: how did you do those little pieces on the floor?
why don’t u do polygon modeling (or whatever it’s called) a car
explaining how to do that, or at least a part for all those newbies out there (including me) ?
just a thought
Ok got it all, except that when i get back to alt+h the 2 halves, they are all one sphere with a scaled squiggly line in between, not separated.
nice tutorial but could you explain how to make the edges grey and how to make the schrapnel?
i cant get it to work
@Dolanimus
Select one half including the shredded edges and press P. It should be separated.
@Andrea and Jeroen
Check out this tutorial: http://www.blenderguru.com/create-a-motivational-poster/
He goes over how to do that in that tutorial too.
Hello I made it and it is all easy until I have to press P. After I do so both the sides “follow” each other. They still move apart, but one side follows the other. Please help!
Just did this tutorial and there are a couple of things that Andrew does pretty fast that those of us that are slower may not catch: 1 – remember to change the limited selection to visible after you select 1 half so you select only one point. 2- When you select select one half to separate, use the area selection (B) grabbing only those that you can select easily, then grow your selection to get the jagged edge. This way when you separate the two parts you pull apart directly at the edge without overlap. Otherwise, great tutorial.
Thanks for the info Nate that helped me out.
Same problem as samual above, I seem to have at least one problem everytime I (assumadly so, [if asumadly is a word]) follow your tutorials exactly
omg finally a video that gets what i want. a quick easy tutorial, short sweet to the point. this is by far better thank listening to an arabic person teach me hacking(its the irony of it) more videos should be made like this i give this as many thumbs up as possible
I loved the results in the model it
was very easy and quick
How do you separate ?…
@Jolly
Just press the P button and chose Selection
Nice trick
mmmm
verey nice but it is so fast
hey andrew,
i am in a predicament i have a laptop and i know that u r using your mouse wheel for scaling the circle thing up at .43 i dont hav4e amouse so how else would i doo it
Very easy and fast!
And did not know ¬¬ ^^
Greetings!
Hi,I am new to blender and I was wondering where I could find good beginner tutorials
(to Keenan)
sometimes in blender things just don’t work on a certain file for no particular reason. that could be your problem. I’ve had it countless times myself.
COOL FAST TUTORIAL!!!
how to move to to left and move to the right after doing the thing with g
you have it men, you know
@Yo Mama : After pressing G press X for sliding on that Axis.
Nice tutorial.
Thanks for this… I had not realised that blender had a edge split modifier until you showed us it in this video… plus I recently tried to do a cracked egg animation for a client and was not very successful in my attempt and took me weeks to put together what you just did in 5 minuets….
Good tutorial keep em’ commin…
Good tutorial, but you actions too fast, because my first contact with blender, I do not know what you use shortcut keys, can generally say about it? Thank you! This is my e-mail:chouat@163.com
Brilliant. It’s great to find out you had the tools you needed all along.
Once you click P click on seperation. After thats don you might see is as an other object without wireframe. I got the same problem but you better just don’t stop because of that.