Digital Engineering with Minecraft

416 Pages·2016·66.06 MB·English

by  James Floyd Kelly

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Digital
Engineering
with
Minecraft™
James Floyd Kelly
800 East 96th Street,
Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA
Digital Engineering with Minecraft™
Copyright © 2016 by Que Publishing
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-5547-6
ISBN-10: 0-7897-5547-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015944478
Printed in the United States of America
First Printing: September 2015
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction
CHAPTER 1 Taking Over a Castle
CHAPTER 2 Creating Your Own Castle
CHAPTER 3 Crafting a Super Maze
CHAPTER 4 Getting Lost (in a Maze)
CHAPTER 5 Modifying a 3D World
CHAPTER 6 Creating Your Own Monster Island
CHAPTER 7 Seeing Your World in 3D
CHAPTER 8 Viewing Your Worlds—Full 360!
CHAPTER 9 Custom Creations, Part 1
CHAPTER 10 Custom Creations, Part 2
CHAPTER 11 A Super Project To Test Out Your New Skills
CHAPTER 12 Discover More MCEdit Tools
APPENDIX A MCEdit for Tablets
APPENDIX B Adding Interactive Elements With Redstone
APPENDIX C Resources
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Taking Over a Castle
Digital Tools Make Great Shortcuts
Finding a Castle with Thingiverse
Preparing the Castle with Tinkercad
Importing the Castle into Minecraft
Exploring the New Castle
Up Next…
Chapter 2 Creating Your Own Castle
Downloading and Opening MCEdit
Discover Your Own Castle…or Something Else!
Introduction to CAD Software
Using Tinkercad to Prepare Your 3D Model
Preparing Your Model For Importing With MCEdit
Using MCEdit with Your 3D Model
Up Next…
Chapter 3 Crafting a Super Maze
There’s Almost Always a Solution
Creating Your Own Hedge Maze
Preparing the Maze with Tinkercad
Landscaping for Your Minecraft World
Exploring the Maze
Up Next…
Chapter 4 Getting Lost (in a Maze)
Creating Your Maze
Converting the Maze with online-convert.com
Importing the Maze into Tinkercad
Learning to Use MCEdit’s Select Tool
Up Next…
Chapter 5 Modifying a 3D World
More Tools Means More Options
Finding a 3D Model with 123D Sculpt+
Converting Files with Binvox
Importing and Sizing the Robot
Binvox Opens Up Many Possibilities
Up Next…
Chapter 6 Creating Your Own Monster Island
Monster Making for Beginners
Using Binvox
Converting with Binvox
Placing a Monster with MCEdit
Up Next…
Chapter 7 Seeing Your World in 3D
Having Fun Outside Minecraft
Viewing with the Oculus Rift
Using a 3D Viewer
Taking Minecraft Screenshots
Locating Your Screenshots
Finding Minecraft Screenshots on a Windows Computer
Finding Minecraft Screenshots on a Mac
Preparing Your Screenshots
Creating 3D Image Cards
Up Next…
Chapter 8 Viewing Your Worlds—Full 360!
Creating a 3D Model with Photos
Starting with Screenshots—Lots of Them
Capturing Screenshots
Converting Image Files
Using 123D Catch to Create 3D Models
Uploading Your Image Files
Running the Create Capture Process
Up Next…
Chapter 9 Custom Creations, Part 1
Creating Your Own Designs with Tinkercad
Starting a New Project
Breaking Ground on the Future City
Designing Custom-Shaped Buildings
Up Next…
Chapter 10 Custom Creations, Part 2
Rotating, Twisting, and Turning
Deleting, Cutting, and Removing
Up Next…
Chapter 11 A Super Project To Test Out Your New Skills
You’ve Got Skills!
The Shape Generator
The Align Tool
Dome Cities
Up Next…
Chapter 12 Discover More MCEdit Tools
MCEdit Mastery
Copy and Paste
Mirror, Mirror
Clone Clone Clone Clone
Conclusion
Appendix A MCEdit for Tablets
Introducing iFunbox for Mac and Windows
Connecting a Tablet to iFunbox
MCEdit for Android Mobile Devices
Appendix B Adding Interactive Elements With Redstone
Redstone Basics
A Simple Circuit
Advanced Redstone
Appendix C Resources
Books
Videos
Websites
Index