Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:36:23 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/ PostNuke Powered Site en-us http://www.blender3dclub.com/images/logo.gif http://www.blender3dclub.com/ scott@blender3dclub.com http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article66.html If you're looking for sample blender files, you should check the demo files on the Blender Web site. Under the download section towards the bottom of the page there's a section title "Regression Files". At the top of the list is a demo file containing over 50 blender files (created after version 2.48) which sample almost all of the features blender has to offer. The next to files are collections of demos pertaining to the game engine. Hers's the link: Blender Download Page Scroll down to the bottom to find tons of samples to learn from! Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:36:23 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article65.html Version 2.48 has been released recently with a ton of cool new features and fixes. Some of the updates include: Real-time GLSL Materials Game Logic Bullet SoftBody Game Engine notes Colored shadows Shrinkwrap Modifier Simple Deform Modifier Grease Pencil Animation tools Sun, Sky, Atmosphere Sculpt mode improvements Python Editor Fluid Control Wind & Deflectors See the complete list of updates here and download the software too while your at it!! Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:33:35 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article64.html Here's a short and simple tutorial on creating a Health Bar for your Blender Games. Step 1: Making a quick and simple Health Bar for Blender's Game engine. Add 2 planes (separate objects). Make one green and one red. Mine will be used from an over head view so my green plane is slightly above the red plane. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:14:16 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article63.html Blender version 2.47 has been released. Get your copy today! Download Blender 2.47 Here! Be sure to check out the Features Video Gallery. You might learn something new! Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:31:35 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article62.html This looks terrific. An open source game created with Blender soon to be released. Based on the characters from Big Buck Bunny, the open source movie created with Blender. Sample Videos and Link to their sight. This includes a video tutorial by Pablo, one of the creators on material nodes and creating some special effects in the Game Engine. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:53:29 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article61.html Here's a tutorial I made using a slightly different format. It's designed for an intermediate user looking for ideas on how to go about modeling something. As I created this model, I took lots of screen captures with the idea that I would create a tutorial with lots of reference photos and fewer words. As it turned out, I ended up taking over 200 screen captures. I hope this helps you understand the simple techniques that can be used to create just about anything. Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:19:44 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article60.html Since the release of version Blender 2.46, I realize somethings have been improved, change or updated. I understand that some of my tutorials may need to be updated or revamped completely to keep up with the times. Since I maintain this site in my spare time, I'll do the best that I can to keep things update. I also realized with the new version release, it would be helpful if I labeled each tutorial with which version of blender they were created for so I created some labels (with blender of course) and stamped all the tutorials on the site. I did not have the time to label any of the PDF files, so just take it that any of the unlabeled ones are based on Version 2.45. All future tutorials will be labeled accordingly. I'm also planning on a new tutorial section that's just based around the Game Engine. I enjoy working with it often and I feel it would be a great value to pass on anything I've learned to the Blender community. It will most likely be small details on how to get specific things accomplished in the Game Engine rather than a tutorial on creating a complete game. But, you never know. Good Luck Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:58:22 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article59.html Blender 3D Architecture, Buildings and Scenery: A new book released from Packt Publishing. I was recently given the opportunity to look at a copy of this book and found that it was very clearly written and well suited for someone looking to learn how to use this terrific software. The instructions are direct and to the point. The book begins with an introduction to Blender and 3D design. From there, it goes in to a quick start chapter which covers things from manipulating the interface to keyboard short cuts, modes, selecting objects and using the 3D cursor. It then goes in to modeling basics, detail modeling of architecture and furniture. Later chapters cover materials, textures, UV mapping and basic lighting. The final chapters go over using Ambient Occlusion, Global Illumination with Yafray, Animation and Post Production using GIMP. Throughout the book, the instructions are complimented with illustrations on almost every page. This book appears to be written based on the 2.45 release of Blender which will still pertain to 95% or more of the current release of 2.46. In my opinion this would be a fine book to add to your Blender Reference library. You can download a sample chapter here . Check it out at Packt Publishing. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:51:19 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article58.html I've been working again on my Blender version of 'Battleship' the past view days and it's going surprisingly well.... Sat, 31 May 2008 10:41:46 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article57.html I've opened up the Forum. Please let me know if there's anything not working or any thing you might like changed. Existing board members should be able to log into the forum with their existing name and password. Scott Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:15:42 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article56.html I've had renewed interest in my off road sim I started a while back. I've been working on that the past day or too. It's amazing how long it took to figure out how to make the smoke trail behind the rig. I didn't give up until I got it. Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:43:04 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article55.html Tutorial by Scott B. The Blender 3D Club. Quick and easy tank tracks using DupliFrames and Path Curves. Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:36:42 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article54.html Tutorial by Scott B. The Blender 3D Club. Someone came to my site a while back looking for a way to set vertex colors using python. Here's a brief tutorial that shows how you can do it. Wed, 26 Mar 2008 20:53:10 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article53.html Here's a gem of a program. Just what I needed. Thought I would pass this along to everyone. Design GUIs for your python script with this Windows program. There's a Python script version as well but it gave me an error when I tried it. I'll post it here has well. Maybe someone can take a whack at fixing it when they have the chance. Blender GUI Link Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:25:31 -0500 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article52.html I've been drinking a lot of coffee and working with a lot of python over the past few days. One trick I've learned is an easier way to print out long object diretorys. For example, printing out the directory for Blender is pretty long. Some are even longer. This code: import Blender print dir(Blender) Will give you this result: ['Armature', 'BGL', 'BezTriple', 'Camera', 'Constraint', 'CountPackedFiles', 'CurNurb', 'Curve', 'Draw', 'Effect', 'FALSE', 'Geometry', 'Get', 'Group', 'Image', 'Ipo', 'IpoCurve', 'Key', 'Lamp', 'Lattice', 'Library', 'Load', 'Material', 'Mathutils', 'Mesh', 'Metaball', 'Modifier', 'NMesh', 'Noise', 'Object', 'PackAll', 'Quit', 'Redraw', 'Registry', 'Run', 'Save', 'Scene', 'Set', 'ShowHelp', 'Sound', 'SpaceHandlers', 'SurfNurb', 'TRUE', 'Text', 'Text3d', 'Texture', 'Types', 'UnpackAll', 'UnpackModes', 'UpdateMenus', 'Window', 'World', '__doc__', '__name__', 'bylink', 'event', 'link', 'mode', 'sys'] Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:24:59 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article51.html Specular Maps: Tutorial by Scott B. The Blender 3D Club. Using a Specular map is easy. It's the same as using a 'Nor' map. You could use the same image for both to achieve good results or you could go into more detail. A good example of a custom specular map might be if you're trying to achieve the look of water that has just streaked down an object. The areas that are wet will be shinier than the rest of an object. For now, I'll just go over how to load and use a specular map simply using a gray scale image of the texture. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:53:08 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article50.html Tutorial by Scott B. The Blender 3D Club. Description: A simple animation of a spinning cube with it's rotation center moving. To start with, place your 3D cursor in the center of 'space' by pushing SHFT-C. My sample images are all screen shots take from the overhead view - NUMPAD 7. Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:22:41 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article49.html Just a quick sample from the discombobulator script that comes with Blender. It has great potential. I really need to spend more time with this script when I get the chance. Full image here. Scott Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:47:16 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article48.html Tutorial by Scott B. The Blender 3D Club. This tutorial will show you how to use soft bodies to create a static model. Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:11:39 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article47.html Tutorial by Scott B. The Blender 3D Club. This tutorials shows the process of baking normals and ambient occlusion maps to a texture. Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:28:46 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article46.html The Victorian Summer house is now available .OBJ format. Includes free textures from CGtextures.com. Only $2.00 at the Market Place. Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:23:54 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article45.html Here is a simple and easy tutorial on modeling an object using the "Spin" function. Any object that is symmetrical around can be modeled this way. It could be a glass, a jar, a vase, a column, a post, a wheel or anything. Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:11:48 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article44.html With this tutorial, I'm going to show you how you can use vertex coloring to add a staining effect to your textures. The sample to the right was made using a clean material texture. The blood stain was added using vertex colors. Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:08:09 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article43.html When performing a loop cut o­n your mesh (Presssing 'K' and selecting 'Loop Cut'), if you have a mouse with a wheel between the buttons, you can roll the mouse wheel up to increase the number of multiple cuts or roll it down to decrease the number of cuts. Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:12:37 -0600 http://www.blender3dclub.com/Article42.html This tutorial was written with the intent that the reader has a basic understanding of modeling and logic blocks within blender. The information in this tutorial is from my experience after going through the code from the Demo that was released and 'reverse engineering' it. Taking values from different section of the code, altering it until I understood how it was being used. This may not be the best way or the most accurate, but I've learned enough to get the vehicles to work and have fun with them. To start out with, you need to create the basics - A vehicle (car) body and 4 (or more) wheels. In my example, my car is facing the front view (num 1). Pressing '7' for an above view shows my car facing the bottom of my screen. Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:25:14 -0600