/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General★

>>21934 (OP)

I do have 1 recommendation, youtube user MetalX1000 has one of the oldest and most complete programming and development channels, and has several playlist of blender game engine and blender render tutorials.

Here's his playlist of Blender Game Engine development with python, which will basically leave you ready to start your first project.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBD687C66079FA40F

But like I said, any question you might have about blender and related subjects like game development and programming he has probably made a video on.

Blender's documentation is notably crappy, with entire versions having no documentation whatsoever, so if you're not already a member of the http://blenderartists.org/forum/ and http://blender.stackexchange.com/ you're gonna have a bad time as soon as you can't find an updated tutorial on that one very specific thing.

Because of the bad retro-compatibility most of the stuff on YouTube is practically worthless now, but basically anything that uses a blender version 2.6 or newer should work more or less the same in the newest version.

Good luck and congratulations on making the right choice.

>>21941

Thanks anon, I have subbed that channel and will report in when I have something worthy to show off.

>>21979

Nein. English and Japanese only. :/

Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll stick with that youtube tutorial for now, and check in with progress/ugly ass art.

>>21979

anyone know something comparable?

>>22004

awesome, thanks!

for those who don't have 50 bucks to spend on a book, there's a torrent for it over at Kickass.

>>22005

Some of us are on networks that can't torrent.

MEGA cough cough

Watching the intro video now. I've already got Blender installed.

Curious how much Blender will support my Wacom tablet? :/

Politely saging my own thread.

Basics on movement. I haven't used Blender in years and was never good anyway, so this is good review.

Would be nice to be able to "orbit" the object itself, and not some center-point as seems default. Found out here:

http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/696/how-to-reset-the-center-of-rotation-of-the-3d-view-when-it-is-not-the-center-of

Use the period button on the ten key to reset camera back to the selected object. Nice. I'm sure there is somewhere in the settings to make the "orbit selected object" default, gotta find that later.

Camera movement with the 10-key is brilliant. Is that an industry standard?

He didn't mention it, but after hitting S to scale, I can hit X Y or Z to then limit it to that axis, like using the manipulators. Friggin brilliant.

Blender UI.

I don't have time to finish this one, so I'm going to just kinda gleam over it quickly and go back later for a more in-depth review.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #11 : Intro to Lighting & Rendering in Cycles #b3d

-How to allow material colors to display in a 3D viewport window.

-How to light a scene without any lights (world material)

-3 types of lamps: Point, Sun, and Area, and their differences

-using lamps with nodes, including how to change a lamp's falloff.

-How to render a scene

-How to switch to the camera's perspective in the 3D viewport

-How to 'Lock Camera to View' so that you can adjust/move the camera simply by orbiting/zooming/panning through the 'lens' of the camera.

-How to adjust the samples of the final render and the 'rendered' viewport shading mode to eliminate graininess.

-How to render to a new window (instead of a render taking over a current area of your screen)

-How to adjust the resolution of your rendered image size

-How to save rendered images.

Introduction to the Cycles Rendering Engine

In this tutorial you will discover:

-The difference between the internal renderer and Cycles

-Some of the cool features of Cycles

-How to create your very first Cycles render

-Using lights, materials, textures and bump mapping

-How I made the donut scene

Are those videos worth the time and effort? Need to get started with this myself since an artist isn't just going to materialize out of thin air.

What use is learning the ins and outs of blender's rendering engine if you plan on exporting models for use in a game engine?

>>22042

Models for games are actually rendered by the game engine, unkess you are making pre-rendered (effectively 2d apart from layering you can do) assets.

>>22048

That's what I'm saying, I guess I should find tutorials geared towards modeling and texturing since the game engine is going to be doing all of the render work.

>>22042

Learn substance

I'd love to get into Blender because this is literally the next step I need to take to proceed but the whole UI already fucks me up. It's almost like when I started programming but even more confusing because it's not even clear what's going to happen.

>>22021

>>22022

Hopefully these videos will help.

>>22050

Oh sorry I misread. Well you could render inside your art program to get an idea of what it may look like in a game, but considering you would probably get different results this has limited use.

How does blender compare with Maya LT? The pricing is reasonable unlike the turbo jew full version.

>>22054

As with all software; skills > tools

Blender will produce good results if you can produce good results.

As for comparison, ignoring things like UI and the actual software itself and instead focussing on the results, in terms of exporting models useable by game engines.

Blender can do anything Maya can do.

Maya is probably better in terms of rendering in-program, but as nodevs we need models, and not much else.

It's also open source, so it's not even jew-lite.

>>22042

Simply because Blender's default render engine is not as nice. I am shallow enough to be motivated by generating pretty pictures, and I come from a photography background, so getting the light correct early on is important for me.

>>22054

If i had a dollar for every time I got pissed by Blender, I could buy MayaLT... Saving your nerves will pay off in the long run.

double post maybe

>>22076

>>22114

>>22055

>>22098

Thanks, I'll probably end up going with Maya since I plan on using Unreal then.

are there any decent youtube videos where you learn while doing a small sculpt with the person? It seems like all the tutorials I found talk at you rather than doing something with you while teaching you the ins and outs.

>>22176

I like this guy because he comments everything he does. His videos are about general modeling/animation, which doesn't always works in game dev (especially his animation techniques), but, I've learned more from him than any other youtuber, only because of the way he is teaching...

https://www.youtube.com/user/aadigitalproductions/videos

>>22176

How about this one?

>>22177

>>22178

oops, those are both awesome but I completely forgot to mention I was looking for Zbrush related videos.

>>22180

>ITT: Beginning 3D in Blender

Commit sudoku, anon. :^)

>>22181

sorry, I got shit sleep last night and totally ignored the "blender".

guess I'm a fag.

>>22021

>Would be nice to be able to "orbit" the object itself, and not some center-point as seems default.

File > User Preferences > Interface tab > Check "Rotate Around Selection"

I wish this was default. -_-

>>22186

will do, I'd delete my posts but I imagine those anons responses will probably help somebody.

I'm just kind of documenting as I go along here. Polite sage of my own thread.

File > User prefs > Themes tab > Science Lab (noice)

File > User prefs > System tab > DPI. Default is 72, 76-80 is easier on the eyes

To use OpenGL (AMD):

User Preferences > System > Compute Device Panel, and configure it as you desire.

500 sample image took 00:47.64 with OpenGL, 00:51.48 with CPU. 1.08 times faster with the GPU, I actually expected a bigger increase but I'm probably not optimizing it well or doing something wrong.

Realistic Lighting For Studio Renders In Blender Cycles

In this video I will going through how to use mesh objects to light a scene in blender cycles and how this can be effective when lighting a studio scene. I also show you how to create a simple vignette in the compositor using lens distortion and the blur node. I hope you enjoy it. This is a very useful way to easily light your scenes to show off your models that you have spent so long on. This is important as your scene can be ruined by just simply lighting your scene badly. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to watch my new 'Advanced Lighting in Blender' series. Simply by watching this series you will know how to light any scene effectively and is free to watch when ever you want.

>>22304

Awesome, thanks man.

Tonight we're modeling a snowman.

http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/560663/blender-vs-mudbox-workflow-for-games.html

Answer by VesuvianPrime · Oct 22, 2013 at 12:49 PM

Deygus, a typical workflow for games:

1) Build your low-poly character in a modelling tool like Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, etc

2) UV map the character

3) Export the character into zBrush/Mudbox

4) Do your high-poly sculpting

5) Bake out the detail into a normal map

6) Apply the normal map to your low poly character

>>22180

BTW, anon, have you seen what Blender can do in sculpt mode?

S to scale, then Shift + Z to scale on the X and Y at the same time (so, s for scale, shift z for "not Z").

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #4 : Saving & Recovery #b3d

In this video I cover the following topics in Blender:

1) Saving

2) Creating iterated saves

3) Backup .blend1 files

4) Blender's Auto Recovery Feature

If only Blender devs updated the retarded UI, it would objectively be the best box modeling program on the market. Most of the hotkey function you wouldn't even have to touch, so the transition for blender vets wouldn't be that rough.

>>22333

I dunno, the UI doesn't bother me.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #5 : Intro To Edit Mode #b3d

In this video I cover the following topics in Blender:

1) How to use keyboard shortcut (TAB) and menu to switch between Object Mode and Edit Mode on a selected Mesh object.

2) The Three sub-object elements of meshes: faces, edges, and vertices.

3) Extruding (E) faces to create simple ('Minecraft') objects: I demonstrate how to model a chair.

4) Loop Cut and Slide (ctrl+R): How to create extra Loop Cuts. Loop Cuts add an extra edge-loop around your mesh in the desired location/direction, which allows you to add more detail while modelling.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #6 : Box Modelling a Cartoon Head #b3d

In this video I cover the following topics in Blender:

-Box Modelling [making an object starting from a cube]

-Rounding a cube into a sphere

-Edit mode (tab)

-Extrude (e)

-Loop Cut and Slide (ctrl+r)

-Inset Faces (i)

-Selecting Edge Loops

-Selecting Edge Rings

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #7 : The Mirror Modifier

In this Tutorial #7 I cover:

-How to prepare a simple character head odel to use with the mirror modifier

-How to add a modifier to a mesh object

-How to set up the mirror modifier to work best with your model (clipping, merge limit)

-What to watch out for while using the mirror modifier (moving/scaling rotating faces/edges/vertices near the mirror point), and how to use the Inset Faces tool at the mirror point to make the character's mouth.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #8 : Smoothing & SubSurf #b3d

In this Tutorial #8 I cover:

-How to smooth objects using Smooth vs Flat Shading

-How to smooth individual groups of faces.

-How to add and use the Subdivision Surface Modifier

-How to work with the 'SubSurf' modifier to create both smoothness and hard edges.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #9 : Adding 3D Text #b3d

In this Tutorial #9 I cover:

-How to add a text object to a scene

-How to edit the text (what the text says)

-How to customize the text to make it 3D, beveled, rounded

-How to find installed fonts on both Windows and Mac computers and use any font of your choice.

-How to convert a text object into a mesh (alt-C)

Blender 2.7 Tutorial # 10 : Intro to Materials & Nodes in Cycles #b3d

In this Tutorial #10 I cover:

-How to Change between the 'old' Blender internal render engine and Cycles.

-The main benefit of using Cycles over the old Blender render engine.

-How to create a light out of any mesh object (emission material)

-How to add Diffuse and Glossy Materials to mesh objects

-How to add and customize a Mix shader

-How to create material nodes in the node editor window + how to set up a mix shader to combine both diffuse and glossy shaders.

Already went through this one, just reviewing it.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #12 : Image Textures & Bump Maps #b3d

Bump mapping

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bump_mapping

Bump mapping[1] is a technique in computer graphics for simulating bumps and wrinkles on the surface of an object. This is achieved by perturbing the surface normals of the object and using the perturbed normal during lighting calculations. The result is an apparently bumpy surface rather than a smooth surface although the surface of the underlying object is not actually changed. Bump mapping was introduced by James Blinn in 1978.

Normal mapping is the most common variation of bump mapping used.

anyone find it really hard to import 3d models with animations into certain game engines? the thing is they never tell you the specifications or how to actually rig the model to work with their engines. I've only ever got animations to work in unity and ogre.

>>22774

Triangles don't work well with subdivision modifier. If you don't use it, then triangles shouldn't be problem. Also, Unity(and I guess other engines too) converts quads to triangles anyway.

>>22774

I don't know too much about 3D at this point but I know you want to stick with quads.

>>22775

>converts quads to triangles anyway.

Correct. See: https://code.blender.org/2015/06/optimizing-blenders-real-time-mesh-drawing-part-1/

>>22771

>anyone find it really hard to import 3d models with animations into certain game engines? the thing is they never tell you the specifications or how to actually rig the model to work with their engines. I've only ever got animations to work in unity and ogre.

I was hoping not to hear this. I haven't attempted it yet but I'm kind of anxious to. I'm looking up guides to watch and attempt this later:

Exporting from Blender 2.70 to Unreal Engine 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYmV-8Sc4mw

Blender to Unreal Engine 4 in a Nutshell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC1_m0VdKIY

Blender to Unity Tutorial - Import with Textures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeWw0CjH9wg

Blender Character To Unity part 1 of 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8oI0n5kAIg

>>22775

>converts quads to triangles anyway

I'm talking out of my ass a little bit cause i haven't done much modeling so far, but that is beside the point. Avoiding triangles is a rule of thumb to keep a good topology that you can add to and modify easily by modifying egdeloops and using other advanced selection/modification tools rather than grabbing random clusters of vertices and hope for the best. Also I heard it animates better.

But if it's a final shipping model, then I guess It's not gonna look bad because of the triangle if the triangular shape is supposed to be there

How easy is this to pick up if I was a solidworks wizard back in my highschool days?

>>22798

>solidworks

You'll be a natural if you have any background in maneuvering in 3D space. Even being a fan of video games really does give you an advantage (you already know way more than you think you do).

Work through these tutorials in blender, they're pretty good. I'm liking blender so far. :^)

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #13 : UV Mapping (Unwrapping for Image Textures)

In this Tutorial #13 I cover:

-How to mark seams (edges) on a mesh that will act as 'cut points' when unwrapping.

-How to 'unwrap' a mesh into the UV Image Editor window.

-How to select/rotate/scale/select vertices/edges/faces/islands in the UV Image Editor window.

-How to export the UV Layout to a line-only, transparent PNG image file.

-How to use Photoshop (or GIMP) to paint an image texture using the lines of the UV mapped faces as guidelines.

-How to apply a textures painted in Photoshop (GIMP) to a model using nodes in Cycles.

Does blender work with .dds files? wut do

muh mount&blade mods

>>22806

apparently kebab can't into standard texture formats nevermind on all that

Bender is pretty rad

>>22805

Embed didn't work.

I actually found this my first real screw up in Blender, maybe I'm having an off night. But I had to re-do this like 5 times to get it right. This is for Blender 2.76:

1. Tab to go into edit mode

2. Z to go into wireframe

3. Select 7 edges

4. Press T to bring up tool menu if it isn't already open

5. Click "Shading/UVs" tab

6. Click "Mark seam"

7. Press A twice to select all

8. Pull down a second window

9. Change it to UV/Image editor

10. In the Shading/UV tab, click Unwrap > Unwrap

You should have the T if you selected the correct edges. I'm only 6:00 minutes into this. -____-

>>22806

>mount&blade

Like this?

>>22809

I actually just checked that out

I'm using m&b as a way to test the blender waters, excited to make an spear to begin with

>>22810

Awesome, make sure to come back and post progress.

Blender 2.6 Tutorial 24 - Rendering a Movie File

In this video I cover how to render a basic animation to a sequence of still images, then convert those still images (the image sequence) to a video file.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #14 : Intro to Animation

>tfw friday and have nothing to do but cram

Let's do this

>>22893

Get on it man, I'm at work all day but I hope to stay up tonight and get some skills in. I'm hoping to quickly get to #18, then probably take a break from tuts to try a small mini project out.

Also, for reference for myself later:

7 Essential Resources & Tips to Get Started with Game Development

https://medium.com/@ZEEFcom/7-essential-resources-tips-to-get-started-with-game-development-d7379db2273b

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #15 : Linking Objects (Parent/Child)

In this Tutorial #15 I cover:

-Linking one object to another by creating a 'parent/child' link.

-Creating hierarchies of linked objects

-Un-linking objects

-In preferences, disabling 'cursor depth' to allow the 3D cursor to be placed precisely

-Adjusting the 'Origin' (pivot point) of a mesh so that it rotates at the right point.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #16 : Joining & Separating Objects

In this Tutorial #16 I cover:

-How to join two or more meshes into one

-How to select an entire 'sub-object' within a mesh in edit mode

-How to separate objects

-How to reposition the origin of a mesh

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #17 : Rendering a Movie File

In this Tutorial #17 I cover:

-How to render an animation to a sequence of images

-How to use Blender's Video Sequence Editor (like a video editor) to import an image sequence, and then export a video file

-How to set up Blender to export an .mp4 video file with H.264 (video codec) movie file with appropriate compression.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #18 : Edge Slide & Vertex Slide

In this Tutorial #18 I cover:

-How to easily select Edge LOOPS and Edge RINGS

-How to use Blender's 'Edge Slide' tool

-How to use Blender's 'Vertex Slide' tool

-How spacing between edges matters to your final product - especially when using the subdivision surface modifier

having a go at this one, been a while since I've used blender so it's going pretty slow.

>>22935

I will check this out, thanks for sharing. :^)

>>22946

it's all yours my friend :^)

I got fed up with blender about 2 minutes in and switched to Maya which I've been using for a few weeks already :^)

>>22947

>Maya

Any linux version links?

What's a free 3D modeling suite that's free and not Blender?

Blender Character Creation: Texturing

>>22987

I like the way your model is going. I get a Bravely Default vibe from that character with that hat.

UV mapping is pretty new for me, so I am taking my time with the texturing video. Hopefully get some time tonight to make some progress and post an update.

Can Blender export meshes to json and binary formats?

>>23027

Download it and see. It's FOSS and gratis.

File exporting/importing is done via plugins, so you can write your own exporter if you know Python.

>>23027

Found this:

http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/Blender+Exporter

The script OGRE Meshes Exporter converts meshes and armatures from Blender to OGRE file format XML / binary mesh / material file). It supports the export of

mesh objects with vertex colours, multiple materials, UV textures and blend modes,

a multitude of material properties, most notably: ambient, diffuse, specular, emissive, UV textures with and without alpha channel, vertex colours, normal maps, two sided faces,

keyframe animations of armature actions as skeleton animations,

keyframe animations of relative mesh shapes as pose or morph animations.

I also found an export guide specifically for Second Life:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh/Exporting_a_mesh_from_Blender

What are you exporting to? Like what is further down the pipeline?

And here is the Blender documentation:

https://www.blender.org/manual/data_system/files/import_export.html

Blender supports import and export to and from other file formats (e.g. OBJ, FBX, 3DS, PLY... etc).

Tried to UV unwrap, I fucked this up somehow. Going to have to restart, but that's it for tonight.

UV-mapping hands are atrociously difficult.

Stole this from /v/:

http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/weapons/

>>23243

Mind posting the model and UV map once you're completely done? I really want to give this a good texturing.

Alright. So. I have my shit all UV-mapped in Blender. It's all neat and tidy..

What do you guys use for Texturing? Photoshop?

>>23266

Photoshop for doing the color texture and Crazybump for everything else.

>>23257

Sure, although I am shite at UV at this point.

>>23257

Blender file:

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=66349294367978396838

UV:

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=78762172496631927892

http://wintercroft.com/products/skull-mask-easy-to-make-and-perfect-for-halloween

I want this thing. I'm not going to pay 4.50 POUNDS for a .pdf, especially because these fuckers are so dickish that they also offer a mask that is identical to this one except three quarters of it have been cut off at the SAME DAMN PRICE, see here:

http://wintercroft.com/collections/masks/products/skull-half-mask

If it's just three quarters of the mask it should go for three quarters of the price, right? Does anyone have that .pdf, or failing that, could rebuild the thing?

The Basics of Good Texturing in Blender

Blender tutorial showing you how to create your own realistic material and textures. Download the texture:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/blenderguru.com/uploads/2015/03/Concrete11.jpg

http://www.blenderguru.com/tutorials/basics-realistic-texturing/

>>23321

No problem, do with it what you will. Glad to inspire, you have any concept work to show?

>>23325

Looks nice, but add some fussiness around the edges of the light sources/spheres. If you were to just crop the picture to include only one of them, it looks like they're just filled in ellipses (I can also see the edges of the polygons too). There should be something that you can do.

Meh, can't sleep.

The Secrets of Realistic Texturing in Blender

In this tutorial you will discover:

-The fundamentals of texturing

-How to use CrazyBump to generate better textures

-How to make a realistic cobblestone material

AwesomeBump - Tutorial #3: Generating textures from image

This video shows how to generate - normal, height, specular and occlusion map from a single image using AwesomeBump software.

This is a little confusing at first, but you get used to it really quick. Click on the 'Diffuse' tab, and drag your image into there. At the bottom (make sure the Diffuse tab is active) click on the checkbox labeled "Basemap to others" and then click the button that says Convert N to H. From there you can tweak the settings

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?364529-AwesomeBump-A-free-alternative-to-CrazyBump

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?366395-AwesomeBump-3-0-beta-released

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?366395-AwesomeBump-3-0-beta-released!/page4

In general, I have been doing the following:

Start AwesomeBump

Change to Diffuse Tab

Open a photo of, for example, a rock wall

Check the "Enable Preview" button

Hit the "Convert to N H" button

Un-check the Enable Preview button

Start tweaking.

Basically the processing should be as you described above.

Hope this clarified your doubts

>>23291

You're supposed to retopo it with a lower polycount and add normalmaps. I unno. I think 12k isn't a lot of polys. I should check.

>>23382

I figured it out. I have two new problems though. One is animation, but I just need to read more about that.

My other problem is that I imported my model into Unity. In blender, the two pieces came together and the head still had hair. No problem. As soon as I imported into Unity though, the hair went missing again. Is that something with Blender, Unity, or do I have to manually readd the hair using some gameobject, then child it?

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #19 : The Bevel Tool

In this Tutorial #19 I cover:

-How to access the bevel tool several ways in Blender's menus

-How to use the bevel tool to add 'fanciness' to a regular edge, face or vertex (adding an extra diagonal face)

-How to round an edge .

-Keyboard shortcuts for Bevel, and Vertex Bevel.

Enough yak shaving, I want to get through all 50 videos in this tutorial series before Bender 2.8 releases.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #20 : The Inset Faces Tool

In this Tutorial #20 I cover:

-How to create an 'inset face' using both the 'old' (extrude-and-scale) method, as well as with the inset tool

-Why using the Inset Faces Tool is beneficial over using Extrude-and-Scale.

-How to control the result of the Inset Faces tool using options on the Toolshelf

Introduction to Dynamic Topology Sculpting in Blender

The dynamic topology system in Blender allows for a much more organic, creative sculpting process. It gives you much more flexibility in not only how, but what you sculpt by not limiting you to the original starting basemesh.

When working with dynamic topology, Blender will automatically tessellate the mesh under your brush stroke to account for the detail needed. This gives you the ability to add detail anywhere you wish, create new forms, and work with a much more optimized polycount since the tessellations are localized.

Does anyone have a comprehensive guide to UV mapping.

I just cant figure the freaking thing out

>>23601

Did you watch >>22808? Start there.

Do something simple at first, like the dagger I made in >>23071. Just a simple learning throw-away project. Start simple, grow out from there.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #22 : Joining, Merging & Filling Holes #b3d

In this Tutorial #22 I cover:

-Why you might want to delete and 're-topologize' a section of a mesh

-Different techniques of how to fill holes in a mesh, utilizing tools including: merge, extrude, join, fill, subdivide, vertex coordinates

-How to flip the direction of a face (or recalculate the direction of all faces) in a mesh.

Saving all the good resources here for when I get comfortable enough with coding to start working on assets. Can't wait to start modeling instead.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #23 : The Knife Tool #b3d

In this Tutorial #23 I cover:

-How to access and use the very powerful Knife Tool to create cuts (edges) on your mesh almost anywhere you want!

-Many features/tricks of the knife tool including: making multiple cuts, midpoint snap, angle constrain, and cut-through.

-How to use the knife tool to 're-topologize' your mesh.

>>23990

I'm kind of going the opposite direction, I'm working on learning how to make assets before I can actually like make game.

>>24024

The advice I've heard more than once is that it really doesn't matter which tool you like, Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, etc. You need to know how the work flows more than knowing one piece of software inside and out.

Do you have the resources to learn Maya? Books, videos, etc? Try it out. Do you like it better than Blender? Will you continue working in it, or are you yak shaving?

>>24034

Fugget then, stick with Blender. :^)

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #24 : Solidify #b3d

In this Tutorial #24 I cover:

-How to add and adjust 'thickness' to faces of an object using two different tools: The Solidify Tool, and the Solidify Modifier.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #25 : Symmetrize #b3d

In this Tutorial #25 I cover:

-How to use the Symmetrize Tool on a mesh you want to be symmetrical.

-The benefits (pros/cons) of using the symmetrize tool vs the mirror modifier

How To Unwrap A UV Sphere In Blender

In this mini tutorial I go over how to unwrap a UV Sphere for usage with Equirectangular maps and tilable textures as well due to it's seamless UV layout.

You can get the images of Earth from here: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

>>24063

My taxes paid for them:

http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/

Cycles' Volume Materials

Here I just go over the new volume nodes available in the Cycles Render Engine, and how to make some pretty marbles using the Volume

>>24018

I hope that goes well for you. I can butcher stuff together so I'm going to model primarily until that gets boring then switch back.

Historical Poly Counts

http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/threads/23520-Historical-Poly-Counts

Half-Life, PC, 1998

Zombie -- 844 polygons

High Definition pack Zombie- 1700 polygons

Half-Life, Dreamcast, 2000-2001 (Canned)

Zombie - 1649 polygons

Half-Life, PS2, 2001

Zombie - 2822 (Highest LOD)

Quake, PC, 1996

200 polygons with 1 320×200 8bit texture using predefined palette.

Unreal Tournament, PC, 1999

Player model -- 800 polygons

Unreal Tournament 2k3, PC, 2003

Player model -- 3,000 polygons

GTA San Andreas, PS2, 2004

Characters -- 2,000 polygons with 1 256×256 8bit texture

NPCs - 1,200 polygons with 1 256x128 8bit texture

Gant bridge - 16,000 polygons, includes LOD

>>24427

that tank is coming along quite nicely anon

>>24427

Nice looking tank anon! I'm glad to hear that book is as good as was promised. Wish I spoke ze german but I chose moon runes instead. Shikata ga nai na~. :^)

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #26 : Snapping & Removing Doubles

In this Tutorial #26 I cover:

-How to use snapping to snap to the grid on your screen

-How to snap to points on other objects

-How to use snapping in edit mode to help line up sub-elements and fill holes in your mesh

-Two ways how to quickly/automatically detect and remove duplicate vertices ("doubles"), where two vertices are in the same location.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #27 : The Boolean Modifier

In this Tutorial #27 I cover:

-How to use the boolean modifier in Blender to combine two objects in three different ways:

-Use one object to cut a hole in another object (difference)

-Join to objects (union)

-Keep only the portion of the mesh where the two meshes intersect (intersect)

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #28 : The Remesh Modifier #b3d

In this Tutorial #28 I cover:

-How to fix a mesh with 'messy' topology.

-How to turn an entire mesh of triangles and nGons to only quads.

Options of the Remesh modifier for resolution and for different kinds of meshes

-How to use the remesh modifier to make any object look 'minecraft style'

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #29 : Pie Menus #b3d

In this Tutorial #29 I cover:

-How to enable Pie Menus in Blender 2.72

- 6 Different Pie Menus:

--Tab: Modes Pie Menu

--Z: Viewport Shading Pie Menu

--Q: Views Pie Menu

--ctrl-shift-tab: Snapping Pie Menu

--. (period) : Pivot Pie Menu

--Ctrl-Space: Gizmo Pie Menu

-Also, how to chance the keyboard shortcut for a pie menu

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #30 : The Array Modifier #b3d

In this Tutorial #30 I cover:

-How to add the Array modifier to an object

-How to create a sequence (line) of identical objects

-How to create a grid of identical objects

-How to apply the array modifier so that all objects are 'real', and how to quickly separate all objects into separate meshes and correct all origins.

-How to use an Offset Object (an 'empty') to offset or curve a line or grid of objects.

>>24830

I'm not really able to tell based off that. Fuck with the settings and use the live render view to see what changes.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #31 : The Bevel Modifier #b3d

In this Tutorial #31 I cover:

-How to painfully undo the bevel too, OR:

-How to use the Bevel MODIFIER to add rounded or chamfered edges to your model and easily undo beveling later if you choose! =)

-How to specify edges on a mesh that you would like bevelled.

-How to create and use vertex groups with the bevel modifier

-How to mark and clear bevelled edge weights

-How to make different edges on a mesh different types or amounts of bevelled.

Blender 2.7 Tutorial #32 : Proportional Editing #b3d

In this Tutorial #32 I cover:

-How to enable/disable Proportional Editing

-How proportional editing can trick new users in object mode

-How to change falloffs for different types of selections

-How 'Connected' mode in proportional editing can be useful when modelling something like a character's mouth.

This thread is bump-locked, please go to the new thread:

https://8ch.net/agdg/res/24909.html

Mods, if you could lock this thread and let it slide off the last page, that would be lovely.

>>24905

Man, that car has a "every day you people do this shit" look on its face.