Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Ok, I’ll admit, this topic isn’t the most incredibly gamedev related thing I’ve covered, but I figured enough of you might find it useful that I should share this. Like many other things, Blender has incredibly powerful text manipulation and rendering features built in, but working with them isn’t always intuitive. We work with […]
Creating Text in Blender Read More
Or… How to take a Blender model you downloaded from the web and make it actually usable in your game in 28 easy steps! … granted, the second title doesn’t have the same flow to it, does it? I just had to run through this process and I figured I would share […]
Baking Blender materials to texture to make them usable in a game engine Read More
Let me start off by saying that exporting from Blender is always a pain in the ass. This experience didn’t prove to be an exception. I will describe the process in some detail. First and foremost, Blender 2.69 DIDNT work. At least not for me, not matter what I did, Blender 2.69 would […]
3D models and animation from Blender to LibGDX Read More
Exactly as the title says, this title takes someone with ZERO experience and teaches them how to use Blender to the point they will be able to create their own low polygon fully textured game model for use in a 3D game engine like Unity or UDK. It then goes one step further and […]
Complete Blender Game Art Tutorial. From zero experience to 2D or 3D game ready asset Read More
Now we are going to start the process of texturing ( drawing an image on the surface of ) our jet. This first step may not need to be performed. We need to verify that our model has a material applied. By default one will be created for you, but if you are […]
Creating a game sprite: Texture mapping Part 1: UV Unwrapping explained Read More
In this section, we are going to look at the fundamental aspects of modelling in 3D. If you have done any work in 3D, a lot of this will be old hat for you and you can safely skip ahead to the bottom for the Blender specific details. 3D Fundamentals At the […]
Programmer Art: Blender for Programmers Part 3 — Introduction to 3D modelling Read More
Introduction Welcome to our first Programmer Art tutorial series. The ultimate goal in these tutorials is to instil a programmer with the capacity to create their own art assets, in this case using Blender. One thing I want to make clear right off the hop, this won’t teach you how to create *GOOD* art, […]
Programmer Art: Blender For Programmers Part 1 — The Introduction Read More
In this section we are going to cover navigating the Blender interface. This includes both selecting items, and controlling the application camera. It is important to realize that the app camera or view, is not the same as a scene camera. A scene camera is used if you are rendering your graphics to an […]
Programmer Art: Blender for Programmers Part 2 — Selection and Navigation Read More
One area of Blender that is often over looked, or people are downright unaware of, is its video editing capabilities. Hidden behind the 3D functionality we all know and love, under a layer of yes… sometimes confusing UI, lives a remarkably capable NLE ( non-linear editor ). In this tutorial I am going […]
Tutorial: Simple video editing using Blender 2.6x Read More
One of the nicest features of going with Blender is the fact that it is open source. One of the nicest facts of open source is you don’t have to wait for a vendor to release a new version, you can go get the cutting edge version at any time. That said, building Blender […]
Taking a walk on the wild side Read More
