DustyStyx' .planfile

DustyStyx · Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 04:18 am Post subject: DustyStyx' .planfile

Seeing how Transfusion's development has come to a halt, I figure I'd start a planfile outlining what I'm currently working on, perhaps the other developers will follow suit.

This will be a locked thread, if you have a comment or suggestion related to the current topic please PM me.

GOAL: Learn a 3D Modeling Program. I've been meaning do this for years now and Blender seems more than capable for our needs, so I think I'll start up with that.

ETA: 1 Month to begin modeling static 3D world models.

DustyStyx · Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 01:59 pm Post subject:

I was poking around and found Blender.org hosts a copy of The Official BLENDER 2.3 GUIDE

I have a hard copy of this book (bought it years ago) but it's good to have the additional resource online so I don't have to lug the book around. Blender has changed a little bit between 2.3 and the current 2.4x, but I've been able to follow it so far.

More Blender manuals online: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual

DustyStyx · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 02:06 pm Post subject:

Blender is coming along well enough. I've been hacking away at it and have started making simple models.

Things I still need to work out:
• Model optimization
• UVMap
• Rotation animation
• md3 export

DustyStyx · Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 05:41 pm Post subject:

I've been neglecting Blender for far to long. Some of it has been reluctance on my part to learn one version when a new version is due out soon, but this guy makes it look easy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb0ZRnly2RI

DustyStyx · Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 04:08 pm Post subject: Sketchup to Blender

I was poking around the forums at Guild of Writers when I came across a how-to for converting files from Google's Sketchup to Blender.

http://alexvaqp.googlepages.com/sketchupblender

Apparently you can export your Sketchup models to a Collada file (.dae) and then import that .dae file into Blender using a plug-in made by illusoft.com

Sketchup: http://sketchup.google.com/download/
Collada plugin: http://colladablender.sourceforge.net

Not sure how well it all works, but it could be worth looking into.

I suspect you could find something similar for other 3D applications as well. I only bring it up because Sketchup is very easy to model in, although it does get clunky once your model gets fairly detailed.

DustyStyx

While looking around for information about the DarkPlaces model format I stumbled on a lengthy tutorial today from Kot-in-Action detailing how to convert Blender files into .DPMs
• Kot-in-Action tutorial
• *Alt Location

Also, leileilol had sent me a few links last year, about getting blender models converted to md3 last year... which I have yet to try.

The scripts can be found on source forge.
• https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tremx/trunk/blender/

DustyStyx · Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 04:34 pm Post subject: Blender 2.5 updates

Looks like Blender 2.5 is coming along well. I've been putting off doing much with Blender in general because of the UI changes and worries about stability, but I figure that by the time I actually get used to using the 2.5 alpha, they will have released the final version. So...

For anyone else that's interested in "Blending"
• GraphicAll.org, has the latest Blender SVN builds for download.
• BlenderCookie, has some very nice intro to Blender videos that focus on the 2.5 UI

DustyStyx · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 07:27 pm Post subject: Rearrange the Forums

I've been rearranging the forums some. Trying to get things a little more organized, and geared towards production.

DustyStyx · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:46 pm Post subject: Blender Beta

Sweet! It looks like they've released the Blender 2.5 Beta!

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-250/

DustyStyx · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 08:40 pm Post subject:

Hurray, I found the Blender 2.5 manual. It looks like it is still under development, but not to bad for a start.

DustyStyx · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 02:46 pm Post subject:

I've yet to export even a simple cube into a format that DarkPlaces supports from Blender. But I'm not giving up!