3D advice

GarageGothic · Thu 18/03/2004 08:10:18

My guess is it's for the Who Wants to Live Forever prequel - an hour glass would make sense, wouldn't it?

Vel · Thu 18/03/2004 08:37:17

Bingo, GG. Shbaz, I'll pm you the details.

TerranRich · Thu 18/03/2004 08:40:55

Who Wants to Live Forever? What's that?

Vel · Thu 18/03/2004 08:44:19

Since you asked for it, it can be found here: http://www.agsforums.com/games.php?action=detail&id=290 . It is more of a movie than a game, with sketchy and unique graphics style and amazing soundtrack by Petteri. Do not hesitate - download today for free!

You asked for it, terran

TerranRich · Thu 18/03/2004 08:46:43

Vel is a nice human being, with good qualities and a great guy overall. No word of it a lie! What do you have to say as a response, Vel?

Vel · Thu 18/03/2004 08:48:54

(lock this thread, btw, it's going way off topic)

Minimi · Thu 18/03/2004 09:20:11

Shbaz, very nice modelling! Just like Pessi said, Blender is hard to get a grip on. Also, the button popups look weird on my pc, those buttons get all screwed up and at some points it just crashes!

shbaz · Thu 18/03/2004 15:47:53

Quote from: Minimi on Thu 18/03/2004 09:20:11
Shbaz, very nice modelling! Just like Pessi said, Blender is hard to get a grip on. Also, the button popups look weird on my pc, those buttons get all screwed up and at some points it just crashes!

Tried the latest version, maybe? I made that in 2.32, the latest version with raytracing.

Some graphics card can't deal with Blender because of terrible OpenGL support, can't remember which one.

Totoro · Thu 18/03/2004 23:17:01

Nice work

I am also dealing with Blender right now, since the software was free I decided to buy at least the official Blender Book ...
Shabzijinkens (difficult name :

) the texture is nice too did you just draw on the uv-mapped template in a pixel programme oder do you have any trick for good texturing?

shbaz · Thu 18/03/2004 23:26:51

Found the texture on a free texture site (google "free 3d wood textures").

There are different ways to UV map.. you can just repeat the texture over the surface of the model or you can unwrap the model and like a puzzle determine which parts of the texture will go where. You do the latter in Face select mode and the "u" button, with another window set to view the UV image. What I did was far simpler, I went to the texture menu and loaded the texture I downloaded, and then I went back to the Object buttons and scaled it to appear correct with the buttons/menus on the far right.

I hope you know the official Blender book won't actually be shipping for about a month or more.. I want to buy it, but I don't know if I should considering my jobless + in college situation. Besides, all of the info is on the web, just difficult to find sometimes. The entire manual for Blender Publisher can be downloaded in PDF form from the old blender site (accessible through blender3d.com).

Totoro · Fri 19/03/2004 00:17:35

I got it today... its not for the latest version though, but for understanding the basics of working with it will be fine

shbaz · Fri 19/03/2004 01:44:55

Hmm.. I'll bet you bought the one you can get online for free. It's probably a lot easier to read though. I hate reading digital books.

shbaz · Fri 19/03/2004 06:40:42

I'm drifting way OT, but since you're interested in learning about modelling..

elYsiun is a great place to learn about Blender.. for a while. The professionals there are few and far between amid the clutter of excited newbies finding a free 3d package. However, if you go to CG Talk you will be around the top professionals in the gaming/CG industry. Just from reading the WIP threads I'm learning tons about game models and texturing. The stuff is all applicable in Blender and the Gimp, you just do it in different ways. My method right now is to learn from CGtalk and obtain help implementing that knowledge with Blender at elYsiun. If you're using the Gimp, go to gimp.org and download the PDF of the instruction book.. read as much of it as you can stomach and try not to skip too much. You'll figure out it's nearly as useful as photoshop, once you learn how to squeeze usefulness out of the interface.

Check out this link for textures and texturing tuts:
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=hreadid=77484

Totoro · Fri 19/03/2004 13:06:30

Quote from: shbazjinkens on Fri 19/03/2004 01:44:55
Hmm.. I'll bet you bought the one you can get online for free. It's probably a lot easier to read though. I hate reading digital books.

Yes I know, but I just bought it for the same reason, I prefer to have a real book I can look at.
Thanks a lot for the links and information

!!!!

InCreator · Sat 20/03/2004 19:00:10

Hourglass? Simple indeed. A line with lathe modifier, two boxes, four cylinders.

N00bs of 3D are using something called anim8or,
which is supposed to be very free and very easy.
Maybe this'll help. www.anim8or.com, if I'm right.

Well, I'll stick to my good ol' 3ds MAX.

Totoro · Sun 21/03/2004 01:29:10

Yeah, 3dMax would be nice, but a little bit out of my budget right now... great you are rich

Vel · Sun 21/03/2004 09:40:57

You know, kazaa and such also have 3dsmax. And if it has a trial version you could also cra....modify it.

InCreator · Sun 21/03/2004 12:55:09

3ds Max appears to have something called C-Dilla licensing system which causes headache even to legal users/buyers. But yeah, a little bit of *modifying* should get creating strated.

And totoro, yeah, I AM rich. Just as "rich" as these other salty dogs over Carribean with eye patches and few missing limbs few hundred years ago... *ahem*.

But Estonia appears to be a very distant other-universe hellhole for other world so I couldn't buy max even if I wanted to (or had cash for this). Then again, Petteri lives only about 100 or so kilometres away from me and I don't think he has same problems with getting software legally.

Totoro · Sun 21/03/2004 13:01:28

I would NEVER get software on a illegal way, I am a good guy, don't you believe me?

Vel · Sun 21/03/2004 14:21:18

Dude, they sell illegal software in the centre of the capital of Bulgaria and everyone is happy about it