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Gamer X
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Posted: 20th Jul 2009 23:15 Edited at: 10th May 2011 17:19
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I started these tutorials on July 20, 2009. I have taught a great deal in the tutorials, but I am far from putting everything into these tutorials. I have yet to learn everything about this program myself. The main reason for these tutorials is to dumb down the learning curve a bit by getting straight to the point. I will continue on learning Blender myself and I will continue to make tutorials when ever I get some quiet free time.



TITLE: Blender - User Interface
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5tV505dp6U

TITLE: Blender - Basic Modeling
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHtAuIZrc8U

TITLE: Blender - UV mapping pt. 1
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktG8m5bBZn4

TITLE: Blender - UV mapping pt.2
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBXESHnZkmc

TITLE: Blender to FPS Creator
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtLJ3JNqNJE

TITLE: Segments
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uekckQYdOPk

TITLE: Animation
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecMt8_-K9o
EXTRA FILES: http://www.mediafire.com/file/emgmkzzzuoq/door.zip

TITLE: Gun Animation - Parenting
LINK: pt. 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjwb-IgjcvM
pt. 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQvDl29tJqI
EXTRA FILES: http://www.mediafire.com/file/j0yzoywti31/Guntutorial.zip

TITLE: Blender - Bone Rigging
LINK: pt.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLd_du3zBQ
pt.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFDdR1EtXUQ
pt.3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brbtvmh4jcY
EXTRA FILES: http://www.mediafire.com/?vmn2etoml1m

TITLE: Blender Character animation and rigging
LINK:
PT.1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRNxD3oqBBs
PT.2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnPcD7w-a0c
PT.3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6OM1hmUD28

TITLE: Blender Bonus
LINK:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdL-_zEFd2A

TITLE: Blender weapon rigging
LINK:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-KxWjYQcvM



User Interface
http://www.mediafire.com/file/t54dimlh05z/blender1-userinterface.wmv

Basic Modeling
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ggjmwnmuymu/basicmodeling.wmv

UV Mapping Pt. 1 and 2
http://www.mediafire.com/file/n5zknyyn5tn/uvmap.zip

Blender to FPSC
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ebaw2dtnymt/blendertofpsc.wmv

Segments
http://www.mediafire.com/file/zzowjzg0xyy/segments.wmv

Animation
http://www.mediafire.com/file/1jyytzjqdzu/animation.wmv

Gun animation - Parenting
http://www.mediafire.com/file/mvidmdhdmy3/guntutorial.wmv

Bone Rigging
http://www.mediafire.com/?mmmmwvmzenm



Setting a Segment Scale for Blender


How to change the pivot point so that its in the center of your model. (copied from here http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=87787 post #4)

you can move your objects centre using the the centre buttons shown below (middle area of pic)

centre = shifts object data to be centred about objects origin
centre new = shifts objects origin to centre of objects data
centre cursor = shifts object origin to cursor location

How to have your object exactly in the center of the grid.


Direct X 9 exporter - http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=166987&b=3



KEY:
= Complete
= Working on it
= Up next
= back burner

Gun animation without bones -
Rigging basics -
Gun animation with bones -
UV Mapping 2.0 -
Character Rigging and animating -
Glow Effect -
Feature Explorer (features of blender that are less used) -


Special Thanks to

4thWarden for the music that will quickly become known as the most annoying tutorial music ever

Armageddon Games (DJ Collateral) for kick the bass and other music tracks

Fallen one for pointing out 2 useful tips

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Posted: 21st Jul 2009 18:24
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Thanks for providing these, personally i am not going to use them because i use fragmotion, milkshape and anim8or.
But on behalf of many people in this forum thanks and good work

www.fpsccentral.co.nr <- Models, media and much much more.
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Posted: 22nd Jul 2009 01:00 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2009 01:05
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Update: Tutorial through modeling a first aid kit is now available. If anyone has any troubles in watching the video let me know.

Edit: this is what it will look like




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Posted: 22nd Jul 2009 18:34 Edited at: 22nd Jul 2009 18:38
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Looks good this might be helpful for people just learning how to import their own media into fpsc. I watched the video and it was helpful. Keep it up. Also it would be very helpful if you would like speak durring the tutorial. helps people out more

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Posted: 22nd Jul 2009 21:41
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Update: I have uploaded the UV Mapping pt. 1 tutorial


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very helpful tutorials! but when will pt. 2 of the UV mapping tutorial be done? I don't want to rush you but the whole UV mapping concept is giving me a lot of trouble :\

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Sounds pretty good to me. I'll check out your videos once you've put up the second UV mapping tut, that's the only thing in Blender that gives me trouble.

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I am uploading pt 2 of UV mapping in blender as I speak. It takes a while to prepare the videos and uploading. I have been skimming the 10 minute length limit quite a bit with the UV mapping parts. I will also hopefully have the Blender to FPSC tutorial done by this evening.


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Posted: 23rd Jul 2009 20:28
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The final two videos are uploaded


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Posted: 24th Jul 2009 00:03 Edited at: 24th Jul 2009 00:26
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I think I'm getting how it works now (though I prefer another method of unwrapping) but is there a bucket tool in the blender image editor?

Edit: NVM

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That was solved without me even trying. Life can be good sometimes.

Just to let everyone know, that is the way I model and uv map, you do not have to follow me exactly. At least I know that if anyone asks for a modeling program, I can say Blender here and tutorials here.


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Posted: 26th Jul 2009 04:16
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I have set up downloads for those who do not wish to be on youtube constantly for the videos


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Great tuts putting them to my pda to watch on there while in blender hehe.

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cool
I will take a look at these when I have time

I hope there not as slow as the offical ones on the blender website
I nearly fell a sleep

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Posted: 26th Jul 2009 10:09 Edited at: 26th Jul 2009 10:10
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Quote: "I hope there not as slow as the offical ones on the blender website"


i think there faster and more to the point of basics. after all others seem to have no troubles.


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Posted: 6th Aug 2009 15:44 Edited at: 6th Aug 2009 15:47
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Thanks for the tut's X. I think I'll wait for the new version. The interface is just too.... archaic. 2.5 has a brand new, fully customizable layout and tool set. Perhaps if I had learned it before others, but after using Anim8or and MilkShape, it's just too difficult to use.

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Posted: 6th Aug 2009 17:57 Edited at: 17th Aug 2009 03:41
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I looked at the new 2.5 interface and to me it looked like it was heading towards a common modeling program interface look, but as long as they make an upgrade to the Direct X exporter and keep the hot keys I will be good.

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how to you consolidate the UV maps into one image if you have more than one object?

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1. select all the objects that you are using
2. go into UV/Image editor
3. make sure that the objects have images
4. click on Consolidate into one image in the image menu
5. change the name from //(name of file)_grp to something easy to remember like //texmulti
6. click the All selected objects located at the bottom of the options.
7. Click OK and you are done.

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I tried that, but it says "only 1 image found," I have three objects and I gave them each different images for the UV map, so I don't know why it's saying there's only 1 image

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Posted: 17th Aug 2009 01:48 Edited at: 17th Aug 2009 01:48
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That is strange, I just did it on the models for the Apple Juice Mod Video Clip.gif image...

are you using the same image for all three?

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No, I used the Blue Green and Red images I had leftover from your UV mapping tutorial

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Usually when it says that only one image is found, it means that the current active object has only one image and there for you need to press All Sel Objects to have it use more than 1 object.

Attached is a pic of Blender with Three circles:

Red Circle - the objects
Yellow Circle - The Image Consolidate control
light Blue Circle - The All Sel Objects button

I am sorry If I am pushing in the wrong direction.

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Ah.. well that helps me with the final texturing, but proves I'll have to UV map each object individually, thanks GX, you're probably the only person I know of on these boards willing to help people with Blender

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You are welcome

I forgot to mention that there was a 2nd method, but it will not work if the objects are animated. What it does is fuse all the objects together and keeps the animation of the active object.

Here is how it is done:

1. select all the objects you are using
2. Press ctrl + J and click on the pop-up (this will make the objects just one object)
3. basic tutorial consolidate textures.

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Neat, I might be able to use that for other projects, and maybe for a couple pieces of what I'm doing now, but it's going to have a little animation to it. Thanks again.

(http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=156291&b=3 that's what I've been working on btw)

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If you need help with that just send me an e-mail.

I know a good amount of tricks to use in blender to make things appear different to people .

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Eh, I think I'm alright with the model so far, even though I still don't know most of the tricks in Blender I'm just having trouble texturing, I barely started and my eyes already hurt XD Thanks for the offer though, I could send you the .blend file if you want it.

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Quote: "I barely started and my eyes already hurt"

I know the feeling

Quote: "I could send you the .blend file if you want it."

If you want to you can. If you do send it to me, I can probably get the UV maps to go together and probably use a few tricks too.

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Alright, sent, happy blending! X)

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Hi
I'm a Blender's User, your Tutorials are very well done , and very clear to understand,
VERY GOOD WORK !!!!!!!!!!!


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Great tutorials man but I've hit a problem while following the basic modelling one. When I select the faces and extrude to make the box lid only two of them extrude. So instead of extruding in a square shape it extrudes in a diamond shape. I've followed your video to the letter and retried with a whole new square 3 times with the same results. Any help?

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could you show me what you mean

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Sure thing.

[img][/img]

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Can you upload it to the forums instead of a image host?
I just can't get it to load the image for me.

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Sorry about that
Hehe I don't actually know why I didn't just attatch the picture...
Anyways here you go: (attatched)

NOTE: Might be a little big.

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Found the the problem, :

1. when you extrude, just left click immediately after selecting extrude region.
2. then press S to size it.

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Thanks a bunch man! Great tutorials!!

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Thanks, I will think about expanding the tutorials into making basic weapon animations and making segments.

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Posted: 23rd Aug 2009 06:34 Edited at: 23rd Aug 2009 06:35
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Sounds awesome! I'm going to post pics of my first model ever!! Check it out in the 3d Modelling board. Your tutorials are nice because they're not overly long and they cut straight to what you need instead of having you memorize every single keyboard shortcut before moving on. They're also nice and simple, the perfect place to start! Thanks again.

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gamer x...props to your tutorial...i check out ur uv ones that were i was having trouble...... i like how you u put text on the videos...
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Just wondering, gamer x, have you made a game in blender yet? I am making one now just for fun. And I have to say programming aside, it is surprising easy. Well, just a thought. Tutorial looks good and we always need new and different ways of making a good fps game.
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every once and a while I think about, but I haven't messed with it. I also think about making movies in it and some other things. Besides FPSC and Blender, I have VB, C++, C#, and flash that I can make games in and hopefully soon Dark Basic Pro.

"Games should not equal greed, but they should equal joy to those that play them, education for those that don't know they are learning, and hope to those who live stressful lives"
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these tutorials are great.
I only just started using Blender when i found your tutorials.

very cool stuff.
Cheers for sharing.
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Still Confuses me a lot but im ok! @_@

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I got news, news, news, and News

news, I was joking about the and news

News, I will release one more tutorial here for Blender, any more will be released on the CMG Website.

with that said, it will be over segments.

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The video is now up on Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uekckQYdOPk

Downloadable version is now available.

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I got some news as to the direction this thread will continue. I will be working on make a tutorial that will show you how to do this...


and after that I will have a tutorial over animations

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Awesome!! I already know how to do dead bodies but I can definitely not wait for an animation tutorial! Looks great, your tutorials are what lifted me to making models for FPSC!

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in case you guys think that i been living under a rock for the past few months, here is a new tutorial for you to sink your teeth into.

This tutorial is unique for a couple of reasons:

1. I actually voiced the entire tutorial
2. I provide you the files for blender

TITLE: Animation
LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XecMt8_-K9o
EXTRA FILES: http://www.mediafire.com/file/emgmkzzzuoq/door.zip

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