BlenderBound

Well, I've been meaning to try out Blender, as I don't have the thousands of dollars needed for 3d Studio and similar, so I finally gave it a go yesterday. Found an all-right tutorial for >really< basic stuff, so then I just found something that would be easy enough to model. GunBound was open at the time, and I noticed the A. Sate was pretty simple, so I went ahead and did that. No, it's not much, but hey, this is my first time so I have an excuse, right

http://lifesbane.homestead.com/files/AMesh.jpg

http://lifesbane.homestead.com/files/AControls.jpg

http://lifesbane.homestead.com/files/asatemblur.avi

By the way... how can I get blender to save images? Movies work fine, save with the names I specify and everything, and I can even save a still shot if I set the animation to Begin and End at frame 1 and click the "Animation" button... but I can't seem to get pictures to actually "write" to the hard-drive when I click "Render". Any suggestions?

Actually, at that, any sites you know of with some good newbie-intermediate tutorials? I already went through the ones at BlenderWars, but I'm ready to move on to some more complicated stuff.

Cool, thanks for the link to the book. I only wonder if it has some sections that won't work anymore since the book seems to be based on an outdated version (1.8).

Here are some links to some tutorials I've found so far... can't find enough extensive basic tutorials:

http://www.vrotvrot.com/xoom/tutorials.html
http://www.blenderwars.com/tut.php?module=index <-- good newbie tutorials
http://www.elysiun.com/tutorials.php
http://www.selleri.org/Blender/
http://www.ingiebee.com/

You know, I saw that Wings3D thing, it's actually what made me end up finding Blender. What does it have to offer that Blender doesn't have, or doesn't do well? From what I could tell, Wings was just a modelling program... while Blender is modelling, animating, rendering, etc. You seem to be familiar with Wings, so is modelling in it really easy, or do the results just turn out really good or something

Nice scimitar, by the way.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I was "bashing" wings or anything... just trying to find out what the program has to offer

I wish it had better undo support as well. Seems like you can only undo things you have changed in Edit mode. So if you do something like a join, or a boolean op, you can't undo it unless you reload your last save file. Luckilly, I save a lot.

Nice work! I definitely am going to check into that renderer. Another one I heard of was at http://www.povray.org/ , but I don't really know anything about it. Just had the link saved so I could one day go take a look at it and see what it was about

Yah, I figured out how to do the picture saving thing finally... I was thinking it was like animations where you just specified what directory it should be placed in and when you hit Render it would save it automatically

Now I wanna figure out texturing and lighting better... although I've always stunk with lighting and texturing, even in mapping for Unreal it's been my weakest spot