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Game development => Game design => Topic started by: eborr on December 31, 2010, 12:34:05 PM

Title: Can anyone suggest a primer on 3D
Post by: eborr on December 31, 2010, 12:34:05 PM
I have got a number of different free 3D drawing programmes, and I am at the level of being able to create boxes and cones but I get stuck beyond that.

What I could really do with is some guidance on a decent free starter software which also has easy to use tutorials which take you beyond the spinning cube.

It would also help if the tuts introduced a bit of the general 3d theory as opposed to how they manage to hack 3d objects out of their application.

thx
Title: Re: Can anyone suggest a primer on 3D
Post by: Finn on January 13, 2011, 01:10:19 AM
Highly recommend the new 2.5x versions of Blender 3D (http://www.blender.org/) (at time of writing, current version is 2.56a Beta (http://www.blender.org/download/get-256-beta/)) - it's still in beta release but extremely stable (don't go near the 2.49b version - the user interface is archaic and you will struggle even more).

For training, check out Blender Cookie (http://www.blendercookie.com/) and Blender Guru (http://www.blenderguru.com/). Very good video training.

All are free so you haven't spent a penny, dime or whatever! ;)

Hope that helps.