[gameprogrammer] Re: 3D Models and formats...



--- On Mon, 6/1/09, Keith Emery <kmne68@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Keith Emery <kmne68@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [gameprogrammer] Re: 3D Models and formats...
> To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, June 1, 2009, 3:05 PM
> I
> have used Blender off and on for about 5 years. It does have
> a steep learning curve but it also has decent
> online tutorials and user community support. It is
> powerful (and always improving) and the price is right. Pay
> attention to the export formats though because some do not
> support armature export. You just have to be sure that you
> choose a format that is appropriate for  you
> model.
>  
> I have never used Maya, sorry I can't offer any
> advice on that.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>

I also use blender and think it's worth the time to learn at least the basics.
It has a python module so you can make your own exporter pretty quickly and 
once you get a little knowledge of the interface, you can produce content 
pretty rapidly.
Here's a short list of controls that helped me get started:

Tab key - switches between edit and object mode (most of the time)
Space - Opens a context sensitive option menu
B key - Box select, drag a box around the vertexes you want to select, use 
right click to deselect
E key - Extrude a vertex or group of vertexes / edges / faces
K key - Knife tool for splitting faces and edges
S key - Scale, as with most functions you can press x,y, or z to lock to an axis
G key - Grab, pressing x, y, or z locks movement to that axis
R key - Rotate, x,y,z for axis locking
A key - Toggles select all / select none
CTRL-Z - Undo
CTRL-D - Duplicate selected
M key - Merge selected vertexes

Hope that helps,

Vince~





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