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Game Maker's Garage => Trash Talk => Topic started by: Gan on March 31, 2011, 02:00:00 PM

Title: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on March 31, 2011, 02:00:00 PM: Is awesome.
Anyone doing 3D now-a-days?

Blender has made a new update that completely revamps everything!
http://www.blender.org/download/get-256-beta/

The new Blender is so slick and it doesn't crash anymore. Also no flickering screen bugs. Much easier to use too.
In fact I'm toying with some of my own creations:
(http://gallery.me.com/avisaria/100010/Awesome%20Sword.jpg?derivative=medium&source=web.jpg&type=medium&ver=13015973210001)
Yeah I know, it doesn't look very realistic. Yet.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Charlo on March 31, 2011, 02:34:49 PM: 2D art is hard enough. ;D

Looks good though.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Telstar5 on March 31, 2011, 04:48:18 PM: Pfft. 3D graphics. It's just a fad like the internet, next year it'll all be GONE
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on March 31, 2011, 04:50:49 PM: Yeah it will be!

Cause there'll be next gen 4D graphics!
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on March 31, 2011, 05:11:26 PM: What's the fourth dimension?
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Silverwind on March 31, 2011, 05:15:25 PM: In my day we only had one dimension, and asking for more got you a smack on the wrist!
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on March 31, 2011, 05:22:01 PM: Cool sword. But as for blender, the new version is confusing. I can't use it at all. It looks a lot like unity.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: EqwanoX on April 01, 2011, 11:05:08 AM: 2d graphics are more artistic and stylised in my opinion, i prefer the look of street fighter 3 over street fighter 4, sf3 is amazing in motion, but thats just my opinion. 3d has its advantages, you only have to make something once, then you can move or rotate it any way you want rather than redraw each frame. you should make a character next and animate him swinging a sword, ide be interested in how that turns out

can you add textures to the sword? that would add alot of potential. you could google a simple rust pattern and paste that on the blade
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 01, 2011, 09:16:24 PM: Yeah, you can do a whole buncha things to the sword.

Here's what I got so far:
(http://cl.ly/013l1K3X3C1Y0j0X1L0U/untitled.png)

I can't wait to learn how to add textures and fine details.
There's a sculpting part of the program that intrigues me, it'd allow fine detailing. Like if making a face, you could shape it like clay I suppose.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on April 02, 2011, 09:32:50 AM: Oh, sculpting is easy in blender.
This is in the old blender, but I would guess it's not much different for the new one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz1iTiDnmME
Any chance of putting a download link for your sword?
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 02, 2011, 01:45:48 PM: That is so cool!
I never knew it could such a thing!
This is awesome, I can make faces and stuff.
In fact I think I'll use sculpting on the handle of my sword to give it a realistic look.
Man this makes things exciting.

Sword v3.0 (http://cl.ly/0o3m3N2a320k2w1i1l25)
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Connors on April 02, 2011, 01:58:24 PM: I'll show you guys what I've been working on in Digital Media (AKA Computer Animation) class. We're using Lightwave at school, it's really cool stuff. I've made all kinds of things. Robots, a sack person, trees, buildings, rain...
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 02, 2011, 02:20:35 PM: Yeah! I'd love to see 3D stuff you guys have made.

I've looked into LightWave and many say Blender and Lightwave work in similar ways. The only main difference is price.
Lightwave:
$100 just to get the manual on how to use it.
$900 to get the program so you can start using it.
$500 to upgrade if a new version ever comes out.

Blender:
$0 to learn how to use it. Tons of help online and everywhere.
$0 to get the program. Just need 22mb of space.
$0 to upgrade.

Sculpting is really easy:
(http://cl.ly/2O1U2t2V380K142s1o24/Screen_shot_2011-04-02_at_3.27.30_PM.png)
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on April 02, 2011, 06:49:34 PM: This guy's got some rigged people up for download.
http://thelowlander.wordpress.com/
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on April 02, 2011, 06:51:48 PM: I'm using the game engine.
Here's a test for the game engine.
http://www.mediafire.com/?s9q3dy92u131kpn
I forgot to zip so the download might be a little slow.
(press P to play by the way)
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 02, 2011, 07:55:16 PM: Wow, that's really cool stuff. The rigged people seems very useful.
That game engine is very intriguing. I've looked through your Chain.blend file, I see how the objects are made but I can't figure out where the code is.
What makes the stuff act the way it does?
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on April 02, 2011, 07:57:13 PM: Purple pac-man dude button is where the logic buttons are. I'm not actually using any code.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 02, 2011, 11:04:31 PM: Thanks, this is amazing!

(http://cl.ly/0s3y051n3G2z1m282c06/Sword_Break_Sequence0000.gif)

With the game logic, I can enable physics, run the game, have it record the physics, than render the animation off the recorded physics!

I love how you can even make a whole game in this without touching a line of code.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 03, 2011, 01:27:40 PM: Here's a very fake looking wall being broken down by a ginormous golf ball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sswIjtIexLg

Need to figure a way to glue bricks together to make it more realistic.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on April 03, 2011, 04:27:25 PM: That's pretty cool. I never got good at any of this. How do you render an animation with physics?
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 03, 2011, 05:30:30 PM: In the game engine, hit record animation in the Game menu at the top. Then play the game, stop, switch to blender render mode, rewind to frame 0 and press Render anim.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Connors on April 03, 2011, 09:38:16 PM: Nice profile picture Matt.
EDIT if you want that building collapse to look better you can start by staggering the bricks so they "lock" together. It's stronger that way.
(http://relevantreverend.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/brick-wall-2191-yonge-street.jpg)
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 03, 2011, 10:52:57 PM: Hey thanks, that's what I needed...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV67TGPKn9U
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Gan on April 12, 2011, 09:26:18 PM: Small update on the building demolition:

Building Collapse 3.0 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i--F0H4Las8&feature=related)

I apologize for not posting this earlier but I've been very busy on another forum.
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Connors on April 12, 2011, 11:18:31 PM: Speaking of RPGs
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: Zoo on April 13, 2011, 04:28:39 PM: BOOM!
Title: Re: 3D Modeling
Post by: x on April 14, 2011, 09:12:52 PM: I'm hopeless with Blender, I couldn't make head nor tails of it, thus I am impressed with your creation(s)!