Adventures with Blender for Ships and Giggles. (PG Title)

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:59 pm

I have never really been into modeling, or animating. I would love to be able to model or animate but I am really not that good, well I am not bad its just I don't find it extremely interesting. After I make anything I always think to myself.. At what cost.. How much horrible code could I have produced in the same period of time. But for once I decided I would take on blender for it would be our first and possibly final battle.

I clicked the blender.exe icon and bam I was confronted with a grey screen that look way to overcomplicated I had absolutely no idea what to do.. I left clicked on what looked like a box? It didn't do anything, I left clicked and I was getting somewhere.. I decided to just go crazy, and after I found the Alt key, the Shift +s + size key I was set. And this is what I came up with.

I a, such a noob I don't know how to export renders to picture file types so I had to take a screen shot and edit it :/

Anyway I like blender now, it makes a lot of sense you just have to understand how it works. Its really quite fun to play around with. I don't know if I can export the grass to irrlicht.. I am still completely lost at how to lightmap in blender. I don't really know what UVMapping or baking is. Any help with the terminology would be great. Tell me what you think about my first real attempt at blender..

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:22 am

Hey thats pretty neat. I don't think the grass will look as good in Irrlicht. Because you would need that lighting on the top part to be able to distinguish the grass blades. Maybe a lightmap like you mentioned would help, but I think the light is view dependent (So needs to be calculated dynamically). Also I would recommend a vertex shader to animate the top parts, just a basic sin curve dependent on Y position I guess.

Cheers

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:39 pm

Yeah, I agree that is pretty cool. I like the second picture more, it reminds me of the Halo 3 trailer.

twilight17 · Post by **twilight17** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 9:49 pm

Halifax wrote:Yeah, I agree that is pretty cool. I like the second picture more, it reminds me of the Halo 3 trailer.

OMG THAT PWNS! it does look like Halo 3

dejai · Post by **dejai** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:43 pm

I wanted to do some CG as well I am still learning, Halifax if you need help level editing I would love to help out. If only to learn about modeling.

Halifax · Post by **Halifax** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:20 pm

Wow, your kind of overusing that Sparta smiley aren't you.

And alright, if you want to take a stab at it, then go ahead. The design document should be enough for you, I think. (Just use your imagination, but the triangle count must be below 100,000.)