Blender for making Games?

Tutorial Doctor · 2014-06-01T21:12:38

I have been so frustrated with Blender, and I still sorta am. But the good thing about Blender is that there are so many third party plugins for it that make it that much more powerful. Now, I don't use the Blender Game Engine per-se, but I do use Blender for making game content for the Maratis3D game engine. Let me show you some reasons you might want to consider using Blender for your visual game art: THE SITE: http://www.blender.org/ PLUGINS: BEPUIK Plugin (Full body inverse kinematics) Real Time Animation: Bsurfaces (draw your meshes) THINGS MADE WITH IT: Blender Guru (great tutorials for blender) http://www.blenderguru.com/ Blendswap (share blender files) http://www.blendswap.com/ More tutorials and resources: http://cgcookie.com/blender/ The power of blender is there, but the area it struggles in is the design of the interface. I know most people who thought they might switch over to Blender from 3dsmax or Maya say that it is very un-intuitive and frustrating to use (and it sorta is), but they are not raking in the big bucks that way to support the payroll for that, and yet, it is a very capable and FREE professional 3d modeling software. It is because I am pretty much poor that I was forced to use this software, but I have seen it's potential while doing so. What are you experiences with Blender3D? If you have any cool things about Blender to add, please comment.

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Started by Tutorial Doctor February 13, 2014 06:16 PM

45 comments, last by wfrye2005 9 years, 10 months ago

riuthamus

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March 22, 2014 04:49 PM

No need for war, its just opinion and I dont hate them for it! :P

Tutorial Doctor

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April 29, 2014 04:02 PM

Blender is getting ready to win me fully over with this 2.7 update. It is so fast and snappy. I also like the direction they are going. Right now they are working on the UI and soon they will be working on the game engine (overhaul I hope). If they do well with that, I might even use Blender for game making, as you have all of your particle systems and everything right there. And we all know how extensible Blender is.

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Tutorial Doctor

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May 28, 2014 09:07 PM

The BEPUIK build of Blender is not updated for version 2.7

https://github.com/Squashwell/bepuik/releases

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3Ddreamer

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May 30, 2014 09:21 AM

Blender is perfectly fine for any hobbyist who wants to use the game engine of Blender. A few Indy pros have published games made from Blender.

The tools of Blender for creating art assets of your game (based on another game engine, SDK, or IDE), are good.

The GUI still needs work in having better descriptive labels and it has some features which are too challenging to locate..

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by Clinton, 3Ddreamer

Serapth

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May 30, 2014 01:23 PM

Blender is perfectly fine for any hobbyist who wants to use the game engine of Blender. A few Indy pros have published games made from Blender.

The tools of Blender for creating art assets of your game (based on another game engine, SDK, or IDE), are good.

The GUI still needs work in having better descriptive labels and it has some features which are too challenging to locate..

Indie.

Indy is a race series. :)

Sorry, newest their/there/they're pet peeve.

As to the GUI comment, the latest changes in the UX have made a big difference, at least showing they are going in the right direction. They need to do a re-org of the icons as well ( for Scene,Properties, Texture, World, etc ). I actually would like to move away from Icons completely, I like vertical tabs with actual words personally. This does present some huge internationalization headaches though.

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3Ddreamer

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May 31, 2014 02:56 AM

Serapth,

That's what I get for typing at 1,000 miles per hour. I do miss some things.

On general capability, Blender is world class. I liked you comments on the GUI. (your comments: their I go agin - LOL)

by Clinton, 3Ddreamer

wfrye2005

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June 01, 2014 09:12 PM

I haven't done any serious work in Blender since 2.49b ("I've been busy" and other assorted excuses), but I just installed 2.70a after reading this topic, as you've all reminded me how much I miss this kind of thing (context info: got degree in architecture, no jobs, became software engineer instead).

My initial assessment of the interface changes are "well ****, now I have to learn it again from scratch" and "it's hard to read," the latter being the only remotely serious one. Not a big fan of black on grey, and the various section headers just don't stand out enough. Font size is a little too small on my 2560x1440 monitor as well. Upon closer inspection, this all appears to be highly customizable, but I still think they could use a better default theme.

That said, my favorite feature in Blender remains unchanged: it isn't part of the Autodesk pseudo-monopoly, and thus I don't have to sell my car (or my soul) for a copy.

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