blender 3d

can blender 3d be used to make sculpties and if so how and is there a poly limit

Hiya Timmie!,

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In future I suggest you ask technical/building related questions in the Building Tips forums. Resident Answers is for questions related to shopping and PMS.

Yes it can but to learn how to do it you must be extremely gifted or
risk bleeding from your eyeballs.
After 10 years only thing I know how to hit is exit button and each
time I try to learn it my brain has melt down and crashes.
Maybe different for you though Timmie.

QFT

I found Wings 3D was allot easier to learn than Blender,

Blender 3d rocks. It took me a good deal of time to to even learn how to do one thing however the resources that are out there now are tremendous -- check out this site http://blog.machinimatrix.org/ -- Probably the best resources I have used in flattening that learning curve. I wish this would have been around in the beginning, it would have saved a few blood pressure points Lol

Thanks, thats is a really handy link. I've been struggling all year trying to teach myself Blender 3d and compeltely lost incentive after i learned the basics relying on inferior programs. I think this will help.

I've looked at Blender and made a few simple test things, but there's so much to learn it's like learning higher maths but with a Russian teacher so you need to learn Russian first before you learn the maths. So many commands - things like 'triple right-click' - honest!

Hi CD... where´s this 'triple right-click' thing.. I wanna try it.

Best way I found to learn Blender is to download many video tutorials to HD.
Use 2nd monitor to watch and follow the tuts while actually doing them. Start small.. think big.
Here´s a big list:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Tutorial_Links_List

I have spent several months messing around with it but the learning curve,for me anyway, is too steep at the moment.
I tend to use blender if I need sculpts.I've followed several tutorials but if I leave it for a week or so I am stumped again.
It does not help to have your screen filled up like like the flight deck of Concorde.Maybe one day.

Once you get the hang of it, Blender is a snap. Don't let the interface oddities discourage you. Follow some basic tutorials (non-sculptie specific) and just dig in. Sooner or later it will all make sense.

Regards,
OptiMole

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I like blender a lot. Yes the UI is terrible to learn. But, if you are only using it for sculpties there is only so much you need to know.

follow Domino's threads here on the subject and his site

http://dominodesigns.info/second_life/blender_scripts.html

use these tutorials(i had to watch then a few times, even following along on some)

http://amandalevitsky.googlepages.com/sculptedprims

if you get stuck IM me inworld, i will try to help

Alisha Matova

Quick! Catch it!!!

I'm starting to get the hang of blender but wish it had an option that would hide all the buttons and dials and stuff that I don't know how to use.

I have found the keyboard short cuts a god send.


A selects all or deselects all

B sets you up to select individual points

S is scale and S + x, y or z will scale on that axis

R rotate

this is all with the edit tab active....I am sure there are more, but i get by with these.

I have tried to follow some of tutorials it seems simple enough until
I get to the interface then everything goes blurry and I begin have brain memory error messages that make me feeling I am about to have brain spew steam and bleed from ears and eyes.
Waves at the Mole, wow we have are so honored to have a "Mole" celebrity
Your name sounds familar I thing ogling something you made but I forgot where.

Yup us moles troll these forums too but if you wanna catch us ur gonna need to set a trap! About hiding the UI... I'm not sure if this would help exactly but try pressing shift+space to go full screen. Pay attention to where you pointer is hovering because that's the window that's gonna go full screen...Weeeeee shift+space brings it back to normal mode.

Regards,
OptiMole

Waves back... Please please, I'm no celebrity. I'm just a resi like you! But yea, the interface is awkward at best untill you get the clicky moment and you go EUREKA! Just so you don't run out of vital bodily fluids in the meantime and I think you'll be alright.

I had the same issue. I would up watching the tutorials with blender running. I was not fast enough to follow along so I kept pausing. Yes it took an hour at least to get through the first one.

Using the same tutorials I have just learned how to map how the "visiable" texture is applied to the prim inworld!! This took many pauses of the tutorial, but if I can get through it You can too ! =)