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3D Game Development with Blender

11 hours on-demand video

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Brief Introduction

Build anything you can imagine, and make fun 3D games!

Description

You want to make a game, huh?

Many have gone before, and not all have succeeded.

Truth is, building games is hard, especially 3D games. But if you have the right tools and the right tour guide, the process can be relatively easy. Building games might just be more fun than playing them!

3D gaming courses tend to come in two flavors. Either you learn to build all your models in a 3D editor like Blender or 3DSMax but you barely get to put them in a game, or you start with a high-end powerful gaming tool like Unity or Unreal, but you can only use models made by others.

In this course, we start from the very beginning. You'll learn how to build your own model of anything you can imagine using Blender, a powerful free tool. There are many Blender classes out there, but most do not concentrate on building models for games, which are different than the models used in movies. Blender is well-known as perhaps the best open-source 3D modeling package in existence.

Blender's best-kept secret is its game engine. Not only can you build models in Blender, you can build full-fledged games. The game system is incredibly powerful, yet not well known.

That's where this course comes in. I'll show you how to create compelling models, how to use Blender's logic bricks to write basic games with no programming, and we'll finally transition to writing your own code with the powerful and popular Python language built into Blender.

I've had a blast creating this course. I can't wait to share it with you. The best part of making a game is storing your own playfulness inside a game. I see this course in exactly the same way. Let's play together and build some awesome games.

Requirements

Requirements
Please download and install a recent version of Blender (2.76 or greater.) You can use any desktop operating system. Blender is completely free software.
You may also want an image editor like Gimp (free) or Photoshop (definitely not free.)

Knowledge

Build 3D models suitable for any game engine
Manipulate a 3D environment
Create custom mesh objects - vehicles, humanoids, animals
Use UV mapping for realistic color effects
Build basic procedural textures and bake them to UVs
Create terrain, sky maps, and ground textures
Create timeline-based animations (moving platforms, doors)
Use shape keys to modify a mesh (moving eyes and mouth, for example)
Create a basic skeleton rig and animate a character with it
Combine various animations into actions
Master the blender game engine logic bricks
Get user input from mouse, keyboard, and joystick
Manage collisions through bounding boxes, raycasting, and convex hull
Use dynamic physics for realistic motion and collisions
Dynamically create and destroy objects
Track properties for scorekeeping, inventory, time
Create scene overlays for dynamic HUD elements
Display dynamic text on the HUD
Write Python code for better control
Use Python to manage joysticks and mouse with more finesse
Generate a realistic car rig with suspension, acceleration, brakes, and emergency brakes
Create a basic FPS with mouselook, jumping, and (of course) weaponry.

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