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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Blender Game Engine is the part of the Blender 3D editor used to create actual 3D video games. It's the ideal entry level game development environment because you don't even need to learn to program. Create a complete game using Bender's innovative logic bricks."Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide" is the ideal introduction to game development. Using only logic bricks, the reader will create a complete game in Blender. By the end of the book the reader will be able to use their skills to create their own 3D games.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Index

Time for action — downloading models from the Internet

Let's go to one of the repositories for Blender, which can be found at http://www.opengameart.org/, and let's try to search for what is closest to our character.

  1. Write sea in the Search box, and choose 3D Art for Art Type, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action — downloading models from the Internet

    We have some interesting options. We see a shark, seaweed, and some icebergs to select from.

  2. Choose and click on the thumbnail with the name ICEBERGS IN 3D:
    Time for action — downloading models from the Internet
  3. At the bottom of the page, you will find the file.blend downloadable. Click on it to start the download. We'll use this file later. Remember to click on RMB before the download begins.
  4. Now, let's try web pages, which have libraries that offer 3D models in other formats. An example of a very extensive library is http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/.
  5. Write trawler in the Search box, and choose the one that you like. In our case, we decided to go for the Google 3D model with the title Trawler boat,...