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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide

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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.

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Blender Game Engine: Beginner's Guide
Sep, 2012 | 206 pages
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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action — heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
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1
1. Things You Need to Know
1. Things You Need to Know
Things you need, and things you don't
Time for action — start using the BGE
Exploring the interface of the Logic Editor
Time for action — exploring the logic bricks world
Time for action — moving the cube
Summary
2
2. Your Characters
2. Your Characters
An example—save the whale!
How to create a library
Time for action — downloading models from the Internet
Importing other files into Blender
Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender
Involving enemies in the game
Time for action — appending the enemy
Creating a meeting point
Time for action — making the enemy follow a path
Summary
3
3. The First Level
3. The First Level
Block out a level environment
Time for action — creating the scene
Creating a player view
Time for action — renaming the scene
Defining the boundaries
Time for action — closing the entry point
Marking the end of level
Time for action — opening the end point
Summary
4
4. Collisions
4. Collisions
Respawning the character
Time for action — returning to the original position
Creating trap doors
Time for action — moving the blocks of ice
Real-time motion
Time for action — rolling objects
Creating looped actions
Time for action — making waves
Summary
5
5. Gameplay
5. Gameplay
Growing the character
Time for action — counting
Creating a life indicator bar
Time for action — decreasing life
Creating a counter of items collected
Time for action — collecting
Creating a map of the level we play
Time for action — overlaying something like a map
Changing the camera view
Time for action — view 1, 2, 3
Moving to another layer
Time for action — throwing things
Summary
6
6. Liven up Your World!
6. Liven up Your World!
Animate the character
Time for action — moving the whale's tail
Making the environment come alive
Time for action — creating sounds and music
Animate your enemies
Time for action — animating the hunter
Make your own game
Time for action — making the hunter shoot
Summary
7
7. Game Menu Screens
7. Game Menu Screens
Making titles
Time for action — creating your first game title
Creating simple buttons
Time for action — using the up or down options
Making an externally executable game
Time for action — exporting your game
Summary
8
8. Publishing Your Game
8. Publishing Your Game
Playing your game on the Web
Time for action — using the Burster plug-in
Making some trailers
Time for action — recording it
Creating something more
Time for action — updating your game
Summary
9
A. Pop quiz — Answers
A. Pop quiz — Answers
Chapter 1, Things You Need to Know
Chapter 2, Your Characters
Chapter 3, The First Level
Chapter 4, Collisions
Chapter 5, Gameplay
Chapter 6, Liven up Your World!
Chapter 7, Game Menu Screens
Chapter 8, Publishing Your Game
10
Index
Index

Importing other files into Blender

Before the imported mesh can be used, some scene and mesh prepping in Blender is usually required. It basically cleans up the model imported in Blender.

Google SketchUp is another free, 3D software option. You can build models from scratch, and you can upload or download what you need, as you have seen. People all over the world share what they've made on the Google 3D Warehouse. It's our time to do the same.

Download the program from http://sketchup.com and install it. You can uninstall it later. Open the boat file in SketchUp, click on Save as, and export the 3D model using the COLLADA format.

The *.dae Collada format is a common, cross-platform file, which can be imported directly into Blender.

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