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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)
10
Index

Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender

Open Blender and delete the cube using the X key and press the OK button in the pop-up menu. Go to File | Import | Collada (.dae) as seen in the following screenshot:

Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender

If you can't see the model in Blender, perform the following steps:

  1. Open up the View Properties panel from the 3D view, or press the N Key.
  2. Initially, the main parameter to be changed is in View | Clip End. The correct value is: 1000 (unit system) or 25,4 (metric) or 27,77 yd (imperial):
    Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender
  3. Scale the object using the S key, and center the axis on it:
    Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender

    Tip

    On the Object Tools panel, click on Origin | Origin to Geometry before scaling the object.

  4. Save the ship as a blend file, pressing File | Save As. Then, press the Save As Blender file button.

    We will now attempt to design our main character: the whale.

  5. Search for killer whale in a search box on the Web:
    Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender
  6. Click on the image titled Animals - Killer Whale by mandun, and the browser will open a new page. Click on the Download...