Blender

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Blender

Blender is a free open-source 3D modeling and rendering tool. For more information look at http://www.blender,org

In age building it is currently the only modeling tool we can effectively use.

Getting Blender

Download the correct Blender version for your operating-system. For Windows i'd suggest the installer rather than the zip version.

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Install Blender. This varies from operating-system to operating-system but it should be pretty easy.


Working with Blender

Learning to use Blender is always a steep learning curve.
We advise to read the Blender Noob to Pro tutorials to become familiar with the workings of Blender, before you start to write ages.

If you are too impatient, which is understandable, you should still keep the Noob to Pro tutorials within reach, as you may often need it to look something up.

In the tutorials about Writing, we will assume that you know the basics about Blender from that tutorial.

There are also Video tutorials you can follow as well.

This tutorial will tell you how to get and start using Blender.

Getting Started working with Blender

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro That's a very good place to learn about Blender.

There's a ton of tutorials there, but for basic age-building it's extremely important you cover the material in the Noob to Pro tutorial from "Unit 1" to "Penguins from spheres". Without being exposed to these tutorials (or tutorials that cover similar stuff) making ages in Blender will be very frustrating. It's very hard to pick up on how to use Blender by just playing with the interface. Building ages is a complex thing to do. Setting some time aside to read those tutorials will help make the process more easier and rewarding.

After you get to "Penguins from spheres" you haven't covered everything, but you've probably learned enough to model some pretty neat stuff for your age(s). After making some stuff for your age you might want to go back to Noob to Pro and do a few more of the tutorials so you can do even more stuff.

You should now be ready to get started with the PyPRP plugin. Getting Started with PyPRP


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