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by Santiago Terrones · in Artist Corner · 11/12/2004 (9:29 am) · 8 replies

Okay, now that I found that gmax is out of the question. What do you guy's think of blender. I am downloading it now. Has anyone had any luck with it. Or does anybody have an opinion on it.
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Torque Owner Dirk "dirkk" Krause
#1
11/12/2004 (9:45 am)
It's always a good idea to use the search function:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.forum.php?qtm=blender

Torque Owner monki (Wesley Beary)
#2
11/12/2004 (9:45 am)
Blender is pretty good, really can't beat the price. The interface takes some getting used to, but it's no worse than any other 3d modelling program really. A relatively small amount of tutorials and documentation can make the learning curve rather steep though. The exporter works nicely though so you can use your creations for torque. It may not be the best program ever, but its quite acceptable at its price point.

Torque Owner Alex Swanson
#3
11/16/2004 (4:17 pm)
We have a Blender Exporter Forum now :)

Torque Owner Prairie Games
Prairie Games, Inc.
#4
11/18/2004 (12:43 am)
Blender 2.35 is quite impressive... The interface is looking great too...

Go Ton and team!!!

-J

Edit: Hrm... thier server seems to be down at the moment...

Torque Owner Scott Coursey
Yellow Duck Software
#5
11/18/2004 (6:40 pm)
Yeah, it's an improvement. If they get better UV mapping tools, that'd be too good.

Torque Owner Eric Prem
#6
11/29/2004 (9:09 am)
I didnt even know that Blender had its own mapping tools. I was just about to ask if you could use UVmapper with it, you know the one from Ken's book.

Torque Owner Scott Coursey
Yellow Duck Software
#7
11/29/2004 (9:16 am)
Well, you can use external tools, in a way. You could always export the mesh to OBJ, muck with it, then re-import it. That'd break some parenting and any vertex weighting and assignments.

The internal Blender UV tools are rather basic (although they've been improving them).

Torque Owner Eric Prem
#8
11/29/2004 (9:18 am)
Hmm ill have to check that out. thanks!