3d interactive in less than 5 minutes

3d interactive 101 : Make a 3d interactive in less than 5 minutes

Introducing Blender 3d – its a free 3d modeling software with built-in game engine.

download it at www.blender.org/download/get-blender/ try getting the oldest version for our tutorial (new ones are great but we wont need too much for now, just the basic. In this tutorial i only use version 2.25 so try downloading the same version) – why the old version? well, you don’t need an army to defeat an easy enemy – gamers thought 🙂

install it on your machine, make sure you downloaded the right installer for your operating system.

open the application – you will see gray interface with many thin lines like the photo below:

 

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go to “camera view” – see “menu – view” at the top

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Now you will see a tiny flat square lying on the floor, you may want to scale it, right-click to select then hit S & drag to scale it. artpologabriel005 [1024x768]Scaled artpologabriel006 [1024x768]

hit Space – you will see a pop up menu, click add – Mesh – Cube

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click on the realtime button, make sure the cube is selected (its pink when selected)

add a sensor, just click it.. later we will adjust some option

then a controller, just click it again..

then an actuators, yes just click it..

connect the sensor to controller, by click & dragging the small gold icons to each other


add some parameters, find the dRot shift right click on the first column then put some numeric value, lets make it .01 value. this is actually adding local rotation X – to the cube (remember X Y Z axis? will explain it on my other tutorials later).

Back to the sensor – leftclick the button that says “always” and select “keyboard” – yes you just give it a user interactive option.

on the button labeled “key” – hit it then choose any keyboard key, i used SPACE for this tutorial

Let’s simulate it or let me say – run it on game engine, yes i said that this blender3d has a builtin game engine – awesome right 🙂 hit START GAME and voila – nothing happens 🙁

try hitting the SPACE key.. and if you followed the instructions the cube will rotate, everytime you hit SPACE on your keyboard.

Next, is.. play around with different value of actuators then try using other sensors’s options.. try adding other MESH objects like sphere, tube, etc..

NO PHOTOS – See this link

I will post other tutorials, shading the interactive interface, adding textures & materials, gravity, physics etc..

Multi-user application using Unity3d

I been doing 3d interactive for almost 7 years now and yes, its been really hard to create one. You have to do 3d modeling, rigging, animation, export to compliant format properly, then the hardest thing of all – the coding to make it interactive or a game, then compile for web or offline based application.

Recently, i explored Unity3d and it gives me more power – rapid development – because in less time i  finished my application than other software I used before. Well, unity3d is a game engine – and not a 3d modeling app &  you still have to know Object Oriented Programming (C++/Javascript/Java/Python/As3 or Boo hehehe).  But unity3d has a GUI (like blender3d which is also one of the best software for free) that makes it quite easier than only imagining the 3d scene & objects using a text editors IDE alone.

In just 1-2 weeks i have deployed a simple multi-player 3d game. Yes, its not yet done, but the functionality is almost done. Building a network application really takes heck of time and efforts but with unity3d i can say that “i finally found the one” hehe. Back then it takes months for the same thing/output.

Well, please try my unfinished but working multiplayer 3d game created using unity3d.

Instruction, download and play – see “network.exe” run it –  click start server, copy the zipped file  to another computer with the same network, then type-in the IP address (replace the 192.168.10.1 with the server’s IP address) – then voila – you will see each other’s player (a box that will move & shoot using  WASD & Space keys). By the way there will be lots of gray cube (enemies with programmed Artificial Intelligence & rigidbody/physics) that will chase your player – enemies can be shoot but wont die for now hehehe

try it now – download here!

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My God! I chose a domain that was identified a dangerous virus… but can be safely removed anyway.

According to this link topgie.dll is a harmful virus…

Well, i just tried searching using google my new project and being (baby steps) developed website [well, just got of other (tons) things to do hehehe] which is topgie.com, i just want to see if google already crawl on it and if they may have add it on their indexes. Continue reading