Blender 3D - Texturing a Box

Sunday, July 06 2008 - - 0 comments

I thought it was about time that I posted another Tutorial, this time taking the artistic side I have decided to put together a simple tutorial on Texturing a Box. I plan on going through the process of Drawing a simple box, Adding the UV Map and Breaking it up, then extracting the UVMap and using Photoshop to create a texture for it. Drawing the Model The first step is to open up blender and clear out the default model, we could just use what is there but I thought I would start with nothing... So open Blender and press 'x' to remove all objects from the scene, this should leave you with a blank...

Sound, Music and Effects for your XNA Applications

Friday, May 23 2008 - 3 comments

With the introduction of XNA there is going to be a large requirement for new sound resources that we can all use. These could be in the way of Sound Libraries that are used for Non-Commercial or Commercial use. What I am planning on doing here is collecting a list of resources that we can all use in our projects. But please note you need to make sure that the sounds and systems you are using are actually able to be used in your projects, in some cases you may have to track down the authors of the resource to see if you can. Complete Sound Collections The following section has large collections...

3D Studio Max Links and Resources

Friday, May 23 2008 - 2 comments

3D Studio Max Official Links AutoDesk - The Creators of 3D Studio Max AutoDesk Media and Entertainment - Links to the Media and Entertainment Pages on the AutoDesk Site. 3D Studio Max Home Page 3D Studio Max Downloads - 30 Day Trial Version of the Product Misc 3D Studio Max Links 3DBuzz - Forums and Training Resources MaxUnderground - Industry news and views Script Spot - 3ds Max scripts 3D Luvr - 3ds Max newsand plug-ins 3d Total - Tutorials, forums, and news Max3D Stuff - 3ds Max plug-ins and tutorials CG Chat - Industry news and discussion CG Channel - Industry news RedPixel - Brazil - forums...

Getting Started with Blender 3D and XNA

Friday, May 23 2008 - , - 0 comments

Installing Blender The first thing that you need to do is install the Blender system and get it running, to download the latest version of Blender go to www.blender.org and go to the main downloads page. At the time of this article the current version is Blender 2.46. When you do download the package you do have the choice of downloading the Installer Package for most operating systems for my work I will be focusing all of my work using the Windows Operating System. Download and install the application, but what you might want to do is to also download the Zip of the package. In the past I have...

Installing Blender 3D

Wednesday, May 21 2008 - - 0 comments

In this short article I will go through the process of installing the Blender 3D Application. When we have finished you will have a fully working 3D Modelling system that will allow you to create the assets you need for your projects. The first stage is to make sure that you have the latest version of the Blender 3D Application, you can et this from the Blender site at www.blender.org . For the Windows system I suggest that you download the Installer Package as well as the separate ZIP File. The installer will allow you to install the system like you would any other Application, but having the...

Your First Zune Application in XNA

Thursday, May 15 2008 - , , - 3 comments

Now that the dust is starting to settle around the release of the XNA 3.0 CTP, I thought it was time that some tutorials start to flow out. So I thought I would start from the beginning, In this Article I will assume that you have already downloaded Visual Studio 2008 Express or one of the other SKU's and installed the CTP. The first thing that you need to do is fire up the Visual Studio Interface and start a new project. From there you will have a choice of starting a Windows Game or a Zune Game (There are lots of other choices for you but the two main ones are the Windows and Zune Games), for...