= Blender Tutorials =

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This is a list of recommended tutorials for Blender. If you know a good tutorial and cannot find it here, just add it to the list.

== Orxonox Blender Tutorials ==

 * [wiki:BlenderGettingStarted Getting Started with Blender] - Helpful, if you have never worked with Blender before.
 * [wiki:BlenderTexturing Texturing with Blender] - Showing you how to unwrap your model and create a texture for it.
 * [wiki:BlenderSmoothing Smoothing with Blender] - Learn how to smooth your Object, so it looks less chiseled.
 * [wiki:BlenderExport Object Export With Blender] - Exporting models for Orxonox
 * [wiki:BlenderHotkeys Blender Hotkey Reference] - A short list of useful hotkey for the average modeler.
 * [wiki:BlenderKnowledgeBase Blender Knowledge Base] and FAQ

== External Links == 

=== Tutorials for Beginners ===

 * [http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Blender_User_Interface.224.0.html Blender User Interface] - Learn about the User Interface
 * [http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/contrib/interface.avi Interface concept] - Video tutorial about the interface
 * [http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/contrib/3dview.avi 3D Viewport] - Another video tutorial about how to navigate in 3d space.
 * [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro Noob to Pro] - A well-arranged set of beginner's tutorials and a very good place to start learning. Definitely worth looking at.

=== Modeling ===

 * [http://www.blender.org/documentation/htmlI/x3225.html Edge Tools] - An article from the Blender documentation on the use of advanced edge tools.

=== Texturing ===
 
 * [http://biorust.com/index.php?page=tutorial_detail&tutid=85 UV Mapping & Texturing] - Learn the basics about uv-mapping here. Probably good to understand the concept of uv-mapping.
 * [http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/wiki/HowTo:Unwrap_in_Blender How to unwrap a Spaceship]
 * [http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/uvtut.avi LSCM UV Mapping] - Video tutorial about uv-mapping your model.

=== Animation ===

 * [http://www.ibiblio.org/bvidtute/mytut/kfipo.avi Key Frames and IPO Curves] - Learn how to animate objects with this video tutorial.
 * [http://ocw.tufts.edu/Content/28/learningunits/354128 Tufts Animation Tutorials] - 11 Video Tutorials on Animation as Real Media files.

=== Technical ===

 * [http://www.quake3bits.com/htm/tutorials/doom_3_smooth_groups.htm Smooth Groups] - A short article about smooth groups in Games. Good explanation, but a strange solution.

=== Resources ===
 * [http://wiki.blender.org Blender Wiki] - The official Blender wiki.
 * [http://download.blender.org/documentation/BlenderHotkeyReference.pdf Blender Hotkey Reference] - Which was the correct key?
 * [http://www.blender.org/education-help/tutorials/ Official Blender tutorial archive]
 * [http://www.blender.org/education-help/video-tutorials/ Blender video turorials archive]