Blender Tutorials

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

• Styleguide for Modeling - Basic rules to follow when modeling for Orxonox
• Getting Started with Blender - Helpful, if you have never worked with Blender before.
• Texturing with Blender - Showing you how to unwrap your model and create a texture for it.
• Smoothing with Blender - Learn how to smooth your Object, so it looks less chiseled.
• Export Objects from Blender to Orxonox - Export and view your models ingame.
• Blender Hotkey Reference - A short list of useful hotkey for the average modeler.
• Blender Knowledge Base and FAQ

External Links

Tutorials for Beginners

• ​Blender User Interface - Learn about the User Interface
• ​Interface concept - Video tutorial about the interface
• ​3D Viewport - Another video tutorial about how to navigate in 3d space.
• ​Character modeling - A video tutorial to make a basic character. Cool thing: The first quarter of the video can also be applied to space ships or other models.
• ​Noob to Pro - A well-arranged set of beginner's tutorials and a very good place to start learning. Definitely worth looking at.
• ​Tutorial Compilation - Very good compilation of tutorials on all aspects of 3d work.

Modeling

• ​Edge Tools - An article from the Blender documentation on the use of advanced edge tools.
• ​Ogre Mesh Exporter Manual - How to get the best results from Blender into Ogre with the mesh exporter.

Materials

• ​Ogre Manual: Materials - First chapter explaining the Ogre Materials.

Texturing

• ​UV Mapping & Texturing - Learn the basics about uv-mapping here. Probably good to understand the concept of uv-mapping.
• ​How to unwrap a Spaceship
• ​LSCM UV Mapping - Video tutorial about uv-mapping your model.
• ​normal maps - A guide to normal maps
• ​Create and use normal maps with Blender - A quick and easy guide to create your first normal map.

Animation

• ​Key Frames and IPO Curves - Learn how to animate objects with this video tutorial.
• ​Tufts Animation Tutorials - 11 Video Tutorials on Animation as Real Media files.

Rendering

• ​Studio-Styled Presentation - Showcase your 3D Models with a Basic Studio-Styled Setup
• ​Smooth Groups - A short article about smooth groups in Games. Good explanation, but a strange solution.

How to export to Ogre

• ​http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/OgreXmlConverter - Use this tool to convert the .mesh.xml to a binary .mesh.

Resources

• ​Blender Wiki - The official Blender wiki.
• ​Blender Hotkey Reference - Which was the correct key?
• ​Official Blender tutorial archive
• ​Blender video tutorials archive