Tutorials

Rigging and Skinning a Rat
Video walkthrough(80 minutes) and Text Tutorial made for 3D World issue 118

Fully loaded tutorial covering all aspects of rigging and skinning. Learn how to use constraints to make limbs stretch, and to achieve toggle-able anchoring of the feet. Learn about bone driven shape keys, weight painting, vertex groups, bone shapes, and everything else.

Texture Splatting
Video tutorial from the Yo Frankie! DVD (12 minutes)

Learn how to paint multiple textures, like grass and dirt, directly onto a terrain in Blender using GLSL and stencil maps. Works in the 3D view, renders, and the game engine.

Realtime Water
Video tutorial from the Yo Frankie! DVD (27 minutes)

Create an animated normal map for water for use in the Blender game engine(BGE). The process includes using displacement modifiers to create the wave effect, rendering 100 frames as normal maps using nodes, then finally creating an animation map. If you don't want to put together your own animation map, use this one from the game.

Library Linking
Video tutorial from the Yo Frankie! DVD (3 minutes)

Learn the methods we used during production to organize all of our files and assets. Learn how groups work and how to link them into other blend files.

Level Template
Video tutorial from the Yo Frankie! DVD (5 minutes)

Using the level template file, learn how to create new levels for the Yo Frankie! game in a matter or minutes using our assets already linked into a blank blend file. Download the game and all the files at www.yofrankie.org.

Tree Modeling
Video tutorial from the Yo Frankie! DVD (90 minutes)

Model a low poly tree, uv unwrap it, texture it, and add foliage.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5

Rotting Skin
Text Tutorial

Using Photoshop, learn how to quickly create zombie flesh.

Torso Modeling
Text Tutorial, pretty old

Model a low poly male torso in Blender.

Python for the BGE
Text Tutorial, pretty old

Learn the basics of programming with Python inside of Blender for the game engine.

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