Talk:Blender
"Although XSI is the Valve-recommended program for modelling, many will find Blender to have an easier learning curve." - Oh crap. And I thought Blender was supposed to be user-hostile - I think I might continue in my abortive attempts at learning how to use it (current time-period: six years) if XSI is that ... different. :-) -- Cargo Cult 14:52, 4 Jul 2005 (PDT)
- I couldn't get the hang of XSI at all, but I spose that's because I knew Blender before I tried it. XSI just seems a little untidy and illogical, but then again I probably gave up too early. Of course, Blender is good for making static non-animated props, but anything more complicated (bones and animation) and you'll need XSI to create the SMDs. I advise you give XSI a shot (the tutorials are really good) first though. -- Johnsto 15:14, 4 Jul 2005 (PDT)
- I hope this article to become neutral and fair. It's a place to introduce about blender, not a place to attack other programs. I think "Many will find it..." is overstatement. In my experience both XSI and blender have own logical ways that new users have to learn. N-neko
- That's why it says "many", not "most".
- I hope this article to become neutral and fair. It's a place to introduce about blender, not a place to attack other programs. I think "Many will find it..." is overstatement. In my experience both XSI and blender have own logical ways that new users have to learn. N-neko
I tried XSI as well and gave up. Control paradigm feels too unintuitive to me. I've also been hearing bad things about the UI in Blender, but I guess I'll give that a try too. --Campaignjunkie 17:38, 31 Jul 2005 (PDT)
.smd Exporter - by Pelle Johnsen
I'd like to try out all the exporters but this link doesn't work. My googling efforts didn't show any alternative adress. Anyone knows about this exporter?
Installing scripts
Would you believe it, but nowhere I've looked on the internet can I find information on how to install Python scripts into Blender. There's plenty written on how amazing the feature is and how many scripts there are...but nothing at all on how to use it! Presumably someone out there has managed it - how? --TomEdwards 03:12, 9 Jul 2008 (PDT)
- I found a descent guide a few weeks back when I was looking for some tutorials on Blender here:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro#Advanced_Tutorials There's a full tutorial there on making and installing a sample Python exporter script.--Brandished 17:18, 9 Jul 2008 (PDT)