I love Blender. I really do. I have the bought the book and I have 4 T-shirts ( Ha I am wearing one right now ) now I am going to buy the extended DVD version of the Elephants dream ( orange project )
And for the original post. I use blender for map builder the downside on this is that I am working in 2D. What this means? That I am buildind the enviroments in an ortho view of blender then I am ( haching) the 3D object to get the position of the points and the edges and the uv parameters. This way I use blender for my 2D maps.
Also I used Blender for 2D skeletal animation but this project gone to hell from bad organisation. Maybe later. When I am going to buy a cheap mo-cap system ( one camera so 2D ) and set up my studio ( god I am working like a dog and i still poor ).
Ohhh.... I just noticed that this thread it's one year old. anyway I really wanted to say this things as in my town none can understand what I am talking about when I start speak about my hoby.
One last thing ( folks ). If you really wand to use Blender take your time and read the tutorials ( the manual ). Don't give up read it like you readed a (3D studio , Maya , Lightwave , XSI , Cinema4D) Book. After a month or two you will not be able to use any of this comercial programs. Trust me.
Then as a programer read the Blender API.
After that I am sure you are going to walk to the world with a Blender T-Shirt.
Blender it's not cheap it's generus.
And for the original post. I use blender for map builder the downside on this is that I am working in 2D. What this means? That I am buildind the enviroments in an ortho view of blender then I am ( haching) the 3D object to get the position of the points and the edges and the uv parameters. This way I use blender for my 2D maps.
Also I used Blender for 2D skeletal animation but this project gone to hell from bad organisation. Maybe later. When I am going to buy a cheap mo-cap system ( one camera so 2D ) and set up my studio ( god I am working like a dog and i still poor ).
Ohhh.... I just noticed that this thread it's one year old. anyway I really wanted to say this things as in my town none can understand what I am talking about when I start speak about my hoby.
One last thing ( folks ). If you really wand to use Blender take your time and read the tutorials ( the manual ). Don't give up read it like you readed a (3D studio , Maya , Lightwave , XSI , Cinema4D) Book. After a month or two you will not be able to use any of this comercial programs. Trust me.
Then as a programer read the Blender API.
After that I am sure you are going to walk to the world with a Blender T-Shirt.
Blender it's not cheap it's generus.