* Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 22 December 2005 10:13: > Blender is clever, but almost impossible to use.
Oh, sure. That must be why the Concorde, the Bo105 and several others were done with Blender. This opinion is common under people who didn't have the patience to learn a new interface. Yes, it's overwhelming at first, but it's *very* efficient once you understood it. Reading one or two tutorials (plenty available on the net) and asking a few questions here or in our IRC channel should be enough to grok Blender. Blender is literally a "professional" tool, not only in the buzzword sense. It was written and used by a graphics studio that did commercial animations for advertisement purposes and such. Then it was freed and is now GPL'ed. It is fully scriptable in Python and there are scripts available for specific FlightGear development purposes. This here[1] writes FlightGear animation XML fragments and whole XML animation files. There are many other scripts available, too. You can directly ray-trace your model if you like, import/export numerous formats, and do lots of other fancy things with it. > To get going quickly, while getting acceptable results I would recommend > AC3D. The $40 or so it costs is money well spent I reckon. Could be. But didn't the ac3d author already screw some paying customers over? I remember the discussion here on the devel list. I don't really care who uses what, as long as I can use Blender. AC3D may be a nice application and is certainly good enough for FlightGear modeling, but Blender is far from "almost impossible to use". m. Disclaimer: I'm biased. :-) [1] http://members.aon.at/mfranz/flightgear/blender-textured-lights.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
