Painting in Blender is a bit of a mixed bag - it's projection and cloning is pretty good. However, it doesn't have image layers (like Photoshop), can't flood fill, things like that. Most of that is being worked on (GSoC starts up here shortly and a guy has several little things he plans on fixing). Here are some texture…
those are another one that i would have never figured out without the internet. i finally found this 12 minute video that shows how to set them up. but come on! 12 minute tutorial to show you how to set up the V/E/F hot keys lol... thats my point it takes a video tutorial to figure it out.…
I'm going to follow this thread, paired with thorough tutorial reading, coupled with absurd amounts of caffeine and background musics. I really need to sink my stupid, lazy teeth into 3D art, and Blender is free, so hey.
Yeah, it's actually pretty cool here is another tutorial about it, and how to use multiple matcaps and masking to get fast SSS type effects and stuff and how to make it out into a diffuse texture. http://cgcookie.com/blender/2012/01/09/combining-and-creating-glsl-matcap-materials/
It is worth it in the sense of; You are not losing anything, it is free for personal / commercial use, there are many blender tutorials that can be found for free through which you can master blender. There is probably no money involved so hay. Doesnt hurt to learn it. I've seen many people using it for their 3d portfolio…
Edge split modifier I think does the same thing as smoothing groups. I'm kinda the reverse and really only know how Blender does stuff heh. Unwrapping you usually mark edge seams and hit u to unwrap. 3DBuzz goes over it in one of their videos. Kent Trammell has some a really good set of ongoing tutorials that kind of…
My first application... remember the struggle with 3dsm trial and after this the simplicity of Gus tutorial (modelling, animation and rendering in a our). I move far from blender when discovered Silo and his fast modelling tools (very fast, love roll over mouse action and sticky key) especially the ultrafast cut tool in it…