Today's topic is Blender, specifically moving from Blender 2.49, which is what I have been using for about a year, to the latest and greatest, Blender 2.56 Beta. All I can say is, Wow. Even though it's a beta, 2.5 Blender series is a big step in the right direction, very stable, and well worth the trouble, at least for me.
The first hurdle was that exporting to Unity 3 doesn't quite work right with Blender 2.56 Beta. Unity has trouble with the automatic .blend importing, so I have to manually export .fbx files instead. Not a big deal, but I hope it gets fixed with updates to either Blender or Unity. I also needed to learn the hard way that you have to select your object before exporting it, or it doesn't export. Makes sense once you know it.
Guess what, this issue sort of killed the whole day, and all I got done is some new models that aren't in the game yet. We'll see what tomorrow brings. Maybe even a new release.
I'd like to give a big shout out to Super3boy AKA Super3 and his very helpful tutorials on Youtube and his website www.nystic.com. It's very helpful to see his tutorials when learning Blender, and, in my case, when upgrading to the 2.5 series.
-- fxl
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