Railworks America

I am going to start post a list tutorials for Blender that I felt were instructive and well made. I'll reorder or replace them as more links come along. Please feel free to contribute any Blender tutorial you think would help out.

Don't mind the place holders.

Keep in mind, its all about the shortcuts...
http://www.giudansky.com/design/51-blender-map


To start out with:

Introduction to Blender

Blender Absolute Beginner Tutorial - 10 episodes total


Creating a Forward Facing Tree by Nobkins - Five episodes total - Forum

• http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/Lessons/Lesson01.html
• http://www.doug56.net/MBC/page105.html

This is a good unwrap tutorial. It is a slower, more understandable tune than the other posting.


A little more advanced:


When you think you know it all:
http://www.rab3d.com/tut_blender.php

Here are some great tutorials:

http://www.doug56.net/MBC/page105.html

Says they are for Trainz but models are models:



Harold

Great idea -- thanks...

Papa, you're using blender now??? Good choice my friend! The vid about the tree is causing me a helmet fire... I have never used blender cycles mode or the node editor. Have you?

Not yet. I've been working on other projects with what free time I have.

PapaXpress wrote:Not yet. I've been working on other projects with what free time I have.

Been using it for a while... I'm happy to help you where I can.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

Michael turned me onto this PDF.
Admittedly, I've been too busy with other things to do much more than give it a glance.
However it certainly looks complete.

CARex wrote:https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

Michael turned me onto this PDF.
Admittedly, I've been too busy with other things to do much more than give it a glance.
However it certainly looks complete.

Wow. That's a lot of info in there! Skip up to mesh creation in the table of contents.

Paul Hobbs created a very useful tutorial on creating a simple loco. It's for an older version of blender, but it will work.
http://www.44090digitalmodels.co.uk/tutorials/blender1.html

PapaXpress wrote:I am going to start post a list tutorials for Blender that I felt were instructive and well made. I'll reorder or replace them as more links come along. Please feel free to contribute any Blender tutorial you think would help out.

Don't mind the place holders.

To start out with:

• http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/Lessons/Lesson01.html
• http://www.doug56.net/MBC/page105.html

A little more advanced:

That first one made my head explode. Did a lot of pausing and took notes. However, not sure how much of the texturing part is usable in the exporter yet. Looks cool though!

This is a good two part tute on creating a low poly car. I'm following it now and will post my project.

http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-low-poly-camaro-in-blender-part-1--cms-21730 Making the mesh
http://cgi.tutsplus.com/tutorials/create-a-low-poly-camaro-in-blender-part-2--cms-21749 Texturing

The car tutorial is a good one. I managed to get my wife's car into the sim...

nice

PapaXpress wrote:nice

Thanks! You know, the car tutorial is a good starter tute for anyone who wants to build a rail vehicle. It's the first time I went back and forth between Blender and Gimp to paint, and it can be pretty seamless.

This is a good unwrap tutorial. It is a slower, more understandable tune than the earlier posting.
http://youtu.be/en0kl2aLZE8