Design Program

shatner · Post by **shatner** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:42 pm

Hi! I'm shatner and I am currently an animation student (Middle/Secondary school course. I actually won an award for best animation student last year) and I am very much interested in the ships you are designing. What program(s) do you use to make and animate them? Maybe some day I could offer some help with the game developments.
And also, why is it that most of the ships have no picture? Have they even been designed yet?

Post by **loki1950** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 11:38 pm

welcome shatner most of the modelers use Open Source tools as they are free and they are usually available for all the OS's we support (Windows,Linux and Mac OSX).
Blender is at the top of the list,then Wings 3D,Misfit Modeler 3D and K3D just Google them up and pick one you like our all of them if you have the hard drive space

Blender's user interface is tricky to learn but is the most powerful.For slapping textures onto the models PhotoShop if you can afford it or The Gimp(graphical image manipulator program)which is an other Open Source program.The game engine does not support real animations yet but it is on the road map for the future.As for no pictures of all the ships just to many of them to get screen shot of each(some are camera shy and shot things at you if you get close enough to take that screen shot

)have fun with the game and if you have more questions just post in the appropriate sub-forum.

Enjoy the Choice

shatner · Post by **shatner** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:29 am

I know a free program called DOGA-L3 Which is completely dedicated to ships and space and it's also used by pardus.at but with the amount of pieces, your options are fairly limited. I used DOGA to make my signature.

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 11:59 am

It's hard to get into but once you master it, you'll never look back: Blender

shatner · Post by **shatner** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:50 pm

Is there a way to download the manual for blender as well? That would make it a little easier to figure out.

whatch1 · Post by **whatch1** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:57 pm

site seems to indicate 20-40 dollars

whatch1 · Post by **whatch1** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:58 pm

site seems to indicate 20-40 dollars

Post by **loki1950** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 10:46 pm

There are hundreds of tutorials available we have links to a few of the better ones in our Wiki i myself am slowly working my way through Blender Basics which is actually a school course the teacher put together his own text book for its a PDF about 23 megs in size.

Enjoy the Choice

Edit: Selling the Blender Manual is the project's major source of funds to pay for there bandwidth and domain names etc.

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