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Blender Normals

In the previous post, in order to fix the model, I had to switch the normals.  Understanding what a normal is helps you understand how to fix future problems you may have with your model.  So, what is a normal?

How To Make Your Game Cartoon Like

Making your game have out lines like Legend Of Zelda , The Wind Waker, or any other cartoon like game, is easy to achieve. Just with any material you use in your game objects, you set its type to Toon . Like below

Blender 2.49, setting up

Okay, so I have just now installed Blender 2.49, and I have to say, though it looks similar to 2.57, I'm having a hard time navigating around.  I'll do my best to help those who've also taken the liberty to download 2.49, and also I'll try to coordinate it so it's easy for those still using 2.57.

Building a landscape Blender 2.57

Landscapes are useful, and building one can be difficult  This will just be a simple how to on making landscapes

Materials and Textures Blender 2.57

Adding materials and textures is an important aspect of creating models and characters.  I'm sure that some of you  (like myself) add a texture to a model and it didn't apply.  This will be me showing you how to add textures and designs to objects.

Text to Mesh Blender 2.57

Most people who use Blender use it for game development (as this is how we are using it)  and many game developers may not just want flat text as their logo.  This will be a tutorial on how to convert regular text to a three-dimensional mesh.  (I would recommend reading my blog about hot keys if you are new to Blender here )

Blender Hot keys and Using Blender

This will show you how to use Blender and also the hot keys.Hot keys are very important (and simple) in Blender.  They make navigation, distortion, editing, toggling, and other things much easier than if you were to search for each individual function on the software.  I'm going to go over most of the hot keys and their functions.  (This is for Blender 2.57, hot keys and functions listed below may not work/coordinate correctly with older or newer versions of Blender)

Creating Characters (Blender 2.57)

One of the (if not the ) most important aspects of a game is the characters.  But another thing about characters is that they're hard to make.  This will just be a quick tutorial on how to make characters