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Making a character model Blender 2.57 Part one

New tutorial on another way on making a character.  For reference, I'll be doing this from right-ortho perspective, which you can switch to by pressing 3 on a numberpad, or if you have an emulated numberpad, the 3  on the number row. So, you start out with your basic cube, go into edit mode and subdivide it.  Press Z to change it to wireframe mode and select the bottom half and the quarter to the right and delete it.  You should be left with a rectangular prism with a missing bottom and side.  You can fix this by selecting two adjacent edges then pressing F which will join the two edges together with a face, or you can leave it hollow. The next part is mirroring the object.  Select the object and go to modifiers.  Since I'm doing the object from right-ortho, I will make it so it mirrors on the y axis, and y axis only.  Under options, check merge, clippings, and vertex groups.  This makes sure that the object mirrors correctly and also whi...

Creating Characters (Blender 2.57) [Version 2]

Second way to make characters, this time a little more complex.  This will involve using child/parent relationships.  I'm not going to go into much detail, for more information, read previous posts.

Child-parent relationship in Blender 2.57

Child-parent relationship is a confusing concept to understand and master, but important at that.  What a child-parent relationship is is that it "links" thing together without joining the objects into one.  This is good for when you have such things like humanoids when you want a singular part to move, but the entire creation.  (ex: parent: torso; child: arm; whatever the arm does will not affect the torso, however, if the torso rotates, the arm will rotate with it)

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