Hello, I guess I can start by introducing myself as an inexperienced programmer with an extreme imagination. Not to discourage any of you reading this as an “Over-excited Newbie with dreams of creating a MMORPG,” although in time that is the project I hope to accomplish. I have been using blender off an on for a few years now, never really having the time to fully understand all of its features or really do anything with it worth while, but as I have grown older and matured I have realized I have a knack for building objects, (once I reinstall blender again, which is now 2.4 instead of 2.32 heh, I will start to post various objects so you can see my dreams come to life so to speak) I however know nothing about programming, in fact the last thing I programmed was my ti-85 graphing calculator with a semi-interesting text mud to kill time. Hopefully with your help I will develop my skills into a worth programer/3d animator. I am a quick study and if I didn’t work a 10 hour a day job I would certainly dedicate more time to learning a programming language. I have an odd ability to read and understand code, I can tell you what the function is supposed to do, or at least what I think it’s supposed to do but I couldn’t tell you how to write a simple program to display hello world. I have an understanding of most features of blender. I can create objects and move them on simple tracts, however I have much to learn about texturing and lighting and how to get objects to track to and stand up right on my world mesh. Over all I look forward to your posts and with a lot of time and a little luck, hopefully a bright and beautiful game world.
Not to discourage you, but just knowing the syntax of any given programming language is not enough to actually make worthwhile/advanced applications. Learning how to program is a “years” long task, learning a programming language is the first step, not the end solution.
Now for the good news. I made a python programming tutorial in relation to the BGE API:
However, it would probably be best if you became familiar with all the logic brick functions first (maybe you already are?), before advancing to python programming.
Oh I am no where near discouraged, I know that this is not going to happen over night; in fact I have a feeling this is going to be something that might just make my girlfriend jealous! To answer your question no I don’t have any working knowledge of logic bricks. Mostly I just wanted to let you guys know where I stand on general programming terms. My first steps are going to be baby steps, simple scene renders (I can make a scene just not light it properly) little tweaks like getting the feel of texturing correctly and not sloppy, as my previous attempts have been. I have no intentions of just trying to jump into the thick of a game, even a simple 2d one lol. Crawl first then walk I believe is how it is said.
Hurray! Finnaly a new blender artist who is nice and understanding. He even comes with the complete sintences :eek: and grammer! Lets do well here today and not destroy this one.
( Yes, you seem to already know of our past experiences with all that non-sense. MMORPG, FPS, the list goes on and on…)
Anyhow, hey, whats up? Welcome, and I hope with hard studies and practices you can achieve your blender dreams!
~Just a guy who was once mean and is trying to be nice....." Trying"