Blender GE as a slideshow/presentation engine

At the Blender Conference Toon Rosendaal presented his ideas as a 3d walk into a grassy filed with wooden sign.

I am wondering if there is around a template (or other tempplates) for that so that one can just change signs contents or the surroundings to get a “wow” presentation…

Please help!

Giovanni:D

Ive done this before, it works quite well.

I doubt that the .blend than Ton used in his presentation is available, but its easy enough to do for yourself if you know the GE reasonably well.

Just make a scene, with objects and text etc, then use an animated camera which stops all the time, i usually make the trigger the space bar, so when its pressed some property increases by 1, and the animated camera responds to this and moves along its animated track for a bit more etc etc and so on…

Hey, I made the slideshow Ton used. It was a very early version of an Apricot level that also lost most of the foliage due to changes in blender and was never updated. I took the necessary 22 seconds and updated the blend so the leaves and grass display now, instead of having the wasteland with dead trees that Ton for some reason presented at bconf. Here’s the packed slideshow blend,

http://theboomshelter.com/crap/slideshow.blend

PS, I also prefer the original contents of the signs.

Haha, I take that back…

Dies laughing

ooops
Ton
Toon
Tooon

Ehm that was unvoluntary.
Thanx for the tipand the file.It works great!

GpG

LOL for the slides.
Thanks for a good laugh.

Hi, I’m trying to understand how it works…

I’ve added intermediate frame number and my presentation does not reach the end.

#for each slide in your slideshow, add its frame number in this list in chronological order
step = [1,186,250,300,315,400,445,500,615,783,933,1113,1303,1498]
Seems that there somewere written the total numer of frames or something similar… where?

Thank you,
Rickyx

Whoops you just need to make one other change I didn’t make clear enough. In the script, where it says:

if right and own.slide < 10

Replace 10 with the number of slides you have.

Thank you!!
Perfect!

You did and excellent work on making this slideshow…!

Ricky

The provided .blend-file doesn’t work fully anymore in Blender 2.6 it seems
http://theboomshelter.com/crap/slideshow.blend

Does someone know how this can be fixed? I would love to make my own slide show using the code in the file.
Also, is it possible to run the presentation in fullscreen?

mj

Please look at the date of the thread.
You still can use the suggestion at the first couple of posts with the animated camera.

@Monster:
Naturally, if I knew how to do that.
That’s why I asked
The example .blend is well made, so that would be a great starting point for me to make a presentation with Blender.