I’m new to Blender. Its my first day and I’ve managed to rig a makehuman model with a skeleton.
1.) What I’m wonder is how to get more than one object open in the same screen without building it from scratch.
2.) Where should I start making the animations? (for a video, not a game)
3.) Can I open a video game map and use it as a backround?
4.) I’ve searched and searched but have failed in finding a MD3 importer for blender 2.6
I’ve found one for 2.42 but it keeps telling me I have a python error when I use it in 2.42-2.45. The models im using are in MD3 format and I can’t find a converter to any of the supported files.
I’d greatly appreciate any help you guys can give me. Thanks!
All of my solutions are described in Blender 2.60. It sounded like you downloaded one of the 2.4 ones. If so, I highly suggest you get 2.60 (which is very, very similar to 2.5, but these are both much different than 2.4) because that’s what pretty much everybody uses now, and it will be hard for you to communicate with people if you’re working with a different interface and such.
To import Objects from other Blender files (or Materials or anything else) into Blender, you use the “Append” function. You go:
File > Append
To import separate Objects altogether (for instance, if you have a mesh, like a .OBJ, from a separate program), you go:
File > Import
Animations are largely controlled through the Timeline. You move the cursor to the frame that you want it to be at, then move the Objects in their desired positions, and then you can hit I > LocRot (for “Location, Rotation”). But there’s a LOT more to that.
You can import Background in a multitude of ways. If you want it to actually be a rendered background, the best thing to do is probably to:
-Enable the “Import Images as Plane” add-on (this is a quick and easy way of using an image as a texture). You access the add-ons through File > User Preferences > Add-ons. There’s a search bar there and type in “import” and one of the available add-ons is called Images As Planes. Enable that.
-Then, to to File > Import > Images As Planes and go find the picture you want. That’s then a plane which you can scale and place however you’d like in the scene.
I’m not familiar with MD3, although I see that that’s for video games. In fact, if you’re using the game engine…you might want to disregard everything I just wrote, since I assumed you were talking about the regular program!
ONE LAST NOTE: If you’re totally new to Blender, I highly, highly recommend ‘Blender For Dummies’. Plus, remember that there are TONS of tutorials online, especially for beginners. Just go to YouTube and type in, “Blender [whatever] tutorial” and you’ll find a good one at least 50% of the time.
