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As any very complex program, Blender cannot be learned by just exploration. You need to read the manual. Really, now. Go. I'll be waiting here for you. | As with any very complex program, Blender cannot be learned by just exploration. You need to read the manual. Really, now. Go. I'll be waiting here for you. | ||
The | The German version is quite a bit better organized. If you understand German better than English, use that. | ||
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You need to learn the basics of the modeller we use first. The documentation is as free as the program, and you will have to spend a few hours learning to move in Blender, to select and move things, to edit a mesh. You need to understand a few words, for example vertex, mesh, object. To that end, doing a tutorial will get you started nicely. | You need to learn the basics of the modeller we use first. The documentation is as free as the program, and you will have to spend a few hours learning to move in Blender, to select and move things, or to edit a mesh. You need to understand a few words, for example: vertex, mesh, and object. To that end, doing a tutorial will get you started nicely. | ||
[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro This] is ''the'' newbie documentation for blender. | [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro This] is ''the'' newbie documentation for blender. | ||
Follow the tutorial, and I mean, '''follow it''', using Blender and the mouse and the keyboard, up to | Follow the tutorial, and I mean, '''follow it''', using Blender and the mouse and the keyboard, up to and including, the Quickie Model section. You should be good to go from there. You'll need to read up on other sections later, though. And try to remember that there's a section devoted to splitting windows. I'll test you later! | ||
== Finding and preparing an existing creature to mod == | == Finding and preparing an existing creature to mod == | ||