Produced & edited by
Ton Roosendaal
and
Carsten Wartmann
Playing with 3Dgames technology
Blender is a fast, powerful and free 3Dcreation suite. It’s the rst of the 3D packagesto integrate a game engine and tools forediting game-logic and creating interactiveanimation.
The Blender GameKit
has an extensivesection for people who are new to 3D, or newto Blender. It shows in step-by-step tutorialsthe fun of creating models, adding motionto them, and how to turn them into simplegames. Experienced 3D artists will appreciatethe more complex game demos, the characteranimation tutorials, and the advanced refer-ence section.
About this book
The Blender Gamekit
was produced by Not aNumber, the company that developed Blenderas a commercial product. Blender is nowcontinued as an Open Source project led byTon Roosendaal, the original Blender creator.Carsten Wartmann is a 3D designer andwriter, renowned as the author of
The Blender Book
and
The Ofcial Blender 2.0 Guide
.
The CDROM
contains 10 playable and editable Blendergame demos. It also contains the Blender Creator V2.24,for all platforms: Windows (98/2000/ME/XP), Linux (i86),FreeBSD (i386) and IRIX (6.5)
System specs:
450 Mhz processor, 64 MB memory,OpenGL accelerated 3D card (Nvidia, Matrox, ATI, 3Dlabs)