Blender

This page holds all my work in Blender to date. See below for tutorials and getting into Blender development

BGE Tutorials

These tutorials tend to focus more on the python side of the BGE as it’s the area I’m most interested in. Python’s beauty lies in its ‘batteries included’ approach, and as such there is a large standard library, as well as many other extensions available to use. Sadly, you don’t see many BGE scripting tutorials cover how these modules can be used to greatly extend what is possible within the BGE. So a lot of these tutorials look at applying them to the BGE as well as using python and the BGE in general. I try not to write too much generic code, and instead cover how you can use particular techniques/concepts to apply them in your own games.

They’re organised by game scripting tasks and within topics are listed in the order that they run in. I’ve included the version of Blender that each of these were created with in brackets.  For each tutorial I try and end with a real game example (by real game I mean a short concept) so you can see how the ideas covered can be applied in practice. If you have any requests for a particular tutorial feel free to ask in the comments below.

BGE and Python in general

• Random numbers (2.70)
• Passing arguments/parameters to __init__() when subclassing KX_GameObject (2.73)

Player Input

• Controllable custom cursors in the BGE (2.70)
• Creating menu buttons and opening webpages from within the BGE (2.73a)

Enemies/AI

• Enemy stealth mechanics (2.74)

Saving and loading and Python file I/O

• Saving and loading with python’s built-in file handling (2.70)
• Loading values with the configparser module (2.70)
• Using saved values retrieved with the configparser (2.70)
• Configparser and the default section (2.70)
• Saving with the configparser and the dictionary mapping protocol (2.70)
• Saved game directories (2.70)

Game world/environment

• Creating in-game world time and timing events and scripts (2.70)
• Simple day and night cycles using bgl for GLSL and multi-texture render modes (2.70)

Shaders

• Scrolling and rotating textures using custom GLSL shaders (2.73a)

Blender Development

I’ve just gotten started with Blender development, and at the moment I’m just learning to navigate and understand sections of the source code. In some way these are tutorials, but mainly, they just cover my experiences. I’m sharing them because there’s very little information on developing Blender available. They are all in a process of constant refinement as I learn more. So do keep in mind that they might contain mistakes, bad practice and things that are just plain wrong! So feel free to point out improvements. Anyway, here’s what I’ve gotten so far:

Building Blender on Windows 7 64bit
BGE: Creating a new actuator part 1
BGE: Creating a new actuator part 2