Blender assistance

[JimmyCorrigan]

I've DL'ed blender onto my windows pc.  It looks like a pretty nice app for creating mesh but I don't know how to make things in it.  Can anyone help?

[Masami Kuramoto]

Did you check out the user manual?

[Paul Norfolk]

Search the forums here for 'blender tutorials' and lots of posts will come up. Blender is such an extensive program, one response/comment on this thread won't be all that helpful.

[JimmyCorrigan]

I want to make mesh clothes for myself.  I didn't DL the user manual, will I need to it is alot of reading and it's very complex?  Can't I get started in this user group?

[Paul Norfolk]

If you've followed my suggestion above, you will now have lots of links leading to youtube tutorials, sl classes and blender websites... that's the best place to start. As I also said above, Blender is so extensive that it will take a while to learn, so I can't imagine you learning all you need to from a quick group/forum message.

 

Sorry I can't be more helpful, but there's plenty of documentation and videos on the net (and this forum) to get you off to a good start.

 

Best of luck :-)

[Ashasekayi Ra]

Hi Jimmy

Welcome to the world of Blender. It's a cool and powerful program after you get the hang of it by watching good tutorials.

Here are some suggestions:

Jason Welsh has two great Blender series that will teach you all the basics that you need to know about modeling and texturing in Blender.

• Modeling: 
• Texturing: 

Another great all-around tutorial resource is http://cgcookie.com/blender/ .

If you want SL-specific Blender training, try out these two resources:

• http://blog.machinimatrix.org/category/mesh/

If you search the forum for Blender tutorials, you'll find other resource sites. Also, you can find several Blender classes for beginners at the Builder's Brewery educational SIM inworld. There are a number of Blender groups in world; you might want to join the group Blender Mesh Development.

[Nalates Urriah]

I'll add Second Life Mesh Clothes Blender 2.6 Setup 2012 Tutorial. It has information about installing Blender for easy update and running multiple versions. Blender is updaing quickly. Some updates don't work so well with SL. So, it is common to design in one version of Blender and use another version to export the Collada file needed for SL.