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    Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide
    Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide
    Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide
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    Blender Game Engine: Beginner’s Guide

    By Victor Kuller Bacone

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    Create a complete game step by step with no previous experience necessary. Practical tutorials take you through the entire process from beginning to end. If you have used Blender before but never got to grips with the Blender Game Engine (BGE), this book is for you. If you have tried and failed with other game development environments, or if scripting is not your strong point, this is where you should start.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateSep 24, 2012
    ISBN9781849517034
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      Blender Game Engine - Victor Kuller Bacone

      Table of Contents

      Blender Game Engine Beginner's Guide

      Credits

      About the Author

      About the Reviewers

      www.PacktPub.com

      Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more

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      Preface

      What this book covers

      What you need for this book

      Who this book is for

      Conventions

      Time for action — heading

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — heading

      Have a go hero—heading

      Reader feedback

      Customer support

      Downloading the example code

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Things You Need to Know

      Things you need, and things you don't

      Time for action — start using the BGE

      What just happened?

      Exploring the interface of the Logic Editor

      Time for action — exploring the logic bricks world

      What just happened?

      Time for action — moving the cube

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — exploring the interface of the Logic Editor

      Have a go hero— doing more

      Summary

      2. Your Characters

      An example—save the whale!

      How to create a library

      Time for action — downloading models from the Internet

      What just happened?

      Importing other files into Blender

      Time for action — cleaning up the model in Blender

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — importing other files into Blender

      Have a go hero—growing the library

      Involving enemies in the game

      Time for action — appending the enemy

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — Involving enemies in the game

      Have a go hero—reshaping the level

      Creating a meeting point

      Time for action — making the enemy follow a path

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — creating a meeting point

      Have a go hero—more interactivity

      Summary

      3. The First Level

      Block out a level environment

      Time for action — creating the scene

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — blocking out a level environment

      Have a go hero—doing it better

      Creating a player view

      Time for action — renaming the scene

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—creating the real map view

      Defining the boundaries

      Time for action — closing the entry point

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—experimenting with the start of the game

      Marking the end of level

      Time for action — opening the end point

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—changing the end point

      Summary

      4. Collisions

      Respawning the character

      Time for action — returning to the original position

      What just happened?

      Pop quiz — respawning the character

      Have a go hero—doing it better

      Creating trap doors

      Time for action — moving the blocks of ice

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—the more, the better

      Real-time motion

      Time for action — rolling objects

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—different actions

      Creating looped actions

      Time for action — making waves

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—making it look real

      Summary

      5. Gameplay

      Growing the character

      Time for action — counting

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—completing possibilities

      Creating a life indicator bar

      Time for action — decreasing life

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—making limits

      Creating a counter of items collected

      Time for action — collecting

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—making the difference

      Creating a map of the level we play

      Time for action — overlaying something like a map

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—remaking things

      Changing the camera view

      Time for action — view 1, 2, 3

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—not the only point of view

      Moving to another layer

      Time for action — throwing things

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—making the shooter

      Pop quiz — moving to another level

      Summary

      6. Liven up Your World!

      Animate the character

      Time for action — moving the whale's tail

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—making poses

      Making the environment come alive

      Time for action — creating sounds and music

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—sounds like music

      Animate your enemies

      Time for action — animating the hunter

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—kill them all

      Make your own game

      Time for action — making the hunter shoot

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—destroying things

      Pop quiz — make your own game

      Summary

      7. Game Menu Screens

      Making titles

      Time for action — creating your first game title

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—game over

      Creating simple buttons

      Time for action — using the up or down options

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—creating transparent buttons

      Making an externally executable game

      Time for action — exporting your game

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—multiplayer game

      Pop quiz — making an external executable game

      Summary

      8. Publishing Your Game

      Playing your game on the Web

      Time for action — using the Burster plug-in

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—customizing it

      Making some trailers

      Time for action — recording it

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—more records

      Creating something more

      Time for action — updating your game

      What just happened?

      Have a go hero—creating a new level 2

      Pop quiz — creating something more

      Summary

      A. Pop quiz — Answers

      Chapter 1, Things You Need to Know

      Pop quiz — exploring the interface of the Logic Editor

      Chapter 2, Your Characters

      Pop quiz — importing other files into Blender

      Pop quiz — involving enemies in the game

      Pop quiz — creating a meeting point

      Chapter 3, The First Level

      Pop quiz — blocking out a level environment

      Chapter 4, Collisions

      Pop quiz — respawning the character

      Chapter 5, Gameplay

      Pop quiz — moving to another level

      Chapter 6, Liven up Your World!

      Pop quiz — make your own game

      Chapter 7, Game Menu Screens

      Pop quiz — making an external executable game

      Chapter 8, Publishing Your Game

      Pop quiz — creating something more

      Index

      Blender Game Engine Beginner's Guide

      Blender Game Engine Beginner's Guide

      Copyright © 2012 Packt Publishing

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      First published: September 2012

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      Credits

      Author

      Victor Kuller Bacone

      Reviewers

      Pang Lih-Hern

      Michelangelo Manrique

      Acquisition Editor

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      Lead Technical Editor

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      Technical Editors

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      Copy Editors

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      Cover Work

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      About the Author

      Victor Kuller Bacone is the pen name for a Blender enthusiast of six years. By profession, he is a video editor, but the explosion of current technologies has led him to learn 3D software, and he chose Blender out of them all.

      In the short span of his career within the Blender community in Catalonia (Spain), Victor has promoted Blender events, master classes, and an online magazine under the name Blendercat (http://www.blendercat.org) for anyone who wants to learn 3D using free software. His great admiration for the animation and interactive side of Blender is combined with his passion for games, and more specifically, the ease with which one can create games using Blender. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science, and teaches both young and unemployed adults.

      I would like to thank Sisizik, without whose help I couldn't have transcribed this book.

      About the Reviewers

      Pang Lih-Hern is a Computer Game Engine Programmer with more than five years of industry experience. He started programming when he was 12, learning the quick, basic language. After graduating with a degree in Software Engineering and Games Design from Multimedia University Malaysia, he began his freelancing endeavors, which eventually led him to be a part of the core technical team for John Galt Games (Malaysia). He was a part of the decision-making group for designing and implementing the company's proprietary game engine. Lih-Hern is also actively involved on the open source front, often submitting fixtures and features for the popular, open source Ogre3D engine. One notable contribution of his was the Parallel Split Shadow Map feature that enhances the shadow rendering of a 3D scene. He is also a strong advocate of Blender and is currently holding the position of maintaining the Blender exporter to Ogre3D's mesh format.

      After leaving John Galt Games (Malaysia), Lih-Hern co-founded Liquid Rock Games Sdn. Bhd.(outsource development) and Nakama Studios Sdn. Bhd.(in-house development) with his fellow artist partner Yap Chun Fei. The goal was to create innovative, AAA-quality games, without the need for a huge budget cost, by means of using open source technology and tools, such as Blender, Gimp, and Ogre3D. As of now, Nakama Studios (their in-house development studio) is in the process of developing its first, racing

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