Now, i know how to do all of it, appart from the accual putting together of all the animations and models, and landscapes and music etc, and i was wondering if anyone knew a free way that i could do that.

(BTW, i have access to Blitz3D)

Thanks a bundle.

-Kiwee

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If low-poly, you can use Blitz 3D to quickly animate your models and it will render it all in real-time.

If high-poly, you'll have to use the animation capabilities in a rendering engine (such as Blender) that will render each frame in the movie individually.

You can also do low-poly models in something like Blender, but Blitz isn't good for very high poly models.

Cheers!

--clint

oh, and it doesn't matter how fimiluar with them I am, I will learn how to use whatever is the best option.

Also, could anyone give me a quick example of how to something like that in Blitz?

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Graphics3D 1024,768 MoveMouse 400,300 pivot=CreatePivot() PositionEntity pivot,0,1.5,0 camera=CreateCamera( pivot ) CameraClsColor camera,100,100,100 PositionEntity camera,0,50,-100 AmbientLight 190, 190, 190 light2=CreateLight() LightColor light2,120,120,220 RotateEntity light2,0,90,0 PositionEntity light2, 40,20,0 light3=CreateLight() LightColor light3,120,120,130 RotateEntity light3,0,0,0 PositionEntity light3, -400,20,0 dude=LoadAnimMesh( "dwarf1.b3d" ) plane=CreatePlane() PositionEntity plane, 0,.01,0 EntityAlpha plane,.5 mirror=CreateMirror() ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 2, 14 ;walk ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 16, 26 ;run ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 28, 40 ;jump 1 ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 42, 54 ;jump 2 - for user controlled jumps ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 56, 74 ;crouch - 56-59=down, 60-69=crouch, 70-74=get up ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 75, 88 ;battle idle 1 ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 90, 110 ;battle idle 1 ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 112, 126 ;Attack 1 - swing ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 128, 142 ;Attack 2 - Jump and overhead whack ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 144, 160 ;Attack 3 - 360 backhand ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 162, 180 ;Attack 4 - 2 Swipes ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 182, 192 ;Attack 5 - Stab ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 194, 210 ;Attack 6 - BLOCK ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 212, 227 ;Die 1 - Forwards ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 230, 251 ;Die 1 - Backwards ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 253, 272 ;Nod YES ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 274, 290 ;Shake head NO ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 292, 325 ;Idle 1 ;ExtractAnimSeq dude, 327, 360 ;Idle 2 ExtractAnimSeq dude, 2, 360 ;All Animations seq=1 While Not KeyHit(1) If Not Animating( dude ) Animate dude,1,.2,seq,1 EndIf If KeyDown( 203 )=True Then x#=x#-0.5 If KeyDown( 205 )=True Then x#=x#+0.5 If KeyDown( 208 )=True Then y#=y#-0.5 If KeyDown( 200 )=True Then y#=y#+0.5 If KeyDown( 205 )=True Then MoveEntity camera,1,0,0 If KeyDown( 203 )=True Then MoveEntity camera,-1,0,0 If KeyDown( 208 )=True Then MoveEntity camera,0,0,-1 If KeyDown( 200 )=True Then MoveEntity camera,0,0,1 x#=EntityX(camera) y#=EntityY(camera) z#=EntityZ(camera) Mouselook(camera) ;mouselook routine call PositionEntity camera,x#,y#,z# UpdateWorld RenderWorld Text 0,0,"Mouse steers camera, cursors move camera" Flip If KeyHit(59) Then SaveBuffer(FrontBuffer(),"grab"+ss+".bmp"):ss=ss+1 EndIf ;Press F1 For a screenshot Wend End ;Control ; Camera position, angle values Global cam_x#,cam_z#,cam_pitch#,cam_yaw#,cam_speed#=.5 ; Current Global dest_cam_x#,dest_cam_z#,dest_cam_pitch#,dest_cam_yaw# ; Destination Global ent_x#,ent_z#,ent_pitch#,ent_yaw#,ent_speed#=.5 ; Current Global dest_ent_x#,dest_ent_z#,dest_ent_pitch#,dest_ent_yaw# ; Destination Function mouselook(camera) ; Mouse look ; ---------- ; Mouse x and y speed mxs=MouseXSpeed() mys=MouseYSpeed() ; Mouse shake (total mouse movement) mouse_shake=Abs(((mxs+mys)/2)/1000.0) ; Destination camera angle x and y values dest_cam_yaw#=dest_cam_yaw#-mxs dest_cam_pitch#=dest_cam_pitch#+mys ; Current camera angle x and y values cam_yaw=cam_yaw+((dest_cam_yaw-cam_yaw)/5) cam_pitch=cam_pitch+((dest_cam_pitch-cam_pitch)/5) RotateEntity camera,cam_pitch#,cam_yaw#,0 ;RotateEntity camera,mxs,mys,0 ; Rest mouse position to centre of screen MoveMouse 400,300 ; Move camera using movement values MoveEntity camera,x#,y#,z# End Function

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Kiwee, if you want to design a movie I'd suggest you choose Blender over Blitz3D for sure. It will take time and patience to get good in Blender. There is also the choice of creating a movie editor in Biltz3D as well. This shouldn't be too difficult, it would be kind of similar to designing a world editor. You'd save the data out from your editor and have a runtime system that would read the data in and carry out the instructions that it receives. But for movies, I say Blender

This is how I'd go about preparing to develop the movie in Blender.

1. Write out an outline for your movie. (Each line could represent a separate scene)

2. Write a list of all models\characters involved in the movie.

3. From your outline, set your scene settings in Blender.(sky, models, etc..) (Each scene should be a separate .blend file.

From there, it gets really technical using Blender... as for how you'd animate your characters and how you want your camera to work. Basically you'd animate each model, set the keyframes, etc... After you do this for each scene, you can create a new file in which you'll import all of the Blender scenes and merge them together with nice transitions, sound\music, and then render it out as a single movie file.

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Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.
O Lord , you preserve both man and beast.
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Thankyou Firemaker, But I just realised that I need .b3d file Models for blitz. I don't know if blender exports in b3d but Wings doesn't. Also, I think Blender wins in Simplisity, so I might have to go with that.

Thankyou everyone.

Oh, and as I asked before, could I do sprite effects in Blender?

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But I see your going to go with blender anyway.

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haha. i stilll struggle with the interface.

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Oh, and as I asked before, could I do sprite effects in Blender?

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Do you mean like particle effects? If so then yeah, you can. In fact you can do (almost) everything in Blender that you could do in 3DS Max, Lightwave3D, or Maya. Oh and trust me, it's not simple! Well not at first anyhow... it takes time and practice to get use to Blender. But once you do learn it well, it's blazing fast to develop with.

Here is a good place to start: http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Tutorials.243.0.html

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Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.
O Lord , you preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is your unfailing love!

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Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep.
O Lord , you preserve both man and beast.
How priceless is your unfailing love!

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edit - fixed again, lol
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