sabino
February 1, 2015, 3:10pm
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Hi all,
I’m new in this forum, I’m a student and I’m currently learning C++ and Blender. To start, I would like to create a little game about Tux, the mascotte of Linux. Now, I would like to ask you:
Does Panda3D support Blender models, animations and textures?
I’ve an old PC (ATI 1550X). Can I use it?
How easy to use is Panda?
Thank you for the support
PS. And please tell me what You are working on…
croxis
February 1, 2015, 5:05pm
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sabino:
Hi all,
I’m new in this forum, I’m a student and I’m currently learning C++ and Blender. To start, I would like to create a little game about Tux, the mascotte of Linux. Now, I would like to ask you:
Does Panda3D support Blender models, animations and textures?
I’ve an old PC (ATI 1550X). Can I use it?
How easy to use is Panda?
Thank you for the support
PS. And please tell me what You are working on…
Yes (look for YABEE)
Yes
If you know the basics of programming (functions. loops, classes) then panda 3d is awesome. If you don’t and are looking for a game maker with a user interface then Unity or Gamemaker would be a better choice.
sabino
February 1, 2015, 5:48pm
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Can I license the game I make under the GNU license ? Or, what license should I use (free and open source game). Thank you
wezu
February 1, 2015, 6:20pm
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Panda itself is under the (modified) BSD license, some third party components have different licenses (look: panda3d.org/manual/index.php … cense_info ).
As far as I understand it, there’s nothing stopping you from releasing your game code as GNU-GPL.
Blender.
For Panda-Blender interactions look for YABEE:
or wait for ninth to publish his newest toy:
It’s not a ready-for-use product, but anyway you can try to get some results with it, or even improve it
What you need
Development version of Panda3D (1.9)
Blender version 2.7 (not tested, but possible it will work on 2.6 too )
latest version of YABEE from GIT: github.com/09th/YABEE
Scene Exporter (Blender plugin): github.com/09th/Blender4Panda-plugin
Scene Loader (Python package for P3D): github.com/09th/Blender4Panda-loader
You should have installed and enabled both YABEE and Sce…
Old PC.
If you have an openGL driver for that card then all should be ok, but I would stay away from shaders
How easy is Panda? I’d say it’s as difficult as Python.
What I’m working on:
Mostly on an editor (doing trees since last week… ):
I’ve added new textures to the repo, added a way to edit the brushes with numerical values (click the ‘gears’ icon), and to edit the placement of objects (you can change the hpr, pos, scale of selected objects by providing new, numerical values for them).
There are also some small fixes that makes the editor less annoying (zoom speed, brush size speed change).
Still waiting for bug reports, have a big screen as an encouragement:
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