   Blender 3D
  Hey guys, while I was looking for a free cross-platform 3D editor, I found this. I'd like to know if there are others (doesn't have to be cross-platform, but free). Anyways, my question is the following: Do any of you know any tutorials on blender that you recommend? You dont need to recommend them just any that you know of? I googled it for 40 minutes now and I haven't found anything easy. I'm a good learner, it's just that the ones I've found usually aren't 'beginner's tutorial' kind, where it teaches you as if you were knew to the whole thing, instead they jump into things like 'How to make a volley ball'. Anyways, that's my question. Also I'd like to know if any of you recommend/like this program, if not which you recommend (free, or which have a free version). Thanks guys!I'd also like to know how to import and draw the blender files in OpenGL, I was looking for converters to other formats which I already know (ms3d) but I guess this would be more efficient, if any of you have the code, I'd appreciate it.   
Here's what I learned on.  It's the official tutorial in the blender documentation.  Not too hard, really, if you're willing to put about 2 hours into it.~BenDilts( void );   ;  I've not used blender much but in trying to find out more about it I have found these video tutorials. I've only watched a couple, and though they sometimes go too fast for my taste you can always pause. Hope these are helpful.Video Tutorials;  I know of some really good tutorials that you probably already know of, but if you dont here it is, a wide variety of them from beginner to advanced and nearly everything inbetween(and always updating) Blender TutorialsI personally learned my most basic stuff from the snowman one, which is a great beginner one and is perfect for this time of year [smile]...hmmm seems like biorust is down now, hopefully its temporary but if its for good, its a shame because that was one hell of a tutorial   ;  Thanks guys, I really appreciate these links. I hope people will post more so others interested in Blender could search for this topic.   ;  Buy the blender 2.3 guide book.  1 it supports the team that made such an amazing piece of software. 2 reading from a book is better than online but if you search for "blender 2.3 guide" or something similar you can find the whole book online... though i looked at that after i read the book and its just confusing so i had to go back to the book.  If u spend the time to read that book youll be on your way easily. You can export to .x files , which i have heard are easy to put into opengl, not sure tho.   ;blender.orgThe official website has a good part where there are a lot of links to community websites (on which you'll find a lot of tutorials)   ;  To add to the list these might come in handy. I started off with this though.The guide to the user interface is what you really need :)EDIT: I overread the word easy...EDIT: this is actually what I started with.[Edited by - l3mon on December 15, 2005 4:41:44 AM];  Of course there is our very own:http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art/features/blender1/http://www.gamedev.net/reference/art/features/blender2/;  http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D wiki books has some good tuts   