Blender Text Tutorials
Blender YSFlight Animations
This guide will take you through the basics of animating in blender. It assumes you have some knowledge of blender however many things are given in step-by-step directions to help you through some of the more unique processes.
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Cutting camo into airplanes can be a bit tricky! This tutorial will show you how!
This tutorial will show you how to get a google sketchup model into blender. I have used this technique to get a base model from which to develop by Boeing 757s.
Making decals can be a great way to get an airline logo onto your airplane. However, making decals can take a lot of work and practice to figure out how to best make them. This will show you the basics of tracing, using curves, and finally, using fonts.
This tutorial series is designed to take you from a complete beginner to a capable user of blender. The goal is to learn by doing, so I use a model from OWL's airline pack as a demonstrative model. This is different from the video tutorials so that you can potentially learn something new try things in a different way.
This little tutorial came about after I struggled to make a 5-point star for a Soviet aircraft decal. After a lot of math and trial and error I figured there must have been a better way...Here's how you do it!
Resolving Shading Issues (WIP)
This tutorial will discuss how to identify a shading issue, understand how it is caused and then show you how to fix it.
Use modifiers in Blender to make a "shadow" behind your text.
This tutorial will show you how to stretch (or shrink) an aircraft in blender to form a new version. In this tutorial I will stretch a 757-200 into a 757-300.
A bunch of short tutorials that show you how to use a tool in Blender for modding in YSFlight.