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Contents 1 Plugin Tutorials 1.1 Beginning 1.2 Intermediate 1.3 Advanced 1.4 Other 2 Special Tutorials 2.1 Dustin's Tutorials 2.2 MercAngel's Tutorials 2.3 Aloys' Tutorials 2.4 Trylon's Tutorials

Plugin Tutorials

The turorials in this section are written to explain how to use certain features of the plugin. Much of the experimentation with those features is left to you. If you figure out a really cool effect, consider writing a tutorial about it, and adding it to the next section!

These tutorials are written assuming you understand how Blender works. Additionally, you should have an understanding of how to use Python scripts in Blender.

Beginning

• Setting Up
• Creating Your First Age
• Checking scale in your Age
• Linking to New Ages

Intermediate

• Adding Additional Pages
• Collision
• Kickable Objects
• Texturing
• Lighting
• Regions
• Clickable Objects
• Cameras
• Ladders
• Swimming
• Sounds
• Panic Linking
• Fog and .fni settings
• Soft Volumes

Advanced

• Alpha-blending Textures
• Rotating Sprites
• Python Scripts
• Conditional Objects
• Creating Journals
• Compiling Python Scripts

Other

• Importing an Existing Age
• Working with New Style Regions
• List of Properties
• PBML Reference

Special Tutorials

These tutorials combine information from several of the above tutorials, or they explain how to create a certain effect. If you want to really understand why certain settings are used, you should read the relevant tutorial above.

Dustin's Tutorials

• Tutorial #1: General Age creation tutorial
• Tutorial #2: How to make a landscape get light casting on it
• Tutorial #3: How to cut meshes into smaller meshes, and reducing the number of polygons
• Tutorial #4: Using Normals & 1-sided meshes to get texture working correctly
• Tutorial #5: Using Boolean operations to model solid objects
• Tutorial #6: Using Python Scripts in your Age
• Tutorial #7: How I made The Second Age of Dustin.

MercAngel's Tutorials

• Landscape Tutorial: How to build landscapes in Terragen and import them into Blender
• Cut openings in objects: How to cut through meshes (ex. caves, doors, etc...)

Aloys' Tutorials

• Decal Material Blending: How to alpha blend textures together.

Trylon's Tutorials

• UV Texturing: How to edit UV texture coordinates in Blender