OK don't get all excited. Calm down. Breathe in. Breathe Out. Nothing special here yet, OK?
So here is a link to the first (in hopefully many) video tutorials covering age building in Blender. If you are already age building in Blender please read the description! I do share a few tips you may not have been aware of and some configuration stuff, but most of this will be old hat for you.
This is geared for two groups of people. The first are Max users who want to make the transition to Blender. The second are those who want to build ages for Uru with Blender but need some instruction.
This first video just goes into setting things up and configuring the build environment. Its a two-Blender setup, 32-bit 2.49a and 64-bit 2.67. Tested and working with Python 2.6.6, PyPRP 1, PyYAML 3.10 and PIL 1.17 on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (1080p resolution.)
If you have any questions, requests or suggestions this is the place to post them. Please note, these videos are not professional like you would get off Lynda.com or something. It's 1 take, no fancy editing, me fumbling around and sounding half drunk. And I burp at the end quite unintentionally. Also I never set up Blender 2.49a with PyPRP and all associated files until this video. I knew the process somewhat intellectually, but had no experience. I did get PyPRP to work with Blender 2.64, highest I could go, so I had experience there.
Yes yes, here's the link:
http://youtu.be/ap62qyaGizA
Thanks and credit go to Sirus (hope I spelled that right) for answering my PM with his workflow, which I have adapted to this tutorial.
No, there is no definite release date for the next parts. I have to figure out how to make an age in Blender first. Yes, there will also be some Max videos at some point. In fact I already cast a few, but since learned some things that lead me to believe I should start over with those. Separate thread for that when and if any are done,