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FAQ - Blender 2.48a
This is a new version of the Game Engine FAQ, for the old one, please look here.
This new FAQ is still very much a work in progress!
All questions that are followed by an arrow are links to offsite tutorials or documentation.
All questions that are followed by an “*” don’t have a page title yet. While all links in red haven’t been made yet, page titles have been figured out for them.
[edit] General Questions
- What is the Blender Game Engine?
- What do I need to know to start working with the Blender Game Engine?
- How powerful is the Blender Game Engine? What is the poly limit?
- How do I make…
[edit] Graphics Questions
- What is GLSL? Can the Blender Game Engine use it? And can my card support it?
- How does the Blender Game Engine handle alpha?
- How do I texture my models?
- Can I use videos for textures?
- What are normal, bump, color, ambient occlusion, specular, diffuse, etc maps?
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/Why is my plane transparent on one side?*
[edit] Physics Questions
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/How do I make my objects bounce / not bounce?*
- What are softbodies, and does the Blender Game Engine support them?
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/Why does my character keep falling through the floor and going through walls?*
[edit] Effects Questions
- How do I make water?
- How do I make fire and smoke?
- How do I do shadows in my games (both real time and faked)?
[edit] Logic Questions
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/How do I use a joystick or controller in my game?*
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/How do I make my character move?*
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/How do I use sounds in my game?*
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/How do I make an object follow a path?*
- How do I make a health bar for my guy?
- Doc:FAQ/Game Engine/How do I setup the camera?*
[edit] Other Questions
[edit] Subpages
- About
- Alpha and the Blender Game Engine
- Can games be converted to an executable
- How do I start using the game engine
- Making Different Game Types
- Old FAQ
- Performances
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