Wings vs Blender
Wings vs Blender
What is better wings or blender?
Each have their ups and downs.
Wings is easier to use, Blender takes a while.
Blender and Wings each have some commands the other does not.
Blender is more powerful than Wings.
If you wanna go beyond BZFlag map making, you can make movies(I think),
games, animated models, and on top of that, can make models very
smooth without taking as much memory as Wings.
But, however, Wings has a well working BZW plugin, and Blender's is still being worked on(though it is operable).
Each have their good points, and I should know, as I have both.
However, I haven't used either of them for mapmaking, but there are many who have.
Wings is easier to use, Blender takes a while.
Blender and Wings each have some commands the other does not.
Blender is more powerful than Wings.
If you wanna go beyond BZFlag map making, you can make movies(I think),
games, animated models, and on top of that, can make models very
smooth without taking as much memory as Wings.
But, however, Wings has a well working BZW plugin, and Blender's is still being worked on(though it is operable).
Each have their good points, and I should know, as I have both.
However, I haven't used either of them for mapmaking, but there are many who have.
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you guys are talking about Wings3d right>
ifso I think there are Completely different Blender is used more to make wallpapers, siggs, avatars, ect.... bascly Flat pics.
Wings3D is more to make real physical Objects such as this: http://my.bzflag.org/bb/files/mariopipe_923.jpg
ifso I think there are Completely different Blender is used more to make wallpapers, siggs, avatars, ect.... bascly Flat pics.
Wings3D is more to make real physical Objects such as this: http://my.bzflag.org/bb/files/mariopipe_923.jpg
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Blender is not just a renderer. Blender is a 3D modeling suite (Sweet!) that comes with a modeler, material editor, and renderer, along with the ability to be expanded into external renderer's and modelers and use the many plug-ins, like the auto tree generator, and the BZW Tools.
Blender can be used for Pictures, but it's a 3D modeler, so of course it can be a object maker! In wings people usually use and external renderer to make it into a 'flat pic' its jsut not in wings.ifso I think there are Completely different Blender is used more to make wallpapers, siggs, avatars, ect.... bascly Flat pics.
Whaddaya know! I made that!ducktape wrote:Wings3D is more to make real physical Objects such as this: http://my.bzflag.org/bb/files/mariopipe_923.jpg
Really? I didn't know that...it makes a lot of sense though...ducktape also wrote:Blender is used more to make wallpapers, siggs, avatars, ect....
Better get crackin'
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You can't put Blender made things into BZEdit either. It's a BZEdit problem, not Blender's or Wing3d's problem.anti-spam wrote:wings sucks, you cant get one thing into bzedit
BZEdit does 1.x objects only.
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Lets not forget the rather nice audio and video sequence editors, and the shiny new compositing manager (super impose your render onto an existing {scene,image,video} without outside tools)me1 wrote:Blender is not just a renderer. Blender is a 3D modeling suite (Sweet!) that comes with a modeler, material editor, and renderer, along with the ability to be expanded into external renderer's and modelers and use the many plug-ins, like the auto tree generator, and the BZW Tools.
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As a lifelong macintosh user, i find blender's interface extremely frustrating. However, I see blender's power with teppic's plugin, and I'm gonna keep plugging away at it.
Take a look at my Defender game mode concept.
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As stated, Blender is far more efficient than Wings3D in many ways, but is a lot more technical. There are far more buttons, tools, etc. Wings3D, on the other hand, is very simple, but doesn't do near as much.
As for the whole BZEdit issue, yes, you can not open any blendering, Wings3D thing, or any other 3D program thing you've used in BZEdit (at least to my knowledge). As long as you use teleporters/links, boxes, and pyramids (all standard) you can open it. Anything else goes kaput.
BZEdit is a fabulous modeller to start out with for new BZMappers. After that go to Wings. After that go to Blender. That's the best system for mapmaking, I think.
Personally, I don't do a lot of 3D things at this point. It's never been a strong point in my mapmaking and I'd prefer to stick to older...styles...
As for the whole BZEdit issue, yes, you can not open any blendering, Wings3D thing, or any other 3D program thing you've used in BZEdit (at least to my knowledge). As long as you use teleporters/links, boxes, and pyramids (all standard) you can open it. Anything else goes kaput.
BZEdit is a fabulous modeller to start out with for new BZMappers. After that go to Wings. After that go to Blender. That's the best system for mapmaking, I think.
Personally, I don't do a lot of 3D things at this point. It's never been a strong point in my mapmaking and I'd prefer to stick to older...styles...
I don't mean to be dismissive, but read the wiki, all of it, follow the 'special instruction' links etc.
All the information you need to get it running first time is there.
Not only will it probably work after that, but if it doesn't you will have a reference point (i.e. when it didn't do what it said it should do) to start diagnosing the problem, and improve the instructions for future users.
All the information you need to get it running first time is there.
Not only will it probably work after that, but if it doesn't you will have a reference point (i.e. when it didn't do what it said it should do) to start diagnosing the problem, and improve the instructions for future users.