Hi All,

Sorry I didn't see your posts. I am deep in making a demo game (Operative Bat) for the Neoaxis Engine! Earthmover thanks for the support, thats great. Totally agree we can probably never make Blender as easy as SketchUp. I think its all about getting the power out of the tool which otherwise is totally locked to new users. I have a laptop and 2.49b is like running at a brick wall (numeric keypad mapped to normal numbers? groan). Theres just no familiarity for me at all. BlendUp gives us a island of usability that we can work from.

If you want support direct go to anjin.biz/forum. We discuss a number of current game related topics there as well: Second Life Avatar porting (you can download a rigged blender file free with no rights restrictions), Low cost 3d tools, Neoaxis/Ogre3d etc.

Hope to have the demo game up soon, screenshots should be available today on the blog: anjin.biz/blog

Cool. Its great if you have to use Blender and dont want to be forever hunting for the commands or forgetting keys.

Hi All,

At Anjin we're developing a plugin to export content direct into the Neoaxis game system. If you are interested the beta is available here at http://www.anjin.biz/blog/?p=59 .

You may have heard of Ogre3d the game engine, well Neoaxis takes its brilliant technical foundation and layers on top a very good graphical interface to easily create maps and edit game resources. For non commercial use Neoaxis is free and for an Indie license is a very small amount ($100 I think?) Full shadowing is included unlike Unity3d.

Testers welcome, in fact the plugin seems to work just fine so we are really looking for any unusual problems now.

Anjin.

Hi All,

I couldn't really think where to post this so thought this was the best bet.

I've just released a customisation set for Blender 2.5 called BlendUp (http://www.anjin.biz/blog/?p=55) which makes it behave more like SketchUp. I think this will help Newbies get to grips with Blender and let old hands use the two progams more easily. For those who haven't heard of Blender, its the Grandady of SketchUp, very powerful but in the past very difficult to use.

With BlendUp we get a step closer to something easy and yet powerful and its easier for users to use Blender to SketchUp without fumbling their keypresses etc. I mainly use SketchUp but need to use Blender for Animation. Its a chore to remember all the keys so in the new Blender we dont have to worry. Use BlendUp and its easy.