Help in using Blender for GUIs?

Just a try:
I wanted to try it all the time: Today I made my first steps with Blender and have the impression that this program is very powerfull & fun to get (at least a bit) used to it.
I am thankfull for any help! I just managed to build a strange "landscape" or universe with strange planetz flying through it... I didn't come very close to a simple pot-design so far - for my early attemts on LC1 & co. I used a completely different strategy

I will try to ask more detailed questions. I just thought it would be worth starting a blender-dedicated-thread again.

Martin

just downloaded it since i havent used it for ages. lets see what we can do

it would be nice if someone could give us a default blender project with a basic knob design and light source, where us non 3d designers could start from scratch to modify that basic construction.

Very good idea. I have the feeling, that in the end it could be relatively easy, to get blender working the basic way we need it. It should be easily possible to build a project, where the camera rotates around itself and spits out the animation of a rotating "thing" = pot. Sadly the weekend is over & I will be short on time the next days, but I have the idea of working on that idea with all that online-help available in short moments where internet is available over the week. Maybe this plan will work. Getting used to work in blender is a future-investment like getting used working with all the other freeware like open office, gimp & co. which is "future-proved".

mccy, it would rather be the knob itself rotating, otherwise the light/shadows would look rather silly on your GUI

and btw, do a search on "blender tutorial" on youtube, lots of useful hints

Thanks! So my easy idea was a bad one, I see

I thought it would be more difficult. This took not too long. I'd say: One weekend away from my first 3d knob.

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wow martin, not bad for the start !

now you are getting a 3d guru.

will you share the project with us?

Martin, I can't & won't help with Blender specifics, but I might be able to give a general tip or two.

Firstly & possibly most importantly, you should be looking to rotate your knob by 300 degrees as a base standard for pot designs. 150 left & 150 right of 0 center will give you the most desirable & common 'standard' rotation/range.

That's all I've got time for right now, as I'm only in the studio for 10/15 mins.

cheers

Thanks hifiboom! I'd like to tweak a bit more before sharing it. Right now I'm again involved in a spontanious project which has completely other things to do with scope. I seem to be a very -too lazy to find the english word- "sprunghafte" personality ... but really, I find it often usefull to have breaks in a project and keep it going on later .

Thanks shroomz for the rotation-tips. Yes all these basic tips are very welcome!!

No problem at all.

Once you've mastered detailed manipulation of the vertices in a mesh, you've practically won the battle.

playing around

ah sorry, not blender work, but related to topic

3ds max for modelling/rendering

wow !

W W!

I once made this in 3ds MAX

the modelling was relatively easy cause it's all just repeated elements. The big job was creating the interface graphics in Adobe Illustrator.

iiiiiiiiiikkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

O.K. This thread was worth it! Wow, what a look!!! I implemented my first pots some days ago, but some guys here have eaten 3d as breakfast

Nice to see all these examples!
It's nice, b.t.w. to work with blender. After 2 days I for myself I had the most basic things in my mind & now I can turn on it for some minutes for relaxing and experiment a bit & maybe find something new from time to time. It's a longterm project & I don't regret starting it...

THANKS!

Martin

@king of snake, did you make this for clavia...?

or do you just recreate GUIs for fun in your free time?

man, it looks decent!

nice work king!

@king of snake, did you make this for clavia...?

or do you just recreate GUIs for fun in your free time?

man, it looks decent!

well it was just for fun and I was kinda trying to learn 3ds max at the time. I just thought what would be a nice simple object to model, and I've got this Nord Rack sitting on my desk so it was an obvious choice
Haven't done anything in max since, but I do occasionaly do some simple stuff in Cinema 4d now.

at least to me it looks like you have succeeded in learning 3DS properly...

Like taken from a clavia pre design studies....

sick, how much uncovered skill is laying here on planetz !

Wow! Coincidence at work Last week i signed papers and i am waiting for my SDK. In the meantime i just did some jiggling in blender te collect my memories back in head And now i am seeing you guys working GUIs in blender



In case anyone is interested for blender file you can give it a go at:
http://www.4shared.com/file/44266488/717090d/Mixer.html
I dont have real hosting so take my apology for this one. Just click on "Download file". File is 3Mb zipped and after extraction it is just 25Mb big.
IMO you can have astounding photorealistic GUIs finished in blender as in PovRay but PovRay is much harder to learn. Also look for YafRay free renderer(this can work as blender plugin). IMO a must have!!

See ya guys

looks good mpogrug!

So the blender boys are in the house...