dim3 Forum

1. Need NOOB friendly tutorials for animation, Modelling and UV mapping
2. Need some help with scripting.
3. I wanna start up with a Single player game
Like Tomb Raider, How do i make other enemies and the map?
4. How do i import the Models and scripts?
5. Can anyone send me a animated and scripted Soldier model?

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Welcome to the Dim3 community.
1) I'm sure that within the next few hours, ccccc will post a very nice tutorial about Modeling/UV Mapping here. He always does.
Animating in Dim3... I dont know of any tutorial about that.
I'll probably write one some day.

2) Whenever you have a scripting question, ask in the scripting area. I (and others of course) will try to help as good as we can.
Don't ask for finished scripts though. We can help you, but you will have to do most of the work yourself.

3) A single player game is a good start. To create enemies, try modifying the JoeFoe script(s) that come(s) with Dim3 and try to understand the way they work. Dim3 uses JavaScript as its scripting language, and the syntax is very easy to understand, even for beginners. Also make sure to look at the documentation that comes with dim3. All the important APIs and functions are in there.
For maps: Open the Dim3 Editor Application, open one of the demo maps and try to change stuff and modify it to get a feeling for the editor. It's easy to learn.

4) You import models by opening the Animator app and... importing it. It's pretty much the easiest thing. Except... "importing" scripts is probably easier. You just put them into Data/Scripts/<the folder they belong into> (You will see what I mean)

5) I doubt that anyone will send you their models. People put a lot of work into their games and probably dont want to give that away for free. The dim3 demo has a lot of models and scripts already included in the download, so try to learn from those.

Bink Wrote:Welcome to the Dim3 community.
1) I'm sure that within the next few hours, ccccc will post a very nice tutorial about Modeling/UV Mapping here. He always does.
Animating in Dim3... I dont know of any tutorial about that.
I'll probably write one some day.

2) Whenever you have a scripting question, ask in the scripting area. I (and others of course) will try to help as good as we can.
Don't ask for finished scripts though. We can help you, but you will have to do most of the work yourself.

3) A single player game is a good start. To create enemies, try modifying the JoeFoe script(s) that come(s) with Dim3 and try to understand the way they work. Dim3 uses JavaScript as its scripting language, and the syntax is very easy to understand, even for beginners. Also make sure to look at the documentation that comes with dim3. All the important APIs and functions are in there.
For maps: Open the Dim3 Editor Application, open one of the demo maps and try to change stuff and modify it to get a feeling for the editor. It's easy to learn.

4) You import models by opening the Animator app and... importing it. It's pretty much the easiest thing. Except... "importing" scripts is probably easier. You just put them into Data/Scripts/<the folder they belong into> (You will see what I mean)

5) I doubt that anyone will send you their models. People put a lot of work into their games and probably dont want to give that away for free. The dim3 demo has a lot of models and scripts already included in the download, so try to learn from those.

Thank you very much =)

i did know i werent gettin any models but, it's worth a try

1. u know in the game, there is a weapon menu.
i wanna take that away... How?
2. When u start the game there is a loader like
.................................
! Openin !
!...............................!
How do i change that stuffs and yah.

1) I don't know what you mean. :/
The weapon pictures that show the selected weapon? Or do you mean something else?

2) Do you mean the loading bar? You cannnot change that without changing the source code of the engine. (Even though that's probably not really a hard thing to do.)
You will have to ask Brian to add this to the core.


If you have a lot of short questions, it would probably be a good idea to download an IRC client and join #dim3 on irc.freenode.net so we can chat. It's a lot faster than the forum and there are a lot of nice people online.

Scripting Tutorial: http://www.idevgames.com/dim3/showthread.php?tid=1985
Modeling Tutorial: http://www.bakaneko.com/howto/computer/3...age01.html

I was tempted not to post it to make Bink wrong :P.

Teh1ghool will probably post his UVing in wings tutorial if he see's this, I don't know the link.
Good, FREE, 3d modelers:
http://www.wings3d.com <-- Easy to learn, less powerful than blender
http://www.blender.org <-- Harder to learn, more powerful than wings

1. That is all done in the player (scripts>objects>player.js) and interface (settings>interface) scripts.

2. You can change the loading background by changing the picture (data>bitmaps>background) and the bar in (data>settings>interface).

KK tyvm for help =)

EDIT
Can u tell me exactly how i get the weapon bar away?
and when i change the background for the bar its a disaster. help?