Blender Tutorial Links

Well I'm trying to use Blender for the 1st time.  It's really slow going, but I wanted to share a couple of tutorials that I've come across today that hopefully will help anyone who, like me, has never attempted making a mesh. 

Welcome to Blender Wiki    Welcome to Blender Wiki

Your First Animation in 30 plus 30 Minutes Part I    wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Your_First_Animation/1.A_static_Gingerbread_Man

Your First Animation in 30 plus 30 Minutes Part IІ    wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Your_First_Animation/2.Animating_the_Gingerbread_Man

Learning Blender 3D - basic layout and appearance    www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/learning-layout.php

Learning Blender 3D - basic mouse movements & navigation    www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/learning-keyboard-mouse-navigation.php

Learning Blender 3D making models & mesh editing    www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/learning-modeling-mesh-editing.php

Learning Blender applying materials and textures    www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/learning-materials-textures-images.php

Learning Blender 3D multiple materials (optional)    www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/learning-multiple-materials-textures-images.php#

Learning Blender 3D UVW maps and unwrapping a mesh    www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blender/learning-unwrapping-uvw-maps.php

And, Make a Chair in Blender 

Hey Orange,

Your welcome.  Anything I can do to help is my pleasure. 

If you know how to navigate your way around Blender, making a low-poly version of the mesh you have already constructed is fairly easy.  

Make sure you save often, that's just a good rule of thumb.  

So you've completed your first mesh and it loads perfectly into S4S AND The CAS, which is is a BIG step, since I usually forget one or two steps.  To downgrade your mesh to a lower vertice/facet/poly count (however you want to call it), it's as simple as selecting it from a list.



In your Properties Menu, click the WRENCH Icon to toggle the Modifiers Section.  From the dropdown menu, select DECIMATE from the GENERATE column (Second from the left).

This will ad the DECIMATE options to your model automatically, all you need to do is select the level of "decimation".

In a tutorial by brujah, he suggests that, in the Ratio slider (looks like a big pill button), you start off with a setting of 0.80. This is a god start for your LOD1 mesh.  For it too take effect, you NEED click the APPLY button for the decimation to actually render out into your mesh.

After that, save your mesh as a different name (i.e. Mesh_LOD1.blend) and then start again, adding a NEW instance of Decimation to your LOD1 mesh, setting the ratio to 0.80, applying it, and then saving it out as your LOD2.

Lather.

Rinse.

Repeat for LOD3.

Hi lala12, welcome to Studio forums.  Sims 4 Studio requires the use of Blender 2.70 and there is a link on the Sims 4 Studio download page that will get you to the Blender 2.70 download.

Hi mayuchiha, welcome to Studio forums. There is a tutorial HERE that shows how to get a Sims 3 CAS item to Blender. If you have Sims 4 Studio you will see the S4 Studio CAS tool menu in Blender when you're working with Sims 4 meshes exported from Sims 4 .packages. If this isn't enough information post again