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Blender 2.33 Re-enables Game Engine

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the back-in-business dept.

fforw writes "One and a half year after becoming free software, the Blender Foundation has released a new version of Blender which finally enables the game engine again. When Blender became free software. the game engine had to be disabled because SOLID, the collision library was not free software. After SOLID's author Gino van den Bergen changed his mind, Blender has now restored all functionality from the closed-source period."

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  1. Great F/OSS by mastergoon · · Score: 5, Informative
    Blender has got to be right up there among the best of the F/OSS software. It may not have all the features of 3d studio max, but for beginner and intermediate modellers, or people with no artistic talent, it kicks ass!

    The controls are a bit hard to learn, though the interface has been getting better recently. In the end, once you read through the tutorials and learn all the keyboard commands you will find them to be great.

  2. Re:and another thing for newbies to learn by zaphod_bee4 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Their is complete documentation for the 2.3x release available in several formats: http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Using_Blender.80.0.ht ml

  3. Re:Some Blender Games by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Done the right way:

    http://www.spinheaddev.com/?id=crescentd
    http://www.shadeless.dk/3d/?site=darksquad.htm
    http://project-blender.onlinehome.de/
    http://www.brainstorm-studios.net
    http://zerooneentertainment.org/blengine/sachi
    http://project-blender.onlinehome.de/
    http://www.tudbzd.com/