CHAPTER 17

Making Textured Enemies with Blender

You’re going to make three additional enemies for DotGame: spikers, blockades, and question marks. Spikers are simple rotating spikey things that attack whenever they see you. Blockades are square blocks that can be moved by pushing them. Question marks look like the usual English question mark. They do unknown things to you when you collide with them, anything from giving you points to moving you to another place on the level. Just as in the previous chapter, you’ll use Blender to model and animate these enemies.

Along the way, you’ll learn about textures and materials in Blender. Textures are typically square images that are applied to the surface of a 3D model. Materials combine possibly multiple ...

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