Okay, so the Blender era has ended. After hours and hours...well - 5 minutes - of "working" with Blender and getting nowhere, and I mean nowhere - I couldn't draw a line, much less a board by board recreation of a structure fit for my two little kings - Blender has been uninstalled.
I checked with a neighbor who does crap like this for a living, and he had never heard of blender. He knew, though, that I was a google fan, and was surprised that I hadn't played with Google SketchUp. So I checked it out, and for my purposes, it whoops Blender's three dimensional ass.
As a bonus, SketchUp allows one to place SketchUp-created models in Google Earth. I have no idea how to do this, but perhaps I'll place the model playhouse in my yard, when the time comes. Let me not get ahead of myself though.
In ease of use, it's not MS Paint, but as far as 3d modeling goes, it's about as close as I've been able to find. Psh! Who am I kidding? MS Paint still has it's way with me!
I have a very rough first draft, but it's more for me to actually learn the program than for actual modeling at this point. I'll have a version to share soon, but the one I'm working with now consists of a rectangle attached to a swing structure made only of 2-D lines. Needless to say, I'm going to need to model something capable of existing in a plane that is not exclusively linear in order to hold the weight of my boys, much less my own. I'm afraid we're a logocentric family that way.
In other news, that would likely not be noticed by the likes of whoever the hell you are, we're taking a Spring Break trip to visit friends - about an 8 hour car ride away - a 2 day drive for us now. So, now that I'm thinking about this again, now that I have found a program I can use, and get excited about, I'm going to have to abandon it for a week or so. But we will have pens and paper, and maybe by then I'll be feeling confident enough to scan and share a line drawing of what it is I'm talking about here.
-J
Monday, March 12, 2007
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