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Python Scripting for the Game Engine

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In this tutorial aimed at beginning Python programmers/Blender users, CG Masters dive into Python and show you how to control a game character.

CGMasters write:

In this beginner’s Python tutorial you’ll learn how to use Python scripting to make a car move, increase in speed, and stop. This tutorial will teach you the basics of Python scripting for the Blender game engine, including accessing and changing logic brick information through scripting. Before getting started, if you’re new to Python and for more general information on Python including formatting, statements, functions, blah blah, check out Beginner’s Guide To Python. None of the guides here take long to go through, and you’ll learn everything you need to know to get started in a day. The rest is learning through experience and necessity through your own projects. But even if you don’t know a single thing about Python, this tutorial is easy to follow.

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About the Author

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Bart Veldhuizen

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.

14 Comments

  1. 5ecular4umanist on

    I'm at the early stages of learning Blender and one thing I certainly want to cover is Python scripting, so this tutorial from CGMasters is perfect timing :)   I shall definitely run through the tutorial sometime soon.  Thanks for posting.

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  6. Saverio Venezia on

    A BIT off topic :D but...
    Pleeease ALMIGHTY Bart :) : it is possible a more detailed tagging than "Tutorials"? (e.g. : "Video, Tutorial, Python, Game Engine")The posts are soooo difficult to find...and this is definitely a shame for the best site of the Universe known so far ;D

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  7. Saverio Venezia on

    A BIT off topic :D but...Pleeease ALMIGHTY Bart :) : it is possible a more detailed tagging than "Tutorials"? (e.g. : "Video, Tutorial, Python, Game Engine")The posts are soooo difficult to find...and this is definitely a shame for the best site of the Universe known so far ;D

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  8. Jordi957 on

    unlucky for me, I'm learning several different scripting programs at the moment, so I can't look at python right now,
    but I'll keep this in the bag for later.

    Nice work

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  9. blengine on

    thanks guys, and thanks Bart for plugging this! though a little error in the description, it doesn't show how to create a game character, and the link at the bottom isn't clickable

    Reply

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