Text: Blender GLSL Materials

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Quick Instructions

1	Select Blender GLSL Materials User Preference menu >> Game >> Blender GLSL Materials
2	Create a Plane Spacebar >> Add >> Mesh >> Plane or User Preference menu >> Add >> Mesh >> Plane
3	Add UV Texture Buttons Window menu >> Editing (F9) Mesh tab UV Texture New give it a unique name
4	Unwrap UV Texture U key >> UV Calculation Select UV Unwrap method
5	Load a Blender Game Engine Font sheet UV/Image Editor >> Image >> Open
6	Map UV Texture to Font Sheet 3D View Window Plane selected. Edit mode All vertices selected UV/Image Window All vertices selected Map UV Texture to Font Sheet @ only
7	Enable Tex button Button Windows menu >> Editing (F9) Texture Face tab Tex button
8	Enable Text button Button Windows menu >> Editing (F9) Texture Face tab Text button enabled
9	Select Opaque / Add / Alpha / Clip Alpha Button Windows menu >> Editing (F9) Texture Face tab Opaque / Add / Alpha / Clip Alpha buttons Select one
10	Add a material to the Plane Buttons Window menu >> Panels -- Shading (F5) >> Panels -- Material buttons Links and Pipeline tab Link to Object Add New
11	Set Material Alpha to 0.0 Buttons Window menu >> Panels -- Shading (F5) >> Panels -- Material buttons Material tab A slider 0.0
12	Enable ZTransp button Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Material buttons Links and Pipeline tab ZTransp button
13	Enable Shadeless button Buttons Window menu >> Panels -- Shading (F5) >> Panels -- Material buttons Material tab Shadeless button
14	Add a texture to the material Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Texture buttons (F6) Texture tab Select an empty channel Add New
15	Use the Font sheet as the texture Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Texture buttons (F6) Texture tab Texture Type Image Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Texture buttons (F6) Image tab Arrow heads Font Sheet
16	Map Input settings: Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Material buttons Map Input tab UV button UV name
17	Map To settings: Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Material buttons Map To tab Enable Col button Enable Alpha button Colored Text (optional) Enable No RGB button Select Color
18	Colored Text (optional) Buttons Window menu >> Shading (F5) >> Material buttons Map To tab Enable No RGB button Select Color
19	Add Property named Text to Plane Buttons Window menu >> Logic (F4) Add Property Type: String Name: Text Add message
20	Start Game Engine P key or User Preference menu >> Game >> Start Game

The Blender 3D and game engine tutorials were created as a series of step by step instructions and help you create computer games. Use the tutorials to make casual video games, First Person Shooter games, role playing games, racing simulation games and more. Use the tutorials as a self paced learning tool to model and program your own three-dimensional world and then play on your computer.