{"id":1912,"date":"2020-05-08T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2020-08-15T16:46:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T14:46:04","slug":"old-dog-learning-new-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2020\/05\/old-dog-learning-new-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Old dog learning new tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In these &#8220;Stay at home&#8221; times (you are staying at home, right?) your old dog SwitchBL8 is trying to learn new tricks. Unreal Engine 4.25 and inevitably Blender 2.82 tricks, that is. There&#8217;s a ton of free learning material for these free tools (that&#8217;s two occurrences of the word free in one sentence!), but I would like to emphasize the two Youtube channels I&#8217;m using the most. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Unreal Engine I&#8217;m currently following the excellent tutorials made by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCz-eYJAUgSE-mqzKtit7m9g\">Virtus Learning<\/a>, voiced by the friendly Luke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Blender I&#8217;m liking the tutorials from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCOKHwx1VCdgnxwbjyb9Iu1g\">Blender Guru<\/a> a lot. Andrew, a guy with a great smile, and excellent Blender knowledge, creating tutorial videos that are easy to follow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I did, subscribe to both if you&#8217;re new to the tools and need tutorials that are free, good and easy to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now let&#8217;s grab a donut and some coffee, while I set this monkey on fire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"blob:http:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/6c72c0c3-f290-4234-a512-9a088c02c88f\" alt=\"Suzanne on fire\"\/><figcaption>Poor Suzanne!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In these &#8220;Stay at home&#8221; times (you are staying at home, right?) your old dog SwitchBL8 is trying to learn new tricks. Unreal Engine 4.25 and inevitably Blender 2.82 tricks, that is. There&#8217;s a ton of free learning material for these free tools (that&#8217;s two occurrences of the word free in one sentence!), but I <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2020\/05\/old-dog-learning-new-tricks\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[149,147,56,148,150,146],"class_list":["post-1912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-blender","tag-free","tag-game-development","tag-learning","tag-unreal","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}