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Blender Creator V2.2 Blender V2.2x
NaN Technologies B.V., the Netherlands
----- GENERAL INFORMATION ----- ----- GENERAL INFORMATION -----
Blender Creator is a free and fully functional 3D modeling, rendering, Blender is a free and fully functional 3D modeling, rendering, animation and
animation and game creation package for Unix and Windows. game creation package for Unix and Windows. Blender is distributed with sources
Blender Creator is distributed without sources, it is exclusively as well, these should be included at the same location as where you obtained
developed and maintained by the Dutch company NaN Technologies B.V. a copy of this software.
This software is free to be applied for any purpose, excluding commercial Blender is free to be applied for any purpose, including commercial
distribution. For more about this, read the copyright notice included usage and distribution. For more about this, read the copyright notice included
in the download file. in the download file.
The best resource for getting to know Blender is of course 'The official
Blender 2.0 guide'. This wonderfully designed 250 pages book contains
tutorials, examples and a complete description of every aspect of the
interface.
You can visit the shop page of the Blender site for more about this:
http://www.blender.nl/shop/
More information about Blender can be found at: More information about Blender can be found at:
- The website - The product website
http://www.blender3d.org
http://www.blender.nl - The artist/coder community website
http://www.blender.org
- The beginners page - The development website
http://projects.blender.org
http://www.blender.nl/support/beginners.php
- The Support Pages
http://www.blender.nl/support/
- The frequently asked questions
http://www.blender.nl/support/faq/index.php
- Tutorials
Good tutorials to start with are 'User Interface' and
'Navigating in 3D Space' and 'The Blender Windows'
http://www.blender.nl/search_item.php?part=tutorial
- The Blender news-server: to post questions and contact other users
http://www.blender.nl/discussion/index.php
And of course, documentation can be purchased in our e-shop:
http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/
Thank you for getting Blender, I hope you will enjoy using it. Thank you for getting Blender, I hope you will enjoy using it.
Ton Roosendaal Ton Roosendaal
NaN Technologies B.V. chairman Blender Foundation
info@blender.org
http://www.blender.nl
support@blender.nl

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1 Blender Creator license This version of Blender has been originally released at www.blender.org.
2 Independent JPEG Group license For more information please review the Blender source code distribution,
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4 GLUT license this version.
5 OpenAL license
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