If you wanted to learn about creating modern computer games, 3DBuzz had some of the best tutorials around. In fact, some of the tutorials about C#, C++, Android, and math would be useful for anyone, while the ones about game art and modeling in Maya are probably mostly for game developers. While these were once available only by subscription, the company — now defunct — has left them available for download via this BitTorrent file.
We don’t know enough about things like Blender and Maya to evaluate the material, but it is well regarded and the ones we do know something about seem very high quality. There are, for example, many videos about C++ and C# that are very professional and cover quite a few topics.
Topics include: AI programming, ASP.net, Blender, iPhone and Android apps, C#, C++, Objective C, Python, OpenGL, HTML and JavaScript, Solidworks, Photoshop, GIMP, Unity, and several game engines like Unreal 4 and Doom 3. There are also quite a few classes on 2D and 3D art as well as related math like trig and vectors.
We don’t know how long the page will remain up, and it has an SSL issue, but to save you some time, here’s a quick way to grab all the ZIP files on a page:
wget -nc -r -np --span-host -l 1 -A zip --no-check-certificate https://3dbuzz.com/index.html
However, as you might expect, the site is overloaded, so expect to not get them all in one swoop. We were surprised they didn’t make them available as torrents. (Update: the site now says downloads are temporarily disabled, but a Reddit user did start a torrent that is missing two small files and a corrected torrent with all the files, but it may not have as many seeds.)
If you want to build games with less fuss, try this tool. Or, maybe you’d rather go old school.
The “download at no cost” link seems to point to an unrelated page.
Speaking of cost, it would be nice if someone would not how big these files actually are.
200+ Gigabytes
It averages at about 500GiB per zip.
It averages at about 500MiB per zip
So kind of what would happen if Udemy went belly up? Torrenting works as long as there are enough seeding (not much fun when there’s you and one seeder).
As much as I love the Avro Arrow, I do also want to see the (former?) download page.
I think the first link is going to the wrong site. It’s sending me to something about fighter jet blueprints?
The Blender series is older and will be for a very different interface. But the modeling skills should be transferable to any software.
Thanks for reporting. I’ve updated the links to announcement and the torrent file.
Yeah Blender actually had a big UI revamp recently. I’m hoping Blender Guru redoes his donut tutorial for the new UI.
He has. It’s good, take a look.
I grabbed a chrome plugin for mass link download and pulled off all the files already! 200gb about 460 zip files. Time to start watching.
What plugin did you use, if you don’t mind sharing?
i hope there will be enough backup for that because it’d be damn shame if this knowledge would got lost.
Anyone else got a link to the torrent? It seems dead now.
They borked the link, just add a .torrent to the end of it https://www.3dbuzz.com/3dbuzz-2020-01-13.torrent
Also, ArchiveTeam got yo back.
https://archive.org/download/buzz3darchivefixed