What you need for this book

The only piece of software necessary for the recipes of this book is the last official 2.73 Blender release (version 2.73a, with several bug fixes, is already out). You need to download it from www.blender.org/download/get-blender. Any particular texture needed for the exercises in the book is provided as a free download on the Packt Publishing website itself.

An image editor is not essential, but it can be handy if you want to adapt your own textures to replace the provided textures. I advise you to try the GIMP, an open source image editor that you can download from www.gimp.org. Any other editor that you prefer is also fine.