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New version of Blender-aid fixes missing links
Blender-aid is a tool that helps you manage Blender productions. Blender focuses on the creation of content. Blender-aid focuses on managing the content of a production. The new version adds support for fixing missing links, and offers a…
January 30 2010, 7:38am | Comments »
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GPU Rendering with LuxRender is coming!
The processors of modern videocards (GPU’s – Graphical Processing Units) are SO powerful, that they’re much faster at rendering than CPUs. Here are the first results of a test project that introduces GPU rendering in LuxRender. If they…
January 28 2010, 4:43am | Comments »
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Indigo (a commercial render with a Blender export script) has received an upgrade that claims to speed up renderings with 100%. From their announcement: We are pleased to announce that we have released the latest version of our…
January 19 2010, 5:48am | Comments »
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LuxRender v0.6.1 contains a handfull of fixes. The team have also committed to more frequent updates. LuxRender v0.6.1 is out with various fixes to the previous v0.6 version: lots of network rendering fixes some crash fixes fix bump…
December 21 2009, 3:40am | Comments »
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Square Polygon – 3D Problems, Questions & Answers
Square Polygon is a new question and answer site for 3d and visualisation professionals. Tom wrote: If you and have ever had a problem trauling through forum pages trying to find the answer to a question about 3d…
December 8 2009, 2:06am | Comments »
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Blender++ is a cross-platform network render manager for Blender. Marco Rapino wrote: Hi! I'm happy to announce that Blender++ 1.2 has been released! For those who don't know what Blender++ is, please just check it out here. Even…
December 2 2009, 8:00am | Comments »
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Turn your webcam into a 3D scanner
Several people reported this: Cambridge University Qi Pan is developing software that will reconstruct textured 3D models from webcam video. A Linux and later a Windows downloadable demo should be available in a couple of months. The results…
November 28 2009, 6:41am | Comments »
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Inkscape 0.47 has been released, and it has an insane amount of new/improved features. Cool job, guys! From their website: After over a year of intensive development and refactoring, Inkscape 0.47 is out. This version of the SVG-based…
November 27 2009, 12:00am | Comments »
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Blender to After Effects export script
Here's a script that exports Blender animation information to Adobe After Effects. It comes with a videotutorial. Rounin wrote: Just wanted to give a heads up to an updated version of Thomas Volkmann script. Bartek Skorupa update his…
November 24 2009, 6:05am | Comments »
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Open Source Normal Map Generator
SSbump is an open source normal map generator. Pure_bordem wrote: Seeing as a lot of people used Crazy Bump (myself included) but it went commercial some time ago, I tripped across this awesome open source software SSbump Generator.…
November 20 2009, 6:00am | Comments »
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V-Ray/Blender integration update
Andrey Izrantsev's V-Ray/Blender integration script has come a long way. Sebastian König (well known for his Blender video tutorials) reports. Sebastian writes: Hey there! I am going to do a bit yellow press and introduce to you the…
November 19 2009, 7:41am | Comments »
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MakeHuman is rapidly improving. Here's a quick overview of their latest updates. Abhishek Gupta <abhifx@gmail.com> wrote: Just like the new upcoming Blender 2.50, MakeHuman is also going through huge changes. Some of the features to wet the appetite:…
November 18 2009, 2:02pm | Comments »
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Yafaray Update: Development version 0.1.2
The new Yafaray 0.1.2 version is coming up and the current development version already reveals a few of the new features. Abhishek Gupta wrote: The latest development version of yafaray's upcoming version 0.1.2 now supports blender's static particles…
November 17 2009, 3:11pm | Comments »
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PasteAll now supports pictures
The popular Blender clipping/.blend file storage service PasteAll.org now supports picture uploads! Nathan Letwory writes: For some time we worked on a new Pasteall.org service, one that everybody will like. You can already paste text (with syntax colouring)…
November 7 2009, 6:00am | Comments »
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Blender-aid helps manage Blender productions
Is your Blender production turning into a spiderweb of linked libraries? Blender-aid can help. Jeroen Bakker wrote: During the blender conference we launched a tool that can help Blender users with their production and Blend files. We got…
October 28 2009, 6:00am | Comments »