3Delight is a fast RenderMan-compliant renderer featuring multi-threading, ray tracing, global illumination, motion blur, depth of field, programmable shaders (RenderMan Shading Language support), quality antialiasing, and antialiased multi-depth shadow maps. Continue Reading 'Blender to 3Delight Export Script' »

Welcome to the third appointment with Blender CVS development overview; since you are all probably used to this kind of article, I’ll leave out all the cerimonials and go directly to the list of new features/improvements that the CVS official repository is actually storing.

As always, sit back and relax, the list is long to read ;-) Ready? Let’s go then.

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Hi all, I’m back at home in Portugal, it is always great to come back after a long fun journey to see things haven’t changed much, but I myself, on the other hand, have. Now I am packed with some more knowledge :) .

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When I was playing with blogging for the first time in January I wrote ‘..we’ll see where this goes :-)’. Well, it certainly went somewhere! Here’s a short overview of where we are today.

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Minor update to Blend2Pov released as 0.0.6a.

With the premiere of Elephants Dream approaching, the media are really starting to pick up the news. Today, an interview with Ton Roosendaal appeared on the frontpage of ‘Het Financieele Dagblad‘, one of the leading Dutch financial newspapers.

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Free software is a great thing as long as it enables us to keep our hands on tools that otherwise would be impossible to try/learn/use (mainly for economical resons), but sometimes free contents created for/with such tools are even more usefull since they supply us with something that can be used as a template for our projects; when those contents are high quality ones they become a great educational resource, and this is the case for CuteBear, a fully rigged character created by Tommy Helgevold (aka Joongle) and released on elYsiun for the pleasure of all the animators-wanna-be around here.

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Blend2Pov 0.0.6 has been released for Windows and Linux and is now integrated into Blender! See the thread for download information.

The third issue of Blenderart Magazine is now available for download. Once again it is filled with top-notch articles and art; I am deeply impressed by this initiative. Kudos to everyone involved!

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Illusoft has released their Collada 1.4 import/export script version 0.1 (released March 19th, 2006) for Blender. The the site also has a forum and bugtracker for users to post questions and report issues.