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While designed for speed and ease of use, the Blender interface can be daunting for new users. One of the reasons for this is that is is largely hotkey-driven. Once you have these keys ‘in your fingers’ you’ll be able to use Blender like a true 3D Ninja, but until then you’re in for a steep learning curve. Here’s a bit of documentation that may be of help.
Alienhelpdesk Scripts Updated
0 Comments Published by Eugene (etr9j) on July 19th, 2006 in Python Scripts
Alienhelpdesk is a well known site that houses numerous Blender scripts, including Caliper and BRayBaker, though you have to see the comprehensive list to really appreciate the many useful scripts you can find in one place.
For those new to Blender, YafRay is a free, open source ray tracing program integrated into Blender. There has been lots of talk about where YafRay was headed (due to the slow development in the past months), but I think this release shows that YafRay is certainly not dead.
Just What Does It Take To Comp a Shot?
4 Comments Published by admin on July 18th, 2006 in Tutorials
The new node-based Compositor was used in Elephants Dream to composite the stunning visuals. Now that Blender 2.42 has been released, everyone can use it and I figured it would be nice to provide some background reading on the subject.
Transform Limiting Constraints Test Build
8 Comments Published by Eugene (etr9j) on July 17th, 2006 in Development
Given that with release and announcing of Blender 2.42 we likely have a great deal of new Blenderheads visiting BN, I was at first wondering if this post would be okay (since a new build might be confusing with the official release just happening). But the beauty of opensource is the ability for the community to contribute. In that spirit, just before the arrival of 2.42 and soon after, Joshua Leung (aligorith) was busy adding even more to Blender… three new constraints. He’s already posted a test build incorporating his patch on graphicall. If the 2.42 features have brought you to the very edge of excitement, then these three constraints will certainly tip you over it.
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Blender Game Engine course in Belfast: July 31st-August 4th
7 Comments Published by admin on July 17th, 2006 in 3D News, Community, Education, People
Mal Duffin from CanDo Interactive will be hosting a weeklong course on learning the Blender Game Engine in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from the 31st of July to the 4th of August.
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Creating Static Shadows for the Blender Game Engine
21 Comments Published by admin on July 16th, 2006 in Tutorials
Are you looking for a way to add extra realism to your interactive Blender projects? Andrew West describes a way to create accurate static shadows by processing a screenshot.
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After almost one month of testing, the Blender Foundation and all the developers in our community have done it: Blender 2.42 sees the daylight today.
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