Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sintel Launch Party

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While we’re all waiting for the release of Sintel, everybody is gathering on the IRC at the Sintel Launch Party. From the Durian blog:

We’re working to get this out as soon as possible.

Join the waiting and after party with the Durian crew!

We’ll be at #blenderdurian on IRC (FreeNode). You can also join the party via: http://graphicall.org/sintel/

Thank you all community, you’re awesome. Let’s raise the hype!
An extremely excited Durian Team

Packt’s ebook discount offer on 2 Blender books

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fiammybe writes:

Packt Publishing is doing a special offer on two Blender 2.49 eBooks : “Blender 2.49 scripting” together with “Blender 3D 2.49 Incredible Machines“. You get 50% of both ebooks when bought together.

Just add them both to the shopping cart, and give ‘b249ebk’ as promotion code during checkout. Just make sure you get the ebooks and not the old-fashioned paper ones.

Both books were reviewed on Blendernation before: scripting, incredible machines.

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Super Knife! Cool New BMesh commit.

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Joseph Eagar logs:

Implemented a new “super knife“. Activate with k. Holding CTRL will allow extended cutting ala old lines mode. Confirm with enter and escape. You cannot cancel, btw, you can only confirm (and undo later if you want). Hopefully I’ll support undo within the tool soon.

  • Supports cutting edges, into faces, etc. You can pretty much do whatever you want. Will snap to vertices too.
  • Note that if you cut into a face, it must be valid topologically when you press enter to confirm.
  • It’s pretty and graphical :)
  • You can only cut visible geometry.
  • UVs/vcols are a little buggy still

Now, thou shalt all cease and desist all lack of motivation for
testing! No longer shall users put off testing until “it’s cooler”!

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