Look out everyone, we are on the verge of the next great Blender release. After the CVS freeze shortly after our last report, the cvs has been filled everyday with bug fixes. The freeze means that nothing new should be added, but there are on occassion a few commits that are just a little more than bug fixes.
Recently, Jason “Groo†Van Gumster (Fweeb) announced on BA that he had been working with cmiVFX on a 3 hour training DVD for Blender entitled “Advanced Fluid Dynamics In Blender.†Thanks to cmiVFX, BlenderNation got a look at the DVD. Read on to see if we help you answer the question, at $60 USD, is the video worth it?
Need some real looking explosions for your next cinematic masterpiece? Then this is the site for you.
Jon McKay (Ammusionist) has posted a pdf on BA about creating an eyeball. Been there, done that you say? Think again. Jon breathes new life into creating an old favorite.
We posted a while back about a script for bringing in chemical structures that are in the standard pdb (protein data bank) format into Blender. After several months Malte Reimold (intermalte) has updated the script.
With the availability of release candidate 1, we’re getting that much closer to the final release of the much anticipated Blender 2.43.
Mark Theriault has written a neat script for Max users to take Blender fluid sims and bring them into Max.
**Looks like we got this one wrong and I personally blew it. It seems that BMR hasn’t moved, but is just off-line temporarily. The site I link to here is a private site NOT BMR. Sorry for the mis-information, we got a bit confused! I sincerely apologize to katorlegaz.com for all the trouble I’ve caused. From Andrew Kator:
While we appreciate the attention to our models from this post, I must point out (as has Bill) that our site is *not* the new BMR. At the top of the models page, above the licensing: “The Blender 3D Model Repository has moved, with a new version of the community archive hosted by new owners. Please change your bookmarks accordingly.” The community archive, meaning an archive of models created by people other than us, has moved. Unfortunately, the “new” BMR was hacked in early December. The last public communication from the new owners was that they would try to have the new BMR back ASAP. From our past experience from hosting the BMR, it is not a simple process to keep hackers and other problems at bay. I am sure that when the new BMR is back online, it will be better capable of handling the communities needs.
Let’s face it, a good material can make even a cube look amazing. This tutorial will show you how to make just such a material.
You might recall the one small step for Blender which was the incorporation of MentalRay support in a build by RCRuiz. Well now comes the giant leap of Blender2MentalRay 0.0.3.
