A new version of this nice script is out, here’s a short changelog:
You can download it here. If you don’t know what it is all about read the full article.
… time to take a break and go on vacation. No, it’s not about me being an alcoholic under stress, it’s simpy the Big and Ugly Rendering Project team informing us that all the testing sessions and related services (support, website, etc.) are going to be put on idle for a little amount of time.
The creator of the Blender Library script, Mariano Hidalgo, did it again, a new amazing script is ready to be downloaded from his site, it’s name says it all: Materializer.
The last time I’ve written this kind of article (preview of a really promising game under development) that didn’t had an happy ending (too bad, it was a really good looking game); three months later time to write something about Club SILO (CS from now on) has come and hopefully, since the game is in an advanced phase of development, this time we’ll see the finished product (I feel a little like Tutankamon, I’ve to admit it).
IpoDrivers are one of the less exploited feature of the new ones packed in the previous version of Blender (2.40) although it could be a powerful tool and a real time saver when it comes to complex animations, this is mainly due to the difficulty in understanding what they really are, how they can be used and in which scenarios they are more handy.
This one was really an unexpected surprise; those of you guys who follow the development related mailing lists (Bf-committers and Bf-blender-cvs) know that the end of the Orange “affair” and the discussions about this year’s Google Summer of Code proposal made the development slow down considerably, in this fermenting scene nearly noone noticed two small commitments from Ianwill (aka William Padovani Germano) which make the PyDrivers dream come true.
Those of us who spend most of their community life wondering on Elysiun’s forums in search of the latest news/infos/projects/tutorials have aknowledged for sure the change, now if you try to reach www.elysiun.com you’ll be instantaneously redirected to the brand new Blenderartist.org forums; but don’t worry, all the preciuos old contents will still be there for the joy of the nostalgic ones and the future generations of BlenderHeads.
A new version of the Blender PocketPC porting is available on the BlenderCE Blog, now modelling, texturing, lightning, rendering, animating, the raytracer and the radiosity solver are backed in, what’s more load/save operations are finally possible.
Since Yafray development seems to be frozen anyone got interested in finding a good external GI renderer to be used as a real alternative; actually there are a few options, most of them are in a early stage of development, only two of them are good for production level: the first is Pov-Ray, which can be used with Blender 2.41 thanks to RCRuiz’s custom builds, the second one, which I’m using in my daily workflow, is Kerkythea, a commercial quality renderer which boasts a straightforward standalone GUI and different GI solvers.
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This is the title of an interesting series of tutorials released by Daniel Sefton on