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Article submitted by Chris Want. Freshman university student (and well-known Blender coder) Joshua Leung from New Zealand participated in the 2009 Google Summer of Code program (GSoC). His goal: to rewrite Blender's Non-Linear Animation (NLA) system for Blender 2.5. Joshua has reached and surpassed his goal, with the guidance of his mentor, Matt Ebb, and his work has been merged into the Blender 2.5 branch.
Blender Smoke Simulation Update
29 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on September 8th, 2009 in Blender 2.5
Over at Blender Development we're starting to see some interesting videos as people test out the new smoke system being developed by Daniel Genrich for the 2.5 release. If you haven't been keeping an eye on the main blog, then here's a roundup of the latest developments.
Here's a teaser video of the new 'disconnect' feature of Jahka's particles. It allows you to disconnect/reconnect particle systems from their emitter mesh so you can change the geometry.
Blender Developers Meeting Notes
17 Comments Published by Bart on September 7th, 2009 in Development
2.49… done. Next action item: 2.5!
Published by Michael Fox
Blender 2.49b was released earlier today. 2.49b is a bugfix release and but also contains some new functionality.
Tech Preview: Mechanical Sketch Drawing
37 Comments Published by Bart on September 3rd, 2009 in Development
Jason LaDere has started a Blender to Java port as a personal learning project. So far, he claims that basic functionality is already working (unconfirmed, as it doesn't run on OSX yet). I must say that I have serious doubts about the usefulness of a Java version of Blender (maintaining it would be a hell of a job), BUT I do think it's a tribute to the spirit of Open Source. What's your opinion?
Today's Developers meeting notes: 2.49b release around the corner? Blender 2.5 update, Durian feature list and Durian community involvement update.
Another tasty preview of Janne Karhu's [Jakha] upcoming point cache editing tools for Blender 2.5. As of now, you can not only edit/comb particle systems, but also soft body and cloth simulations. Stop drooling, please.
Durian: Blender Development Targets
20 Comments Published by Bart on August 27th, 2009 in Development, Durian
During their first week-long workshop, the Durian team have gone over the requirements for new/improved Blender functionality. Brecht did a write-up on the Durian blog.
Things were hectic at the Blender Foundation this week with the arrival of the Durian team. Still, Ton managed to list the most important issues for you.
Google Summer of Code: Faster Ray Tracing
23 Comments Published by Bart on August 20th, 2009 in Google Summer of Code
Chris Want reports on the impressive improvements in Blender's ray tracer by André Susano Pinto.
Continue Reading 'Google Summer of Code: Faster Ray Tracing' »
Editing non-hair particles – teaser
24 Comments Published by Bart on August 18th, 2009 in Development
Jahkawrites on the Jahka Particles blog:
First non-hair particles have been edited in particle mode. It's all still buggy as hell, but I've got a feeling it's going to be quite nice :)
The Meeting notes of Sunday August 16, 2009
Did the latest releases make Blender any faster? It's time for an update – participate in the Blender Render Benchmark and find out!
Pyppet for Blender Update
28 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on August 12th, 2009 in 3D News, Development
Pyppet 1.0 is nearly finished with development, I am fixing the final bugs now and adding the last few features.
Blender developers gather on IRC every Sunday to discuss 'decisions, actions or progress reporting' in Blender development. The notes are published on the developers mailinglist. Ton has offered to make sure that these notes are readable for non-devs as well from now on. We'll publish them here on BN every Monday morning.
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