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V-Ray/Blender integration update

52 Comments Published by Bart on November 19th, 2009 in Toolbox

Andrey Izrantsev's V-Ray/Blender integration script has come a long way. Sebastian König (well known for his Blender video tutorials) reports.

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MakeHuman updates

10 Comments Published by Bart on November 18th, 2009 in Toolbox

MakeHuman is rapidly improving. Here's a quick overview of their latest updates.

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Blender 2.5 and BGE seminar in São Paulo, Nov 14

2 Comments Published by banor on November 13th, 2009 in Conferences, Education

There will be a Blender 2.5 and BGE seminar held at the Alpha Channel CG school on November 14, 2009, in São Paulo, Brazil. Check it out now!

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Developer Meeting Notes (Blender 2.5 Report) 11-08-09

25 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on November 9th, 2009 in 3D News, Blender 2.5, Blender Foundation, Development

1) Current projects

- GE logic editor design proposal was reviewed good so far, Benoit now checks on implementation side of design.

- the iTaSC project now has a final end-user design details wiki page.

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Developer Meeting Notes (Blender 2.5 Report)

44 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on November 1st, 2009 in 3D News, Blender 2.5, Development, Press

Previous week report, from Blender Conference meeting

- Blender 2.5 "beta 0" naming still has some pro/contra discussions… in some aspects it's more like an alpha. Everyone agrees it has to be communicated as a test build when released

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Dynamic Documentation!

38 Comments Published by Bart on October 29th, 2009 in Blender 2.5

During the Blender Conference there was a heated discussion on the topic of Blender documentation. Wray Bowling now reports on a new 2.5 feature that was recently added to easily access documentation for any user interface feature.

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Blender workshops: Greece, Germany, Italy

5 Comments Published by Bart on October 29th, 2009 in Education

Three new Blender workshops have been announced.

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NPR for architectural visualization with Blender 2.50 and FreeStyle

16 Comments Published by Bart on October 28th, 2009 in Tutorials

Allan Brito has published a mini-tutorial on how to use FreeStyle rendering in the current 2.50 builds.

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7 Important discoveries from the 2009 Blender Conference

29 Comments Published by Bart on October 27th, 2009 in Conferences

Andrew Price wrote down the 7 biggest 'discoveries' of the Blender Conference 2009.

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CG Cookie launches Blender Cookie

10 Comments Published by Bart on October 24th, 2009 in 3D News, Education

Videotutorial provider CG Cookie have spun off a Blender-only service earlier this week: Blender Cookie. I talked to Wes Burke about this project.

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New full-time Blender developer: Matt Ebb

56 Comments Published by Bart on October 23rd, 2009 in Blender 2.5

The Blender Foundation have received sponsorship to hire a full-time Blender developer for 9 months to work on Blender 2.5. If the project goes well, they will pay for another period to work on other Blender projects. Ton just announced that Matt Ebb (Blender coding/animation guru) has agreed to fill the position. The sponsoring party remains undisclosed ("but it's not Steve Jobs, don't worry!").

Render Speed Comparison (2.49b VS 2.5)

41 Comments Published by Alex Delderfield (AD-Edge) on October 19th, 2009 in Blender 2.5, Google Summer of Code

Virgilio Vasconcelos has recently compared the render speed of the current version of Blender (2.49) with the latest 2.5 build (svn revision 23930). The render optimizations are thanks to Jaguarandi and his Google summer of code 2009 project. The results are very impressive!

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Blender 2.50 material library – request for submissions

76 Comments Published by Bart on October 16th, 2009 in Blender 2.5

Blender 2.50 will contain a materials library 'out of the box'! That's a very nice feature if you ask me. A call for materials has been posted on the forums.

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Bringing back 2.4x Stuff in Blender 2.5

24 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on October 12th, 2009 in 3D News, Blender 2.5, Development

Ton happily reports the Durian team fully uses 2.5 trunk now! It goes sometimes with pains… but reports have been greatly tackled by Campbell and Brecht

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Blender 2.5 Short Notes from the IRC Session

20 Comments Published by Tim Formica [Room335] on October 4th, 2009 in Blender 2.5, Development

1) 2.5 project issues

- Martin mentioned a keymap design conflict that has to be handled, and suggests a solution for how to combine 'tweaks' (drag mouse) and clicks consistantly.

- Dalai prefers to see more advanced support being added for python script dependencies, like executing a script on changing a variable in the UI. Issue is that this requires an updated dependency graph system, which is not in the first release specs yet. Ton suggests to at least put it on the 2.5 beta2 list, maybe beta1?

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