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- Blender to 3Delight Export Script
3Delight is a fast RenderMan-compliant renderer featuring multi-threading, ray tracing, global illumination, motion blur, depth of field, programmable shaders (RenderMan Shading Language support), quality antialiasing, and antialiased multi-depth shadow maps.
- Libre Graphics Meeting: Summing Things Up
Hi all, I'm back at home in Portugal, it is always great to come back after a long fun journey to see things haven't changed much, but I myself, on the other hand, have. Now I am packed with some more knowledge :). - 50/60's styled toon contest
Guys at BlenderProjects.com chose a very original topic for their first contest which is being sponsored by directron.com, the challenge deals with toons in the style of 1950's or 1960's ones and focuses mainly on modeling and materials settings. - 3D - No Plugins
If you want to create embedded interactive 3D graphics for websites with Blender, then check out 3DNP (3D - No Plugins). - Fur Library
Jason Pierce has posted a nice library of furs on Elysiun. They are all made by combining static particle systems with clever material settings. Static particles are a particle system that are 'frozen in time' so that you can see the full particle trajectory at any frame of the animation. By setting the right perturbation and gravity you can create some pretty convincing hair or fur effects. - Blender to Lightwave Motion File Script v1.0
Daniel Salazar (ZanQdo) has posted a script on elysiun that exports an object's Loc, Rot, and Size channels to a Lightwave motion file (.mot). You can find the script at http://www.3developer.com/temp/LightwaveMotionExporter.py. The .mot format can be used in many different applications (including Lightwave (obviously), WorldBuilder and Vue) making this another useful tool that helps incorporate Blender into your production pipeline. - Blender Animation Classics - "Beagle"
In the collective conscience of the Blender Nation there will always be great works that show that Blender can do the job, and do it well. Today lets take the time to view a animation triumph not only for Blender but for a well-known dog and the Rebellion! - Bake Materials Into UV Textures
Baking materials consists of taking effects generated when an image or movie is rendered and store these effects in a UV texture. Currently, in Blender 2.41, this is not an in-built feature. But fear not! BRayBaker is the right tool for the job. - Videotutorial: Blender Tricks
WhiteBoy has published a 20-minute video tutorial called 'Blender Tricks' that explains more than 25 Blender techniques. - Rules of Camera Tracking
Computer Arts has a free tutorial in pdf form entitled "The Rules of Camera Tracking." It's more of a tips and tricks of camera tracking, and though it makes mention of some commercial software, the overall guidance is sound. - Lightsabre tutorials
This month, two mini tutorials were published on Elysiun on how to make a lightsabre in Blender. - ScriptUI: Give your scripts a nice GUI the easy way
Recently I became interested in writing Python scripts for Blender (being the new maintainer of the Kerkythea exporter I needed to get a little training), I'm amazed by the control level supplied by the API, handling/creating objects/materials, modifying meshes/IPO curves, building/animating full scenes is almost straightforward (at least for any mid-level C/C++/Java/C# programmer), creating a script of average complexity is really a matter of minutes… at the pact of sticking to "Alt+P" scripts.
About the Author
Bart Veldhuizen I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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2 Comments
I really love these articles - they remind of all the things I wanted to try or investigate further in Blender. Perhaps I will get around to script writing one of these days.
Wow! That Blender Tricks article is great!