Planet Blender

Emulate Numpad
harkyman.com - 2009-10-07 22:22:19

I’ve been using my laptop a lot lately, and the lack of Emulate Numpad in 2.5 is killing me. While I try to figure out how to have the keymap change on-the-fly to follow the user preference, I just went into the appropriate op file in the editors directory and changed them directly. I don’t use the key commands for layer display all that often, so it’s not loss on the laptop. My own private compile with “emulate numpad” hard-baked. I’m going to spend a little time on it this weekend and try to get the user pref to work properly, but until then this will do.

Edit: If you’re interested in patching your own for working on a laptop, click here to get it. Remember, this isn’t a permanent solution.

graphicall: GSoC: OGL Display optimization now in trunk! Congrats imbusy! [23615]
Twitter / graphicall - 2009-10-07 14:44:24

graphicall: GSoC: OGL Display optimization now in trunk! Congrats imbusy! [23615]

Sequence Made for TV Show Klaas Vaak
BlenderNation - 2009-10-07 13:09:58

We recently delivered a 3d sequence made in Blender for a new TV show on Dutch television for the Eftleng Efteling (a large Dutch theme park). Our work was a 30sec and 10sec 3d sequence created 100% in Blender for the intro and outro sequence of a live action TV show called Klaas Vaak, about a [...]

GIANT MOCAP!!
CG系blog - 2009-10-07 12:47:17

TKです。
先月海外研修に行ってきました。
以下、画像が続きます。

LiveWriter frustrations, but Sci-fi special at New Scientist includes fiction and other goodies
Starbright Illustrations (blog) - 2009-10-07 11:22:13

I love Windows LiveWriter for writing my posts about my experiences learning and using Blender, but it’s never worked well for me. Today I wanted to take a few minutes and post a progress report about my latest work in Blender (a strange 2D, 3D animation hybrid), but LiveWriter repeatedly failed to upload the fantastic and interesting post I had prepared about these 3D shenanigans (In the end it took five upload attempts). Instead of quickly posting and then getting on with doing something 3Dish and creative I’ve been nerding about on the internet with Google looking for bug fixes – again.

That’s so annoying.

I suppose I might be having problems today because Yahoo, my blog provider, is meant to be upgrading my WordPress version – but I doubt it. I blame Microsoft. I’m tired of using their pretty, but buggy stuff and it’s time to either fix it once and for all or try something else.

And it seems I’m not alone. Fix For Problems between Windows Live Writer and Wordpress — MindTWEAKS talks about this very problem, and claims to have a solution. I was very brave and messed with the code, like geek girl suggests. It didn’t help, LiveWriter is still very unreliable, but a comment on her site led me to Blogdesk less pretty but more stable, apparently.

Blogdesk failed to set up my blog and every time I opened it it tried to configure Word. Very strange behaviour. I decided to give BlogJet, the other suggestion in the comment, a try instead. I rolled up to their website and it turned out that you actually have to part with money to get the software.

So maybe I’ll either fiddle with BlogDesk and get it working, or – gulp, sound of swallowing pride – I’ll stick with LiveWriter after all.

p.s.

  I’ve always been a big fan of New Scientist. I love reading their stories as inspiration for science fiction role playing game scenarios and 3D meshes, illustrations and animations. Now they have printed some fiction, and it’s well worth a look Sci-fi special: The fiction of now – New Scientist.

There we go, this annoying post now has a happy ending.

Hand and Finger Modeling Tutorial
BlenderNation - 2009-10-07 02:57:18

Kursad wrote: "I have made couple tutorials covering basic points about modelling a finger and hands in general. These are the first part of the actual hand modelling tutorial which I will prepare next week . There might be some slight audio issues that I am hoping to fix next week as [...]

Happy Flare-tuesday
mike's digital anthology - 2009-10-07 02:21:04

Inspired by JJ Abram’s ridiculous liberal use of lens flare in Star Trek, I’ve been messing with flares on my own time.  Using a basic dSLR and with various lenses at different aperture settings…

Canon EF 100mm F2 @ F22

EF 50mm F1.4

You’ll notice the shape of the flare is very different for different lenses, and also the aperture size(F-stop setting) plays a big part in defining the shape of the flare as well.  In general, large f-number(F22) gives a more defined star-burst shape to the flare, while a small f-number (F1.4) gives a softer looking flare.

Anamorphic lens flares, which looks ‘cooler’ in my opinion, are harder to reproduce on a regular consumer camera because they require special anamorphic lenses.