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  • Introduction to Smoke Simulation
    Blender Guru - 2010-02-14 23:31:31

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few months, you’ve probably heard about this new feature called the smoke simulator. But what is it? Why is everyone getting so excited over it? This tutorial will answer all your questions from a beginners perspective.

    During the 27-minute video you will learn:

    • The Old System Vs New – What’s changed?
    • How the Smoke Simulator works
    • How to bake and render realistic smoke
    • A behind the scenes look at creating a smoking city

    Ready? Lets begin…

    Watch it in HD!

    I originally gave this presentation at the 2009 Blender Conference. The presentation included creations from other users, a short demonstration of smoke in action and a slideshow. Since that time there have been massive developements in smoke simulation so consider my video a revised edition.

    Smoke Presentation

    Do you have any tips or tricks for using the smoke simulator? Share your experiences in the comments below!

  • What Does Your Brain Crave?
    Blender Tutorials Downloads Videos & Education - Blender Cookie - 2010-02-14 22:16:17

    Jonathan and I meet just about every week for a couple hour long Skype call. Usually on our punch list is to discuss lesson goals and topics, how can we bring new things to the site, and to see how each others dogs are doing. Both of us realized that our education topic lists are starting [...]

    http://blendercookie.com
  • Bringing back old features: copy menu
    tube - 2010-02-14 21:53:13

    Missing in current builds of blender 2.5 is the venerable ctrl-c ‘Copy Attributes’ menu, that copies attributes from active to selected objects (or bones in pose mode). Partially because I miss the functionality, and partially to start learning the new (awesome!) py api, I took some time to try bringing the menu back, both for pose mode and edit mode. The result can be seen here:

    copy menu in blender 2.5

    Missing some options (I'm lazy)


    It was remarkably simple to add, just a couple of operators (one for the object mode, one for the pose mode) and a couple of menus to call the operator with the right option. I’m sure a bit more familiarity with the API could result in even less code for this. You can download the script here , save it in your scripts folder, then make the following changes to your keymap:

    You need to bind ctrl-c to invoke two seperate menus, one for object and one for pose mode


    add a new hotkey and bind to ctrl-c for the object mode menu


    pose already has ctrl-c bound, just rebind it to the menu


    The script is licensed under the GNU GPL V2 or higher, feel free to change it, use it, etc. etc…
    thanks to crouch and Loolarge for python examples on blenderartists.org, and thanks to ideasman42 for help and documentation of the api (and in a big part creating it)

  • Bits of Blender - #42 Soft Bodies
    Art + Logic - 2010-02-14 16:25:00



    Richard and I have just completed another episode of Bits of Blender. This one is on soft bodies in Blender.

    YouTube
    blip.tv
    vimeo

    We now show up in the search in iTunes. You can search for "Bits of Blender" or "Nyquist Art + Logic" to find the Bits.


  • The King’s death
    Akta's Way - Blog - 2010-02-14 12:40:40

    This is just a quick post after a long time where I want to share with you my latest render done with Blender + LuxRender. I’m not very familiar with Lux, so it has been quite a good exercise for me! :D
    I’ll come back to you soon with some new fancy experiment with Blender and augmented reality, so stay tuned!
    Here you go with the render, “The King’s death”

  • Blender developer meeting minutes, february 7, 2010
    BlenderNation - 2010-02-14 12:10:03

    Last week’s developer meeting notes were still sitting in my inbox. Oops! Ton Roosendaal writes: Current projects FFMPG was in svn still, with some of our patches. This is not needed anymore, and will get removed from svn (martin?). [FFMPG is an external library and it has been decided it should no longer be in the Blender svn [...]
  • Big Buck Bunny Butterfly Valentine
    BlenderNation - 2010-02-14 10:27:58

    Use BBB’s Butterfly and an on-line Blender service to create an image for Valentine’s day. It doesn’t render an animation or send e-cards, but it’s still a lot of fun to play around with. Paul Fitzpatrick wrote: You can use Blender online to put your beloved’s picture on the wings of a butterfly for Valentine’s day. If you [...]
  • Twitter: 2010-02-14
    mke3.net - Matt Ebb - lighting/shading/td/code - 2010-02-14 03:31:00

    • last day in sapporo, flying to hiroshima today. cold, fun, great food! snow sculptures looking a bit melty though #
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