It’s over a week ago (May 7) that Blender released a new version: 2.67. I just noticed. Blender Download – Use the Archive version for better compatibility with previous versions. New in this Release Free Style This may seem odd to you, but Blender just got a Free-Style Render Engine that renders non-photorealistic images. See: [...]

Gaia Clary of Machinimatrix.org the home of AVASTAR has a new Release Candidate out: 834. I just installed it. The fix I wanted is not yet in it. Gaia tells me I won’t see that until after the next release. But, there are fixes and improvements. You need your special URL to get the download. [...]

The default Second Life animations have odd pivot points in the animations. If you are using them for import to SL then that is a good thing. If you are trying to use the animations for other purposes, like I am to pose the avatar for weighting clothes, it is a problem. If you import [...]

You will find that the Weight Copy script that many of us have been using with our clothes building doesn’t work in Blender 2.66a. (Some say it does. I’m not sure.) Gaia Clary is not going to be updating the script for newer Blender versions. She doesn’t need to. Blender now has the ‘copy’ function built [...]

When modeling I am often looking for just the right texture. I skip looking for textures in Second Life™ simply because it is too hard to look at what is there. Some Third Party Viewers have better tools for managing textures and there are texture managers for sell in SL and the Market Place. But, [...]

This is a 15 minute video on Dynamic Topology. It shows the difference in how we work with and without it. This tool can be used for adding AND REMOVING polygons. This tutorial also shows using the Symmetry tool that is part of dynamic topology. Once you see the tool in action, you’ll understand how [...]

A new version of Blender came out March 6: 2.66a. You can download Blender here. If you are not using the Archive Version install, save yourself some hassle in the long run and use that install. There are release notes for Blender 2.66a. The notes are mostly about bug fixes. The release notes for Blender [...]

I came across an article on a new way of building 3D virtual worlds. (Thanks Hamlet NWN) Well, may be not so new, it came out in 2011 I think. But, the process, new to me, is being used to create the independent adventure game: Rustclad. The development team has a video out showing the [...]