A new bug fix release is out. This version has 69 bugs fixed. I hadn’t found a one of them…
Blender
Blender: How to mouse wheel values…
I came across this tip revealing a feature in Blender I suspect most of us don’t know.
Now if I can remember this it will be handy.
Second Life: Project Bento Update 2016 w42
We got a new Bento RC viewer this week. I was using it to video this meeting. In the first part of the meeting Vir Linden updates us on fixes to the viewer and its remaining problems.
Index
00:00 – The first 40 seconds have no sound because no one was talking. So, I sped up the video and shrunk 3+ minutes down to 40 seconds. Later in the video you’ll see silent parts of the video speed up.
Blender Interesting
There is a video that shows how to use a Blender feature for unwrapping models to UV maps in real time.
Pretty neat…
AvaStar Update 2016 w41
Some of us have been wondering what all is going on with AvaStar. We know they are adding support for the new Bento avatar. I had heard people ask for Developer Kit support. So, if you have wanted to make things that fit Slink, Belleza, Maitreya, and other mesh bodies you had to figure out how to integrated the kit to the AvaStar system. Looks like that is a problem that will go away.
Gaia Clary, Machinimatrix, has a promotional video out:
devkits from The Machinimatrix on Vimeo.
Gaia keeps doing this, restricting where the video can be embedded. For a promotional video it is silly. It sucks. But, you can click and jump to the video.
The current alpha, beta, whatever version of AvaStar is: avastar-2.0-23_blender-2-77. The main production version is: avastar-1.7-2_blender-2-77.
Have you seen AvaStar.online?
Blender 360 VR
There is an interesting tutorial out for Blender 2.78 showing how to make a 360 VR image.