Second Life and Virtual Worlds
A new bug fix release is out. This version has 69 bugs fixed. I hadn’t found a one of them… See: Blender 2.78a fixes 69 bugs. 2.78a Release Notes.
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.
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.
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.
There is a video that shows how to use a Blender feature for unwrapping models to UV maps in real time. Pretty neat…
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 … Read more
There is an interesting tutorial out for Blender 2.78 showing how to make a 360 VR image.