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Blender Tutorial: Recovery

2016/04/08 by Nalates Urriah

Blender has some safety nets. If you have ever lost work from a crash, forgetting to save, or saving over a file you wanted to keep… then this video is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ot0j8W2XE

Blender Materials Source

2016/04/07 by Nalates Urriah

I see a new site offering inexpensive materials for use in Blender. Of course there is the question of whether those materials can be used in Second Life. It looks like they can and cannot… I’ll explain.

A Blender Material is very different than the materials we use in Second Life™. In SL we use different textures for the diffuse, specular, and normal layers along with a few settings. In Blender a material is a collection of textures and settings that work ONLY inside Blender. There are way more settings in Blender than in SL. The two material formats are incompatible. So, the material as sold is unusable in SL.

Blender 2.77 Released

2016/04/042016/04/04 by Nalates Urriah

March 19, 2016 Blender™ released the latest version 2.77. I’m just noticing the update. I haven’t tried to install AvaStar yet. I have a another project in progress. So, let me know if you have tried it.

Blender 2.77 - 3/19/2016 — Blender 2.77 – 3/19/2016

The noted changes are:

Second Life: Project Bento Update Week 13

2016/04/01 by Nalates Urriah

Again I didn’t make it to the Bento meeting. Inara did and has her coverage and some audio here: Project Bento User Group update 10 with audio.

Last week a new project viewer was released, version 5.0.0.313150. This has bone changes and some bones’ name changes. While it is hoped this is the last change to the skeleton, work on attaching Appearance Sliders to the bones may show a need for additional changes.

Second Life: Handy Blender Add-ons

2016/02/29 by Nalates Urriah

I found some Blender Add-ons that have been around for a while. I’m just seeing them. I list them after the video. I see ways to use some of them with my Second Life™ creations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihrQU4LNtC0 UV Squares – As you saw in the video some surfaces/shapes just don’t unwrap the way we would like. … Read more

Second Life: Project Bento Update Week 2

2016/01/15 by Nalates Urriah

Inara has an update from the last meeting that looks complete and has audio from the meeting. See: Project Bento User Group update 2 with audio. She has broken the audio clips up by topic, which is handy.

For those short on time, the meat from the meeting: