Blender

Blender 2.72a Released

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Blender 2,72a is out and it has a bug. So, we’ll likely see 2.72b release on Tuesday. The bug is a crash caused by trying to paint on a surface that does not yet have a UVMap. You can read the Developer Notes to see what is going on. Download Blender 2.72a. Find out what … Read more

Blender Tricks & Developer Notes

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5 Little Known Tricks in Blender’s Outliner This is an interesting tutorial on using the Blender outliner. See 5 Tricks for the original post. Blender Developer Notes Blender developers meet to discuss which directions to take Blender and which features to prioritize and schedule for release with the next version. For us we get a glimpse … Read more

Bits of Second Life 2014-41

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NVIDIA and VR

I have seen a little about nVidia’s new graphics cards, the 970 and 980 cards. The Road to VR has a good article on the new video cards. For those thinking about Oculus Rift this is an informative article. See: Big News for VR: Nvidia’s New Graphics Cards.

NVIDIA 980 - 10/2014
NVIDIA 980 – 10/2014

For 3D to work, whatever type, the system needs to render the world from two camera positions. This literally doubles the work the card must do. Fortunately, the texture handling, loading and unloading, doesn’t double too.

The article points out how the new cards are optimized for duel image processing.

Top 10 Hunts

Fabulously Free has their list of the top ten hunts out. See: FabFree Hunts. Most have a Halloween theme. 

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