This section of the blog has all my articles related to Blender. The articles are a collection of news, tips, and tutorials.
AvaStar 2.5 to Release 10/27
It has been in the works awhile. Now there is a planned official release date, October 27, 2018. The announcement is here: AVASTAR 2.5 RELEASE DATE 27-OCTOBER-2018. The listed highlights are; Improved support for Male characters Improved Collada export of characters with custom Shapes Improved User interface Rig Converter stability New Weight Copy Panel Complete … Read more
Second Life: Updating AvaStar with Slink Dev Kit
I happen to like Slink, so I build what I can wear. For me that means using the Slink Developer Kit. Finishing some stuff up I decided it is time to update my AvaStar, Blender, and Slink Kit before moving on to new things. Also, I wanted to try out the AvaStar feature that adds … Read more
Blender 2.8 Coming Soon
A Blender update is coming… soon. The Alpha version and nightly builds are available now, here: Blender Latest. But, I want to know if this is an update I need or want. So, I went looking through what people are saying. The big one for me is… the User Interface is changing. Ugh. So, here … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w30
Servers There is no Server-Scripting UG meeting this week. Seems the SL Summit meeting preempts it. Nor is there a deploys post this week. However, my in-world monitor says my main channel region was restarted today. That region is running version 18.06.14.516450. This is the same version it ran last week. So, no roll out … Read more
What is Blender’s Eevee?
There are a bunch of technical explanations, but those don’t mean a lot to many SL modelers. It is probably more helpful to know what you can do with it and why you would want to use it. So, this video does the best job of explaining that I’ve seen. This feature is a work-in-progress. … Read more
Blender as a Video Editor?
Need a free video editor? Learn Blender Video Editing in 35-minutes. This is the video that shows you how to set Blender up for video editing. Even if you are not interested in using Blender for video editing, check this out. I learned a bunch about setting up the user interface. He is going really … Read more
AvaStar and Slink March 2018
AvaStar is at version 2.3-1 released 17 January 2018 according to announcements in the Blender-AvaStar group. In the products page where I download the file, it is labeled 2.3-2. The release is called a bug fix. It has 10 bug fixes and 4 improvements. See the changelog here. Notice the Dev Kit manager… Blender is … Read more
News Bits III 2018 w09
Skin Fair 2018 This is always an interesting fair. It runs from March 9 to 25. For a list of participants look here Website. The location of the fair is not yet accessible. Event organizer. You can advertise there, on a billboard (PG only), by purchasing board space starting March 1 for L$3,000. Ad Office. … Read more