Category: 3D

  • Blender 2.67a released with tons of fixes

    Blender 2.67a released with tons of fixes

          Blender 2.67a released with tons of fixes and much better functionality. Check all the news here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.67a

  • Integer Indices for Polygons…What is this????

    Integer Indices for Polygons…What is this????

    In my never ending quest to learn a bit about CG I have had to delve into the mysterious world of geometry (damn, shoulda paid more attention in high school). At least for me this is no simple task, I’m a humanities major and math in general is about as easy as learning Greek. But…

  • New StructureSynth to Luxrender Exporter v.1…Alpha release

    New StructureSynth to Luxrender Exporter v.1…Alpha release

      StructureSynth to Luxrender   It’s finally here!!! A useable Exporter for Structure Synth to LuxRender [wpdm_file id=1]   LuxRender Scene We are going to take a look at the entire exporter and go over the functions of each section. I hope this will serve you to understand how it is arranged and how you…

  • YafaRay 0.1.5 for Blender 2.67 released

    YafaRay 0.1.5 for Blender 2.67 released

      Shadow Work YafaRay 0.1.5 is a key maintenance release which includes important improvements and fixes for long-standing issues such as sampling errors recurrence (black & white dots), new vertex normal calculation for better raytracing on high poly, improved materials behaviour and a better Blender compatibility. Rodrigo Placencia (Darktide), David Bluecame and Pedro Alcaide (Povmaniac) are the main contributors to this…

  • The Blender Foundation is proud to present Blender 2.67

    The Blender Foundation is proud to present Blender 2.67

    The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.67. New in this release is the Freestyle render engine for non-photorealistic rendering, which can generate 2D line drawings in various styles. The paint and sculpt system is now much more consistent across different paint modes and has gained various new features. Motion…

  • Color Grading in Blender

    Color Grading in Blender

                    Welcome back everybody to a new post at D4mations.net.  While surfing the net the other day I came across this great post on color grading in blender so I thought I would  share that here with you today.  Hopefully I’ll be following through the the post and…

  • Blenders 2.66 New features

    Blenders 2.66 New features

    Check out this great article about the new features in Blender 2.66 by the outstanding Andrew Price. Its getting there folks, everyday better and better. Use Open Source!!!   http://www.blenderguru.com/3-massive-features-of-2-66/

  • Grey screen of death… in Maya’s UV Editor

    Grey screen of death… in Maya’s UV Editor

    My texture doesn’t appear appear in Maya’s uv editor. Even worse, if I selected a different texture in the editor, they wouldn’t show on the model! Man, I tried it all with no luck and as my desperation grew and grew it dawned on me, ” It must be a conspiracy against me, the gods…

  • This IS Python!

    This IS Python!

          Following up on my Python initiative, I came across this outstanding article over Autodesk. David Lightbown shows us one of the many and for me one of the coolest possibilities of using python in Maya. For me this is a breath of fresh air as it takes me out of the tedious…