I didn’t really understand how the [Twitter] site worked until I saw this video, [Twitter in Plain English]. Tune into some of the other videos, “Wikis in Plain English” and “Zombies in Plain English”.
Month: January 2009
Blender Yo Frankie!
[Blender] has done some open source projects like “Elephant’s Dream” and “Big Buck Bunny” (2M downloads). They are also working on an open source game called [Yo Frankie].
Global Game Jam
The [Global Game Jam] started January 30th at 5pm. They have video cameras setup at the various locations as game makers create based on that location’s theme. It seems to be a secret what that theme might be however. Tune in [irc.freenode.net/#globalgamejam]. Follow [GlobalGameJam] on Twitter.
Blender 2.4.8 Broken
I was having trouble exporting 3DS files with a default install of [Blender]. According to this [post], I had to edit line 10 of “C:/Program Files/Blender Foundation/Blender/.blender/scripts/3ds_export.py” which fixed the problem. The special ‘a’ characters in the author name had to be replaced with ASCII ‘a’. I also had to install [Python 2.5.4].
I’m trying to work in Blender with two uv sets, but unfortunately most of the exporters and importers are stripping off the second uv set. [forum post]
Blender Tutorials
If you are like most people, you don’t understand the [Blender] interface. SageDread has put together a large collection of [tutorial videos] that explain the interface in detail.
The [Blender Underground] has in-depth hi-quality video tutorials that explain the [Blender] interface in detail.
HP Recisitated
Linae’s [HP a6177c-b] computer had a bad graphics card. HP shipped a replacement card and everything is working normally. HP had sent the wrong part, so it’s the first time I had to replace the graphics card face plate to get the card into the AGP slot.