Linae and I for another ride on the Old Pipeline Road. This is the view looking down the hill toward our house.
Beware
Local small animals and birds look out! Tiggy is on the prowl.
Apples in August
Our summer apples are almost ready for picking.
Blender Default Scene
I always forget after upgrading Blender that [Control-U] saves the default scene. After upgrading you always get the default box, lamp, and camera.
Sector13 [Screenshot]
A planet thermosphere work in progress…
Peculiar Heat Wave
A heat wave swept thru the Monroe area. Temperatures are in the upper 90s. This all after it had rained every day since the fourth of July.
Sector13 [Screenshot]
Here is an effect produced by using 60 or so Billboards using 4 BillboardSets. A work in progress…
Sector13 [Screenshot]
Hera is a nebula cloud that you can fly thru:
Observation Deck
I always thought an observation deck on a house like this could be great for star gazing. I wonder how much the add-on would cost?
10 mile ride to Salem Woods
Linae and I went riding in Monroe way out to the Salem Elementary School in Monroe. Today was the 7th day of sunshine in a row. This weather is uncharacteristic for the Seattle area. The 4th of July holiday has rained every year as long as I can remember. We’ll see if the sunshine can break our wet streak. (Nope…July 4th, cloudy morning, sunny afternoon, rainstorm for the evening. It poured!)
Nearby Mountain tops:
Sector13 [Screenshot]
Screenshot taken from the Rings of Vegir.
ZBrush Wiki
ZBrush is a must have modeling tool. And Pixologic now has a new [ZBrush Wiki]. The Wiki is an excellent learning tool.
Download OBJ to Ogre.Mesh converter script (Windows)
This is a little script I patched together to getting a faster pipeline going from OBJ to Ogre.Mesh files.
I’m modeling in Modo, and didn’t want to manually do all these export tasks for minor changes.
Read the readme. Run the install. Once installed right click any OBJ file and SendTo->convert_obj_to_mesh.cmd
Contest Month
Two contests have sprouted from GDC and GameDev.
GameDev has stated its [Four Elements Contest] of (Emotion, Economics, Emblem, and Europe) (June 3, 2006, at 1100 hours EST to November 30, 2006, at 2300 hours EST). Every participant gets a copy of [FastCap]
GDC started another [72 Hour Contest] (July 14th, 2006 to July 17, 2006).
Sector13 [Featured On GameDev.Net]
Check out [our featured article] on GameDev.net to find out all about Sector13. Feel free to [comment] on the story. Ryan cached our [gameplay video] at Google.
Elephants Dream
[Elephant Dream] is now available for download.
I elected to be a sponsor for the new short film “[Elephants Dream]” from Project Orange.
Hence I made it into the credits as a sponsor:
Snow in April
Oddly, it snowed again today.
Spore
[Spore] looks to be the next generation video game as shown at E3.
Nice Night for Some Air
Here’s a midair shot of me doing a forward flip on this nice night. Start the weekend of fun!
You’ll notice I’ve raised the legs above the safety height, with “couplers”. Without jumping, I stand 10 feet tall.
Moth / Bee
I’m not sure, but they sure make bees bigger these days. This massive hairy insect was flying around a lamp post with its moth friends.
Fence Idea
I was thinking, if you must build a fence then you might as well build it will style.
Moon Shot
The sky looked particularly interesting last night.
Snowing Again
Bone Structure and Brain Function Still Evolving
“Mutation. It is the key to our evolution. It is how we have evolved from a single celled organism into the dominant species on the planet. This process is slow, normally taking thousands of years. But every few hundred millenia evolution leaps forward.” (Patrick Stewart, X-Men)
[Science: Human Genes Still Evolving] (Slashdot)
Managing Bones in Blender
Bones help a lot to indicate where to put things. Like big turret guns, engines, geometry, and landing bays. I was using edit mode to browse bones, when Blender has an easy outline mode.
Show the outliner.
Expand the tree to find the bones.
