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Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by TTT

TTT — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:53:12 +0000

I had the incomplete UI problem too. However, after I change the root folder’s name from my language to English, the problem gone. So, I think using the folder’s name in English might help to solve this problem.

Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by victor acevedo

victor acevedo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:32:32 +0000

Hi!, I have a question on blender 2.5 alpha 1, (windows 7 x64)

I use a lot of textures on the materials, and when I import materials from previous 2.49 files, when I want to render, an error occurs, blender crashes, and when I open the file again, most of my textures on the materials are “canceled” or “dissapear”, even if it is a procedural texture, what could be the problem?

this also happened when I tried to make a new material using new textures, imitating the imported materials.

Comment on Blender 2.5 alpha 0 – Windows builds by MS Media

MS Media — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:20:35 +0000

HI There…
Iv been trying to use blender for the last 3yrs and every copy iv had has made my learning curb 10 times as long and 10 times as hard.. its very fraustrating especialy when you see what is being produced with blender… whole movies are being created.. i cant seem to get as far as square objects b4 my system crashes or the effect im trying to achieve comes out all wrong even though im copying from a tutorial… that seem to be my big issue with blender.. to me i think where as quality is concerned i aint seen anything better than blender.. but for usability i cant stand blender coz its way way way toooo unstable.. what works fine today wont work at all tomorrow.. why is this? since version 2.44 right up to 2.5 iv been having consistant problems in trying to do the most simplest thing.. like with the fluids … i cant seem to get any furthur than fluid in a square shape tank or a glass cup … iv tried to make it go through a tube… issues! iv tried to make it go round in a hollowed out letter … issues.. i cant do anything exciting with blender.. even today i installed yafaray plugin and that doesnt even work niether does the Povaray renderer.. i mean what is going on with blender… how do people make whole movies with this app yet i cant seem to do the simplest thing… i have over a thousand tutorials hardly any of what they explain works out the same especially when its time for all the exciting stuff… theres always some issue that makes you just switch blender off … i refuse to use 3Ds Max or Maya or C4D! Blender has and will always be my first choice every time but bloody hell is it unstable… what am i doing wrong? How can i get the right setup.

1. What is the best OS To Use? which is better for blender PC or Mac? What do the profesional Industry user use when making a movie / Animation with Blender.?

2. What hardware spec should i be using.?

3. Which copy of Blender is the most stable? coz every copy i have is unstable in one way or another!

4. How do i use Yafaray / Povray with Blender 2.5? When i use Povray all i get is a Black screen. and Yafaray Tabs Dont show up in Blender UI!

5. Where can i get Advance Tutorials ? Most of whats out there is the same Basic Stuff over and over again

6. The Fluid Physics works Properly in 2.5 but in 2.44 – 2.45 – 2.48 – 2.49 its all over the place. the settings are the same but gives different results evertime!

When will Blender Be stable like Adobe Products?

Please dont direct me to a forum coz iv just about had enough of forums … you get more rudeness thrown at you than answers to your problems….i need to have a direct link with a teacher who knows blender like the back of his or her hand…if you can answer these questions id be very greatful.

Thanks alot…..

Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by muslis

muslis — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:44:20 +0000

Hello! I have a problem. Does anybody kmows how to download a background image?

Comment on Updated Blender Wiki PDF by Skywalkr

Skywalkr — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:37:46 +0000

Hello, as you can see this is my first post here.
I will be happy to get any help at the start.
Thanks in advance and good luck!

Comment on COLLADA merged with trunk, Blender 2.5 by yellow

yellow — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:44:47 +0000

Very interested in your discussions about GStreamer replacement for FFMPEG. Do you have a Windows build or branch that I can compile a Linux build?

Could you elaborate on the reasons.

Comment on Blender 2.5 r25969 – COLLADA bugfix by ob3lisk

ob3lisk — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:58:09 +0000

hey JK,

just letting you know i am still running your last build for win64, it gives by far the best rendering speed for my rig (amd64), but it would be great if you could do another build with a newer snapshot…

thanks.

Comment on SCons Windows by Tesf

Tesf — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:25:40 +0000

Dear Jesterking;

How is your baby boy doing? My apologies for naive question. I was happy with myself for being able to build my own blender using MngW on Win 7 since sometime ago. But since r26887 it suddenly stopped with some error #1120. Any idea why? I am only trying to learn things out on my own out of sheer love for blender.
Regards

Comment on Building Blender 2.5 on Windows 7 with MSVC and SCons by TwinSnakes

TwinSnakes — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:42:52 +0000

Jester, thanks for the video. I’m using VS 2010 Beta 2, and my libraries compile fine. But, it blows up when it starts the linking for blender.exe, I get LINK2019 errors:

I get 83 extern errors in total, here’s a sampling:

LIBCMT.lib(_file.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_EnterCri
ticalSection referenced in function _lock_file
LIBCMT.lib(osfinfo.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_EnterC
riticalSection
LIBCMT.lib(stream.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_EnterCr
iticalSection
LIBCMT.lib(mlock.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_EnterCri
ticalSection
LIBCMT.lib(_file.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp_LeaveCri
ticalSection referenced in function _unlock_file
LIBCMT.lib(osfinfo.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp_LeaveC
riticalSection

Comment on Blender 2.5 r25969 – COLLADA bugfix by Pimpmymonkey

Pimpmymonkey — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:01:48 +0000

Hi jesterKing,

I’m sure that you are very busy but I’m wondering if you would consider a new build please. This build is getting a little old. (1000 commits since last) The lapix builds on Graphical don’t include Collada.

Thanks for your hard work.

P.Monk

Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by Help please

Help please — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:05:21 +0000

This is the first time using blender and i having a horrible time using it because the screen is just black for it.

Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by radeoflier

radeoflier — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:41:58 +0000

Did you report these yet?
Thanks!

Comment on COLLADA merged with trunk, Blender 2.5 – 64-bit! by Michele King

Michele King — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:07:50 +0000

Yes, we need to know how to create 64 bit builds for Windows – particularly Windows7.

Thanks

Comment on Blender Wiki PDF – Manual from January 29th, 2009 by Fernando

Fernando — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:35:07 +0000

Hi everyone,

I’ve been trying for 2 days to download a working copy of blender’s manual. Does anyone know where I can get one.

The files led by the links below appear to be corrupted. I’ve downloaded them more than twice now and just got this message saying the file can’t be loaded.

Please help me!

http://pdf.letworyinteractive.com/download/category/1-pdf?download=1%3Ablender-manual

http://graphicall.org/manual/blender_manual_20090129.pdf

Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by fridolin

fridolin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:22:16 +0000

i think that is because of python. -
your old blendfiles are made with some funktions(modifier or so) in blender that are based on a previous version of python.
2.5 cant read it cause of python 3.x instead of 2.x

or it is something completely different XD

Comment on Common Blender 2.5 Problems And How To Fix Them by fridolin

fridolin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:07:04 +0000

anything new about the “background Image” thing??
i tried typing in the path of my image, but its useless.
also you can’t open a filebrowser..

Comment on Blender 2.5 r25969 – COLLADA bugfix by Ejnaren

Ejnaren — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:34:54 +0000

Hey JesterKing.

Thanks for the work
Could you tell me though, am I the only one missing a lot of faces when I import a DAE file..?
Its a simple file from sketchup, only containing a box with som extrusions. (the scale seems to be off to, but that can be corrected )
Sounds like you have good results and this is first time i play with 2.5 and Collada.
Maybe I am missing something..?

Regards.
Ejnaren

Comment on Blender 2.5 r25969 – COLLADA bugfix by David

David — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:23:40 +0000

Hi jesterKing,

I just redownloded it and all is working. The wrong splash screen it not a big issue

Thanks for this release.

Regards.

Comment on Blender 2.5 r25969 – COLLADA bugfix by jesterKing

jesterKing — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:54:08 +0000

But apparently wrong splash – I’ll just do a completely fresh set of builds tonight, so it gets fixed too. Other than that, functionality should be ok!

Comment on Blender 2.5 r25969 – COLLADA bugfix by jesterKing

jesterKing — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:52:47 +0000

I reupped the archive, no more crashes due to missing directory.