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For some time I have been working on bringing back Blenderstorm, along side my current main project (Naali development, integrating Verse as a tech demo, which will be cool for another post next week). I’ve now put up a test site at http://beta.blenderstorm.org, where I invite people to register, testdrive the site and report obvious bugs in functionality (SQL errors, things like that).

Next to bug hunting the single biggest task is still ahead: themeing of Blenderstorm. I ask readers to propose designs (maybe even … Continue Reading

Hi, again several hundred commits since my previous build. This build has of course a whole slew of fixes, new features and such. See the file with the log containingchanges from 25772 to 25969 for all the details.

For those interested in COLLADA there’s a fix by Arystan that addresses some rotation issues and naming issues.

Further there are fixes for crashers (opening properties window could crash, projection painting on subsurf or multires could crash. And there’s fixes for existing, but broken functionality, like edge slide after loop cut when face select mode was enabled.

Download the version you need for your … Continue Reading

Blender development has surpassed 25000 commits! Mike Pan shows a nice graph of the development on his blog. I had yesterday created some builds to celebrate r25000, but I “forgot” to upload and publish them. So for those who still want r25000 win32 and win64 builds, do download here:

• Blender 2.5 r25000, win32
• Blender 2.5 r25000, win64

These are 7z self-extracting archives, built with the same settings as Blender 2.5 alpha 0.

I would also like to thank all the people who took the time to comment on the Blender 2.5 alpha 0 message. Most of the problems will be … Continue Reading

I have uploaded a new build for Windows 64bit of Blender 2.5 to graphicall.org

Build configuration:

CCFLAGS = ['/Ob1', '/J', '/W3', '/Gd', '/wd4244', '/wd4305', '/wd4800', '/wd4065', '/wd4267', '/MT', '/openmp']
WITH_BF_FFMPEG = False
WITH_BF_OPENAL = True
WITH_BF_JACK = False
WITH_BF_SNDFILE = False
WITH_BF_PLAYER = False
WITH_BF_GAMEENGINE = True
WITH_BF_VERSE = False
WITH_BF_YAFRAY = False
WITH_BF_QUICKTIME = False
WITH_BF_COLLADA = True

BF_DEBUG=False
BF_BSC=False

BF_NUMJOBS=5

BF_MSVS = False

BF_BUILDDIR = ‘..\\build\\blender25-win64-vc’
BF_INSTALLDIR=’..\\install\\blender25-win64-vc’

Arystan Dyussenov has finally managed to merge the GSoC COLLADA branch to trunk. I have been fighting with a broken-ish build environment and the OpenCOLLADA libraries since then.

First, many days were wasted in figuring out why during linking of the first library of OpenCOLLADA the build process would go in an eternal loop, issueing linking commands for the same library over and over again. After having tried different SCons versions, and several futile hacks of the SCons-files of the project, I took a harder look at my own environment.

We have had some talk about having ie. gstreamer as … Continue Reading

So, slowly I’m getting all my sites back up and running. This blog is now too up and running, albeit with a default WordPress theme. But that I can address later.

Still missing from this particular site is the Wiki PDF downloads, but I hope to get those bits and pieces reinstalled during the end of this week.

Marco Ardito has sent me a new version of the Manual PDF, which is based on the wiki. This version brings Blender Manual PDF up-to-date with 2009.01.29.

• Wiki Manual PDF (26MB), updated 2009.01.29
  • This is the PDF version of the Manual from the http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual

Again a big thanks to Marco Ardito for his efforts.

The PDF updates seem to become a nice monthly deal! Marco has uploaded new versions of 4 PDF files:

• Wiki Manual PDF (26MB), updated 2008.12.01
  • This is the PDF version of the Manual from the http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual
• Script Catalog PDF (6.9MB), updated 2008.12.01
  • This is the PDF version of the Script Catalog from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Catalog
• Reference PDF (6.6MB), updated 2008.12.01
  • This is the PDF version of the Blender Reference from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference
• Release Logs PDF (3.8MB), updated 2008.12.01
  • The release logs all the way to 2.48a from http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs

Again … Continue Reading

Again Marco Ardito has been working hard on getting new versions of his Wiki PDFs. After more tweaking, he has managed to drop the size of the manual pdf to 25MB. Compare that to the size of the first PDF he created, which was a whopping 86MB! Enjoy reading the new PDFs!

• Wiki Manual PDF (25MB), updated 2008.11.03
  • This is the PDF version of the Manual from the http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual
• Script Catalog PDF (3.4MB), updated 2008.11.03
  • This is the PDF version of the Script Catalog from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Catalog
• Reference PDF … Continue Reading
  

Marco Ardito has been working hard on getting improved versions of his Wiki PDFs, along with a few extra. He managed to drop the size and page number of the manual pdf to 51MB over almost 1300 pages:
 

• Wiki Manual PDF (51MB), updated 2008.10.01
  • This is the PDF version of the Manual from the http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual
• Script Catalog PDF (6MB), updated 2008.10.02
  • This is the PDF version of the Script Catalog from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Scripts/Catalog
• Reference PDF (6MB), updated 2008.10.02
  • This is the PDF version of the Blender Reference from http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Reference
• … Continue Reading