Cycles renderer for Blender
By · on May 18, 2011 · Comments
I couldn’t resist and downloaded the Cycles build (that means, a test version of Blender that includes an all new unbiased modern render engine). I am all for Blender internal renderer mainly because I have too little time to switch between software and waiting for long rendering times. And I like the results I’m beginning to get with Blender Internal! So I will not go to the fancy external renderer but if the fancy renderer will come to me fully integrated in Blender I won’t mind it so much.
Blog stuff
By · on May 17, 2011 · CommentsI finally got to upgrading the Why Blender page from the old version written two years ago. The perspective is a bit different now with the new Blender 2.5
My next Blendermama – goal is to organise practical information on the site in some way. I am not aiming for another Blenderwiki but I noticed I had trouble finding specific articles on other sites so I thought this type of website – claiming to offer useful technical information – should also help readers find it easily. Searching stuff on the internet is such a time waster! At the moment there is not too much stuff on my blog and mostly blabber, but it will grow steadily from here on. This time I’m sure!
Back to work now..
Finished work
By · on May 16, 2011 · CommentsThere could be much improvement here yet but I need to consider this done and move to something new or else I will have to rename my blog “the little blender house”:
Sky, trees…
By · on May 15, 2011 · CommentsI am still trying to finish the house project I have been fiddling with the last few weeks. I was about to wrap it up when I remembered I had planned to make a better map for the reflection in the windows. I have a cylinder mapped with sky and trees, and it had to be different from the image I use for the background. Ultimately I hope to find a way to solve both background and reflections in one shot but for now this is how I pulled it off.
New modelling tool preview – inset extrude
By · on May 13, 2011 · CommentsTested today a new addon, still in developement, detalis are here: inset extrude
I installed it and I liked it. Not yet “user friendly” to install (it is still in developement) but a good promise for future modelling Blender tools that will make it more accesible to architectural visualisation.
Possible use as illustrated above – window frames, panelled furniture, picture frames….
