In every industry there are definitely trends, and the CG world is no exception.  I remember the days when patch modeling were the “IT” thing, and every package under the sun added some forms of patch or spline modeling feature to its toolbox.  Then came NURBS and Sub-D surfaces, etc…     These days, […]

  So I finally got around to moving from 2.56 –> 2.57 and apparently it some API changes seem to have broken the Unity importing.  In my case, once saving the .blend file to my assets directory I get an error message of “Blender could not convert the .blend file to FBX file”. The solution […]

  After just completing a list of 3D Apps for this site, I just came to a pair of realizations.  First off, the demo is all but a requirement these days.  Second, and this is the point most missed it seems, but these days integration with other suites is perhaps the most important feature. Therefore, […]

So today, after 6 days of downtime I get word from Sony that apparently mine and 75 million other accounts have been compromised, including pretty much all of my personal information. Worst of all, this information included my password and possibly my credit card information.   This is an unforgiveable sin on many levels, but […]

    It took a while, but Blender 2.6 is finally here.  I have to admit I am a bit disappointed as I recall from a earlier roadmap that 2.6 was going to be the branch where the BMesh project ( ngons ) were going to be added to Blender, but sadly that didn’t happen.  […]

  Just a quick note to the people, like myself, that are checking out Google’s new game library PlayN.  The getting started guide says to git clone https://code.google.com/p/playn   This will error out if you try it.  Instead use the url http://code.google.com/p/playn.   I don’t know if this is a typo, or if the https […]

  So if you want to stay on the bleeding edge, go get it.   Or of course you can just wait 10 days for the 2.60 official release.   The main changes are: 3D audio support Translated UI with support for non-western fonts Improved nodes editing Animation system improvements Texture face properties moved to […]

  This is a pretty common gotcha when working with Unity, but it’s so damned annoying it’s worth bringing attention to it.   If you export an FBX model, in this case from Blender, into Unity it might be really really really really tiny, even though you set it’s size up appropriately in Blender before […]

    I love Blender, but one of the hands down most irritating things is the default hotkey for switching between Vertex,Edge and Face editing modes.  CTRL + TAB + 1/2/3 is just too many keys for something common.  Fortunately Blender 2.5x adds the ability to define hotkeys, but it isn’t as easy as you […]