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As is the joy of being a PC user, you are on occasion going to encounter Gremlins. I’ve been doing this way too long and recently encountered a problem that I simply could not solve. When rendering some video in Blender recently, I started getting out of memory errors, then my computer would crash […]
Out of memory problems Read More
As I noticed on Gamedev.net Design3 made a series of tutorials for Blender 2.5x UI navigation available. Considering that the user interface may perhaps be Blender’s most difficult aspect for new users, these can be incredibly handy. However, Design3 have made available all off their tutorials available for free until July 10th. Considering […]
Free tutorials available from Design3 until July 10th Read More
Often times, especially when modeling real world objects, you like to use a reference image to model against. The following video shows how to setup a pair of reference images in Wings 3D. The process is pretty straight forward. Step 1: With nothing selected, right click and select Image Plane… Step 2: […]
Creating reference images in Wings 3D Read More
This section covers the basic building blocks and common terminology in the 3D world, although they way they are used changes from program to program, all of these constructs or terms are encountered in just about every 3D application you may pick. Speaking of which, now might be a good time to select which […]
Chapter 1a The Building Blocks of 3D Read More
One thing you are going to find very different when working with Wings 3D is that there are very few hotkeys. It’s very much user driven and it is expected that you will define hotkeys all of your own. Right off the bat, there is one you should define, that of Cut->Edge. This […]
Wings3D, Hotkeys and you. Read More
Saved a hotkey you wish you hadn’t? Want to go back to default settings? It’s easy enough. In Windows 7, follow the following steps. Hit the Start button Type “ %appdata% “ then press enter In the explorer window that opens, select the Wings3D folder. Now either delete or edit the preferences.txt […]
Clearing your settings in Wings 3D Read More
So there is a blog post up on Unity3d.com showing what’s coming down the pipeline. There’s some pretty interesting stuff on there. Apparently Unity 3.4 is at the release candidate stage and there are a few major announcements. Terrain support in iOS and Android is a biggy, execution order on scripts, procedural texture support […]
The Unity 3.4/3.5 roadmap revealed Read More
One of the nicest features of going with Blender is the fact that it is open source. One of the nicest facts of open source is you don’t have to wait for a vendor to release a new version, you can go get the cutting edge version at any time. That said, building Blender […]
Taking a walk on the wild side Read More
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Cocos2D book round-up Read More
So, until this point I have been using Microsoft’s Expressions Encoder to do video capture for tutorials on this site. I am an MSDN subscriber and already had the Expression Studio installed, so even though I was really (…….. really ) pushing the bounds of my license I went ahead and used it. Then […]
A little video capturing SNAFU Read More