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Running ldd says my blender is linked against 50 some libs and they all need to be compiled with the same libc. Ouch. I've only successfully built Blender on Windows, and that was over a year ago. This is certainly above my level of comfort. I'm going to push to have the OS changed to Ubuntu LTS or...

Was any progress made on this? We have a server cluster running CentOS 5. It's critical getting Blender 2.5.7 up and running on it with support for network rendering. Would it be a waste of time trying to compile Blender 2.5.7 with GLIBC 2.5? This is urgent...

I would like to second frymonster's suggestion. johnnylee.net has example videos, source code , and executables. All one needs is a wiimote and a bluetooth capable computer. The code base is written in C#, so it would need to be ported, but not directly. I think the best starting point would be modi...

I strongly believe this needs to be looked at once more. ToastBusters over at blenderartists came up with a simple load-balancing solution to tile-based rendering.

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=119670

I've taken it upon myself to code my volumetric cloud solution.





Refer to the topic at blenderartists.org - http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118973

Realistic clouds in blender is certainly possible. No particles, no ray-tracing. Just camera-tracked planes with a few layers of procedural textures. Render time on my quad core at HD resolution is 30 seconds. The downside is that you can't interactively see your clouds, you must render to preview. ...

I've been noticing that smaller polygons get rendered first when baking light maps. Is it just a coincidence, or is it coded that way? Wouldn't it be more efficient if larger polygons were rendered first? Imagine there are hundreds of small polygons in an object and one very large quadrilateral. The...

I had some objects sharing the same mesh data and wanted to select them all and unlink them. I would have thought that Alt-L would be unlink since: Alt-G clears translation Alt-R clears rotation Alt-S clears sizing Alt-T clears track-to Alt-P clears parenting Alt-H clears hidden etcetera... Instead ...

Like z3r0_d said, in real life shadows don't have color. You can change your ambient settings under the world buttons to a dark blue to achieve this. However, sometimes it can be a pain to work too realistically, especially since ambient light in one area can be different than another area. Sometime...

If implemented I'd like to add the importance of moving objects and their shadows. For games, multi layer texture seems to be needed to add the moving objects shadow. I'm not sure how moving objects/shadows would work using this method. In my opinion, they would still need to be lighted per-frame. ...

I've recently been exporting my models from Blender into Maya so that I can bake lighting to textures- only to then apply those textures on my objects back in Blender. Doing this isn't only great for the game engine, but great for speeding up long animations with multiple lights that must be re-calc...

I agree- more flexability with scriptlinks will result in many benefits, and most likely even some that can't be seen at the moment. Also, how about a scriptlink that can be tied to specific objects and run when their selection property changes? I don't have an idea for a script that would use that,...

Monkeyboi wrote:try pressing Ctrl+ (new feature from 2.32 and on I think)

Very cool, it's exactly what I wanted for the 'Limited neighbor finding'!

However, the 3D selection shapes still stands...

I have a complexly dense object that I need to select some verts from the center of. Right now I'm limited in my methods of doing this- either select the verts one by one, or box-select and hide the verts on the outside (drilling my way towards the center basically). Here are my ideas- 3D selection ...

So I've been thinking about this... The reason Blender subdivides all your meshes is because it uses vertex paint to do all the lighting and coloring. HOWEVER, if it started out with a big black UV texture, it might be possible to do the whole radiosity routine by 'drawing' the light in UV "Texture-...