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I tried this recently because I was mixing 2D characters with 3D scenery and I just ended up doing still shots. The problem is that any camera movement in a 3D scene changes the perspective and throws it off the perspective shot by the 2D artist. I'd imagine the easiest way to do it with a moving ca...

I have tried to stay out of this thread because the whole rant was based on not understanding Blender. The rant was based on the choice to link materials to datablocks instead of object blocks by default, which is still my complaint. The part that I didn't get was the need to have access to the dat...

Ok, it seems that for some other object types, using object.getData() is fast enough. For meshes, I could do object.getData(True) to return the datablock name and then use that to get the Mesh. The trouble is that object.getData() is returning None for things like meta objects and nurbs curves and a...

When you access a material linked to a datablock via either NMesh or object.getData, the performance is terrible for big meshes. However, materials linked to objects can be accessed very quickly. we've already discussed this. That is the reason the Mesh api was created Newbies in the house say hooo...

ctrl-L is the hart of blender. ( not only ctrl-L, the popups to (re)link other data blocks are everywhere in blender, what are you thinking? ) Y'know, I've been using Blender for nearly two years and I've never used ctrl-L other than for selecting linked verts on a model in editmode. "...think it w...

Another thing seems to be that the two links can exist simultaneously. I think that maybe explained some odd behaviour I saw when using multiple materials - the material preview doesn't update when you switch them. You can assign a material to an object and to the datablock the object is linked to a...

So, the Mesh module was created to work that way. The NMesh module still exists for older scripts... but probably will go away. I don't think it will. The reason being that materials are linked to datablocks and not objects by default. This means the only way to access an object's material properti...

I think an "asset" panel of some sort and a more logical layer system would be a good start, not to mention a tools palette or screen. I agree. I don't have a recent CVS build but if the compositor has fileinput nodes like Shake then that would make taking passes from external renderers or sources ...

changing getData() to return a Mesh object instead of NMesh would break existing scripts But why are there two of them - can't one mesh class handle all the stuff needed? Breaking existing scripts is not a major problem because commercial apps do it all the time and the amount of code change would ...

I've been trying to get some Python working (again) and I keep coming across the problem where some functions don't return what I expect. Turns out the problem was again because Blender has two separate links per object - a datablock link and an object link. In the materials panel, you can see the O...

You are limited to about 100 items or so and there aren't any submenus.

Since the right and left arrow keys aren't used for navigation, could they perhaps be used to flip left and right between sets of 100 menu items?

A scrollable table would be quite useful too.

z3r0_d wrote:the brand new intel imac g5?

The Intel imac is an Intel not a G5 but then again, it could be a mistake of the original poster.

Anyway triadic_monk, just follow the usual procedure and note the crash report or console activity and post it back here.

I'm modifying the Blenderman script to work with 3delight just now and its working adequately well. I need to use it on a low budget animation and we don't use a render farm. I prefer Renderman over Blender internal renderer too. Mainly the efficiency in handling lots of geometry, having true displa...

Turn off the edge button in the render panel. Maybe the setting is just stored differently or something.

The IK target was missing. When it shows a red symbol, that means Blender can't resolve the constraint. To make the IK work, you just had to add a bone to the end of the foot and then make that the foot's target. The new bone at the end is your ik handle/target and it shouldn't be parented to any bo...