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It is adequate. I'm not sure if it works, but any card that supports OGL 1.1 should work. Blender doesn't do a whole lot with the graphics card, so that's not the most important part of the system. The CPU and RAM take a lot more of a beating with Blender.

This page has everything you need:

http://blender.org/cms/Get_Involved.233.0.html

Also, come join all the official (and non-official, like me ) developers for Blender on the bf-committers mailing list. Sign up here:

http://projects.blender.org/mailman/lis ... committers

Good luck!

Hello cadcrazy, True, the source code for Blender and other large-scale programs like it can be very confusing to newbies. I understand that you are excited with your newfound knowledge and I see nothing wrong with huge ambitions, however, I must add that this project you want to start is probably w...

You don't have to go with Windows XP. Vista will be released in five days, and if your hardware is enough, you can install that. This may sound inconsiderate, but I don't believe there is much that anyone can do if your computer is 8 years old. Even a super-cheap computer from Office Depot will be f...

Linux is awesome. IMHO You should switch, but that's a tough decision and you should weigh all the odds. The best way to fix it is copy your driver's opengl DLL into the same directory as blender.exe. I'm sorry, however, that I don't know what that file is called on NVidia...

Hmmm... That's odd! Anyone else get that problem?

Phew! I just released 6 downloads available at http://www.graphicall.org containing optimized versions of Blender 2.42 for Windows. Three are .zip archives and three are their respective automated installers, like the kind you download off of download.blender.org. The SSE and SSE2 builds require tha...

Like the title says, the archive contains both. Get them here:

-- DOWNLOAD --

I think it's a problem, in a fresh CVS if you see the "win32-vc-config.py" appears BF_OPENEXR_LIBPATH = '${BF_OPENEXR}/lib', and to work i need to make a "user-config.py" with BF_OPENEXR_LIBPATH = '${BF_OPENEXR}/lib_msvc. The questions are, no one have this same problem? no one compile under the fr...

The problems in toolbox.c look like programming errors. Get the latest clean CVS of that file. And for the axctl, don't even try building it. It's way out of date and gives hundreds of errors. You don't need it anyway; it's just for the game player plugin (old version).

The linking has nothing to do with code optimizations, though. There are other problems with your linker. You're probably missing a module or something.

I too build inside the gui and that gives me the most optimization (I use VS 2005 Pro). I just go to properties and under C/C++ -> Optimizations I can set most optimizations. Also, you can set SSE2 under C/C++ -> Code Generation. I'm not sure if you can do this under the express versions. Also, with...

hmmm... I think you might have better luck at getting a good response from the folks at http://www.blenderartists.org. They are the users forum; we are the developers forum. Good luck!

Thanks! Yes, I am using the full version. I'm not sure, but I think that the compiler is the same across all versions of VS. The flags I use the most are the following: /arch:SSE2 - this one tells the compiler to use methods with SSE2: great speed increase! fp:fast - this tells the compiler to calcu...

Well, if you want it to be interactive, you could use the game engine. I'm not sure if that's exactly what you want, though. Could you please elaborate a little more?