Management of Verse data in Outliner

I hacked my branch of soc blender again. I added support for management of VerseSessions and VerseNodes in Outliner with simple popup menus. Look at screenshot.

I received my free subscription to Safari Bookshelf for being part of Google's Summer of Code. Muhahaha :-).

Presale of Open Movie project DVD(s)

You can purchase DVD in Blender e-shop. You will receive DVD(s) propably in January 2006. (official announcement)

I wonder if previous image is real photo or it is rendered with blender/yafray ;-).

1.8 million Blender downloads

Ton created nice statistics showing, that users downloaded 1.8 millions copies of Blender last year. It seems, that everybody use Windows :-/ and Blender is the most popular 3d app in the World (Alias sells only 10 000 copies of Maya per year) ;-).

Outliner as verse node manager

I finaly hacked Blender Outliner today. It can display verse sessions and all object nodes and linked geometry nodes. I created screenshot (PNG picture 1024x768 pixels) as verification of my hard work ;-). I have to add ability to subscribe to foreign verse nodes, unsubscribe from nodes, etc. I hope, that I will have ready basic functionality of verse integration for Siggraph 2005 (end of this week) ... terrible deadline :-/.

Verse Integration to Blender

You can follow progress of my integration of verse protocol to blender at my wiki page. I try to update it every day (add some diagrams, screenshots, fix typo, etc.)

Sun Ultra 20 Workstation

Sun Ultra 20 Workstation is available in Czech Republic now. It is really cheap workstation (895$). Keep in mind, that this workstation includes preinstalled software for developers (5000$).

Texture baking in Tuhopuu Blender

Alexander created nice demonstration of texture baking, which is implemented in Tuhopuu. Texture baking could be very useful for blender real-time applications.

Drivel 2.0.2

Testing post created with Drivel 2.0.2

I have to note, that Drivel 2.0.2 works really very good. I allows me simply add new posts, edit old posts, it has simple GUI interface with integrated spell checker, and it supports Blogger 2.0 API :-).

New blender.org

We have only one official web page about blender. Look at blender.org and details of migration. btw: I got cms typo3 account there :-). Thanks, Ton.

Yafray 0.0.8 released

New Yafray 0.0.8 was released! It should be faster, it has support of OpenEXR, BRDF, etc. Complete list of changes could be found here.

Google Summer of Code

10 Blender proposals were approved as part of Google Summer of Code program. I'm curious, how many proposal will be finished ;-).