Experimental UNDO

Undo should work in edit mode in my verse-blender. Ton proposed to resend whole mesh geometry after each undo step, but my solution is more tricky and effective. It sends only different between undo mesh and verse mesh. I fixed one stupid bug and I did cvs merge yesterday. Keep testing! Ehm, undo doesn't work in object mode yet. You can find Linux binaries and source code at usual place.

Media Exposure

You can find new item in Media Exposure at www.blender.org.

Blender Conference 2005

My proposal of presentation at Blender Conference was accepted :-). Will anybody else from Czech Republic go to Amsterdam this year?

New www.blender3d.cz

- monstrum horrendum,
informe, ingens,
cui lummen adeptum.

New Czech web pages about Blender are finaly finished. You can admire nice design at:

www.blender3d.cz

Author of design is zager from http://www.stickfish.cz/. I hacked CMS system Drupal to use this zager's design concept and Pavel Černohous and Tomáš Vaněk added some content.

Blender in PIXEL magazine

Big tutorial about Blender will be printed in PIXEL magazine. PIXEL is the biggest printed magazine about CG in Czech Republic (it has 10k readers per month). Author of this tutorial is Jan Kurka (I had to convince him about write this tutorial ;-) ), but he propably likes writing of blender tutorials and some other tutorials will follow there. Of course, Blender binaries (win and mac osx) will be available at CD sold out with printed magazine. This is nice PR for Blender, isn't it.

More verse fun

- lidé se převelice divili,
když na nohou deset prstů zjistili.
Ze satir biskupa Halla

I finally implemented visualization of shared mesh object in object mode. You can see changes coming from other users, when shared objects are in object mode. Implementation was quite easy, because Daniel Dunbar created something called derived mesh. Other benefit is, that user can't paint in vertex paint mode as well in texture paint mode or select face in uv face select mode. Why is this good? Because Blender can't share such data yet. You can download testing binaries at usual place.

More verse goodies

I implemented several changes in my personal branch. All edit mesh tools should work correctly now. I noticed problems only with Merge and evil Bevel tool. You can find updated documentation and linux testing builds at usual place. If you will find any problem, then feel free and send me email or write here some commentary.

Note: undo still doesn't work!

Opening of Fresh Film Festival

I found this cool short video (5MB). It is opening of Fresh Film Festival. Warning: it is in czech language.

New bike

I bought new bike yesterday from Ghost-bikes. It has nice feature. I can easily lock shock-absorber with switch at handlebar during ride. I will have to buy better pedals and special shoes, but ride is much more better now then with my old bike.

Next verse-blender goodies

Integration of Verse to Blender should be much more stable now. I fixed many bugs, because I have very good feedback from users. Thanks Timothy, Brecht, Bassam and Guillaume. You can find linux testing builds at updated user doc wiki page.

Jahshaka 2.0 RC1

New testing version of Jahshaka was released. It is pretty unstable again, but keep in mind, that it is RC1.

Positron versus DIVA

Small group of developers forked Blender source code and created Positron. It should be the best non-liner video editor in the World ;-). I guess, that it will be somethink like Jahshaka (something "cool", unstable and unusefull for real work). btw: they don't offer source code :-(.

DIVA seems as simple and easy to use video editor written in Mono. It is developed as part of Google Summer of Code 2005. Go Michael, Go! ;-)

Windows Vista will cripple OpenGL

Windows Vista will cripple OpenGL. Do you use Windows? Congratulations! ;-)

Verse goodies.

I implemented deleting of vertexes and faces. Some tools work very good (for example: extrude), but some tools don't work very good in edit mode yet (knife, subdivide, etc.). I implemented synchronouse sending of vertex position (no flickering during vertex transformation, when user is connected to too far away verse server). I updated linux binaries, source code as well user documentation. Enjoy!

Web page of Visual Communication

Visual Communication has new webpage finally (after 2 years). You can compare with my own (unaccepted concept). Author of webpage is Mr. doc. Zippe ... I can say only this: No comment! ;-)

Note:Visual communication is field of study at Faculty of Architecture at Technical University of Liberec and I'm lecturer there.

SIGGRAPH 2005

My Integration of Verse to Blender was presented at Siggraph 2005 during Blender BOF session. I don't know any other detail, but it was successful :-)

You can download new Siggraph demo reel (470 MB). You will need some bittorent client, for example Azureus (written in java ... available for win, linux, mac, etc.)

I added support for sending new vertexes and faces to verse server today. There is lot of to do: undo system, deleting vertexes, faces, etc. I will upload linux binaries and source code at usual place later. Matt promised, that he will make testing build for Mac OS X.

Sending of vertex position

I would never believe, that moving vertexes could be so funny ;-). I commited it to cvs repository. I updated user documentation as well linux testing binaries and source code, which can be found there too.

User Documentation for Verse integration to Blender

I created user documentation for Blender with intagreated verse protocol. You can find some linux testing build there. Have a fun!