Blender 2.41

New version of Blender was released. This release is focused on improvements and bug fixes in game engine.

New render engine

New render engine is in orange CVS now. It still doesn't work correctly at 64bit systems, but it rocks at 32bit systems. Look at screenshot, 3D preview rendering, post render compositor, etc.

screenshot

Verse Gimp in CVS

Verse Gimp is in CVS and it has official site at projects.blender.org. Me and Brecht has cvs write access to this repository. I will try to commit some changes there as well to verse-blender repository and try to make verse-blender-gimp working as soon as possible ;-). On the other site Toni from Orange Team has quite bad resuts from benchmark tests of Verse and Verse Gimp. Verse and Verse Gimp has problems with huge image data ... it is too slow now :-(. Be patient! I will send here much more information when report from testing will be ready.

Verse Gimp Blender (small progress)

I shame, but I have to show you at least small progress of my poor work:

... and I guess, that nobody know answer on question: "What does this screenshot mean?" ;-)

BlenderArt Magazine #2

You can download new BlenderArt Magazine #2. This cool pdf file has 60 pages and it is full of articles, interviews and tutorials. I hope to have time for reading this. I will do some other school project (FRVŠ). I will do some voxelisation of parametric model of textile materials in evil Matlab.

KB is hell

Komerční banka is the worst bank in Czech Republic. It has the worts internet banking system in the world! It can run only in IE (it uses ActiveX), but it is only theory. It usualy doesn't work in any web browser. It sucks! Avoid of KB!

I would never use it, but rest of my family think, that it is very good bank ... grrrr. I will have to emigrate to Switzerland ;-).

Verse-Gimp & Verse-Blender

I will focus at implementation of verse bitmap node to Verse-Blender now. It means, that Blender will be able to share images with some other verse app, for example with Verse-Gimp. Yes, you will be able to edit your textures in Gimp and see changes in real time in Blender. Brecht did something similar in past, but it required big hack in Blender. Verse-Blender is big hack too, but I hope, that not so big hack ;-). I will have to finish it in two weeks, because boys from Orange team want to test it so much ;-).

... I'm in presure now, because I promised, that I will work at Verse-Blender and I do some visualisation for our dean (I have to show some result next week and I have still almost nothing to show). I will have to pass examination next week in friday and I promised, that I will be co-author of czech book about Blender and I promised, that I will work on localisation of Blender to czech language (6 000 string, 40 000 words :-/, hack displaying of text in Blender).