Posted in News on Oct 29th, 2009 No Comments »
With Durian in progress, I wanted to share a thought I’d had with both the artistic and development teams. Having tried to use the cloth sim a number of times in a production capacity, one of the critical shortcomings I’ve identified (and one that I’m sure they’ll run into) is the deficiencies the system has [...]
Posted in News on Oct 7th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve been using my laptop a lot lately, and the lack of Emulate Numpad in 2.5 is killing me. While I try to figure out how to have the keymap change on-the-fly to follow the user preference, I just went into the appropriate op file in the editors directory and changed them directly. I don’t [...]
Posted in News on Oct 6th, 2009 2 Comments »
When I’m writing, I mostly use my laptop. I use the desktop (faster, etc.) for any actual 3D work, and for editing so I can have Blender up in one monitor and the manuscript in another. Lately, the desktop box hasn’t been much use so I decided to install the beta of Ubuntu’s next release: [...]
Posted in News on Sep 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
I’d never updated my WordPress software since it’s installation a couple of years ago. Bad.
Bad bad bad.
Apparently, there’s now an active worm, er, worming its way around demolishing unpatched older versions. With a sense of urgency, I’ve just followed the “detailed upgrade” instructions from wordpress.com, which worked flawlessly for me. My old plugins and the [...]