MiikaHweb Blog (Page 7)

Blog URL structure has been updated.


In the old method a single blog entry was identified using a time stamp. Now entry title is used in URL to allow users to directly see the subject. It's also possible to search posts by date.

Blender Foundation released a new trailer of it's upcoming short Sintel. It's made using Blender and other open source software.

Sintel runtime is about 12 minutes and it will be free to download when it's released. Previous short movies by Blender Foundation are Elephants Dream (2006) and Big Buck Bunny (2008).



You can download the trailer in 1080p resolution at Blender site.


Also the Finnish company behind Star Wreck movie series: Energia Productions, have released a trailer from their upcoming full length movie Iron Sky.

Valve is sharing Portal for free until May 24th.

Portal is an innovative puzzle adventure that has won over 70 "Game of the year" awards.

Now you can get it for free if you act before 24.05. For the first time Portal is also available for Mac.

I have finished my fire tutorial for Blender 2.5. It took a bit longer than I thought but here it is. There is also a smoke tutorial coming soon.

Anyways, check it out here : Creating realistic fire in Blender 2.5

The Humble Indie Bundle lets you purchase five indie games just for the price you wanna pay.

Bundle includes World of Goo, Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD and Penumbra OVERTURE. Games are DRM free and available for Windows, Linux and Mac. So pay what you want and get games worth $80 bought separately. Also part of the funds go to charity. (If you decide so.) The bundle is available until May 11.

There is two new tutorials coming soon: Introduction to Blender smoke simulator and making realistic fire in Blender.

Here is a short animation made from one of my fire tutorial sample *.blend files. Mancandy - the master of fire.

Tutorials -section has been updated.

This update changed tutorials -section base engine and therefore made editing and writing articles much easier than it was before. For now all tutorials have been moved to the new database and I'll update them more frequently. This also means that more articles and tutorials will be added shortly.

Site URL system has been updated. All navigation links on this site are now simplified to not require PHP variables visible.

For example a program link in old system: indexen.php?p_id=program&prog_id=smplayer, is now /en/programs/smplayer.

Old links should redirect automatically to new ones but it's very likely that not all parts of the site work properly yet.

I just finished a new feature for Blender smoke simulator: a possibility to change how smoke collides with domain borders.

The old system let smoke go through top and bottom sides of the domain but not the "walls". That caused some problems when using strong horizontal wind.

Now it's also possible to make the smoke to not collide any side or to collide with every side of the domain.


Update:

Added a possibility to change "Initial Velocity" multiplier.

Updated code patch can be downloaded here: smoke_collision_patch2_rev29368.patch
I have also updated my Blender Builds to use this patch.

A new Blender testing release 2.5 Alpha1 was released today.

To find out what is new in this release compared to the stable version (2.49) check out Release Logs on Blender site.

Alpha 1 can be downloaded from Blender official site. Alternatively you can download a recent SVN 27027 from MiikaHweb Blender Builds -section.