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James Cameron's new movie Avatar passed today Titanic in world-wide cross statistics. Titanic held it's previous record of $1,843 million for 13 years.

Cameron has now directed two world's top selling movies. There is plenty of marginal to third place movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King having total gross of $1,119 million.

Avatar's record will keep rising as it has only been in theaters for six weeks. It's only matter of time when it will pass the $ 2 billion mark.

My smoke simulator patch is now in Blender SVN. (Rev 26250)

Most visible changes in that patch are better support for multicore processors (OpenMP), more simulator related textures and a possibility to pass emitter particle's velocity to the smoke.

I just added a new version of smoke patch.

It's now possible to use smoke velocity as a texture and to change smoke cache compression method. (Light compression is recommended due to better performance.)

Downloads:
Precompiled builds
Patch file

Smoke patch changelogs: smoke_changes.txt

I just finished a Blender patch that allows using smoke heat as a texture. This might be useful in several temperature dependant simulations and it also allows faking some kind of multicolored smoke.


Here's a test video of two smoke flows with different heat values being colored by the heat.


I'll update Blender builds -section and add a patch later today.

A new "Blog" section has been added to MiikaHweb.

The blog is still under development so some of the functionality might not work and some bugs may exist.

A new Blender animation added to Videos section : Smoke Explosion.


It is made using the new Blender 2.5 smoke simulator and some tricks with the material. ;p

Blender Builds -section also provides a 64-bit version of Blender.

Some images of my new 3D test animation. It is sort of a test/demo of Blender 2.5 smoke simulator.




Development of this animation is still going on so the final result may seem different than current images if gets finished at all.

The comment system has been updated to show messages from both finnish and english version of MiikaHweb. Messages in the other language are marked with a flag and have gray font color.

When writing a comment you can change the language. (In case you want to reply to comments shown as other language or so.)

Added a possibility to comment programs, videos, games and Blender builds.