As I already told you on the previous journal, the next blender version will have a lot of new features, and most can already be tested on the CVS versions.

A few days ago, a version including fluid simulation was made available for linux and Os X, and now for windows. You can find it here : [link] (or here[link] for another linux version, or here : [link] for os x )

It still lack a lot of settings, but it's already fun to play with.

And don't forget to look at the intro tutorial [link]


PS: If anyone wants to send some images done with Blender, that (s)he thinks could fit in this group gallery, just send a note with a link to your image. Thanks.

The current version of Blender is Blender2.37a.
And the next official release will be Blender2.40, because of the major improvements and changes that will be made.

Take a look here for a little description of some of the changes.
And don't forget to watch this. Yes... fluid dynamics in Blender, wooohoo !

Some features are already available on CVS builds of Blender (blender2.38, eheheh).
I tested the "modifiers stack" thing, and I can tell you it rocks No more ugly seam in the middle of your models when you work with symetry and subsurf, for example.
And transparent materials will be displayed as transparent in the 3D view. The ability to subdivide meshes (with the knife tool or subdivide tool) into more than one subdivision level is really great too.
(I didn't tried the armature part, because I'm not very good at animations.)

If you want to try some of the testing builds, get them from here : [link]
(on the sticky messages)
But beware if you use them, some tends to crash often

[EDIT]
Blender 2.37 was just released ! Get it here : [link]
List of changes here : [link]
[/EDIT]

Orange - The open movie project


Quoted from the Blender website:
'The Blender Foundation and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, have agreed on producing a 3D Animated Movie Short, to be created with the Open Source 3D suite Blender and other OS tools such as Yafray, Python, Verse, Gimp, and Cinepaint.'

Read More
The Orange Movie Website







^Members

(I must admit I thought the member list had disapeared into the void, but no, it was on older journal entries... Now, how many persons did I forget ?)
^{and I'm sorry I didn't awser the note of people asking to join, but as the main owner of this group,I really don't have a lot of time to update this group :/ -duskblue-}

Current Members
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Member Count : 67

First of all : Merry Christmas everyone !

Since yesterday, Blender 2.36 is out, and available for all platforms. You can get it here. It includes a better management of bump mapping, and a many bug fixes.
The full changelog is available here.

Have fun, and happy blending


.duskblue.