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Xmas day, and it is kinda hot out here. It is close to 30 degC today, and for a girl that comes from the northern hemisphere, it feels quite unrealistic to have Xmas dinner in these temperatures. So we turned the airconditioner on, and we spent some time doing geeky things. The family thinks we’re [...]

Today is one of those days that I want to work on all things at the same time. Impossible of course, so I have to pick something. WordPress Theme The work on the WordPress theme is progressing nicely. I was thinking to create an ‘empty framework’, every template must adhere to basic rules and any [...]

And another weekend is over.. time flies… really! Blender 2.49 About 2 weeks ago version 2.49 of Blender was released. And practice makes perfect, as there were some imperfections in the release, an update was promised in 1-2 weeks. I have been checking Blender.org daily, but so far no update in sight. Now I am [...]

Sometimes life is interupted by reality. I am currently enjoying a long break and use this precious time to improve my graphical skills. Events occur tho, the world does not stop spinning because I put things on hold for a bit. And sometimes goal posts move unexpectedly. Something like that happened recently and those events [...]

I had some serious troubles to assign 2 materials to a single mesh of a shark in Blender. Frankly, it was driving me mad… it looked like the mesh was overlapping and the resulting render looked horrible. Careful study of the model revealed that indeed some extra faces were created when I added the fins. [...]