Tag: Tutorials

  • Blender 2.5 Network Rendering: Part 02 Windows

    Blender 2.5 Network Rendering: Part 02 Windows

    Windows is a solid platform for animation as all of the major 3D platforms support it; however, making it remote render friendly require it to have command line support. Being able to do remote command line for a machine is essential to keep render maintenance to a minimum. First I will go over the SSH (Secure SHell)…

  • Quick fix for rel=”category tag” in WordPress

    Quick fix for rel=”category tag” in WordPress

    Here is a quick tip for helping WordPress, WordPress 3.2 specifically, with the HTML5 spec. HTML5 spec says that only certain rel types are allowed and WordPress’ “category tag” isn’t one of them. Fortunately I found a good bit of code here http://smalldiary.com/wordpresshow-to-add-nofollow-to-category-links.html which strips out the current rel=”category tag” and adds a rel=”nofollow” as…

  • Blender Transparency Map Shadows Quick Fix

    Blender Transparency Map Shadows Quick Fix

    Over the weekend I was working out how to tear a piece of paper in Blender and stumbled on the annoying but easily solvable issue of transparency shadows. By default a material will not receive shadows based on the texture but on the geometry of an object. As seen here:   To fix this, go…

  • Dynamically generated HTML5 manifests

    Dynamically generated HTML5 manifests

    In the specification for HTML5 several methods for storing data locally are outlined including localStorage and manifests. While building out the offline storage for Animatic Builder, I attempted to keep the stored data dead simple; as in the case of the shot information which is stored as one long JSON string. In this way the…