September 2009
22 posts
Chocolate Spice Cake →
I baked this for a friend’s birthday years ago. The other day they asked me for the recipe so here it is.
Ingredients
200g Margarine
400g Caster Sugar
100g Plain Chocolate
4 Eggs (size 3)…
3D Artist Issue 7 and Vue →
3D Artist magazine isn’t as easy to find as 3D World. Issue 7 includes an advert for Vue 7.5 and nothing else specificly Vue related.
Living Longer to Slag! →
Sent a short article for BTRC’s Slag off to Nick at Ragnarok earlier including three new systems and four ships designed to use them. All of them are built around a theme of creating ships that…
Updated Add Material Layer Scripts →
I’ve just uploaded version 0.4 of my python scripts for Vue that add material layers to all the materials in a scene. This release includes a new script which adds a material layer at the top of the…
3D World - November 2009 and Vue →
The latest (plastic wrapped) issue of 3D World magazine available in the UK, November 2009 / Issue 122 features a 2 page spread of a scene by Marin J Birk made using (amongst other things) Vue. There…
Silverblade's Basic Tips on Using Vue →
Silverblade has posted a new tutorial on Basic Tips on Using Vue. It’s based on Vue 7.5 but many of them are applicable to other versions.
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-26 →
Almost time for Waking the Dead probably skip Red Riding on C4 after it – only so many minutes of gritty cop shows I can take each day. #
Tonights possible Waking the Dead spin off: Keeping…
Create Sexy Characters the M&S Way →
I’ve done an update of an old blog post about describing characters as though their food in an M&S advert and put it up as a page in the impworks site proper to make it easier…
A History of the World in Six Glasses →
I finished reading A History of the World in Six Glasses few days ago. Its a little tour through history looking at the impact of six (well seven if you include water) styles of drink and…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-19 →
Got to love Amazons algorithm – just bought a 1TB drive so now all it wants to sell me is more 1TB drives… #
@jearle My new 1TB drive is a backup for my digital content so I don’t have to…
Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom –... →
Astonishing Adventures Magazine has accepted my short story Dirk Dangerous and the Giant Balls of Doom for issue 8. I’ve one minor rewrite to do and I’m going to look at adding back in some of what…
Fairy Tale Castle →
Fairy Tale Castle
Another quick test render of the I just finished of The Gothic Castle from Cornucopia 3D’s. Having gone all dark and gloomy last time I’ve gone for the opposite…
Ingenious Vue EcoSystem Orientation Control →
ArtPearl has created an ingenious method for controlling the orientation of items in an EcoSystem that you can read about over at Renderosity.
Blogging Differently →
I noticed awhile ago that I was blogging less. Partly I put it down to frustration with the time it took me to add a page to my web site. If I couldn’t easily add a page about something…
Avatar Poll Result →
So the polls over and the vast majority of voters (41 Yes votes to 4 No votes) think Avatar was used to make Vue.
Was Vue used in making Avatar?
Renderosity Halloween Design Contest 2009 →
The 2009 Renderosity Halloween Design Contest is underway and this years theme is “Don’t Go In There”. Entries must be submitted by Wednesday, October 14th at 11:59pm CST (Renderosity System Time)….
More new Python Scripts →
I’ve posted new pythons scripts for Vue to my impworks website: Save a sequence of object files from a Vue animation
Add a Material Layer to all the materials in a Vue scene
The object…
Renderosity Monthly Challenge Award Graphics →
The Renderosity Vue forum needs Monthly Challenge Award Graphics to help get the Monthly Challenges back underway.
Cornucopia 3D Maximum Mountain Winners →
The winners of the Cornucopia 3D Maximum Mountain contest have now been announced.
E-on Software News - September 7, 2009 →
E-on Software’s latest newsletter is out and includes Siggraph 2009 debriefing, discounts Vue 7 Pro Studio, two New Training Materials, 3D Environment Competition Winners and the current…
Announcing the asileFX Matte Painting and... →
7 hours 53 minutes of training and lecture for Vue, Photoshop, Cinema 4D, and general 3D applications.
Instructed by Nicholas Pellegrino.
The asileFX Matte Painting and Compositing Series…
Vue 7 Pro Studio Sale →
E-on software are running a sale Vue 7 Pro Studio until September 15th 2009. The sale price is $199 instead of the usual $399 a saving of 50%.