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Warning warp

October 15, 2013
Hey all!

Today I can give you a tip. While I mentioned it earlier, I wanna reiterate this:
- Warping is not a solid state influencer, in other words, as the camera moves, so does the warping. This plays to your advantage, as it can be used for various ice effects without having to use reflections.

Here are two examples:

Waterfall - Best example


Purposeful example


Without warping (see the difference)

Hope this tip showed you the solution to some of your projects' problems, if you've seen some odd stuff taking place.

Also, just as a reminder, keep your eyes open this week for Andrew's proposal on the Blender Interface improvements. I believe he's done his research very thoroughly and most of his ideas are brilliant and GOD Willing, will make Blender the nr1 3D suite in the world, when you look at usability!

Have a great one!

Thank YOU!!!!
 

30 Likes!!_

October 9, 2013
Hey all!

Today is a milestone for the Facebook page; 30 Likes. If you have liked the Facebook page or have ever shared, subscribed, liked, +1'ed or tweeted anything relating to Panther Dynamics:


It references specifically the Facebook likes, but it is a thanx to everyone who reads, subscribes, shares, +1's, tweets, likes, etc. Thank you!

Hope you all have a wonderful day and like Oliver always says: "Happy Blending!"
PS, he has a new tip online. Check it out!

Thank YOU!!!!!!

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Blender has an auto-save?!

October 8, 2013
Hey all!

I've seen that Blender has this option in the File button, but I've never known how to use it, until Andrew showed it in his second video on Blender's interface (please answer his surveys in the video descriptions on YouTube).

By default, from what I recall, this feature is turned on and does an auto-save every 5 minutes. These are, according to Andrew's video, stored in either your temporary files or the Blend1 and Blend2 files you see where you store the original project.

Thankfully, ...
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Unwrapping a fountain

October 4, 2013
Hey all!!

Today is a bit more lengthy, but it's still a very very quick technique; unwrapping a fountain!

This is a very quick example of what you can do with this:


Note: The entire scene is comprised of procedural textures, even the fountain and the water's animation


Now, let's get to it:
> In order to unwrap our little fountain (the water spout that is), we insert an open Cylinder mesh, pres NumPad1 to go to front view and unwrap (U) it to Cylinder projection:


> Clean up your unwrap. Usually, in ...
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