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Marius Oberholster Hey! I'm having an incredible learning experience, not only learning how Blender works (yes, still learning), but also about Open-Source and the incredible software available. Stick around!

WOW!!

May 4, 2012
What a day's work!! JESUS really showed up for the mountain snow tutorial to say the least! And here's why:
I posted an image a while back, showing you guys that you can add snow to a mountain using the Blend procedural texture. That was this picture:

Cute, but not very impressive (even back then I knew it wasn't very impressive and only a proof of concept; that it was possible to do), but today really showed what you can do with it, which is this one:

(Full res is FullHD - right click > View Image)

(Remember, this is all procedural, no image textures)

All I can do is praise GOD for this!!!!!!!! Amazing grace is not the word. Thank YOU soooooooo much! It was a fantastic day's work and very fruitful too! YOU rock!!!!!!!!!

The tutorial on how to texture and generate a landscape has been written today, but has to be copied into the book still, but this is two down and two to go for the book. Then we start with Cycles! Yey!

Thank YOU again for all the support and grace!!!
 

Procedural Textures - An Introduction

May 3, 2012
Heya peoples!

Remember I did a tutorial a while back on procedural textures, just to show what they can do. Well, I made it available on this site, but couldn't host it, it had to be e-mailed to anyone who wanted it, but now I found that Google Docs allow you to share files with the web and there was the solution.

In case you don't recall which tutorial I am talking about:



Remember, this one is only the pre-release of the book and that the book I'm working on has a much wider scope of explanatio...
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More fruit! lol

April 27, 2012
As part of the products, I wanted to make apple juice too, so I struggled a bit to make these, but I think they came out fairly well (^^,). Took an evening to get the modeling and basic texturing and the next day to finish them, but they look great imo.



One of the biggest challenges was getting these to look like they could be real and that came in the challenge of the top. I don't think it's 100% right, but I like it overall, because it still convinces many people I show it to, lol. Anyway, t...
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Quick tips using the halo lamp

April 23, 2012
When you use the halo lamp in Blender to create some form of beams or solid light, you need to remember that Blender is still growing in it's alpha support and the halo lamp has only two settings when it comes to transparent objects: visible and invisible.

This means that you have to know that the light-beams are not going to shine through a transparent object, only the light itself:



Another thing you need to be careful of is reflective materials. When a halo lamps shines through a transparent ...
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