• Asides

    Cycles For Haters

    I’m one of those “remaining users” that hates Cycles. When I see it mentioned on a help forum, I stop reading. When I watch a help video, I stop watching. Yet thanks to reading Blender site feeds, I’m tolerably familiar with the latest developments… and I KNOW the old Blender Internal engine is going away in a coming release. All I need is the ability to bake out AO, maybe normals, and possibly a basic materials map with painted on details. Ugh. “How to use cycles even if you hate cycles(as I did)” – BlenderNation — Read on www.blendernation.com/2018/03/24/how-to-use-cycles-even-if-you-hate-cyclesas-i-did/

  • Asides

    Ebbe and Oz talk Second Life in the cloud – Inara Pey: Living in a Modem World

    It’s a huge effort. Right now the Second Life grid is a proprietary set-up in a hosting facility that we have customised for the purposes of what we’re doing – which made sense a decade and half ago. But these days, with the services from Google and Amazon and Microsoft with cloud infrastructures, it makes… — Read on modemworld.me/2018/03/24/ebbe-and-oz-talk-second-life-in-the-cloud/