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TexTools 1.0.0: A new version of TexTools has been released. This release has a lot of Texture Baking and ID color improvements. You can discover all of the new changes and features on the website. TexTools is a free addon for Blender with a focus on UV Layout, texture baking and Color ID tools. – by renderhjs – Tags: blender, sideblog – https://www.blendernation.com/2018/03/03/textools-1-0-0/

Mesh Blender Tutorials: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by iCade – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/159258-mesh-blender-tutorials/

Learn sculpting by making game objects: Learn to create basic game objects with a sculpting workflow in this 6 part free course on youtube. – by gabbitt – Tags: blender, sideblog – https://www.blendernation.com/2018/02/17/learn-sculpting-making-game-objects/

Mesh Clothing, Rigging and standard sizes workflow: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by RiverLennoxx – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/337660-mesh-clothing-rigging-and-standard-sizes-workflow/

Mesh and LOD: Level of Detail (LOD) is the mechanism by which Second Life lowers an object’s visual detail by increments as the camera gets further away. When uploading a mesh model, we have complete control over the amount of detail at each level. – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mesh_and_LOD

How to Upload Mesh with Low Land Impact: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by AdamZadig – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/373768-how-to-upload-mesh-with-low-land-impact/

How do you bake ambient occlusion for a model?: You should do this manually if you plan to need to create a real texture and you want a clean unwrapping. If you only need an AO map, Blender can do it for you automatically. – Tags: blender, sideblog – http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/13956/how-do-you-bake-ambient-occlusion-for-a-model

Mesh tricks for low LI?: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by Rhiannon Arkin – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/392780-mesh-tricks-for-low-li/

Using Blender for Second Life and Opensim – Tags: blender, second life, sideblog, workflow – http://www.outworldz.com/Secondlife/Posts/Blender-Tips/

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Topology – the often neglected entity: Community Announcements Submit Your Images for Pic of the Day 04/04/2017 You can submit your image for Pic of the Day consideration on our Official Second Life Flickr page. – by Codewarrior Congrejo – Tags: blender – https://community.secondlife.com/forums/topic/154639-topology-the-often-neglected-entity/

2016 HELP: HG: Upload mesh the best way–invited article by Ozwell Wayfarer: This is aimed mostly at people finding things on the internet and trying to upload them. You must understand that a huge amount of objects you will find available for free are not suitable for virtual environments. – by Selby Evans – Tags: blender, opensim – https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2016/02/2016-help-hg-upload-mesh-best-way.html

WHAT THE HECK ARE ALL THESE MAPS IN BLENDER AND 3D MODELING?: Many of you probably already have experience with at least some of the various types of maps in Blender or, Second Life but, for the beginner, all these maps can be very confusing. – by Nathan Wilkie-King – Tags: blender – https://hellhousestudios.blogspot.com/2016/10/what-heck-are-all-these-maps-in-blender.html

How to set up Blender 2.78 for Second Life and OpenSimulator : Musiker, Naturliebhaber, Lebenskünstler: (Tested under Windows 7 – change paths as needed on your system) (three add-ons are exluded with // since they are missing in Blender 2. – by PaderDesign, Torsten Funk e.Kfm. – Tags: blender – http://www.torsten-funk.de/tutorials_008-blender-second-life-opensimulator.html

Blender 2.79 Released – What’s Do for Second Life?: We have a new release of Blender as of 9/12. I always want to know what is the new release going to do for me in my work flow for Second Life. So, the TL:DR take is it messes up some things I do. But, not too bad. It looks like 2.8 will trip me worse. – by Nalates Urriah – Tags: blender – http://blog.nalates.net/2017/09/13/blender-2-79-released-whats-do-for-second-life/

Blender 2.7 Texture Painting Tutorial: I’m not that great at texture painting in 3D. I am trying to get better. So, when this video caught my eye, I checked it out. Blender Character Texture Painting (Play List). Darrin Lile made the videos. I think he did a good job. There are six in the set, each about 15 minutes long. – by Nalates Urriah – Tags: blender, second life – http://blog.nalates.net/2017/05/28/blender-2-7-texture-painting-tutorial/

Making A Hand Painted Barrel: This tutorial shows how to set up for painting objects in blender cycles. This particular tutorial looks at how to create a barrel but the techniques are very transferable to other objects. The 2nd half is a time lapse with commentary about the techniques i use. – by gabbitt – Tags: blender – https://www.blendernation.com/2017/11/09/making-hand-painted-barrel/

2017 IMA: MESH: Blender beginner tutorials: a sampler with lots of links: Sunday, November 5, 2017 2017 IMA: MESH: Blender beginner tutorials: a sampler with lots of links Blender beginner tutorials: a sampler with lots of links Links to beginner tutorials for blender. I lead with one so simple and clear that even I can understand it. – by Selby Evans – Tags: blender – https://virtualoutworlding.blogspot.com/2017/11/2017-ima-mesh-blender-beginner.html

CREATING MESH TEXT FOR SECOND LIFE USING BLENDER: All the Holidays are over now, at least where I live, and Old Man Winter seems to be slowly creeping in to keep us indoors. Hopefully, life with settle down and I can start applying myself (laughs outrageously) to some learning projects. Most of my learning projects involve NEED. – by Morgaine Christensen – Tags: blender, second life – https://hellhousestudios.blogspot.com/2015/01/creating-mesh-text-for-second-life.html

Materials and Textures: This video introduces both options and you will get some insight into typical workflows and common problems. Blender provides 2 completely different methods to get color and texture to your objects. – Tags: blender, second life – https://blog.machinimatrix.org/materials-and-textures/

How to Bake Perfect Normals in Blender – Tutorial: Blender tutorial showing you how to bake a normal map from a high poly model, to a low poly model. Download the starter file here. – by Bart – Tags: blender – https://www.blendernation.com/2017/09/21/bake-perfect-normals-blender-tutorial/

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