Tag: Blender

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon for #SecondLife – V2.4 Make a signpost in Edit mode

By Lelani | by Lelani

Here’s a simple old fashioned signpost that might be useful for someone in #SecondLife, created in #Blender. The tutorial covers inset, extrude, scaling on specific X Y or Z orientation, and other fundamentals. At the end Goon uploads his model to the test grid of Second Life (that is, the cost to upload is actually free, you use play money on the test grid). He’s still assigning simple colors to the object and not using…

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – V1.5 Building in Object Mode, uploading to #SecondLife

By Lelani | by Lelani

Now we’re getting somewhere. I’ve recently created objects with the standard “primitives” in Blender, so for me this is still review. It was still a struggle but eventually I produced the required lesson objects and got them uploaded into the “test grid.” GREAT SUCCESS. After taking a long break for some RL errands yesterday, I was able to produce the two objects from the lesson… and during Goon’s discussion of uploading to SL, he mentioned…

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – V1.4 Blender Object Mode Tools

By Lelani | by Lelani

The next video in Goon’s series covers Object Mode tools. I’m going to try to speed up for these and spend less time looking for funny Blender memes to replace the “featured image.” BUT THEY ARE SO FUNNY… Ten or thirty minutes later I finally watched the video! And then started playing around with the Annotate tool and got horsed up trying to get a Wacom tablet working. More watching, less going down rabbit holes.…

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Viewport Navigation

By Lelani | by Lelani

The next video in Goon’s tutorial series goes over viewport navigation, whether using the gizmos in the upper right corner, or keyboard shortcuts. I have struggled in the past with some of these and with some shortcuts, they just don’t “stick” in my head, like Shift-C to re-center my cursor. Repeat, repeat, repeat.  Other shortcuts (the numpad keys to change from front, right, left, top, bottom views) come easily. Goon has a pleasant presentation voice…

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Blender User Interface

By Lelani | by Lelani

The next video in Goon’s series goes over the #Blender user interface in a clear and logical manner. A lot of the time we tend to just jump into the middle of trying to make something in Blender without knowing what-the-hell we are doing. This video series gets us started on the right foot. At least, at this point, I always feel positive, before the confusion sets in about which hotkey to use, or how…

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Learning #Blender with #BlenderGoon – Install Blender

By Lelani | by Lelani

I’m going to watch every one of #BlenderGoon ‘s #Blender tutorials in order, because I keep getting frustrated by my lack of grounding in the fundamentals. Goon (Goonther Blackcinder) is a #SecondLife resident who teaches at #BlenderSchool inworld at (SLURL) GoodVibes There’s an active Discord group – there’s an invite link in the school landing area. There are 2 schoolrooms – Goon’s and also Celestine Ghiardie has a dedicated schoolroom that’s geared more for clothing…

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No #SecondLife #Senra #Devkits distributed yet – still learning Blender

By Lelani | by Lelani

As of right now, no SDKs (Senra development kits for the new starter avatars) have been distributed, according to Patch Linden. We anticipate the updated versions of the bodies and heads to be released within a few weeks. In the meantime, we still have all submitted applications saved on file, and new applicants are continued to be welcomed. When the dev kit is ready for distribution, we will release it in batches, beginning with our…

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