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Submission + - Your ideal game creation tool?

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LetterRip

on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @02:46AM

LetterRip writes: "If you had free reign to sculpt Blender into the ideal professional game content creation tool, what sort of features would you like added and what sort of changes would you like to see be made? What features do you think need the most improvement to fit into a professional game developers work flow? The Blender Foundations game project team Apricot wants to know."

Submission + - Creating the perfect game content creation tool. (blender.org) 1

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LetterRip

on Saturday December 15, 2007 @01:58AM

LetterRip writes: "The team from the Blender and Crystal Space Project Apricot want to know what features would help make Blender the perfect tool for your game content creation work flow. If you would like to turn Blender into your ultimate tool for either creating your original game models, or for adding models for a 'game mod' then please post your request (here or at the blender development forum. The Blender Institutes other major project the open movie Rabbits Revenge (aka Project Peach) has already resulted in some pretty amazing improvements in Blenders tools for creating beautiful fur and for animation."

Submission + - How Blender compares to the Major 3D applications

Submitted by LetterRip on Sunday September 30, 2007 @08:19PM

LetterRip writes: CGWorld and CGTalk recently asked whether OpenSource software set to become the dominant toolset in feature film production? Also TDT 3D did a comparison chart with the Major 3D Digital Content Creation applications such as Maya, 3DS Max, and XSI, and of course Blender in this 3D Application Comparison. Blender came out surprisingly well, although it definitely still has some weaknesses. So what do slashdotters think? Can Blender 'take over' the 3D industry or will it always be just for 'freelancers and hobbyists'?

Submission + - Blender 'Peach' presale hits 1000 mark (blender.org)

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LetterRip

on Tuesday September 25, 2007 @05:01AM

LetterRip writes: "The Blender Foundation reached its goal of 1000 Project Peach 'Furry and Funny' DVD presales. The cool bit is that all preorders paid for before October 1st get to be listed in the movie credits."

Submission + - Blender Open Movie 2 and an Open Game announced (blender.org)

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on Monday June 11, 2007 @01:08AM

LetterRip writes: "The Blender Foundation has announced 'Peach' a second open movie project, their first open movie project was 'Project Orange' that resulted in Elephants Dream. Peach is planned to be a funny movie in contrast to the dark and surreal nature of Elephants Dream. A second exciting announcement is that in cooperation with Crystal Space and NLGD Conference ( the "Nederlandse Game Dagen" the annual conference for the Netherlands game industry) an open game (Project Apricot) will be developed. Lastly the Blender Foundation announced the establishment of the Blender Institute that will be a studio dedicated to hosting these and future projects. Also the Blender Foundation has put out a new manual 'Essential Blender' to make it easier to learn Blender. For those unfamiliar with Blender it is a free 3d animation suite."

Submission + - GMail spam filter has huge false positive

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LetterRip

on Thursday May 31, 2007 @12:48PM

LetterRip writes: "I love GMail, but I just went through my spam inbox and found 8 false positives most from correspondents from India, that is a false positive rate of 1% of the stuff flagged as spam, and a much larger percentage of my emails not flagged as spam for the same time period. According to a search this is better than yahoos and hotmails false positive rate which are confirmed by my personal experience. Unfortunately they are far worse than a number of open source filters such as spamassassin. So slashdot — what do you do to battle your false positives of spam for google? Is there an easy way to retrieve all messages that end in your spam box so that a superior filter can be used to correct the errors?"

Submission + - A new Blender release

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LetterRip

on Monday May 14, 2007 @01:48AM

LetterRip writes: "A recent Ask Slashdot asked why the free 3D animation suiteBlender was so popular — the reason? It kicks ass :) Here is another great release fresh out of the compiler. One of the major new features this release is subsurface scattering that gives a beautiful soft appearance to skin and other materials. Also some nice sculpting tweaks and improvements, a number of animation feature enhancements, and much more."

Submission + - Blender 2.43 released - with Google SOC tools

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LetterRip

on Sunday February 18, 2007 @07:08PM

LetterRip writes: "Blender 2.43 the free 3d animation suite has been released. There are a number of amazing new features including sculpting (which was supported by Googles Summer of Code) — you can now sculpt huge poly counts (6.5 million!) on Linux; fast 3D texture painting and numerous animation tool improvements."

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