Quick post

"It's quiet...too quiet."  --Peppy Hare, Star Fox series

Hey everyone...if you're still there :P  I know, it's been eerily quiet here (hence that Star Fox quote) over the last several months, but I don't have much to blog about.  Still working on the secret project, still blending whenever I have the time, and still ice-skating when I can (SKATING FTW!).

Hopefully things'll pick up again someday soon, but until then, Do a barrel roll!! :D

Amazing BlenderCookie video - a must-see for any Blender-Head!

Seriously, if you consider yourself a Blender-head then you have to see this:

http://www.blendercookie.com/2011/05/02/feature-preview-cycles-render-engine/

...yes, I know, this is my first post in who knows how long :P  what can I say?  I've been super busy with that secret project and haven't had much to blog about...  but that secret project will soon be secret no longer :D

Blog update coming tonight

I thought I'd give a little heads-up to the update coming tonight - mostly to keep Natron1 happy ;)  LOL, just kidding.

So there'll be some more NES snapshots as well as an old project that I've completely reworked in Blender 2.56a, plus maybe some random randomness, I don't know ;)

So, see you soon!

edit - actually, make that sometime in the next day or two :P  super-busy working on an important project.

NES Console Project - WIP 09

Get ready for some huge updates!

So, first off, a few weeks back I did a little test to see what the final scene would look like.  It isn't rendered or anything, just a screenshot of the 3D Viewport, but still, it gave me an idea of what I was actually going for.

...a lot of Path modifying (for the cables) will be waiting for me...

And then, over the last week or so (not counting the time I spent fighting with my laptop to get it working properly again) I finally started texturing some of the objects!

I actually had to completely rebuild the UV map for this, as the proportions were completely off O_o  I have absolutely no idea how that happened...anyway, moving on:

Computer Troubles...

Long story short, had to reformat the disk and re-reinstall Windows after reinstalling it and trying to add Linux Mint to my system.  Worked really great until Vista told me I was at the maximum number of partitions...and I want to completely reorganize, so I need disk partitions.

Everything's working great so far though, I've reinstalled roughly 75% of my programs (they're mostly open-source so it's easy enough) and started reorganizing. going to burn some stuff to DVDs as well to clean up some stuff I haven't used in years, haha

Will hopefully be able to finish cleaning up and reorganizing today, so I'll maybe work a bit on my NES project :D