freestyle

hey all, today i had some time to try out freestyle intergration, i have played with this a long time ago and since then alot has been done, its even been ported to 2.5 and all those changes have really been done for the better, its stable and very nice and extends the edge renderer beautifully (just need more strokes to play with ;) )

anyway here is a couple of renders

2.5 tour #9 part6 :Follow Up

Hey all here is another 2.5 tour for ya's, this is just a follow up tour going throguh the problems that has been fixed since my last tours like drivers for instance, and alot of the new things

whats covered (from memory :S )
- Continuous Grab
- KeyingSets UI/Keying
-Fcurve modifiers
-Fcurve Pivot Points and 2d Cursor
-Drivers
-Projection Based snapping
-Raytrace improvments
-Practical Example use of Drivers
- anything else that i have forgotten :)

Anyway here is the tour
http://mfoxdogg.com/2_5_tour_followup.ogg

And here is the jack in the box .Blend
http://mfoxdogg.com/jackinthebox_test.blend

Hope you all enjoy it :)

2.5 Deep shadow maps

Just a quick small post, recently Brecht commited his own version of deep shadow maps.

Keep in mind its jest so the durian team can do some shading tests and lacks many features the joeedh's DSM has like tiled maps and catering for transparencies, and shear speed

anyway images speak louder then words so here ya go

Classic-halfway buffer


Deep Shadow Buffer

2.5 tour #9 part5 :Cache editing

this is a short tour of cache editing in 2.5, not much to say really :)

just watch it and be amazed :)

http://mfoxdogg.com/2_5_tour_cache_edit.ogg

Hope you all enjoy it :)

2.5 tour #9 part 4 particles and simulation

here is part 4 of my 9th tour : particles and simulations

covers:
-where things are now
-new cache system
-effectors
-point density texture
-and a few other things that have slipped my mind atm (too tired)

I must admit this wasn';t my greatest tour there is quite a few crashes and i tended to wander around a bit but i still hope you all enjoy it :)

http://mfoxdogg.com/2_5_tour9_physics.ogg

2.5 tour #9 part 3 : materials/shading

here is part 3 of 2.5 tour #9 : materials and shading

- tour of new buttons layout and how to use it
- multiple material
- Textures
- New bumpmapping and colour managment
- Volumetrics
-Volumetric Textures

http://mfoxdogg.com/2_5_tour_shading.ogg

Hope you all enjoy it :)

2.5 tour #9 part 2

this part covers the new animation system

it covers
- Basic Keyframing
- Keying sets
- Fcurve basics
- Modifiers
- Drivers ( didn't want to work but i showed the procedure)
- Quat V Eulars
- NLA editor

so anyway here it is 2.5 tour Part2: animation

http://mfoxdogg.com/2_5_tour_animation.ogg

Hope you all enjoy it