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Comment on Project: Animation Export from Blender (update) by peter

peter — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:11:12 +0000

is there any possibility to teach me up

Comment on Project: Animation Export from Blender (update) by ganesh shetty

ganesh shetty — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:41:44 +0000

how much education want for animation diplomo?

Comment on It’s not for you. by anon

anon — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:11:58 +0000

As someone said on another blog recently, it’s a ‘nasty business’ where someone claims their concern for newbies’ welfare is born of higher principles, when it’s really all about their own business advantage and self-aggrandizement.

Comment on It’s not for you. by Free Hobbit Holes! « Dale Innis’s Weblog

Free Hobbit Holes! « Dale Innis’s Weblog — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:53:43 +0000

[...] read Jacek Antonelli on the subject, and she is hopeful that this will turn out to be a good thing even for the people [...]

Comment on It’s not for you. by Jacek Antonelli

Jacek Antonelli — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:50:47 +0000

Welcome, Prokofy! Your comment was just the thing this post needed to balance out the overly calm and rational writing style I tend to fall into. Thank you muchly!

Comment on It’s not for you. by Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:18:48 +0000

You are such a suck-up, Jacek, why not just go ahea and *become* a Linden?!

Every single thing you claim is false.

Non land-owners could get an island rental and more Lindens for their $10 — and the limitations would induce them to spend more elsewhere if they cross that threshold.

The notion of land ownership is destroyed by having a socialist communal apartment type of arrangement where you can’t sell the property.

The owners don’t own the land and are stuck with the house — that isn’t introducing anybody into ownership, but only to dependency, like government projects.

The areas are likely to prove magnets to griefers and scammers as the old first land did.

Users don’t move on to full-fledged mainland ownership, but move to island rentals or homesteads. I know, because I have enormous experience in running newbie villages and I know only a small percentage buy mainland after a mainland rental.

Preventing land from entering the commercial market might seem like a solution to flipping, but any encroachments on the market end up undercutting the entire concept of market.

And of course this *does* keep directly most of all with mainland rentals, which would find it hard to pay for 117 prims, and provide 117 prims for decorating on a 512 m2 without loss. It also competes with prefab makers.

Comment on It’s not for you. by Belochka

Belochka — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:44:23 +0000

I actually find myself agreeing with LL’s decision too. :0 I came in too late for First Land and, with so many other things you have to learn, researching how to buy land floored me. If it hadn’t been for striking up a friendship with someone who was already an Estate resident I wouldn’t have purchased land at all in my first year. It was a revelation to have a place to come back to get changed, rez items and do simple building. I know that sandboxes are there for that, but after my first experience of being griefed I gave up on public ones.

I wish that this had been an option when I’d joined.

Comment on Project: Animation Export from Blender (update) by ben

ben — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:44:35 +0000

is there a good 3d website that i can use

Comment on Animation Exporter Update (June 2) by Jim Mahoney

Jim Mahoney — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:36:07 +0000

Ah.

I see a tutorial describing the use of IPO constraints to
answer the previous question, at
http://blenderunderground.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2179

The interface seems erratic, but I think playing around with this will get me what I want.

Jacek, thanks again for your work.

Comment on Animation Exporter Update (June 2) by Jim Mahoney

Jim Mahoney — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:18:21 +0000

I feel like I’m missing something obvious about the IK hand/foot controllers and how their scale is connected to the IK influence
in the rig provided by this script.

I understand how it’s supposed (and usually does) work: changing
the length of the hand/foot controllers sets their influence from
0 to 1, switching between FK and IK on the limbs. And of course
having these on bones makes it simple to animate FK/IK transitions.

However, I have seen this become corrupted: at times the IK influence
is unaffected by the length of the controller. I can still go in
to the button panel and adjust the influence manually, but animation
is then more awkward. So far I’m unable to fix the problem,
or really understand what causes it; all I can do is go back to a previous save file and try again. It also means that in that file,
all my actions are now junk since the IK influence is set full on
in places where I had it turned off.

An example of such a corrupted file is available at http://drop.io/barrachois .

How is the connection between the length of the control bone
and the IK/FK influence set? I don’t see this in the constraints
on the hand/foot bones.

I’ve looked through the online docs, several printed books,
and posted a question on blenderartists.org for information
on this topic; so far without success. I’m using blender 249.2
on Mac OS 10.5.

Any ideas or suggestions from anyone reading this would
be appreciated, thanks.