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Comment by Rod_Kennedy 19 hours ago

Talk to Ron Proctor about his full dome camera rig. It produces great full dome images and all you have to do is point the camera the way you want it. Then when you render render a png sequence.

Comment by Daniel R. Tell 1 day ago

In my experience, and based on what I understand of making dome master fisheyes, Anim8or cannot handle fisheyes for fulldome rendering. I did a few experiments while we had a fulldome system at our facility for a demo, but there are some bugs in the program that prevent it from being useful (some imperfections in handling spheres), besides the ray tracer also seeming to be slower than Blender's (though that might be more of a ray depth issue on my end). Since I felt the winds of fulldome blowing, I figured I needed to get used to a program that'll be of more use to me when the day comes.

Anim8or may still have some uses for modeling, but Blender seems to have a lot of features that will be much more useful (I've really enjoyed what can be done with sculpt mode).

Thanks for the link to the course, I'll definitely look into it.

Comment by Andy Dolph 1 day ago

Welcome Daniel!

Will Anim8or render dome master fisheyes? if so it might be a good tool for some things...

As you (or anyone else) start learning blender you may find http://ocw.tufts.edu/Course/57
to be useful

it's a full - free - online course from tufts on learning blender from the very beginning.

Take care.

Andy

Comment by Daniel R. Tell 1 day ago

Hello everyone! As a recent convert to Blender (was using Anim8or before) it was suggested by some I join this group--although I didn't want to introduce myself untill I had something to share. I recently finished the Blender Basics manual and decided as my first task to recreate something I'd had to first make when I started using Anim8or four years ago: a martian tripod from HG Wells' The War of the Worlds.

Even managed to make a walk cycle (something that always confounded me in Anim8or): http://www.vimeo.com/5509920

I'm really impressed with Blender and look forward to getting a lot more use out of it! I've learned a lot reading through this group already and look forward to learning even more!

Comment by Mark Percy on July 8, 2009 at 7:53am

Hi everyone!

Just joined and wanted to say Hi.

Mark Percy - Williamsville Space Lab

Comment by Andy Dolph on July 1, 2009 at 10:25am

So Ron - give us a report on the workshops once you've had some sleep. :)

Comment by Ron Proctor on July 1, 2009 at 10:03am

(Hi Adam -- welcome to the group.)

Our second production workshop session ended Friday. The 2009 N2 group has earned the coveted Plato-Aristotle Keep Ron Up Way Past His Bedtime Award. :)

Comment by Adam Thomas Goss on June 30, 2009 at 9:25pm

Hello all Blendheads, my name is Adam and I'm from Colorado. Just wanted to say hi and look forward to many an interesting discussion.

Comment by Ron Proctor on June 6, 2009 at 9:07am

Our first production workshop concluded yesterday. Everyone made a lot of progress with the softare and the projects were great! I'm looking forward to the next session on the 22nd!

Comment by Waylena McCully on May 2, 2009 at 2:48pm

Woo-hoo!

Congrats to the both of you!

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