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Started this discussion. Last reply by Rovy Branon (Admin Account) Oct. 26, 2009.
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Blender has become a force in planetarium show production. This group is for the blendheads.
Good work with " Clockwork Skies " Well Done
UPDATED FEBRUARY 2010
Minor Changes -- added license info and a few other details.
Just append the camera parts if you don't want it to mess with your interface.
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Ron, this looks really good. I can see you are always pushing blender to a new level. By the way, did you acquire a new starmap? The one you are using in Expanded View looks really nice, especially the Milky Way.
OTT PLANETARIUM ANNOUNCES NEW FULLDOME PRODUCTION: EXPANDED VIEW
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- At 1:54am on December 11, 2009,
Mogi Massimo Vicentini said… - Dear Ron,
after years working on 3DStudio Max, I'd like to shift to Blender and I just downloaded version 2.5.
A lot of things and of course a different approach have to be learned... I don't know how far I'll be able to go, but I think it's worth a try (this would enable me to quit Win and have it run it on a 64bit serious OS, like Mac or Linux!).
One of the first things which puzzle me is the apparent absence of the "dummy" object equivalent of 3DSMax. I made extensive use of them expecially in cynematics; for example, to have a planet circling the Sun, to tilt its axis, to move, scale or make appear or disappear a group of objects the same way, I tipically link them to a dummy, then make it alone turn, run or vanish. Every linked object then could move or change with respect to it, and so I got complex behaviours in a fairly straightforward way (I also tried the difficult task of modelling a particle spiral the same way... but very hard at rendering time).
I wonder how a trained Blender designer would solve this kind of function.
I had a look at your nice work, and I think you may have some comment or suggestion about my doubt (nobody in Italy is using Blender, at least in astronomy)... in the meanwhile, I think I'll go on practicing with the new release this winter.
Kind regards, Mogi Vicentini
http://mogi-vice.com/index-english.html
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