Journal Entry
Date: Wendesday, November 7th 2007
Author: Qin Jue Hang

Um, yes...Kat Wylder? Ok nevermind.

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QuietDune
QuiteDune is going to be a renderer integrated into Blender. Adn what makes it different from Yafray, :Indigo, or any other renderer associated with Blender is that...it is Renderman Compliant! That means you can write your own shaders, and best of all, micropolygon rendering! Micropolygon rendering, in essence, is just to subdivide polygons till they are smaller than your pixels, only when that particular part of the image, or bucket, is rendered. In other words, it can render hundreds or thousands of millions of polygons, with only 1GB of RAM! (In an acceptable time)

Blender 2.45
Well, this might not be news to many people. And not much features too. But a new release IS a new release, and the new features are...nothing. turns out to be a bugfix release. The bugs fixed are here:[link]


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We have 11 members and two admins. If you would like to become a part of this club, send a note to one of our Admins or to the club stating that you would like to join, and you will be added to our members.

Members:
:teethonreed::dparke::drdearth::SoulWhiteBlood:yrohmstr::superkoop:

Admins:


Founder:


Affiliates:

Club Directories:

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Club rules:
-Admins would be given the password, but please do not vandalise.
-To be an admin one needs to donate 20 pieces to the club.
-To submit your pieces, please send a note to the club stating your deviation URL and the category in which it should be placed.

Prints:
-This club owns a prints account. The money received from prints is used for subscriptions to DeviantArt.
-To qualify as a print, a deviation must have at least 2000x2000 or higher resolution, and have 200 views or 2 faves.
-When submitting a deviation for print, please add the following into your comments: "Blender-3D-Club has my permission to use this deviation as a print."

Scraps and Resources:
-Scraps are now the HDRI zone.
-Please acknowledge the Blender3D club and the original creator when using HDRI or resources. Do not claim any work featured here as your own. Please link back to the original deviations.

Journal Entry
Date: Saturday, May 26th 2007
Author: Qin Jue Hang

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New Release of Blender!
Blender 2.44 is out! The long overdue SSS is added, and finally we could render translucent objects without depending on plugins that are based on vertex lighting.
You can download it here

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ECHO Project
A new project, and one that few people know about too. this project aims to integrate one of he best open source real-time rendering engine, with one of the best open source modelers and extremely easy to use game logic editors. It is still in a preliminary stage, with no support for Blender so far, just a link between the physics engine Blender uses (COLLADA) and OGRE, but the intentions are bold.

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HDRI Lighting
HDRI lighting is something everyone knows about. I'm going to upload a few as resources, and I hope everyone would join in.HDRI is a promising technology, that makes almost any halfway decent render extremely realistic.

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Prints
Once again, please submit your artworks as prints if you think they are good enough. Our official renderer is a bit busy at the moment, or so I hope, because I lost contact with him for a while.

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Links
Blender's Official Website: [link]
Blender Nation: [link]
BlenderWiki: [link]
ECHO Project:[link]

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Competition
Well, I wanted it to be a private competition, but...well, just decided to put it up here. This time, a much more sinister theme than TV . Make something emo. KatWylder wanted me to explain "emo", but I just think it spoils the fun. Why the limits? If all goes well, We'll be voting. I, of course, already have my entry, don't accuse me of cheating :wink:. It starts when you see this, and ends at 15 June. So everyone, brace your computers!

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We have 11 members and two admins. If you would like to become a part of this club, send a note to one of our Admins or to the club stating that you would like to join, and you will be added to our members.

Members:


Admins:


Founder:


Affiliates:

Club Directories:

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Club rules:
-Admins would be given the password, but please do not vandalise.
-To be an admin one needs to donate 20 pieces to the club.
-To submit your pieces, please send a note to the club stating your deviation URL and the category in which it should be placed.

Prints:
-This club owns a prints account. The money received from prints is used for subscriptions to DeviantArt.
-To qualify as a print, a deviation must have at least 2000x2000 or higher resolution, and have 200 views or 2 faves.
-When submitting a deviation for print, please add the following into your comments: "Blender-3D-Club has my permission to use this deviation as a print."

Scraps and Resources:
-Scraps are now the HDRI zone.
-Please acknowledge the Blender3D club and the original creator when using HDRI or resources. Do not claim any work featured here as your own. Please link back to the original deviations.

Journal Entry
Date: Saturday, April 14th 2007
Author: Kat Wylder

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Blender Model Repository
Due to legal issues, the Blender Model Repository site is moving, and the individuals who run it are still trying to pay off the legal fees. They can use support and donations, which can be made using PayPal on their site, here. Even one dollar can go a long way to helping them out.

The new BMR is located here.

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Familiar Feel

BlenderNation reports that Daniel Lara Martinez has created a new Blender interface. If you think it looks familiar, you're right. Martinez' setup is designed to emulate that of Maya or 3DS Max. If you're a Blender newbie migrating from one of these programs, (or migrating to them), you might consider using this resource to ease the transition.

The package can be found here.

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Club Listings
The club has signed up for listing with the following directories. Check out the Club Directory, The Fella Pages, List-Inc, and DA Club Yellow Pages, and you might spot our club!


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Official Renderer

Photographer and 3D artist antonius-q has agreed to be the club's official render. You can see the render schedule < a href="http://antonius-q.deviantart.com/journal/12649131/#journal">here

Update: Please do not ask the club to render anything commercial or personal, only works that are completely non-commercial and that would be submitted to the club's gallery. Thank You.

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Resources

I'd like to encourage everyone to consider uploading resources, be they textures, tutorial, .BLEND files, or anything else. We've already received a note from a deviant who used one of our resources in this photomanipulation, and our textures have been featured

If anyone has a custom [painted] texture request please send me a note at: I generally do 1000x1000 pixel JPEGs for basic, repeating textures. I do not generally do photographs; I create my textures in the painting programs I use.
Edit by Qinjuehang: There are HDRI's here (terragen) by myself.

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Links!

Blender Nation

Blenderart Magazine

Get Blender 2.43
Version 2.43 features
Version 2.43 Release Notes

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We have 11 members and two admins. If you would like to become a part of this club, send a note to one of our Admins or to the club stating that you would like to join, and you will be added to our members.

Members:

Admins:

Founder:

Affiliates:
Club Directories:

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Club rules:
-Admins would be given the password, but please do not vandalise.
-To be an admin one needs to donate 20 pieces to the club.
-To submit your pieces, please send a note to the club stating your deviation URL and the category in which it should be placed.

Prints:
-This club owns a prints account. The money received from prints is used for subscriptions to DeviantArt.
-To qualify as a print, a deviation must have at least 2000x2000 or higher resolution, and have 200 views or 2 faves.
-When submitting a deviation for print, please add the following into your comments: "Blender-3D-Club has my permission to use this deviation as a print."

Scraps and Resources:
-Scraps are now the HDRI zone.
-Please acknowledge the Blender3D club and the original creator when using HDRI or resources. Do not claim any work featured here as your own. Please link back to the original deviations.

Journal Entry
Date: Monday, March 5th 2007
Author: Kat Wylder

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New Affiliate
The Blender3D Club has been invited to become an affiliate of -- a Portuguese 3D club. So, you might consider stopping by and checking out their gallery. They have some teriffic stuff!

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Blender 2.43 Released

The stable version 2.43 of Blender is now available for download! The newest version features include "sculpt mode" and tablet pressure support for windows, new nodes, improvements to the animation system, and more.

Get Blender 2.43: [link]
Version 2.43 features: [link]
Version 2.43 Release Notes: [link]

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Upload Problem

I'd like to mention a problem I've run into in trying to submit some of our members deviations-- the PNG file format. When you upload your files as a "blank" PNG, no one can download them, and neither can I. If you use a blank PNG in your gallery, please include URL to an alternate file that I can use for the club. For example, you can post your blank PNG in your own gallery and direct me to a JPEG on PhotoBucket or a similar site. I'd greatly appreciate it if everyone could remember this.

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Resources

So far the club contains only art renderings. We have one "scrap", and no tutorials or resources. I'd like to encourage everyone to consider uploading resources such as stock images for texture, tutorials, "tips and tricks", .BLEND files, and other resources to the club.

Also, if anyone has a custom [painted] texture request please send me a note at: I generally do 1000x1000 pixel JPEGs for basic, repeating textures. I do not generally do photographs; I create my textures in the painting programs I use.
Edit by Qinjuehang: There are HDRI's here (terragen) by myself.

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We have 9 members and one admin. If you would like to become a part of this club, send a note to one of our Admins or to the club stating that you would like to join, and you will be added to our members.

Members:

Admins:

Founder:

Affiliates:
Club Directories:

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Club rules:
-Admins would be given the password, but please do not vandalise.
-To be an admin one needs to donate 20 pieces to the club.
-To submit your pieces, please send a note to the club stating your deviation URL and the category in which it should be placed.

Prints:
-This club owns a prints account. The money received from prints is used for subscriptions to DeviantArt.
-To qualify as a print, a deviation must have at least 2000x2000 or higher resolution, and have 200 views or 2 faves.
-When submitting a deviation for print, please add the following into your comments: "Blender-3D-Club has my permission to use this deviation as a print."
-We also need an official renderer, for the high resolution required for prints. The official render will be granted admin status, and if 20% of the club's deviant dollars is enough to start an account at any one time, a subscription would be donated to you.

Scraps and Resources:
-Scraps are now the HDRI zone.
-Please acknowledge the Blender3D club and the original creator when using HDRI or resources. Do not claim any work featured here as your own. Please link back to the original deviations.

Now, we have 7 members and one admin. We seroiusly need member, and please join. Send a note to or to the club stating that you can join, and you will be allowed, haha.
Members:

Admins:

Founder:



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Club rules:
-Admins would be given the password, but please do not vandalise.
-To be an admin one needs to donate 20 pieces to the club or be the founder.(lol)
-To submit your pieces, please send a note to the club stating your deviation URL and the category it should be at.

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Club news:
-Blender 2.43 out soon. A RC (release candidate) can hopefully be out before xmas. Yay! Info can be found here
And amazingly, a long awaited GameEngine feature, baking lightng into textures, is finally going to be part of 2.43. Remember to check out blender.org often to be the first to get the new build.

-Our first ever onmpetition! Labelled the TV challenge, we are supposed to make a still render of a TV set, complete with enviroment (ie room), speakers, and stuff. Everyone has 2 votes at the end, and vote by commenting on the piece stating that you want to vote. No voting for yourself. Please judge by photorealism and design.

-We are gonna start a print account. Now, the money would be used for subscriptions if we have enough. To qualify as a print, a deviation must have at least 2000x2000 or higher resolution, and have 200 views or 2 faves. I know I'm asking a lot, but we only want the best. And if submitting a deviation for print, please add the following into your comments:'Blender-3D-Club is granted to use this deviation as a print' (Yes quality lowered the standard if not...we'll have no prints.)

-We also need an official renderer, for rendering prints. Please volunteer, as you would be granted admin status, and if 20% of our deviant dollars is enough to start an account at any one time, a subscription would be donated to you. Thank you and I know you would very much want to join. After all, who could withstand my charm? (jus' kiddin)

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Now, I have labelled scraps as the HDRI zone. I uploaded one, please acknowledge the Blender3D club and if used. Ty

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The club has been quiet...I'm off at school, and KatWylder's gone from deviantart...guys, c'mon, need more devotion!