I realised that many of the recent discussions in the “blender” IM-group in Second Life are related to Jass and Jass-pro issues. This may disturb some of those group members who are not interested at primstar/jass. So i decided...

What you need to know about JASS-2 JASS has been created with the non formal agreement from Domino Marama  from Dominodesigns and Ton Roosendaal from the blender organisation. Both individuals have encouraged us via IM, IRC and...

Here is a small tutorial about how to make a reasonable ladder out of one sculptie. Before you start modelling you will have to decide if you want your ladder to behave well with LOD (level of Detail) or not: If you want a...

2.3.4 New and fixed (up to 09-september-2010): FIX: Object Center sometimes jumps away from geometrical center during bake FIX: Objects sometimes jumps away from its original position during bake FIX: Multipart baker sometimes...

Dear Comunity I have now installed a binary Distribution Vendor in our JASS-Shop in Second Life. You will have to first visit this vendor before you can download Jass-2 PRO. If you face any problems please do not hesitate and...

I have decided to open the JASS-Shop. But be aware that it is not yet fully developped. In fact only very little of what i want to do has been done yet. But maybe it is a good idea to just open the shop and work on it in the...

Hi all. I have detected a bug in the SculptifyObjects tool. This bug causes blender to rotate the sculptmap by 90 degrees and thus borks the whole sculptmap. This problem can be seen in particular when you try out my recent...

abstract:The tutorial gives an insight into the texturing tools of blender. We show the secrets of ambient occlusion, how to bake highlights, how to set up the blender light system, how to use the node editor and how to create...

The Machinimatrix proudly presents the first binary Jass-Release for Mac (OSX-10.5 and newer). We have not solved all GUI problems, but after some tweeking we got a working solution which does no longer force you to process a...

  Here is a simple model of a sculpted fork. It is not meant as a finished model but as a starting point for your refinements. I have made it out of an 8*8 sculptmap. So it is LOD0 resistant. You can add 2 levels of Multires or...

Hi. I am very excited by now. I am getting closer to the finishing of the Jass-2 shop. Here is a preview of the half finished area. I hope to be able to get the details done until end of this week. You can expect to see the...

abstract:In this tutorial I will create a simple roman Column using the mirror modifier, Crease and Loop Subdivision. The tutorial covers any recent blender-version up to the currently recommended release 2.49b and Jass2....

abstract:In this tutorial I will introduce the curve-modifier and create a sculpted helix. The tutorial works with Blender 2.49b and Jass2....

abstract:The tutorial gives a more in depth introduction to the most important modelling tools in blender and shows some nice tricks for the every day usage of this tool. One highlight is the description of the primstar...

First of all we want to thank all those who have donated to us ever since this Blog has come to life 2 years ago! You definitively help us to keep this site up. Our decision to move away from WordPress to our own server (and...

This short text based tutorial shows you how you can make a curtain by using blender’s physics engine together with the Weight Paint tool. This tutorial is mainly a technologie study about the possibilities of weight...

We have been working on the infrastructure of this blog now for a couple of days and introduced some new features here for your convenience. So we hope that effort will enhance the usability of this site. So the machinimatrix...

[flowplayer pub bobbiesWeddingCake 320 250] Finally i managed to publish our last year’s contribution to the 48hour film contest. Here is “Bobbie’s wedding cake”. Special thanks go to Barbara Gescher (our...