New Machinimatrix Blog

Hi all. We have been running our Blog for about 2 years now and we are happy to report that we had almost 200,000 page hits, over 40,000 Video downloads and about 600 user comments within that time. As of today we get about 100...

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GridAlign Tool for blender (link)

What is the GridAlign Tool ? Sculpties are encoded using a 2d-image containing a 32-bit image map, where each axis is encoded in an 8 bit value. Thus There are only 256 valid vertex positions available along each axis. This...

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The wineglass problem (link)

Important Note: Please take a minute to read the Tutorial license terms. I am facing a few problems with texturing this wine glas. What you see here is a render output from blender.I use ray transparency with a fresnel value of...

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Modelling with Outlines (link)

https://vimeo.com/id abstract: We show you, how you can start with an empty mesh, draw an outline of an object and eventually create the full 3D-model. In the final step the object will be turned into a Sculptie using some...

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The Primstar (link)

Infotainment at its best. This is a short film about a builder who receives the order to create a five pointed star. Unfortunately she has not the slightest idea how to manage this built in the given time. So she activates her...

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Fund delivered to Domino

Hi, All Thank you again for your donations for the work of Domino Marama. In total we have collected an amount of about 500 US$ within 30 days which is not too bad! We have meanwhile managed to transfer all your Donations to...

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The Domino fund raising initiative!

Hi, Sculpters of the world; Thank you to all contributors On June-30-2009 the Machinimatrix team has started an initiative to help Domino Marama. The fund raising is closed now. We are currently preparing to send the collected...

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Images with alpha-channel

[blip.tv 11KBhtk7AA 320 200] abstract: The tutorial describes how you can enable image processing with alpha-channels in blender. In addition to that, we also show, how you can apply your own alpha-mask to your sculpt-map for...

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cylinders (link)

[blip.tv 11L91jEA 320 200] abstract: So now it is a series ? Lets go and make a closed cylinder, using subsurf and Crease. Important Note: Please take a minute to read the Tutorial license terms....

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JASSLibrary-1.3 (link)

JASSLibrary – The basic lib of Sculpts Introduction The Basic lib of Sculpts is a submodule of the “Jass-distribution“, a sculptie-studio based on Primstar. The library provides a set of basic sculpted prim...

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