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Blender nightly build scripts with timer

admin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:09:12 +0000

I collected few commands into script files to automate the Blender building process on Ubuntu and Windows. There is also timers set to measure the building time. For windows Timeit.exe is needed. It comes with the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools package. Ubuntu script should work on OS X also but I haven’t tested that yet.

Ubuntu
build.sh
#! /bin/bash cd blender; svn update; echo "BF_OPENAL_LIB = 'openal alut'" >> user-config.py; time python scons/scons.py;
Windows
build.bat
PATH=%PATH%;C:\Python26;^ C:\BlenderSVN\lib\windows;^ C:\BlenderSVN\lib\windows\QTDevWin;^ C:\BlenderSVN\lib\windows\pthreads\lib;^ C:\BlenderSVN\lib\windows\pthreads\include;^ C:\MinGW\bin;^ C:\MinGW\lib cd lib\windows svn update cd ..\..\blender svn update timeit python scons/scons.py BF_TOOLSET=mingw

Diving Into Blender

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:56:48 +0000

Blender 2.5 is finally approaching usable state and I thought that I could document my learning process here. I never got very far with learning Blender and after quite long break I’ve forgotten almost everything anyway.

As the project progresses rapidly setting up an automatic build system feels like a good starting point. Blender wiki seems to provide some good building info.

Change “primary” display on OS X

admin — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:19:32 +0000

Open system preferences -> displays -> arrangement. Just click and drag menu bar on display of your choice.

Binary Tree

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:59:05 +0000

What kind of plant is binary tree? Never seen one alive but on this t-shirt it looks pretty neat. Binary tree actually means a tree where every branch has at most two child branches.

Infector Wars

admin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:24:48 +0000

Just finished a new visual theme for Vector Wars by pyMike.

Download Infector Wars (PyGame is required)

Back up folder in tar.gz and split it to smaller chunks

admin — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:57:31 +0000

Making compressed archive from a folder:

tar -czvf destination.tar.gz source_folder/

Use split to slice the file. Slice size can be defined with -b option:

split -b 1100m destination.tar.gz destination_

To join parts use cat:

cat destination_a* > destination.tar.gz

To extract the compressed file:

tar -zxvf destination.tar.gz

Installing pyGame for OS X

admin — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 06:30:05 +0000

Find out the version of installed Python.
Type to terminal:

$ python -V

Load packages for your version of Python from:
http://pythonmac.org/packages/

Install needed packages:

pygame
PyObjC

Fade and resize div

admin — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:42:09 +0000

Fade and resize div with javascript:

http://www.nyokiglitter.com/tutorials/moofxtests

Zooming in OS X

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 14:07:36 +0000

Just hold Ctrl and roll the wheel of your mouse.

DVD encoding notes – PAL Finland

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:20:44 +0000

SoundStereo 16Bit
Max quality 48Hz audio-CD uses 44Hz.

Video

Pal, 720 x 576, 25 fps, Bottom field first

Wide

1024 x 576