Disturbing retirement home story of the week: an old man in an patient interview sings'i ain't got nobody', breaks down crying, and slips into a screaming post-traumatic stress disorder flash back from World war 2. Have a nice day.
Linux, Drums and Penni
Disturbing retirement home story of the week: an old man in an patient interview sings'i ain't got nobody', breaks down crying, and slips into a screaming post-traumatic stress disorder flash back from World war 2. Have a nice day.
Tuesday: no practice. over the last 2 weeks on my days off i have been tweaking my XFCE linux desktop to look as good as my gnome setup. The gnome panel was just too laggy. Tonight i got it just right with no config file hacking. Good transparencies and colors. Life is good.
Monday: My boss found a big scary reporting issue. Heard the mix down for MVP. Their was some vocal layering that i did not like. I told scott. I think a pissed him off. The drums were good so I yeilded. Go team.
Sunday: recorded the drums for MVP. Saw They Might Be Giants with penni at the neighborhood Theater. Awesome. Bought a shirt and a hoodie for penni.
Saturday: izzy's. oil change. Groceries. dinner with Penni, chuck and anna at Blue. had a 200 dollar bill. Downtown was full of loud drunks in halloween costumes.
Friday: Zoua caught a 3,000,000 dollar miskey in STAR yesterday. Its been nasty and rainy all week. love it. I bought tmbg tix for penni and me. Went to practice. Worked no playing MVP with a click track. Penni's been watching horror movies all week.
Tuesday: no practice. Bought a 1 GB SD card for scott's key. went to ruby tuesdays with penni. Penni bought a dress on ebay with my account. Penni made this horrorible joke about my parents having sex, complete with sound effects and catch-phrases. She totally destroyed me. I am now ruined for life. Funny stuff.
Monday: I'm still battling IS for knowledge presenter updates. Had a salad for lunch at showmars with miss A, dana and kursty. Scott had vertigo and felt bad at practice. Danny fixed the mix on fighting E and 2 snare shots on blown away. I bought him bojangles. Worked on lyrics for a song idea.
Sunday: ate breakfast at izzy's. There was a article in the loaf about a preacher who was found dead tied up in a wetsuit with a dildo in his butt. Nice. I worked on wedding invitations in openoffice.org went on a long walk with penni. Got a litte dizzy. Penni was googling wedding partydresses all night.
Saturday: slept late. Kept rolling over and squishing the dog. Scott bought this sick key board, sampling expansion board, and midi floor controller. The manual is like a sears catalog. Rock! Phillip got this prank phone call from a girl who said she was an bored autrailian exchange student. Nice.
Friday:decided to lose 30lbs for the wedding in january. Skipped breakfast. ran to foodlion for a low fat lunch meat. Sketched out a plan and a gay litte chart. Awesome. IS is dragging their feet on finishing the phone upgrade project. Penni is having issues with nurses neglecting old at her facility. She is raising all kinds of hell these.
Thursday: unloaded chicken with mike for PA day. Dana went home sick after lunch. Printed out tomorrow's paper billing. No practice. Bought and cooked fajitas with chips and sausa for penni. Watched Drawn together. A new version of Ubuntu was released yesterday. I was already running the release canidate. I am awesome!!1 I crashed early at midnight.
Wednesday: swam through network printer issues all day. accidentally set alarm off at the practice space. Worked with drumming in the tempo shifting meternome coach, quite intense. Heard F E mixdown. Snare mixed too low:( Penni taped the new south park for me. Crashed about 2am.
Tuesday: made a dumb joke about niki's statistics class. You don't have to be so MEAN about it. :) i am a comedy monster. Had practice. Demo mix down is still in process. Scott dinged his guitar. Phillip has to be out of his apartment in 2 weeks.
Monday: No practice. Watched the family Guy star wars episode. Penni cooked these weird little bagel pizzas for me. They were great.
Sunday: slept late. Went to izzy's. Went shopping with Penni and her cool hat:) . The grocery store was packed. Everyone was loud and moving so slow. I was getting mad. Got home and felt better. Went to practice to record Blown Away. The new ride cymbal sounded great. Everyone was late. Daniel was feeling bad so i bought him some bojangles. Crashed at 2am.
Sent Penni a dozen pink roses. Go me! :) had 2 gyros from Nikos for lunch. Did a phone project survey of the building. 10 phones are missing. Opensuse 10.3 was released today. According to reviews DEBs are still faster than RPMs. Yes, and water is still wet.:)
Saturday: slept late. took Penni to get her old changed. Visited the nursing home that penni works at. I could not do that for a living. She is an angel! Lunch at ruby tuesdays. Shopping with penni. Rented 1408 and clerks 2. Clerks was epically awesome.
Saturday: No practice, Slept late. Carabas with penni. She napped then we got coffees and walked around south park laughing at every one. Added an octave me bell sound and a girl speaking french to my old 202 sampler. 4am now:/
Headache all morning. Working on adding a log file to the satanically complex clickon balancing db. Talked about the abortion episode of the sarah silvermann program.
No practice yesterday. Picked up cookies and lemon water for Penni. Ordered a 22 inch ride, new 13 inch hi hats, a ported bass drum head, cymbal bag and big ritas gift logo sticker. Whee. Practice tonight.
The drum stick wrap helped a lot. I have only one new blister after 2 straight days of practice. used 14inch hats tonight. Tried playing without lights tonight. Used a new piano song tonight. Its awesome. I did ok. Got home at midnight. Penni taped a new south park for me tonight. God i love her.:)
Tuesdays: ran to radio shack at lunch for td-5 adapter. Went to practice. The td-5 is busted.:(
Weekend: Practice, hand blood blisters, chuck hears band, statesville church chicken cookout, saw old scout master, good talk with dad, bought new paiste pst5 18 inch crash, tryed distorted dr pad at practice.
*-add note and finished dates.UI Navigation - 4/18/2009
Zoom for laptops = MMB + CtrlThe Power of Blender Screens - 4/18/2009
Maximize split screen = Ctrl+Up/Bottom Arrow.
ctrl left/right = jump to layouts model,Animation, Model etc.. this will be useful to create layout for front, top, side, and camera views.Navigating the Buttons Window - 4/18/2009
Button Panels can be maximized with ctrl+up.Super Time-Saving Tips (Part 1) - 4/18/2009
Button Panels tabs can be stacked by LMB dragging and dropping them on top of each other.
RMB Click on the button panels to allign them vertically or horizontally.
Ctrl+L = link vertices (like you have a two spheres joined, just select a point on one sphere and Ctrl+L to select all whole sphere.Pivot Power (Controlling the Scaling and Rotation Pivot) - 4/18/2009
W key obj mode = boolean
edit mode = specials menu (common commands)
MMB = hold the MMB to constrain function like move, scale and rotate to X,Y, and Z axis
Mesh Tool Panel Centre Button = in edit mode it centers the off origin obj to the center point.
select swap button = inversed selected point vertices on an object.
hide and reveal selected faces with hide and reveal buttoms on mesh tools1 panel. (or HKey and Alt+HKey
Use Mesh Tools1 panel Button: Edge Length, Edge Angles and Face Area to show dimensions of line, angles and Area, (autocad style :D)
ctrl 1,2,3,4 = quickly change the subsurf modifier (awesome!)
select > random (random vertices!)
Alt+B to display only a part of the box selected object ( for quick screen fresh with complete objects.
Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V work for copying and pasting panel values (colors, text and numbers)
The Tab Key works in text and number entry fields
Ctrl+C works to copy attributes like size and rotation, select the obj to edit first, then the obj with the desired properties.
the pivot button and "..." button can be used to rotate other object's center points around a selected object's center point. This would be useful in have objects "dance" in unison.
The 3D cursor location is set with the LMB Click.
The MKey in object mode displays the layers control. ( ie: Select a cube, press M, select layer 2.
O key = proportional select for laptop (???) research it
LMB draw straight line for MOVEBlender's Built-in HotKey and MouseAction Reference - 4/18/2009
LMB draw a curve to ROTATE
LMB draw a sharp V to SCALE
It work on 2D Lines and curvers too.
under Help > HotKey and MouseAction Reference,
includes a search function.
You can change the color of the dev lighting and change the color 3d space you model in.Camera Panel, Scaling the Camera, Multiple Cameras - 4/19/2009
lens = zoom3D Ring Band - 4/19/2009
clipping = where the camera view starts and end
name = toggles display of name of camera
passepartout = blacks out the area arround the camera view.
ctrl numpad zero = look through the selected camera (for laptop ???)
Ctrl N = used to flip normals, fixed smoothing/render errors.Text in Blender Curves Editing Curves Oversampling (aka OSA or Anti-aliasing) - 4/19/09
you can split you screen and pipe the render result tto teh image editor screen with Screen panel > save buffer > image editorCutting a Hole in Your Mesh - 4/20/09
use Render panel > Render tab > fields > Mitch for sharp renders
Edit mode: Wkey subdivide mesh
delete a vertex: Xkey, select rim, shift+S for cursor to selection, Mesh Tools tab, ToSphere Button. extrude, then Control+R for ring select, Shift+E for Crease tool
Shift click layer control to enable layerShowcase your 3D Models with a Basic Studio-styled Setup
Parent camera to a rectangle, that is centered on the target. set the camera to track the object with Control+T.
add plane obj under target to show shadows.
basic render settings:
Lamp button> Shadows and spots > Adaptive QMC
World button > Blend > blue and white gradient
World button > Amb Occ > approximate (better softer shadows) (missing in menu ???)
select plain > materials > Only shadow
Rendering Solid Wireframes (5/2/2009)
Shift key = fine moviements
Shift D for Dup,
Use zoffs value to offset visible wireframe material obj from solid material obj
Tweak the alpha setting of the wireframe obj to control the line thickness.
Materials: spec low, Hard low and Emit high for bright objects.
Create a bezier curver and a bezier circle.
Rename the bezier circle to "cc" and then type in "cc" curve's BevObj field.
Enable the 3b button on the curve and surface panel to move the curve in 3d space.
DefResolU = high values for smoothness
select a endpoint and Alt+S to fatten a end of a tube.
Convert to mesh = Alt+C
user setsmooth and add a subsurf modifier for
faster objects
create a bezcurve and increase Bevel depth and BezResol
Using Your Mouse for 3D Animation (series) (5/17/2009)
Inthe IPO window, press Control+R key to record mouse movements.
Hold the ControlKey to do the actual recording.
Press the HomeKey to center the IPO curve.
you may use this technique on a camera object to emulate a shaky hand held camera.
load the background image with >>view menu >> background image>> browse to image
center with x and y offset, blend = alpha
add bez circle, press the Zkey to jump to wire frame mode,
Hold the shift key for finer translation movements
Select to points on the bez circle and press the Wkey subdivide the section. repeat sub division to make the weird blender logo spikes.
While selecting the verts press the V key to create sharp end points for straight lines
you may use the N key to inter values for point locations
add color
press the B Key press x2 for paint select mode and select inner circle,
press the Pkey to separate.
use the color sampling to add color to the inner and outer part of the logo.
curve tab > extrude to add thickness
curve tab > bevel depth to add bevel
curve tab > BevResol depth to add bevel
add text, type blender, browser to
Alt+C to convert font to curve.
"example trees on a path"The Lattice Modifier Lattice Animation The Mesh Deform Modifier, Using a Lattice to Redesign your 3D Model (5/27/09)
in object mode, select tree and then shift select the path, click Control+P. select the Path, in the curves and surfaces tab we disable the Follow Curve button,
in obj mode, select the object button and in the anim tab select DupliFrame, that creates 1 copy per "edit button > curves and surfaces > pathlength
set anim > dup end to the max number of objects so the extras don't stack up at the end of the curve.
make the duplicate of the path real by selecting: object menu > Clear/Apply > make duplicates real
1) insert a lattice arround you obj.Video Titling Techniques #1 (The Basics) 06/13/09
2) select the obj and lattice then use Control+P and select Deform Lattace.
3) subdivide the lattice with Edit Button > lattice tab > U:3, V:3 and W:3.
4) Tab into Edit Mode and grab/move the vects to warp the object.
Create a plain and delete all point but one.
move to center by key N
Apply white material
set Hard = half
set Add = low
shader hardness = max
enable Lines or Star
Enable Halo button
Set Halo = 3
Using the node editor for compositing / layering
have your objects on different layer.
to move an object to a layer select it then press the M key, select a layer then click OK.
Set up multiple mats for different glint "angles"
set up render layers by
scene render layers tab > name and then select a layer
"cymbal" and "glint"
the lights have to be of the enable of a different layer or on the same layer as you objects.
switch to Nodes screen. select the composite nodes button and then select use Nodes
use Shift+D to create a duplicate of the render layer
use the spacebar to insert: Add > color > alpha over
connect the layer to the compositor in the order of bottom layer first, top layer last.
select do compositing to show you changes.
go to the sequencer window
add your scene and then add a effect layer of glow to tweak glint.