Commenting post 1: Scale does not work as expected.
For example try to put in negative parameters. This should in case of -1.0 just mirror the part.
-1.0 in X does nothing.
-1.0 in Y changes x and y coordinates.
Negative numbers for scaling should be usable for the purpose of mirror tranformations in python scripting.
I tried at with freecad 0.13git1904

Commenting post 97: Thank you very much for this post. Amazing review!

I really enjoy your architectural work, especially the sketches. I was wondering if you could do a tutorial for that. I use a combo of hand sketches and photoshop and am not a fan of the final product.

Thanks!

Obrigado pela resposta, perguntei em inglês por conta do site ser todo em inglês.

Caramba, não imaginava que funcionaria tão bem! Quanto aos jogos, não vou jogar nada "mais real que a realidade", e considero os jogos que você citou bons parâmetros para o que eu costumo jogar. Recentemente instalei o Steam no Arch e comecei a rodar uns jogos. Os mais leves rodam tranquilamente na Intel HD Graphics, mas sinto falta de alguns jogos AAA, como Dragon Age, por exemplo.

Achar um touchpad decente é difícil mesmo. O do meu notebook não funciona bem nem no Windows com os drivers do fabricante. Já a wireless não seria problema, pois eu uso o kernel 3.8 diariamente (usar distro rolling dá nisso, já está na versão 3.8.7!).

Sempre bom ver alguém mostrando boas experiências com o GNU/Linux. Valeu mesmo pela ajuda! =D

Commenting post 265: Ola Saulo

Sim, todas as teclas Fn (mudar o volume do som, o brilho, ligar/desligar o touchpad, etc) funcionam, não precisei fazer nem instalar nada para isso, para a bateria francamente não posso te dizer porque uso ela muito raramente (quando o note ta aqui na mesa retiro a bateria para poupar). O touchpad me parece ótimo, suporta multi-touch sim (pelo menos o scroll com 2 dedos, não consegui fazer zoom ainda). Para jogos esté tudo perfeito, no momento estou jogando Serious Sam 3, Oil Rush, Mass Effect e BioShock, todos com todos os settings no máximo (ok vc vai dizer alguns são jogos um pouco antigos já) mas mesmo assim, jogar no linux nunca foi tão bom assim...

Para resumir, acho quo o note funciona 100% no linux. As únicas dificuldades que tem são:

1) o driver wireless, apesar deles dizer que está incluido a partir do kernel 3.8, aqui tive que compilar o driver mesmo com esse kernel. Bom, mas se você olhar no código do kernel, o driver está la sim, portanto acho que rapidamente isso vai ser resolvido (parece que funciona já no próximo ubuntu que vai sair agora - http://askubuntu.com/questions/271757/how-to-make-realtek-8723-recognize-the-network ). De qualquer modo funciona. Único pormenor, a tecla do note para ligar/desligar o wifi funciona, mas não ascende (normalmente ela ascende quando o wifi está ligado).

2) o chip optimus da nvidia ainda não está suportado pelo driver. Você tem que fazer isso manualmente instalando o bumblebee + primusrun. Mas francamente uma vez que está funcionando, é tão performante quanto o driver nativo, com a vantagem de VOCÊ controlar quando quer usar o nvidia, não quando o driver quer... Até a luzinha que indica quando o nvidia está ligado funciona!

Bom para resumir, estou apaixonado por esse notebook, realmente é muito bom. E a casca "genérica" dele é bem melhor do que pensava, tão boa como qualquer hp ou dell.

Commenting post 201: Hello there, I'm brazilian as well.
I've been eyeing those Avell laptops for a while, but I still was quite unsure since I haven't seen anyone using GNU/Linux on them. It's good to see it worked so well for you. If I may ask you some questions:
Did all the "Fn" keys work out-of-the-box?
How much time is it taking before the battery gets low?
Have you tried to play on Linux using this machine?
Is the touchpad good (build quality, buttons...)? Does it support multi-touch on Debian?

Thanks! =)

Commenting post 263: Yes, vimeo itself now also has a tool to choose from CC-licensed music. I suppose I'm just lazy to browse through them all until I find one that suits the video and me Thanks for the tip, though.

Commenting post 258: "One of these days I should do some digging on copyright-free music to put on those vids" — Just use Jamendo

Commenting post 261: Yes of course... real mirror reflexions I use as little as possible (basically only on glass). And even so, you must make sure your mirror reflexions don't "see" very distant objects (remove them all from raytracing). You can cut down your render times drastically.

All the rest is made with HDR images (I use generic ones I find on the web) set as "reflexion" mapping. You must try several to find one that gives you the kind of reflexion you want...

Yorik I was wondering to you save render time by setting the reflections on everything to use a reflection map? It seems to work well all though not exactly correct. Do you make a reflection map texture from rendering of the site or from photos? Great work though man...your stuff is what got me into Blender:P

Commenting post 259: Hi, thanks! The environment is based on google earth images, then I do a series of things such as: stitching the images, painting on top of it (the color of the water, for example, was rather ugly in GE), creating/extracting new maps for trees, grass, water and buildings, create specular and normal maps, then I use the trees maps to create particle systems for the vegetation, then I vectorize and extrude the buildings map to create some volume. Finally I added a couple of extra objects by hand (trees and houses) where the camera comes very close to the ground. Ah and finally, there is a horizon, a big circular ring with a horizon image mapped to it, which I make from photos.

Commenting post 253: Nicely done video. I'm interested how did you make map environment ? Are they real objects (water, trees, buildings) or images ?

Commenting post 257: I know, the version that goes to the client goes with music, but I remove it to avoid copyright issues... One of these days I should do some digging on copyright-free music to put on those vids...

Commenting post 253: Videos are usually a bit more interesting with some music in the BG!

Commenting post 253: It's amazing!!!

Commenting post 254: We just did the animation, subcontracted by the architect. We do that quite often, most of the animations here are done that way...

Commenting post 251: So you worked as subcontractor to create animation of a project? Or did you do other work too?

Casa Lagoa do Banana

This is an animation we made for a project by Espaço Projetos. See also still images and the storyboard. All was made with blender and rendered with the internal engine...

Images Lagoa da Banana

These are still images from an animation we did recently for a project by Espaço Projetos

















Also check the storyboard here...

Storyboards always

I realized how important storyboard were when I saw David Revoy's amazing work on the Tears of Steel movie. Until then I hadn't realized this was something actually doable, draw the whole movie before doing the 3D. I discovered it is not only perfectly doable, but also incredibly useful.

This is the storyboard we did for a recent work. If you do animations, always do a storyboard before, no matter how good your drawing skills are. The time you'll save later and the understanding between you and your client will raise tremendously. It also serve you as a guide throughout the job, when you were able to build a scene that produces the corresponding image from the storyboard, you can mark it as done, and you have a clear view of your progress.

Also try to do bring most of the discussions at storyboard time, and you'll have very little to change to the scenes structure later on.

This is the complete storyboard:



And this is the content of our "final images" folder. Some sequences changed after the storyboard, but the general shape of the animation stayed the same.



See bigger images here.