Blender Related Stuff

last edited 10/13/05
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Blender Repository	Hundreds of 3-d blender models for use in your animations.
Official Blender Site
Blender WikiBooks	Many excellent tutorials
mencoder	Documentation on a movie encoder which can be useful for taking blender renderings and turning them into other formats

Blender Notes

Zoom Problem

Sometimes when I hit the HOME key, all the object would disappear and all I would see is a blank 3-d View window. To fix this I found pressing the View->View Navigation->Reset Zoom, or View->Align View-> Center View To Cursor seems to get the display back to Normal.

Movie Encoding with mencoder

To make a motion jpeg from some other format with mencoder run...

mencoder in.mov -oac copy -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:autoaspect -o out.mjpeg

To add sound to a movie with mencoder run...

mencoder in.avi -audiofile music.mp3 -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp3 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:autoaspect -o out.avi

To change a movies resolution...
I had a problem playing avi's with resolutions greater than
640x480. The movie would just show a blank screen. If you have
a blank screen problem, try scaling the movie to 640x480.

The method I use to make an avi is have blender render to Targa Raw,
and then combine those files with mencoder to whatever format I want.

mencoder 'mf://*.tga' -mf w=640:h=480:fps=25:type=tga -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -o output.avi

Authors:
Jason LaPenta (2005)

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