2010-05-25

VE-Suite, Bullet physics, Blender tuts, etc...

VE-Suite is built on OpenSceneGraph.
"VE-Suite enables users to simultaneously interact with engineering analyses and graphical models to create a virtual decision-making environment."
http://www.vesuite.org/

Sculptris is an AWESOME new sculpting tool. It's FREE free! Here's the description from the site:

"Sculptris 1.0 has been released!This is a work-in-progress sculpting tool that I've been developing since early December 2009. Its main feature is dynamic mesh tesselation that will provide additional detail where necessary, without the user needing to worry about it."
http://www.drpetter.se/project_sculpt.html

Soft bodies in Blender video tutorial!
http://blender3dvideos.blogspot.com/2010/02/249b-soft-bodies.html

The author of the above video created this site that rounds up all of his published Blender tutorials:
http://www.theadamgaskins.com/Blender/

Lots of new things came out just this week for Blender 2.5 Alpha 2
http://www.blender.org/

Here's a new book about implementing eye-popping effects in Blender.
Blender e-book: The Wow Factor

Great tutorial site for Blender:
http://www.tutorialsforblender3d.com/

Bullet Physics Manual (for implementation in OpenSceneGraph)

UDK (Unreal Development Kit) Tutorials, many from 3D Buzz:
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/VideoTutorials.html


...and for nostalgia's sake an all time classic video game voice over moment on YouTube:
(You'll want to skip to the last 10 seconds or so most likely...)

Interstate 76 - The Children are Burning!