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A new version of LuxRender, the unbiased open source render engine was released a few days ago. And this release presents a lot of new features. Here is a word from Tim Suess, about the release and... [read the full article on blendernation.com]

You can speed up a bit (6-10% maybe) your current raytracer by changing simple linear pixel rendering order into hilbert curve (in that case data are more coherent and there are less cache misses). I did not believe that until I try it.

How to use photometric lights with Blender 3D? Is it possible? Of course it is! When I have a project that requires the use of Photometric lights, I use Indigo as an external render for Blender. Just recently Indigo is supporting the use of IES lights, and it opened a whole new world of possibilities to light interior scenes, using real data from light manufactures.

Alien Arena 2008 is a freeware online deathmatch game with fast and furious action for Windows and Linux! The game runs on the CRX engine, and features modern effects such as real-time lighting and shadows, shaders, light bloom, reflective surfaces and much more, while still being able to run on even modest systems.

This freebie allows you to play and convert most any type of multimedia file. I found it while trying to get .MOD files to play on my computer. JVC sucks, because they choose weird proprietary file formats for their camcorders, but this program can play them and encode (convert) them without hassle.

The text bar on the left has just been added with a Pipe that I created out of RSS Feeds from Finance sites (Moneycontrol.com and Yahoo India Finance). This changes every moment :-) and is a real good thing to use and see.

Once upon a time, whenever anyone asked, "But are there any big applications built on Rails?" The answer was usually, 43Things, anything from 37Signals, or Odeo. But over the past year, there's no doubt that if there is a poster child for Rails, it is now Twitter.

NVIDIA will be announcing the acquisition of a ray tracing software company called RayScale. This is an incredibly interesting move and clarifies more of NVIDIA’s stance on merging traditional rasterization and ray tracing techniques, as we saw in our interview with David Kirk, NVIDIA’s CTO.

The upcoming MMORPG Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures, has reportedly dropped the DirectX10 renderer for launch. Funcom says the DirectX10 version has been pushed back to add more polish & features. “worthy of Microsoft’s great vision for the future of PC gaming”.

Lots of new features! new in 1.0.9 R2: * Clay render function under “export and run” (supports bump maps and alpha maps for Blend Materials) * .igm import, all materials supported (with texture loading, if paths are right) * New Object export, option for optimized output (read below) * Support