I decided to make a second part of my Linux gaming setup post, as I feel that the first one is more like a list of stuff that are on top my desk. Anyway, once you’re done with hardware, let&#…
If you've ever wanted a peek inside the world of everyday Japan, Tokyo Cosmo, a new animated short, may be one of the most stunningly accurate looks you'll ever get.Rendered in a style very similar to the work of many Pixar classics, the four-and-a-half-minute clip, directed by Takahiro Miyauchi and Takuya Okada, takes us inside the home of a woman with a fantastic imagination. Her imagination is so powerful that a simple household nuisance soon becomes an epic struggle. Things get so crazy we even get to see a courageous flying pig, a city-destroying monster and a giant lightsaber.
Source: Pixar-style animated short from Japan delivers flying pigs and lightsabers
Rocz3D has done a pretty comprehensive series on Blender Modelling on Vimeo. You can access them on the Vimeo site or via Rocz3D’s channel here.
Now I see why my previous attempts to model in Blender didn’t succeed - my reference images were not level and not the same scale. Whilst there was nothing mentioned on the tutorials at Blender Cookie (in those tutorials, the reference images came already prepared), the first step that Angela Guenette (modeller on the Sintel short - cover on the right) on the Blenderella DVD immediately mentioned is to prepare the reference images in GIMP: rotating, scaling, and adding horizontal reference lines to allow you to line up features across the various reference images.
Wish I’d known about this before spending time on my last modelling attempt. :/
Oh, well, you learn from mistakes.
You may recall in my earlier post that I mentioned the GfxTablet project but complained that there was no support for left-handed users, but I just discovered something.
Under Xfce the configuration for Mouse and Touchpad:
Inside the configuration applet, you get to see all the input devices available on your system. On my system, I have the touchpad set as left-handed, because I prefer to work with my mouse buttons swapped (as I’m left-handed).
However, what you notice is that “Network Tablet” shows up on this list when the service is running:
So, select that, and:
Lo and behold, the Network Tablet is configured as right-handed. Which means that even though my touchpad is configured as left-handed, I can freely use my Android tablet as a graphics tablet without the annoying button switching I had to do before.
Now, I found this in Fedora, but it might also work under Xubuntu.
GfxTablet (Graphic Tablet) is a project that consists of two parts – one is Linux input driver, and the other is an Android app. It turns your Android device into a graphics tablet and you can control your Linux machine with your tablet. There is no screen output on the android device and stylus/finger motion is transmitted to the Linux box.
The only downside is there’s no option for “lefty” mode for people like me. :(
It will be interesting to see how well I can use this.