http://halfpastnull.com > Division by Zero. Singularity terminated. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:56:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2009/01/21/about-primblender-and-the-state-of-this-blog/ http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2009/01/21/about-primblender-and-the-state-of-this-blog/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:50:56 +0000 MrGomez http://halfpastnull.com/?p=130
Newcomers to this site may notice I haven’t posted new material in the past six months. A large part of this was the completion of my Master’s degree at the University of Miami. But… some of it wasn’t.

In particular, I want to discuss the lapsing of support for Prim.Blender, what it means, and what I have next on my own agenda.



Before I continue, I want to let everyone know that it’s been fun. Really. You all have been great at keeping your questions civil, interesting, and to the point when contacting me, and I really appreciate it. Just as I hope you learned something from me, so too did I from all of you.


It’s truly been a great three and a half years. But all good things must come to an end, should they remain “good things” for all involved.

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Several of you have asked me what exactly it means to be “lapsing support to other tools.” This means:

* I will continue to answer support email and forum questions addressed to me.
* I will no longer be working on Texture support for the tool, nor support updates to the Sculpty system by Qarl.
* I won’t be supporting porting Prim.Blender to third party grids at this time.
* I will begin referring people to other tools maintained by other residents, such as the fantastic Prim Composer by Shack Dougall and entries on this list.
* Anyone interested in continuing to maintain the project is more than welcome to step up and email me about picking up where I’ve left off.


As for the reason why I’m choosing to do all this, I find that I no longer have the time or the will to continue supporting this tool for Blender. This is due, among other things, to repurposing my time on other projects.

Over the years, Linden Lab and I have also differed on a series of core beliefs on what constitutes the so-called “Metaverse”; that’s part of it too, I suppose. And, while I am thankful to them for continuing to open source their system, I can’t help but feel we all could improve on their system in forming a true “standard” for how we conduct ourselves and our avatars.


For those interested in the continued hosting of Prim.Blender’s files and this site, don’t worry. I will continue to maintain the SourceForge page until a suitable replacement is made, and [re]purpose this blog to discuss more of my own personal and professional projects. I still do cool stuff these days, including within SL.


But more importantly, I’d love to know what you all think on this. This site doesn’t capture too much traffic at the time of this writing, but if you’re reading this, consider dropping me a line sometime.


What are your experiences with my tools? Were they useful? And what cool things have you done with them that you feel are interesting? I’d love to hear them.


Thanks for sticking with me through this journey. It’s been fun!

– Tom “MrGomez” Robinson

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Prim.Blender has also been updated to 0.5.4, with a *ton* of fixes for Windows users.

Full changelog:

- Added new params: Faces and multires (previously hardcoded)
- Added new GUI components for faces and multires values
- Added “Reset Mesh” to sculpt type options
- Fixed default Prim.Blender.blend file for a GUI bug with new objects
- Performed additional regression tests
- Added Windows XP to tested OSes
- Fixed a bug related to not having a full Python installation present
(we now warn the user and catch exceptions as necessary)
- Fixed a directory bug on Windows
- Reformated this text file back to DOS mode to be readable by Notepad.exe
- Updated .prims save output to DOS mode to be readable by Notepad.exe
- Fixed a bug where changing the mirror mode would nuke sculpty meshes without warning
- Changed default LOD back to 3

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Enjoy! ]]> http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/07/12/new-tutorial-section-and-primblender-version/feed/ 0 http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/07/05/primblenderimporter-posted/ http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/07/05/primblenderimporter-posted/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:01:31 +0000 MrGomez http://halfpastnull.com/?p=16
Built copies are available here:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Great%20Pubnico/23/71/93/

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Happy 4th of July!

(Even if it’s technically the 5th on the server’s clock)]]> http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/07/05/primblenderimporter-posted/feed/ 0 http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/30/primblender-050-release/ http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/30/primblender-050-release/#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:30:37 +0000 MrGomez http://halfpastnull.com/?p=15

It can be found on its SourceForge page:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/primdotblender/

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I’ve also posted its code to the Source section.

Yay!]]> http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/30/primblender-050-release/feed/ 0 http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/18/prim-mirror-code-posted/ http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/18/prim-mirror-code-posted/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:02:22 +0000 MrGomez http://halfpastnull.com/?p=12 source section of this site.]]> http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/18/prim-mirror-code-posted/feed/ 0 http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/01/source-postin/ http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/01/source-postin/#comments Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:01:49 +0000 MrGomez http://halfpastnull.com/?p=7 source section of this site. Currently it holds LSL2 code for some of my older Second Life projects, plus a new one I might be discussing very soon. Enjoy!]]> http://halfpastnull.com/index.php/2008/06/01/source-postin/feed/ 0