adrift on a cosmic ocean

Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.

Posts tagged with blender

  • Blender - Baking Textures Within One Object
    Posted by Oliver on the 28th of October, 2018 in category Tech

    This is not a ground-breaking new concept, but since I failed to find decent material on it when searching, and it's not entirely clear from the Blender documentation, I thought I'd write someabout about it with screenshots. Normally, when we are baking textures in Blender (e.g. for simplifying the render of a complex scene, or exporting objects and their textures to a game engine), we use the…

  • Latest progress in Blender
    Posted by Oliver on the 30th of June, 2018 in category Tech

    I'm not sure I've mentioned it on this blog before, but almost three years ago I started a number of online courses around 3D modelling and game development. Way back in 2013 I had done a course on Coursera which introduced me to event loop-based game programming, although the programming difficult of the course was very low. Later on suggestion from a co-worker I looked into Löve2D and took the…

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