Tip: How to set bookmarks in Blender for your favorite project folders

When opening a file in Blender, you often have to navigate to the desired project folder over and over again every time you start a new Blender session. And, it gets to be a bit irritating after a while. In Blender 2.5, this irritation will be soothed with new bookmarking features in the file browser. Unfortunately, Blender 2.5 is quite a ways away so how do we be more efficient?

This question was recently asked in the BlenderNewbies Forums and forum member, "radialronnie", provided a great workaround that will allow you to bookmark your favorite folders within Blender and have them always available!

Check it out.

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Creating a Magic Wand Particles Effect (3 of 3)

Here's Part 3, the final part of the tutorial series that will show you how to create a magic wand particles effect, the sort of visual effect you might see when a “magic wand” is waved. This will be similar to a “pixie” dust effect, although not so complicated.

In Part 3, we'll take a look at combining the sprite graphics with our particle system, and then tweaking things, including a little bit of post production, to achieve our final results.



Check out Part 3 on CGCookie.com


Part 1


Part 2

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Creating a Magic Wand Particles Effect (2 of 3)

Here's Part 2, of a 3-part video tutorial series that will show you how to create a magic wand particles effect, the sort of visual effect you might see when a “magic wand” is waved. This will be similar to a “pixie” dust effect, although not so complicated.

In Part 2, we’ll take a look at how to create the particle system that will be used with the sprite graphics created in Part 1.



Check out Part 2 on CGCookie.com


Part 1


Part 3

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