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In this tutorial I will explain what every setting in Blender 2.5’s volumetric shader does and how it works.

I am using Blender 2.50 Alpha 1.

In Blender 2.5 there are many new features in the proper [ ... ]

You can improve the performance of your PC by killing unnecessary processes. Those unnecessary processes use a small amount of processing power and eat up a good portion of your memory. Just bring up  [ ... ]

Here is a secret Blender feature. A calculator. No, there is no calculator window and no, I am not talking about the Interactive Python Console. This secret Blender feature can be found in every numer [ ... ]

Watch Premulitplied Alpha in GIMP If you have ever rendered an image in Blender and decided to do the final composition in GIMP you may have discovered that when you placed your foreground layer over [ ... ]

Watch Autotracing is Not for Every Image
Autotracers are great time-saving tools that can save you hours of monotonous hand tracing, but they are often misused. In this tutorial we will look at two rea [ ... ]

Digital Camera This is one of the most important tools to have. In addition to photography, with a digital camera you can get reference images of anything you can see and get textures from impossi [ ... ]

Watch Faking Volumetrics with Blender

This tutorial will teach you how to make particles appear volumetric and create semi-realistic clouds and smoke with Blender 2.49