MiikaHweb

MiikaHweb is a site I maintain on my freetime. Site is a listing of computer and mobile software, games and my Blender development / 3D-graphics.

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Mar-03-2012	I have added even more features to my Blender SVN pages. Commit messages now display the authors full name instead of cryptic username, revisions in commit messages are now shown as links and there is a "changed paths" list on each revision page. Additionally some Statistics pages now have new file related charts. E.g. developer pages show most edited files and number of added, deleted and modified files. Commit Logs are also available as RSS feeds in case you want to follow Blender commits more closely. You can subscribe All Commits, Trunk Commits or commits from a specific branch from any branches' statistics page. Update: You can also use RSS feeds with "short-title" option (All Commits, Trunk Commits), this way revision title is printed as "r12345:" instead of "Revision 12345 (trunk/blender):". This can be useful if your reader has only limited screen space.
Feb-23-2012	I have been updating some parts of MiikaHweb in the past few days. First of all: after gathering dust for nearly five years, the Mobile section is finally up to date again. Basically it's a listing of mobile apps I have found useful. New section features all popular mobile platforms: Android, iOS, Symbian and Windows Phone, although Android is the main platform as I'm using it myself. I also did some small improvements on Blender SVN statistics pages. I suppose most useful tweak are new Blender Tracker links on Commit Log pages. Now you can view the related bug report/patch simply by clicking the hash number on commit message (if any).
Dec-28-2011	A new MiikaHweb section "Blender SVN Statistics" is now online. It shows real-time statistics about Blender development based on SVN commits. You can view charts based on releases, branches, developers or date. Statistics section is still under development so some things are likely to change during upcoming days. Anyway, I hope some of you will find this useful or interesting. :)
Nov-28-2011	MiikaHweb Games section now also has a Screenshots page listing recently uploaded game shots. I usually have Fraps automatically capturing screenshots while I play, so I decided to get some use for my always increasing image collection. :p
Nov-11-2011	Now that the new Cycles render engine is finally merged into Blender trunk, I updated my build bot configuration to support CUDA. CUDA is a GPU computing architecture that is able to render tens of times faster than with CPU. So if you have a modern nVidia graphics card, download the latest build from my Blender Builds -section and try it out.
May-02-2011	MiikaHweb Blender Builds system is now updated. I wrote some scripts that take care of compiling and uploading new builds so maintaining them is now just matter of few clicks. This means more often updated builds. I'm now building branches too. So far only BMesh and "paged-particles". But I'm going to add more when new somewhat regularly updated ones emerge. This also means I'm going to do regular Windows builds for GSoC 2011 branches too, when they are available.
Mar-24-2011	I just updated the site layout. This new layout mainly introduces better navigation and improves overall look. It uses new CSS3 styles, so some older browsers may not display everything properly. Please inform me if you experience any problems with this.
Nov-30-2010	It's been more than a month since I released the first part of my Dynamic Paint guide. Now the second part is finally here. It took way too long and I'm still not quite happy with some parts of it. But I have been completely missing my motivation to touch it. This guide has been like 90% done for up to two weeks. x_X This second and final part of the guide explains all paint object related settings and also includes some downloadable .blend files. Here is a render from one of the samples: Wetmap textures for fluid simulations.
Nov-12-2010	It looks like comment system was "disabled" for the couple of last blog entries I made. That bug is now fixed. I have coded this whole website myself from scratch, so not everything works perfectly. But I just love web programming, so using an out-of-the-box blog system is out of the question. :)
Nov-08-2010	It's been a long time without updates, sorry about that. I had an exam period at university and had to focus on studying. But now I'm back. :p This weekend I decided to update Dynamic Paint baking system. Currently it freezes the whole user interface same way as particles and smoke baking. In the recent SVN it's not even possible to show the process at mouse cursor anymore... Fluids, however, use this new "Jobs system" that processes bake in the background. It seemed quite easy to apply same system to DP. Unfortunately it turned out to be impossible. Current jobs system crashes if you change animation frames within the bake process and it appears to be quite tricky one to fix. Most likely won't be fixed anytime soon. So I had to revert Dynamic Paint back to the old baking system. :( Anyway, I have updated Dynamic Paint patch so it's yet again compatible with recent SVN revisions. Now I'm going to finish the second part of my Dynamic Paint guide. I guess I'll be able to release it by the end of this week.