IT WORKS!

you're right, that a little bit of seam is still there, but now it aligns perfectly with the background.

Thanks!

thanks a lot for the hint bepeg4d!

gpus are started already. I'll test it asap.

In some threads I read that with the ORBX media player we can easily put an animation (as mp4) over a static cubemap by creating a file layout file that looks about like this:

background.png (the complete background cubemap)
mycontent_LR.mp4 (the animated part)
mycontent_LR.json (the metatdata ...

This is really great news!

LOL

Altough i feel a bit dump now, the excitement for the new discovery overwhelms

To my excuse: on my screen-setup the "Export alembic" string was shortned to "Export ..."

anyways, thanks for the quick answer!

You may excuse my lack of knowledge, but how exactly do you guys export from Blender to Alembic?

My search for Alembic exporters ended in 3 year old test builds (2.60) on graphicall or some other, rather old mentions to possibly use it as point cache in the future.

Do you compile you own Alembic ...

Ditching the 2.0 upgrade in favour of cycles is a perfectly legitimate decision.

Today I bought the upgrade even though I was waiting for the Blender Plugin to be released before. My first thought was that it is a questionable business method of trying to get more purchases before the product (at ...

for the record: I sent JimStar my scene as a private message.

thanks!

Hi there,

with a specific scene I got a lot of (reproducable) crashes recently. They happened when I did simple things like assigning another material or moving (grab) something, etc.
Opening the very same scene with a vanilla blender 2.70a I could do some of those things without problems. But now ...

upgrade will be € 99,- which includes standalone plus one plugin.

source:
I got that from a otoy presentation video on nvidia GTC 2014
http://nvidia.fullviewmedia.com/gtc2014/S4766.html