Blender Tidbits #1

I am working on the BSoD character animation tutorial and ran into something wierd. As I was shaping the face I noticed that the “skin” was sticking to one of the vertices even though it shouldn’t have been. I also noticed that there were two black lines sticking out of the model at two related vertex points. After further investigation, I found that there were double vertices (on top of each other) that were causing the problem. I selected all the vertices in EDIT MODE and hit the REM DOUBLE button under MESH TOOLS menu. After the doubles were removed, everything was corrected.

CSS to PHP Programming

I recently read Charles Wyke-Smith’s Stylin’ with CSS book and loved it. If you are interested in CSS at all, and creating modern websites, I highly recommend it. I recently ordered his Codin’ for the Web PHP programming book.

If you have a basic understanding of programming (i.e. basics of code structure – variables/loops/arrays/etc.) and wish to expand on this into dynamic web development, you will get something out of Charles’ PHP coding book. As a supplement to this, I highly recomment the PHP video tutorials from the killerphp.com site. I have been watching them as I read the book and they serve as great concept reinforcements.