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Answers in this category:

1. Which image file formats does Blender support
2. Does Blender have an undo function
3. Will Blender have raytracing?
4. Can Blender do volumetric lighting?
5. Can Blender games run on the Playstation 2?
6. Does Blender use DirectX?
7. Which procedural textures does Blender have?
8. Can Blender render caustics?
9. What is the render daemon?
10. Can I export Blender files to Flash?
11. Can Blender fit on disk (floppy)
12. How can I customise Blender?

1 - Which image file formats does Blender support

Contributed by anonymous.

Blender supports the following bitmap file formats:

- JPG
- TGA (uncompressed)
- IRIS

Additionally, Blender writes AVI RAW and AVI JPG animation files.

Blender does NOT support GIF files - you will need an external tool for that.

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2 - Does Blender have an undo function

Contributed by anonymous.

Blender does not have an undo function.

Saving often is the best undo you can get! Press [F1] [Numpad+] [Enter] to save a NEW version of your blend-file (this appends and increments the "version"-number of your .blend-file: file001.blend -> file002.blend -> file003.blend -> ...)

In addition, you can 'undo' any changes you have made while you are in editmode. Once you leave editmode though, these changes are permanent!

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3 - Will Blender have raytracing?

Contributed by B@rt.

This is not planned as far as we know. However, you can export Blender scenes to external renderers such as BMRT (more information available in this database).

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4 - Can Blender do volumetric lighting?

Contributed by B@rt.

To activate volumetric rendering, go to the Lamp Buttons screen. At the bottom there is a button labeled 'Halo Step'. When this has a value of zero, volumetric rendering is disabled. Change it to another value to enable - 1 is the most accurate setting (and slowest), and 12 is the quick-n-dirty verison ;-)

Of course, you must activate 'Halo' in the Lamp Buttons screen and 'Shadows' in the Render Buttons screen for this to work.

[from the discussion server]

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5 - Can Blender games run on the Playstation 2?

Contributed by B@rt.

No, there is no PS2 version of Blender yet.

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6 - Does Blender use DirectX?

Contributed by B@rt.

Blender is completely OpenGL based (that's why it works the same on so many platforms) and does not use DirectX at all.

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7 - Which procedural textures does Blender have?

Contributed by Robert Fletcher (Angel VII).

Blender has 7 different procedural textures: clouds, wood, marble, magic,stucci, and noise, but more can be added using the numerous plugins
found at https://www.blender.nl/resource/plugins/index.php

You can create your own plugins with the C programming language.

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8 - Can Blender render caustics?

Contributed by B@rt.

Blender's renderer does not render caustics at this time, so your best option would be to export a scene to an external renderer like BMRT.

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9 - What is the render daemon?

Contributed by B@rt.

The goal of the render daemon is to speed up the animation rendering process by distributing scenes over multiple rendering machines. The render daemon is being developed both by volunteers and NaN.

It is currently in development - please read https://www.blender.nl/opensource/brd.php for more information.

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10 - Can I export Blender files to Flash?

Contributed by B@rt.

Blender does not export to Flash.

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11 - Can Blender fit on disk (floppy)

Contributed by Mark Bailey.

Yes.

Blender will fit on a floppy disk.

The Blender Zipfile with Blender v2.12 for Windows is 1.38 MB
The Blender v2.11 for BeOS x86 is 1.37 MB

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12 - How can I customise Blender?

Contributed by B@rt.

You can change the layout of Blender in any way you like. Please read the following tutorial for more information:

https://www.blender.nl/showitem.php?id=3

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