Monthly Archives: February 2014

Blender Addon – Reset 3D View

And now for something completely different. I got my hands dirty at Python and a very first Blender addon. And with big big help at the Blenderartists Forum i managed to create something working.

It is  very simple, and is called Reset 3D View. As the name says, it resets all open 3D Views to a standard view. This helps with orientation in the workspace when you have navigated yourself away. And is very useful for me. I use the same tool in trueSpace since years very regularly. And now i can use it in Blender too.

The useage is simple. You can access the plugin by the 3D view menu item View. Or by the hotkey Numpad Asterisk (above the Numpad nine).

The Blender devs are unfortunately not really convinced of its usefulness. They refused to implement it into the trunk, and they refused to host the plugin at their page. So i host it at my own page.

It is available as a direct download: www.reinerstilesets.de/ext/blender/reset3dview.py

And you can find a detailled description and download it at the Blender Wiki too: wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/3D_interaction/Reset_3D_View

EDIT; i have meanwhile also added a new category for my Blender scripts. There is minimum one more coming. And then let’s have a look.

The new category is located in the Other section, Blender Addons. www.reinerstilesets.de/anderes/blender-addons/

Server trouble

I will change my hoster in six weeks. When everything works well then you won’t even notice this. But i wanted to tell it early enough.

There is unfortunately a problem with my current hoster. The server stutters as you may have noticed already. It is sporadically not available. Bad timing since i change my hoster in six weeks anyways.

We are still at searching where the error is. Without luck. When it becomes too bad then It may happen that i may need to reinstall the server. This one would mean that the server is unavailable for quite a few hours or even days. Because i would have to reinstall the OS from scratch, would have to tweak everything, and i would have to reupload the whole content too.

I want to avoid that. Because it is lots of work. And it’s just six weeks anyways. As it is now the server has gaps, but they are not so dramatic.

Anyways. Don’t worry when the page is not available. I’ll be back. At the latest in six weeks 😉

WordPress and fonts.googleapis.com

As some of you know, i use WordPress for my webpage. By coincidence i stumbled across the fact that WordPress now phones home to Google by default since the new version, to load a webfont. They have implemented a call to fonts.googleapis.com in the webpage somewhere. So everytime somebody calls my webpage, then Google counts this call too.

This is really nasty from WordPress! And my sympathy for WordPress has sunken quite a bit. My webpage is my property. And not an advertising or user counting platform for Google. Such things makes me really angry.

There is fortunately already a plugin avaliable that disables the calls to fonts.googleapis.com. It’s called Disable Google Fonts. And can be found in the WordPress Plugins. I have installed this plugin now. Fingers crossed that this prevents any further calls to fonts.googleapis.com.

I use a standard font anyways. And everything still looks normal to me. I hope that it doesn’t look too bad for others now.