A few weeks ago I was made a committer on the Subtext Project, a blogging engine written in ASP.NET. I’m honored, and I would like to thank Phil Haack for entrusting me with this. I hope to be able to continue contributing to Subtext until it’s feature-rich enough for me to switch away from WordPress. Not that there is anything wrong with the current version of Subtext feature wise if I may add.
Version 2.5 of Subtext should be released in a week or so. I would like to think that I had a small part to play in making that possible. But unfortunately I couldn’t be there for the homestretch, as I had to help with this:
My brother, who is studying architecture, is working on his graduation project, and he called upon me to help him out with some of the 3d rendering. That’s the result of our work so far. He did most of it. I just handled some of the grunt work for him.
I have learned a few things from all of this: Softimage is one fantastic piece of kit; Mental Ray sucks far too many hairy bananas; moving 3d models from Autocad into other 3d programs is like trying to break a vertex out of Alcatraz; and working on open source projects can do wonders to one’s knowledge, motivation, and self-respect.
May your renders be fast and your builds never break.
