Birthday Cake & Orbital Material | The Ron & Way Show

Your favorite Open Source Sorcerers are at it again!

We take a dive into the birthday cake model I worked on for use in the planetarium, and we get to explore Ron’s delightfully clever way of using shader nodes to display a fading orbital trail.

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The birthday cake was shown in the previous post along with a link to the blend file.

The Ron and Way Show

Part of my return to sharing FOSS-y goodness online is thanks to my good friend Ron Proctor.

Ron invited me to hang out and make some YouTube videos and I’ve been having a great time. Here is our latest:

The UV dome is in my previous post here on FOSSdome, and here is the cute little galaxy I just made with Ron’s script and node setup:

swirly blue dots