When starting out in 3D, is it better to finish as many models as you can (or projects if you'd like to call them that way) and keep adding more sophisticated technologies and techniques as you learn them or is it better to just polish one model and keep adding stuff to it as you learn? I come from a 2D background and when it comes to drawing quantity is king, you should be drawing every day as much as you can. Is it the same for 3D? I would've posted this in a SQTDDTOT but there's no such thread at the moment (you can use this thread for that, if you'd like)
>>994000In the early days starting over and completing small projects can be wise to get repetition in to grow familiar with techniques but once you start becoming proficient in 3D you can iterate on models in a way you really don't do on a 2D piece.My character models I use today for example is a 'Ship of Theseus' that traces their origins back well over a decade but with every instanceI set out to improve some part of them that I feel have issues and can be improved. Because geometry/topology is so reusable you will reshape andrecycle portions of earlier projects and spend all your available time perfecting the weakest aspect of what was already there.
>>994002>Because geometry/topology is so reusable you will reshape andrecycle portions of earlier projects and spend all your available time perfecting the weakest aspect of what was already there.That's something I immediately noticed, my first instinct when modeling the hands for a second character model was to just copy and paste the ones from my first one and just adjust them applying what I know now
I'm doing game dev with pre-rendered cutscenes, and it's been going okay, but I'm really struggling to render things with my budget APU and I've always had stuttering just using the interface honestly.>16x2 RAM>AM4 socket>solid power supplyWhat's a decent budget card and CPU to shoot for purely for doing 3DCG right now (the APU can't support a GPU)? Looking for best cost efficiency, I can save some of my autism euro if I need to, but I've never even owned a GPU before so I don't really know what I'm doing here.
>>994422I've made the conclusion that I'm just too poor I'll have to keep doing 3D with my APU wish me luck /3/.
>>994000I will not install it, fuck houdini.
>>994466ngmi
>>994466What do you need to use houdini for anyway?
surely there are cracks out there for programs like substance painter, marvelous designer, jangafx etc? all these subscription models are so jewish. I can't bring myself to paying for any of it
>>994548I want to do simulations and stuff-
>>994708The poorfags in Russia used to rally behind cracking this shit but now funny shirtless spook man is cleansing their whole demographic to die so now there's no market for it. Get to cracking them yourself I guess.
>>994773truth.
Who knows where I can find architectural plans for famous buildings to use as references?
>>994820https://www.bibliocad.com/search/?term=PARTHENON
>>994821Thats pretty good, thanks
I'm wanting to update/maintain a config for blender that I like using because it hasn't been updated in like a year. I really don't know where to start I have very beginner knowledge of coding but I figured it be a fun thing to try and learn. if someone would mind pointing me in the right direction of where to start with this I'd really appreciate it https://github.com/HEAVYPOLY/HEAVYPOLY_Blenderthis is the config btw
Bros I need the courses and tutorials from Rebelway. They are charging ridiculous prices ($300-$800+) and I can't find them anywhere
>>994000Is blender 4.2 worth getting or should I stick with 4.1? I'm used to 4.1 now and they have changed a fuck ton of stuff in 4.2 I've read.
>>994836If it works in blender 4.0 it should be fine to use without updating. Why do you think it needs updating?
>>995069>Is blender worth gettingno.
>>995068here are the ones on cgpeersall of them are on bilibili but you gotta watch in 360p unless you wanna give the ccp your idrutracker has a few:https://rutracker.org/forum/tracker.php?nm=rebelwayi'm sure you can find the rest on the list from other places too.
>>995069I'm still fairly new, but it didn't really get in the way of my workflow. The basics haven't changed that much.Addons would be the thing most likely to stand in your way, so if you have eleventy billion addons, you might want to wait. If you don't use many, check to make sure they still work (i don't think this broke much)Other than that, it's mostly just going to be a few instances of "where the fuck did they move that thing to?"But unless you need some of the new hotness, you can just wait if you're anxious.
>>995069Always update, it's easier to stay up to date rather than having to play catch up with several versions.
Is increasing the sculpt's resolution the best way to deal with jagged seams like in this deep crease? Using blender 4.1. Thanks in advance.
>>995167Woops.
I can has cool pics and/or info on 32 bits float workflow examples of any CGI software?
>>994000You should start with a CAD program actually. Get AutoCAD, learn perspectives. Do an object with different types of view, side, front, back, isometric, learn what snaps are for and then move to Revit and then 3DS Max if you can.Blender is trash. Don't use that.
I want to start posing game models, do people usually load the whole map and cut out a section for posing or do they take a screenshot and super impose their models in? backgrounds and scale kinda escape me so thats partly what i hope to learn
I'm making a series of 3D maps, this one in particular is about location, number and type of car-related accidents in an area. I want to make a map where the higher the cylinder; the higher the amount of accidents represented. Due to me being in a peepeepoopoo third world shithole I cannot just download the map in a format that allows me to do GIS wizardry to locate and edit my volumes, instead I am only given an image. I've used this image as reference to trace where accidents happen and made a map manually by just copy-pasting cylinders and filling in their height one-by-one. I now need to do the same three more times for each type of accident I know this is stupid and slow and want to know how can I input data. I've seen methods where you use an UV map to control the location and characteristics of a mesh or group of meshes, but the maps I'm given are low quality and have too manny details to be useful without a lot of editing. Since I already located where every single mesh will be I would like to embed each one with metadata and maybe toggle which biy of data is expressed thought heightI only learn new features as I need them, so just knowing what i should look up is enough
>>995276The maps I'm given look like thisI can only turn off the layer with the heat map, but not the background, so I'm not too sure that a geometry node liked to an UV map will be possible
>>995276This can be done in 3ds max using a simple script.If you have max I can write a script that does what you want.
Is it cheating if I steal a part I'm having trouble with from someone else's model? I adjusted and retopoed it to suit my needs but I'm not sure...
anyone knows why my null bone doesnt have any effect in blockbench?
>>995561Is it cheating if you copy someone else's book report and change a couple of sentences? Does it feel good and save you time?It's an ethical dilemma whether you value your book report to be a reflection of you or is cool with it fraudulently being perceived as such by your audience. Only you can make that call violator.
>>995766I ended up making peace with it because this entire field is based upon ship upon ship of Thesseus
>>995561I think you're cheating yourself of a good exercise, but if it's not an exercise and it's production work then there's no such thing as cheating
I want to make a small Unreal Game to get the hang of it. Thought it would be cool to make some preset face parts (nose, eyes, etc) in Blender or ZBrush to scroll through. From the way I see it everything would have to be modularized as much as possible. How can that best be achieved? I'm not concerned about animation as of currently. Just the general process.pic unrelated
how do you guys get over that "anxiety/fear" feeling you get when you think of starting a project? be it animation or whatever, i just cant seem to ever put my ideas into work because of this feeling
newfaggot herewhat's the go to place to pirat- uhh download random 8k textures and materials?
I'm trying to figure out how to do wiggle bones without relying on gimmicks like addons. So far I've figured out that three (well, four) types of behaviour are necessary for what I want to do:- The wiggle itself: this can be done with damped track constraints on the previous bone on the chain- FK controls: this can be done by duplicating each bone with the damped track constraint in the chain and giving them a copy rotation constraint targeted on each deformation bone- Collision: this can be achieved with physics simulation but that sort of defeats the purpose of using damped track constraints and FK. I still haven't figured out how achieve this- (optional) IK controls: I think it would be neat to control the appendages that need wiggle with IK but I'd like to figure out the first three points first+How could I get a setup that achieves the first three points?
>>996192Stop using social media.
Is there a way in Blender to space these vertices evenly, or would i have to just remake the entire model
>>996516With my limited knowledge I would try going into sculpt mode and using the slide relax tool while holding shift
>>994708aHR0cHM6Ly9ydXRyYWNrZXIub3JnL2ZvcnVtL3RyYWNrZXIucGhwP25tPXN1YnN0YW5jZSUyMHBhaW50ZXI=aHR0cHM6Ly93MTQubW9ua3J1cy53cy9zZWFyY2gvbGFiZWwvU3Vic3RhbmNl
I'm trying to bake a texture but it comes out black, any ideas?
>>996589I've figured it out, it's cause there's shader to rgb node in my procedural texture
>>994000anyone know where i can pirate solidworks? preferably the 2022 version, but i'm not too picky
How much, approximately, would it cost me to commission someone to do textures for my model? I can provide a fully rigged model + ref sheet (drawn)I can sculpt, I can model, I can rig too but I'm hopeless at textures..>It varies byI'm just looking for a ballpark figure
>>996804If you've done that much work already why not just learn how to texture yourself? you could try and bridge the skill gap with flat colors + a toon shader
>>996804Strange, you can´t into texture? What software are you working on?
>>996816Stop posting garbage aislop
>>996804>I'm just looking for a ballpark figureSorry bro, you said it yourself.>It varies by
something about the blender community really irks me but I don't know what other software to use if I need a lot of beginner help & tutorials. maya? max?
Are there any good tutorials for Maya scripting and specifically creating plugins for Maya? I may or may not try to create a one (specifically an implementation of the Diamond-Square-Algorithm) as my bachelor's thesis, and the only resources I found are one Youtube playlist that doesn't explain everything I need and a 10 year old reddit thread.
>>994000what software should i learn if i want to create game-ready characters like the ones in nintendo games, including rigging them and animating themnot going to get into realistic since that's just not my stylei was told zbrush will be the core for modelling the characterother tools would focus on re-topologizing, unwrapping, texturing, and bakingi don't know if i should re-learn blender since i used to work on it like a couple years ago and haven't gotten back to it sincei would also like any tutorial recommendations that show how a concept is converted from its 2d design to the finalized 3d asset, ready to be put into a game engine
>>996887use what you want, every software has beginner-level tutorials
I'm going to retopo this model manually. Is it better to do with and try to preserve the muscle structure (with more verts where the muscles crease) or better to just go over the whole thing as if there weren't there. Either way I'm still going to make a normal map from this, just not sure if the retopologized mesh should also have visible muscles.
>>997235Thanks bitchI already have all the detail I want on the high-poly. I'll just go over the abs flatly though I guess it'll still preserve some detail because of shrinkwrap but make specific loops for the pecs. Figure if I really want more detail later then just multires + sculptcaptha: HR0VMJ
>>997235>>997290stop swearing you seem extremely insecure
Question: I'm finished rigging a model and adding all the rig widgets and everything, it's ready for animation.I want to create animations for a game I'm making in Unity 3D, but I just wanna know, am I supposed to create a new project and import everything I've made onto there and just make animations in it, or should I make animations in the same project? How does it work?If anyone has good vids on where to go on making animations from here, let me know. I don't need any advanced stuff, just simple and fast tutorials or guides that explain the crucial foundation so I can explore on my own a bit and find new vids that help.
>>994000how to configure wretched array into randomly assorted lines (this is for making a bunch of pipes, scribbled edges have been added to show desired result)I don't want to use geometry nodes unless I absolutely have to
>>994708m0nkey has a good crack on adobe products (which includes substance painter)
>>997210actually it's somewhat of a hybrid between digital media and computer science, we learned very little about games.
What did I do to cause this? Some of my planes are Dark when the standard is Light. I'm in Solid mode in Viewport Shading, so it should not textures or lighting. Checked the Normals and did not seem like it.
>>996516Not an expert on this topic. But I think that's what the remesh modifier is for.https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/modeling/modifiers/generate/remesh.htmlThat should clean it up a good deal, but if you need it to be entirely clean, you'll need to learn how to retopologize.
Is there a way to make triggerable animations? I have a car with lots of openable panels and doors (usually parented to an empty that acts as a pivot), how can I have separated animations for each doors (empties) that I can trigger separately?
>>998374I don't know much about animation, but is that not what "actions" are for? If I remember correctly, you can sort of contain animations in blocks. Think of them as the animation equivalent of an object. Everything contained within an action works independently, and you can move the actions around and tell them how and when to get triggered.https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/animation/actions.htmlI don't know much more than that. So you'll have to search up actions or NLA(Nonlinear animation) to learn more.
Both are good approaches
Where/How can i learn shaders in blender?I am looking for an extensive resource.From what i have gathered, shaders heavily rely on applying math.I DO have mathematical knowledge, i know what's a sine/cosine/tangent/cotangent and how these trigonometric functions are graphed.Same with arcsine, arccosine, arctangent and arccotangent, i know what they are and how these trigonometric functions are graphed.I guess my problem is that i have no practical knowledge of how to use them. If you asked me to use an arctangent in a shading workflow i would draw a blank, because i don't know a practical application for it, just what it is an it's function graph. Math classes focus mostly on theory and solving equations while blender is all about practical application.If any blender shading expert could help, it would be most appreciated.
>>998676"Expert"? Around these parts? Nah. However, the CGMatter guy knows a lot. His tutorials are fast. Just pause to follow along. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDBZ7CwlfIs
What's with this bot that bumped every thread? Does this happened a lot in this board?
for the love of god someone who uses fusion360 help me, I'm about to blow my brains outI can't delete any nested shapes in sketches and I just get these red lines. I click the rectangle I don't want and hit delete but nothing happens.My goal is to use loft to make a duct out of the outer rims of some shapes that I offset but loft just makes a complete solid out of the outermost shapes and I don't know why
>>998723That was exactly the tutorial i was watching before posting.I got the gist of most but some parts like using inverse functions and vectors in 3d space confused me a little.
>>998733I can't help you with inverse functions. But I can tell you this: shaders are all about making the pixels on screen change colors via math. There are a million different ways to achieve this. But it pretty much boils down to defining how close points are. It's all distances, distances, distances.I'm still pretty much an amateur, but I'm starting to get the hang of things. And what I do, is I visualize points in a 3D space. It's kind of hard, because I don't have the best ability to visualize. But I manage. It also helps to sketch out points on paper.Do you have any models? You can use geometry to help you see vectors in 3D space. I'm not sure how much I should explain, because I don't know what you know.
>>998725i was about to ask the same thing, idk if its a bot, schizo, or weirdo
how do i start learning maya?i am pretty much a noob with blender, but i can at least understand the workflow and it feels easier to model stuff in blender thanks to the hotkeysit seems maya has a completely different workflow
>>994708Private trackers.>>994773Boring /pol/troon failed at derailing a thread.
Bro why is my lighting so shit in EEVEE nobody else has lighting that looks this pixelated and scuffed.
>>994708i downloaded stuff from filecr, and never connect that pc to the interneti dont know if it will still somehow damage my pc desu
>>994000How hard is it to make a coomer vn in renpy using blender renders and perhaps animations? Is there a way to do it in engine or do you just kinda slap in images and videos
>>999150I've been playing a game exactly like this in recent months.There are free versions which are basically full but released with few weeks delay compared to patrons.You can download it and research how it's structured and see how that looks like in game.It's called "Waifu Slut School".
>>999055the voxel resolution of your volume is too low
Can you make any money making low poly stuff?I seem to like doing it
>>999211Only thing I can think of is just comissions, maybe advertise on dnd subreddits? Making ocs and such, I doubt people would care about lowpoly smut/nswf so probably not that. Or solo/indie gamedev but that's obviously a whole different thing, lowpoly ps1 nostalgiabait is a trendy one if you can master it
>>998409>Nonlinear animationCool I didn't know this was the term, I'll look into it.
>>994000Trying to make a hair braid mesh (downloaded from sketchfab) behaving like cloth in UE5.4, but when I do cloth paint the hair mesh falls apart because even though it's one object, it's also made of 700 smaller pieces not connected to each other, so cloth simulation is applied to every single mesh piece individually. I tried to reconnect them in Blender using Bool tool union, but half of those pieces vanished, and I just wasted a whole day trying to get hundreds of pieces joined in a single mesh/object.Is there a simple way to resolve this? Do I need to do some sort of a remesh (never done it before)?
Does this board have a searchable archive yet now, and if it doesn't, why not?
>>1000148https://warosu.org/3/
posted my stupid question in the wrong thread >>1000253
What is this? Why does it do this?I'm using the quickrename bar to rename a selection. Normally it should rename everything and add a number in order of my selection. I use "select hierarchy" extensively to rename joint chains.It not only doesnt rename every object on the first try but it never gets the order right. If I try to select things in a new order to compensate it does something different.It was not doing it in my previous version of maya 2018, but it is not ever since i switched to 2025.
>>1000300The answer is: No. There is no special advantage or disadvantage to be had keeping files together or apart. An SSD is going to load and save data much faster than an HDD. The only advantage would be having both the program and your files on SSDs, but it wouldnt matter if it was the same one or not.
>>999557instead of a cloth sim, bind the braid to a joint chain and run a dynamic simulation on that.
This isn't a 3D modeling question but more of an art and archive question for tutorialsI'm struggling to find a privated art video that was released twice, once with bad audio and a 2nd time with fixed audioThe Art of Blending 2D with 3D in 'Tales of TMNT'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNDje1kO_kAThe Art of Blending 2D with 3D in 'Tales of TMNT'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqJ5lJKdvY8Pic related was the thumbnaleDoes anybody have it, and if not, are there any torrenting sites where the likelihood of finding the vid would work? I tried Wayback and some alternatives but they failed at saving the vid
I need to upscale a video file for my game from very small to full HD. Vinci supersample is showing extremely marginal improvements in all their tutorial videos for it and its behind a paywall too. I pretty much need to 8x upscale
>>1000503The current technology can't do that.And how is that related to 3D?
>>1000540My game is 3d, this is running in a video texture. Surely you dont imply that texturing is not /3/ ?!
>>1000503if you haven't updated to resolve 19, they did update the scaling including nvidia optionsother commercial option is the topaz video stuffthen there's:https://openmodeldb.info/?t=video-frame
>>1000546i am on resolve 19. Super scaling is locked behind a big paywall. Topaz is behind an even bigger paywall. These are dark times.
>>1000547there are ladders for both paywalls if you know where to look. the topaz stuff you have to be careful with, resolve is taken care of by the most trusted group in the audio scene.
>>1000548>wall>ladderclever, anon. However, I have way too much at stake to install any medicine on this machine
Not a question and I haven't been on this board in months. I just wanted to say that I hate retopology with all my heart. That is all.
>>1000552fair enough, have a look at the open models stuff.i think the animefags primarily use that stuff.
Any recommended courses for Character Modeling? Specifically for games.I feel like I'm kinda okay with the polygon/sculpting, but I need help with Textures, UVs, Weight Paint/Rigging and physics stuff like hair/gravity.I'm using Blender now but I'm cool with learning Substance Painter since I heard it's closer to Photoshop (I'm an artist/painter)
Bros, how hard is it to get a entry level job in animation right now? I'm about to finish a course in game animation and I'm not sure if I should keep going onto another shorter course that would just be reiterating on body mechanics again or risk wasting time rotting at home while getting ghosted from HR depts.
>>1000939group up with other students you jive with and just make a game. Do not get "a job" in the "games industry". None of the greats did that.
>>1000939its going to be very hard unless you live in the right area
Somehow I messed things up, I can't just snap, scale, or rotate to an axis. Resetting to factory settings fixes it, so something I toggled fucked it. How do I fix without resetting all settings?
>>994000>Finally get out of my 3D block after ~half a year (Used to pump out stuff practically every half a week before)>Been working on an animation project and actually making good progress for like 2 weeks now>No problem whatsoever, project going swimmingly well>Scared shitless this entire time that i will lose my mojo for a year or more again and possibly before i finish it, even if i don't feel like stopping right now, because i didn't feel any burnout back then eitherhow the fuck do i stop this shit
i love 3d modelling, i'm pretty good at it, i want to make models and get better, but for some reason i can't motivate myself to just sit the fuck down in front of my computer and open my modelling program. why is this happening? i have plenty of motivation to do chores but not something i find fun?
Which 3d modeling program is the most intuitive? I don't particularly care about flexibility. I want to make one specific thing repeatedly: n64-styled low poly models that use textures sparingly and have a lot of flat colors faces. I tried Blender. It was bad but tolerable for a while but when I got to UV unwrapping and texturing, I clicked on the fill tool, tried to fill one of the boxes on the unwrap, and instead of the fill tool filling in the clearly marked box it filled the entire unwrap. I googled around for a bit to see if there was an unintuitive way to make the fill tool fill a box on the unwrap texture instead of dyeing the entire model a single color and it looked like the answer was "no" which left me wondering what miniscule edge case that tool could even address.Everything except modeling with primitives felt like pulling teeth and I needed tutorials for things that should have been as simple as "click on tool, use tool," so Blender is clearly not the program that I want for this. What is the correct program for people who aren't 3d modelers to rapidly produce low-quality 3d models?>>1000503That's trivial, just use this: https://github.com/k4yt3x/video2x
>>1001357I've never trusted blender with texturing. I'm always using a combination of blender and Photoshop.
>>1001408I don't trust blender with anything at this point. I was trying to subdivide an edge exactly in half and it turns out it can't even do that! You can divide an edge but you have to eyeball where you're placing the new vertex. The slightest misplacement is going to look like shit when the whole model is 12 faces. Unbearably bad software for this.
>>1001409i'm barely a blender user and you can do this, anonif you're inserting an edgeloop (ctrl+r) lmb once to go into the slidey mode, then right click and it'tll drop it at 50%. if you're using the knife tool, holding shift will snap to the midpoint.modelling in maya is a bit simpler, but i don't know if it's more intuitive. if you want to be comfortable with the modelling tools in any program you just have to blindly do a few tutorials. there's no way around it.
>>1001410Every single answer I found on google said that this wasn't possible. Needing 5 inputs to do something so basic is pretty awful so I still don't think Blender's what I'm looking for.I guess I'll try Maya. I don't mind doing tutorials to learn things, but spending 2 hours googling what should be simple and basic tasks to come up with 0 answers only to find out the simple and basic task is locked behind 4 buttons and a menu instead of a single button has convinced me Blender is not the right tool for this.
I have a project I want to post here, but I cant because then I can't post it to socials. What is the cure for this?
>>1001493have a side project that you post here but not on your socials
>>1001497I started posting my main project to socials and when the upvotes and likes came in, it was something else. I actually got feedback that was really really valuable too
>>1001493The cure is to realize you can post it here and also to socials.
>>1001506I would no longer be anon. I'm getting a lot of likes and comments on what i post, a lot of visibility if you will
>>1001507>I would no longer be anonYes, and?
>>1001508What do you mean yes and ? I dont want to get banned from my socials for associating with this place
>>1001509You won't be. Nobody cares about 4chan anymore.
>>1001510you don't know what you are talking about
>>1001509Don't listen to that other guy, 4chan is still "that pedo site" to normalfags. You have to suck it up and just not share it.
>>1001509Professionals post on /ic/ sometimes, and some artists have come from there and gone to work in the industry. That place is more of a cesspool than /3/ and still nobody cares, life goes on. If people ask, ignore them. If they push you, you can say you just really needed critique. Better to just keep ignoring them though.Just don't say problematic things while youre posting your work.
After doing unwrap why face ended up on two separate UV islands? I thought with seams like that it should be a single island?
>>1001598sometimes it's just better to UV project certain areas if the model is low poly enough.
if I'm skinning a character, does it matter if a certain bone's influence on a certain vertex is left at, for example, 0.5, with no other bone influencing that vertex? will the influence get treated as 0.5 or 1?
>>1001603Is it possible to UV project just the face and have other stuff unwrapped normally in the same mesh?
>>1001617Nvm, I'm retarded it was super easy.
>>1001598>>1001603Btw I figured out why that happened: this is a model after applying mirror modifier, turns out it leaves a lot of internal geometry between two sides of the body. That in turn broke UV islands because they propagated through internal geometry. When I pressed L while hovering a face face it selected half of the body. After deleting all internal geometry it works as expected.
I used MagicUV to have shared UVs on shoes, but now I have some kind of weird bleeding in the wrong direction. Any idea why the bleeding on the left happens like that? It's supposed to be the same UV as on the right. I used copy-paste UV from MagicUV. Any idea how to fix this? I mean bleeding should happen near grey area and not on the opposite side of face that doesn't even have neighboring grey pixels.
>>1001663Omg, I was randomly messing with MagicUV and pressed "Transfer UV", it asked to select two faces, I selected those with bleeding on the right side, used copy, and pasted on corresponding faces on the left and it fixed the issue. Have no idea what's going on but I'm kinda happy it works.
>>1001664
>>1001663>>1001664>>1001666Update. Using Transfer UV like that is wrong and breaks mesh, it's not supposed to be used within the same mesh, it's for transferring UVs between meshes. Nevertheless I found solution by just randomly messing around because it's impossible to google it. The solution is doing flip+rotate in regular Copy UV.
>>1001493the reason you cant do both is because social media is full of actualy psychopaths who will hurt you if they knew you merely browsed 4chan.The cure is to realize that THAT is why normie social media is cancer and 4chan is good.
>>1001676Stop choosing to hang out with psychopaths and this isn't a problem.
>>1001689BINGOlog off normie social media where all the psychos are, and only post on 4chan.
What has happened to the 3d industry, /3/? Is it over?
>>1001676How good / bad is reddit for getting crits? It seems like everyone is an armchair pro over there with 30 years of experience but sometimes the work I do see posted is a tired retread, same with Blender Artists
There any good tutorials on shading? Or on how to set up a scene?
is there a tutorial how to properly import and merge files in blender? coming from Maya it seems to me like a completely dysfunctional clusterfuck whenever I want to have a file with more than one character
>>1002074>completely dysfunctional clusterfuckYeah that's called using Blender
if I want to get into sculpting are there good tablets under $200? Or cheaper if possible, just so I can start feeling it out and then splurge on one of the actual nice ones if I'm vibing.
>>1002122/ic/ has a general for drawing tablets, check there.
Where is a good start point if I want (long term) to learn how to make models of amigurumi and animate them? a bit like yoshis woolly world. I know blender basics, but I've never done any sculpting or rigging, and would appreciate some direction.
>>1002122It's probably too late but I don't know if the wacum schizo is still alive there, wacom is a good brand (for screenless tablets at least) but chinkshit is pretty comparable at a much more affordable price range. Ignore anyone who dismisses chinese tablets just because they're chinese and endlessly sucks wacom's cock, but of course do your own research as well.
>>1002364I've been looking at used actually, I haven't committed to a purchase yet but seeing the medium intuous being pretty cheap I was just going to go with that
>>1002401Intuos is breddy good on a discount and will last you a good while.
>>1002122Bought an Intuos CTH-480/small 9-ish years ago for 70-ish quid, still the only thing I've ever used lol. Don't over think it
What are the factors that will help me judge how "heavy" an asset I make for a video game is?Should I be judging face counts? Or vertices?What about all the different maps and their sizes? (texture, normal, specular, etc.)
how do i model like arcane
>>1002625I don't think the modeling is anything special I feel like just learning to model basic stuff should get you 80% of the way there, it's the animation and lighting
I'm not sure what I'm doing.How many materials I should have in Blender for one (1) character model before I export it to substance painter? This is for a game asset.I have one material called "body" that all goes onto one UV layout and covers textures for the entire area below the character's neck, clothes and all. I have another for the hair because I made it extremely fluffy. I have one final material for the whole head. So that's 3 materials, 3 UV layouts, 3 texture sets in substance painter..? I'm just worried because I've been told too many materials is very bad for a game model in Unity
>>1002625you learn to paint, the majority of the backgrounds and objects in season 2 are painted planes
>>1002122wacom is the safer bet, but huion and xppen tablets are fairly solid nowadays.you do get what you pay for though.
>>994000blender newbie. my render isn't updating to match the viewport. ive swapped engines, removed materials, unchecked 'sequencer' from post processing, and restartedidk i dont understand.
The symmetry option does not appear in the avatar I downloaded, I am planning to make clothes for a game but the symmetry does not appear, I am not downloading from the mirror.
I've got an array of curves, how do I deform them to fit the shape?Shrinkwrap works but it flattens the curves
>>1002929in this scenario you're better off deleting your curves and remaking them by duplicating an edge and converting it from mesh to curveotherwise you would use a mesh deform or lattice deform modifier with a shrinkwrap on the lattice/mesh
Trying to find software that can generate a 3D model based on another 3D model, I know the system is called "GAN" but so far I have not found anything that can do this, does it exist at a retail level?
Can anyone please explain me the Quixel Megascans situation?I am not entirely sure what's going on, but it seems they are offering about 18,000 free HQ textures now and will become paid at the start of 2025?I am not sure what limitations exist or how the whole thing works.
the zbrush crack didn´t work...
How do I design these "3D puzzle"? Should I design it in 3D first and later project it on flat surface? How to do that? https://youtu.be/Jlu1xYYJiYY?si=e61lUGqPrlcpepwWhttps://youtu.be/wjjnsxKqaGM?si=wO_Mn8puih8m9uEzhttps://youtu.be/yAP4xpg0nzg?si=Q9uWe__4lT_oh33I
>>1003154it "worked". You just have malware on your machine and no zbrush, as whoever made the fix intended. Say goodbye to your accounts, including financial
>>994000What's the most efficient way to start a basic character model? Extruding cubes? a Hodgepodge of different meshes merged together? Re-topology will obviously be useful, but im trying to avoid sculpting and tweaking for a while until I feel confident enough with the basics, but that could just be my naiveté talking. I started about a week ago with blender, went through a few tutorials to get a feel for the program, but all of them focus on architecture. While that's useful, I want to focus on honing my skill on making rigged characters. I can draw well enough, but being able to work in 3D would be a godsend
Hello, I've been sorta looking at various 3D printing miniature STLs closer in Blender - which I've been trying to casually learn more - and I noticed how most STLs don't give that many fucks about topology optimization, is that right? What incentives that?
>>10032543D printing softwares (slicers) don't give two fucks about topology the only thing they care is that the model is manifold (closed mesh, no holes or intersecting meshes)Additionally you want to decimate the model as much as possible while maintaining details so it's lighter on the software, things get laggy with more than 1m polygon per object, that's probably what you're seeing
>>1003240>What's the most efficient way to start a basic character modeluse a base meshalternatively, if you're sculpting and going to retopo anyway, just put some primitives down.just overlap them and don't give a shit about topo.immediately go to sculpt mode and remesh and just start.zbrush has something called zspheres people will start with sometimes. but yeah, just drop primitves and remesh, just think of it like adding big blocks of clay.
Am I regarded?I am trying to make a thing of a certain radius, up to two decimals, but blender then makes a mesh that's twice the size and still rounds down the remaining decimal
>>1003240Personally, select the default cube, go into edit mode, make it flush with the ground plane. Then scale the cube's height to match the height of the character I'm going for. Then scale the cube again, excluding the Z axis this time, so the cub can be made thin.Now that I have a thin rectangular box the approximate height of the character, I add 7 horizontal edge loops to the box. This will cut it into 8 sections. The idea being that the character is going to be about 8 heads tall. This is something that can vary, depending on what you're making. If you're doing a cartoon character, they might only be 4 heads tall, so make only 3 loop cuts.From there, I make an extra loop cut isolating the neck region, and delete the loop. Because it's just easy to ignore the neck, while working on the head and body separately. Later, when you have bother mostly figured out, you can bridge the two parts easily,Delete one side of the mesh, and add a mirror modifier. enabling clipping.Make another loop cut isolating the shoulders, and extrude out arms. 1 extrusion for bicep, 1 extrusion for for arm, 1 extrusion for hand. A person's arm span is typically the same as their height. Excepting those with shorter or longer arms. And excepting wonky cartoon proportions. But in T-pose, you can use the grid to get the proper arm span. And if you want to relax to an A-pose, then you can rotate the arms down from the shoulder region using the 3D cursor to assist you thereNow do a vertical loop cut near the center of the body. And delete a few of the lower planes, creating space between the legs. And then fill up the missing planes on the side of the leg and crotch.Now, you should have a boxy looking figure. From here, you want to Make the important loops that define the shoulders, pelvis, butt, elbow, and knee regions. And then add as many loops along the limbs as necessary to shape the figure.
Why does it feel like no good new software or even updates are coming out?
how do i selectively join 2 meshes in a procedural manner?it´s for sculpting so manually joining them would be a pain in the ass
>>1003384I'm not sure I understand the question. By looking at your image, the two boxes combine in an odd way. Not merely intersecting.(which is easy to do), but merging in a weird half and half. What exactly do you expect to happen when you join 2 meshes together? Joining them will merely cause them to intersect. Do you want them to mush together like some kind of pliable clay?
Should I really just pirate zbrush, 3ds max, and maya? I'm not gonna get fucking gypped year after year but I wouldn't have minded paying for a perpetual license, though it seems they're now impossible to find
>>1003418just get blender
>>1003416it´s a bit janky, but i kinda found a solution to what i want. Ill try this on the real thing using mask extract for something a bit more accurate
Is the anime style the easiest art style for a non-artist solo developer to learn while still achieving a visually appealing game?
Does anyone know if there's a way to capture lighting on an object in Blender and apply it to the actual texture itself?? Like if I make a scene and cast some lights on a plane in a certain way I want to export the plane's material with the light and shadows on it as a texture (if that makes sense)
>>1003509Isn't that what "baking" is? I never actually tried baking myself. But I'm pretty sure it's what you just described. Maybe trying searching "blender light baking", and see what comes up
I am completely illiterate about 3d, polycount, and the likes, i just wanted to ask about these particular modelsThis is the average model for characters in this game and its polycount. Is it considered small, standard or large for the typical perspective of the game & the size of the characters? In the later case is it at all likely to be a performance concern or is it probably irrelevant?
>>1003657this is how the characters usually look in game
>>1001276I don't know if this will help you or not, but in my case if I'm suffering from a lack of motivation then the way I usually end up getting over it is by just forcing myself to do an hour or so of it, daily if possible. After a few sessions the passion for it begins to return. It doesn't have to be productive, you don't even need to save it, but it's important to establish a routine where from say 9-10pm every night you open your program of choice and do something in it. think forming a habit and then pushing off from there is the best way to get motivated for something like 3dcg that's a lot less directly titilating than posting on forums or playing vidya.
>>1003418Last I heard Maxon was still allowing purchases of an older version of Zbrush under a perpetual license, I wouldn't be able to tell you where to get it though. As for OYtodesk VEYa yeah you're totally fucking fucked m8. The 7 seas are ye only reprieve.
I wanted to shorten the torso so i moved the the upper body slightly down but now i can´t close that gap. what do?
Is there any alternative way to crack Nuke other than with xforce?
Hello, I am trying to unwrap this mesh onto the UV map without any of the faces being diagonal.This is for a game in my own game engine.The diagonal faces are shown here, I can't have any faces overlapping, and the reason I don't want diagonal faces on the UV mesh is because the texture is going to be reasonably pixelated and I don't want diamond pixels.
>>1003931i found it out myself
how to sculpt fur
>>994000It doesn't make sense to me, why is the icon of a 3D software a 2D image instead of a 3D model?
have a complex static sceneI import a rigged fbx model, I try to move it from the location but it moves the whole scene, body also gets stretchedUnparent and keep transformation doesn't help
>>1004776That's weird. I don't know what could be causing the whole scene to move.(Except for user error, selecting the scene and the model together)However, from the looks of your screenshot, the armature and model aren't moving as one. That's probably the cause of the body stretching. The body is trying to move where the armature tells it to move. The armature and the model have to stay together, in order to avoid stretching.
How do you explain the correllation between blender, furries, transgenderism and being a former SFM animator?Also please tell me how to avoid the middle two points because i really don't want to end up like those people because i hit the other two points.
How can I make the grass in my yard irl more stylized. I'm thinking ghibli style.
>>1004788I had the proportional editing objects enabledAnywayHow can I make the beanstalk cast shadow onto the clouds andf also the clouds cast shadow on each other?Enabled shadow caustics on the clouds
>>1004906I have hdri and sun light on the scene enabledIf I enable these three options on the clouds Blender crashes when hitting render
>>1003657It's a mid poly model; 40k to 70k polys is the range for mid poly models.
>>1004851I was typing a big tldr post. When I realized your question can be answered simply: Don't indulge in your autistic ideas. You have to be able to realize when you're acting in an autistic manner or not. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's neutral, and sometimes that's bad. Know the difference.It's really not that hard, as long as you remain aware. The danger is being unaware. Or being aware, and not caring.
>>994000Should I get an Intuos or a "One by Wacom" (awful name)? I want to try dipping my toe into sculpting with blender, and I know wacom has good driver support on linux so I'm comparing their budget options. If there are other budget tablets that work well on linux that would be better for sculpting, let me know
how do I change the location of the Object Handle in autocad?the thing in the center, I need to move it to a location outside of the circle. thanks
Within the realm of AutoCAD's space,An object’s grip lies in its base.To shift its heart, from circle's core,Follow these steps, and learn the lore.To shift the base of your design,Type BASE and hit the line.Click the spot where it should dwell,And thus, its anchor moves as well.If part of a block, here's what you do:Invoke BEDIT to break through.Adjust the base within the editor's sight,And save your block—set it right.For single shapes without block ties,Make a custom block to revise.Type BLOCK, choose your base anew,And place it wherever feels true.So let your cursor guide the way,To shift that grip to where you say.AutoCAD listens, your will is done,A new location, the task is won!
Why doesn't the render keep the pose on the right? I did delete the keyframes of the skeleton before posing? The keyframes somehow appear again for some reason. I'm not making an animation.
>>994000Before some update, the Smoothness value was set to 1, but now every new project, it's default to zero. How do I make permanent changes of smoothness from 0 to 1 in every new projects? I do not want to do Subdivision Surface modifier many times if I want to do [Vertex > Subdivide] stuff
Is there a common source of NSFW models for 3d porn artists that they all pull from or is it all based on individual commissions / gatekept private sources?
So I have been fiddling with Blender and doing some little animations when I get the time toWhen showing it off I had someone tell me I was doing good work, but I should focus on SFM if I wanted to do animations as Blender was just more for rendering and not animationsNow, am I crazy or is that just a wrong statement?Ideally I want to make some animations, original models when I get round to learning that, animations for games like in Unity, and some NSFW animation stuff too
>>1005405Smutbase has a huge selectionSome artists has their own models you can download for free on a Mega link but you gotta find that yourselfAnd some sell their models on Gumroad
>>1005440It's wrong. I'll admit I don't have much experience animating in Blender. And zero experience animating in SFM. But I can always tell when something is animated in SFM, due to how shoddy it looks. All their animations have a distinctive feel to it that's difficult to articulate. A little to stuff here, a little to bouncy there. And of course poorer renderi!g than Blender.
How do I make a geometry node that generates rows of blocks with each row being a random height, and each block having a random width? The geometry node tutorials on Youtube all suck ass, so I'm struggling
in blender, what's the best way for adding curvature or smoothing out a blocky model?e.g. I subdivide a cube, and want to start shaping it into a dog's head. I've been moving the points one by one, sometimes with proportional editing, but this seems like a pain.Or when you extrude an arm, but it's rectangular prism shaped and you want to make the arm rounder.I want to keep it low poly since my laptop is old and not very powerful.
Blender normal map baking: I am trying to virtualize the square trenches on the top of this shotgun receiver, but the trenches I've cut out do not show up on the bake. They low poly model is laid out over the "peaks" of these trenches, so the details are underneath the low poly during the bake. I will reply to this post with a screenshot of current bake settings
>>1005463Here are the latest settings, it is correctly virtualizing some buttons on the gun, but the ribs are absent (the island they're supposed to be on is in the that screenshot next to the button details). I can provide more info if I accidentally omitted an important detail. Thanks.
I would like import characters from videogames to gta san andreas and manhunt. First time using Autdesk 3D max 2012 so i already was able to convert a gta sa skin to manhunt so here my questions:1. How hard is extract videogames characters(the mesh) and convert them to gta sa and manhunt? I had to install a pluging to my 3d max in order to edit gta sa dff files so i guess should be the same with whatever format file has any videogame that have a character i want extract to convert it to gta sa, right? 2. Is it harder extract characters from mobile videogames? 3. I have certain experience working with txd files on gta sa so im pretty new working with the dff files in 3d max(i already edited a gun for gta sa) , so i would like to know if i can make frankenstein characters like take the head of "X" character and put it on the body of "Y" character and then add the huge tits of "Z" character: is shrimple as that? 3. Any idea how unblock dff files? When i try to open in 3d max certain gta sa dff characters i got this error message: "author locked this file please contact him" 4. As i said im a noob with all this 3D stuff so is there any web page that shares "pirate" 3d models? Asking because i found several models of Jenny officer from pokemon i would like convert to my games but said models are on sale only so i was wondering if theres something like "the pirate bay" but with 3d models.Thanks in advance.
I have several reference images for the top, sides, etc. of an object. In an image editor, these are all correctly sized with each other. However, when I drag them into Blender it seems to be setting its own sizes for them and they no longer are the correct sizes relative to each other. How do I stop this from happening?
How the fuck I unlock a dff. file from GTA SA?I already tried RWAnalyze and Z2G DFF converter but nothing works.
I'm working on modeling the motion tracker from Alien Isolation. Still pretty novice, how's the topology looking? It's probably not optimized, but any tips?
>>1005450While in edit mode, press 1 to go into vertex selection. Select the vertices you want to smooth. Then, right click and select "smooth vertices"Alternatively, go into sculpt mode, select the smooth brush, set the strength to a reasonable level. Perhaps 20% or 30%. And then carefully brush over the area you want to smooth. F controls the brush size.
First time using blender and watching someone manipulate bones with the normal cursor like resizing and moving but i can't. All i can do is highlight it.
>>1005545>First time using blenderSlow down and learn the basic controls.G to move things around.(thing "grab")S to scale things big and small.R to rotate things around.There are various "modes" that enable different actions. By default, Blender opens up into "Object" mode. In object mode, you won't be able to manipulate the bones like how you want. You need to go into "edit" mode. Which you can do by highlighting the bones and pressing Tab.If the tutorial you're watching didn't tell you any of this, and you don't already know it, then the tutorial is too advanced for you. You need to watch something simpler. Like the donut tutorial for example.
>>1005551Sorry i ended up working out what i was missing but ill definitely take things more slowly going forward. thank you for the suggestions
>>1005542Thanks! :)
anyone got their hands on this book? I can read Japanese but no cash to get them + shipping
if i want to make a thing that looks like a cd-rom do i have to do that with shaders or what?
>>1005634It was somewhere in books thread, but untranslated.
