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Any updates on Animation ..uh.. 2030?
want to ask this again>>998456there is a setting but only for envelope weights, wish there was one for regular weights too, it would be helpful for automatically reducing the influence of a bone with consistent results
going to try maya or 3ds max bros. blender aint cutting it
>>998835How do I achieve this dithered/pixelated look and lighting setup? Can you do it in blender or is it mostly done with post?
>>998845>it mostly done with post?vintage stuff wasn’t made to look vintage with post, it just was vintage you absolute braindead fucking zoomer
>>998845Try POV-Ray
>>998853The POVray render engine doesn’t work in my blender for some reason. Actual POVray is out of the question bc I hate coding
>>998870I made it work in blender, but I prefer POV-Ray because coding is fun and something like that pic is really straightforward
>>998845Something Pixel filter off or set to 1, something something camera/AA samples set to 1/0 or something.I don't use Blender but that might help you search up what you need to do it in a modern engine or something
>>998759ive tried those solutions and looked through all the light settings i could find, unfortunately it isnt helping, thank you for that though i wouldnt have thought to try that
idk what changed but the lights show up so modular dungeon i made following the tutorial
>>998842What's the difference between max and maya? If they are both autodesk and both modeling/animation packages why do two of them need to exist instead of just one?
>>998924Max can do better particle collisions and physics. A 90% power of Houdini effects. Autodesk is perfect for rigging the characters and animation, something Max lacks but not impossible to achieve. Maya lacks effects and it’s never recommended for such use.Blender can’t handle particles enough and will crash or something. Blender lacks animation and rigging in default software.That’s the answer and advantages of Autodesk products.
so is there a way to get eevee legacy in 4.2? I want both.
I want to get back into mograph and rendering for album covers but its been a little more than a decade for me. I've probably forgotten most of what I learned in C4D which was(and still is?) the standard for that kind of stuff. I've never used blender before but it seems like the mograph industry is heading towards it from what I've heard online. Would it be better if I learned blender or got back into cinema 4d?
>>998846Mods can we do something about the edgelords that come in here just to shit on peoples enthusiasm?
asking this again herei have imported an fbx asset that has already been unwrapped and textured, and i want to view its seamsi have already tried the "uv/image editor -> uv -> seams from islands" approach, but can't figure out why the software still won't show me seams on the model
>>998837Yes actuallyhttps://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/animation_rigging/#slotted-actions
>>998944>JunkOMG i have never read such pointless feature in my life. All this just to move something in the same slot.
>>998962Yeah man move those things into those slots.
Blender conference next week, interesting topics > npr, anime, architectural and cad shit galore (they should invest more on that crap and integrate opencascade, maybe before 2030), and animation.https://conference.blender.org/2024/schedule/
>incomplete, rest of the course is "coming soon" (lol)>no rigging, told to buy another $90 course to rig it and a $500 course if you want to animate it>so a $90 character course nets you a half finished t-posed model that you can't even movegenuinely hope no one here fell for this. why are there so many grifters in the blender space
>>998974which course?
Stupid question:How might i improve my render times?I am using a RTX 3060 12GB VRAM gpu but i feel my rendering is very very slow (using cycles).I already set rendering to optiX but other than that i do not know how to improve it.There are youtube videos but they are 12+ minutes long and 90% are the person talking about unrelated things and promoting their merch, course or whatever shit is sponsoring them.
>>998978shit i forgot to link ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naPkiK3MG88
>>998982did you make sure to enable Blender to use the GPU to render? i made that mistake before
>>998982lower samples, use denoising, lower res w/ ai upscaling, pay for a render farm (probably what's sponsoring those vids)or use eevee if you can, not ideal but it's pretty good now and still fairly quick
>>998982CUDA works way better for me than OptiX.
>>998983only problem with blender are the dogshit tutorial grifters wasting your time and or money
>>998974>>998999What's the best way to make money using blender? Make courses for using blender.
>>999000It won’t work, version 2.8, version 3.2 and version 4 are completely separate blender software. They all get outdated and they’ll never understand the concept behind the devs process.
It's a weird roundabout scam with blender channels. a lot of toxic positivity and 'muh community' to create an environment where people almost feel obligated to buy shit. meanwhile these tutorial channels very rarely actually teach anything. it's mostly a ploy to funnel retards into their patreon/gumroad/courses, which are rarely worth it.I found this vid a few days ago, a lot of shit really sounds similar to blender youtubers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBV1bHGcjfcThat said, not every channel is a scam of course. There are a ton of smaller channels that are absolute gems, but they're hard to find when the algo is flooded with more popular grifters like cgboost, smeaf, kaizen, ducky3d, noggi, etc.some actually good channels I've found with extremely good free content:https://www.youtube.com/@gogananimationhttps://www.youtube.com/@NhijQuanghttps://www.youtube.com/@PierrickPicaut_P2DESIGNhttps://www.youtube.com/@AlexCheparevhttps://www.youtube.com/@BranSculptshttps://www.youtube.com/@rakenvaland there are thousands more out there, you just have to find them.a good tip I've seen mentioned in other threads is to look up maya/3ds/c4d vids instead of blender ones. there is less content available but it is overall higher quality. main principles for most 3d things aren't software dependent. unless you're rigging or something
>>999002thank you for these channels and i planned to check out the tutorials for other programs soon too, sucks theres like no way to quality check a lot of courses online in general
I'm new to Blender and having trouble keeping the shape of a choker while rotating the neck. Would really appreciate any help on this!
>>999039do you mean keep the shape similar to the way the neck deforms or keep the shape from deforming at all?
>>999042I want to keep the shape from deforming
>>999050my first try would be to go into edit mode, select all the verts of that choker and with 100% influence add them all to group that belongs to the closest bone in the neck to the choker. but it might not work too well you might have clipping, another and better possibility is to transfer mesh weight data from the body to the item if it is a separate piece and it will deform with the neck, you will have small deformation but it will probably look better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQ2QVVIxLUthe verts in the choker will get very similar weight to the neck and deform with the neck and hopefully no clipping
>>999002any good ytubers for maya tutorials?
Probably a silly question but what's the difference between switching between materials and assigning them?I was told to go into edit mode, select the mesh, select the material and press "assign" BUT i can just...choose a differen material and done. The material will change for everything: rendering, mesh data, viewer etc.I guess it's hard to explain.Why should i go to edit mode and assign materials when i can do it like in the gif here?
>>999082assigning lets you have multiple materials on the same object by assigning them to faces, etc. if you just want one material for the entire thing then it's not a big deal
>>999087I see, thanks anon!
have a lighting/post processing question. How do I emulate the old FMV sort of look in Blender? You know, like old japanese game intros and stuff. [spoiler]or like Umemaro3d[/spoiler]
>>999090Default lighting and not caring about the lighting in stages.
>>998944>add yet another layer of complexity and break backwards compatibility instead of just making the NLA stack a datablockbravo dr sybren
>>999094Is it? Doesnt seem to look like that. Also, they clearly have lighting in stages set up, and all of that jazz
>>999103>dr sybrenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1VftqTABK0
Anons, where can i pirate/download blender addons?I can't afford 30$ per addon when i found 100~ addons that are useful.
whats a good safe way to share .blend files online for public consumption? other than gumroad or something
>>999288google drive? although space is limited
>>999289>jewgleeh, any other alternatives?
>>999291MEGA is used a lot too, about the same 20GB limits i think
>>999287Use a real program and you’ll have all that shit built in
What is the best way to model injection molded parts like pic related? Specifically, the thin pieces with the ribs and the gussets, etc. I tried doing it with the solidify modifier, but that was more of a pain than anything. Where two walls meet in a cross, the geometry was a mess, and I didn't find a good way to add cylinders for the screws. Doing it with booleans was also not very pleasant. There must be a way of doing this that is not the hard way, right?
>>998965prediction: the NPR/anime speakers are going to have to point out that the shading workflows they're presenting are broken in 4.2+ because the devs dumped a lot of the NPR features in EEVEE when turning EEVEE-Next into even more of a Cycles clone>>999090render in 2.79, from before they dumped the mature, stable scanline renderer instead of modularizing it
>>999149oh for the love of christ
>>999287Anyone?
>>999355aeblender dot comgfx father
>>998982Use cuda, it's a better denoiser
>>999355cgpersia
Friendly reminder that paid Blender add-ons are a GPL violation, see:https://www.blender.org/about/license/
how do I be less shit at animation? is it literally just practice
So I have a project that periodically crashes when rendering. It's not a consistent crash, but rather random. Just whenever it feels like it.I'll be doing the final render with the command line, but is there a way to kind of monitor the process so if it crashes it restarts the commandline render? I've had issues like this before (once lost like a week of sleep just babysitting the renderer and restarting it every 20 mins or so), so I'd like to be able to just set it and forget it and let it sort itself out. I'm using windows.
Only today I found out that theres a setting to render the scene while you still have shit in the sequencer.
>>999002Lol. Thoughts on blenderguru?
>>999568he hasn't done anything in 3d
Anyone knows where is the option for ambient occlusion in 4.2? (Cycles)In older versions it was just a checkbox.I have read it's under a 'raytracing' tab on render section but there is none for me.
>>999574raytracing is ambient occlusion, you just have to check that box
>>999577I should have clarified, i cannot find the option for ambient occlusion.I SUPPOSE it's under light paths > Fast GI Approximation but wanted to be sure.
why does copy and pasting UVs never seem to work? it's unwrapped the same way as the part it's trying to copy. at first I thought it was because it had a different number of faces, but when I edited it to make it match it still didn't fix it
i hop between devices a lot and every time I do my references get lost and become purple and I have to relocate them every time. is there a way to just make them part of the file
>>998845I tried getting that look by turning off AA in povray and then outputting it at 320 x 240 and THEN raping the output by upscaling it with nearest neighbor to some higher res, i failed miserably but that's part of the fun.
foot rig, not complete yet, foot roll not done
>>999588can't help you but I'm feeling very frustrated by the UV handling in general. Is there any good plugins or addons that make it less painful? Or other software that plays nice with blender?
>>999620File>External Data>Pack resources.Packing saves the image data in the .blend file. Don't do this for fuckhuge projects with thousands of textures, but for more self-contained things, it can be helpful.You can also manually pack specific assets one by one in the image browser (image>pack). It'd be nice if you could do it in the outliner's "Blender File" view where you can see all the assets like materials/images/etc, but I don't think you can there.>>999588I can't say for sure, but I'm guessing vertex order has something to do with it. Verts aren't just saved as points in space, they're also numbered. Different things can fuck with the ordering, and can make two objects with the exact same geometry behave differently for certain operations. A big thing is shapekeys. Two meshes with the exact same geo, but different orders will fuck up when you transfer a shapekey from one to the other. You can reorder a mesh's vertex order in edit mode by selecting everything and going to "Mesh>Sort Elements". Don't really know how useful that would be for shapekeys (as it would fuck shit up if the order changed), but UVs might be fine.Of course I could be completely fucking wrong and it's not the order fucking up at all and Blender just can't unwrap two identical objects the same way for some retarded reason.
Blender CON is going down right now>>998944>>999321https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7micU0YyOw
>>999696I knew it was going to be bad and content free but this is stunning.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBgOiG4Yp6Q
Any tips on replicating lighting in blender I want to replicate the lighting in the picture 45 degree top down and real lighting to study still life painting
I also want to replicate these as well
>>999702Top lightHDRI fillBounce card at the bottom (But instead of using a bounce card, you just use another light because we can)
>>999705Light on the right, Light on the right, Light on the right, Light on the right, Light on the right, Light on the right, Light on the right, Light on the right etc, and a fill, or wall on the left that reflects light back onto the left of the object. AKA a fill because it's CG, we can do whatever we want, and direct lighting is cheaper to renderAdjust the size and distance of the main light to change the harshness and harshness falloff of the shadows
>>999625You can fake it for stills by just using the pixelate and posterize nodes in the compositor, but the fact that it doesn't have a real colour pallet might be noticeable in motion. I got an older GPT to make a python script to do basically the same thing, so maybe you can make it shit out something that can do it properly, I bet its scraped some auto-dither github repos.
they're not talking about sculpting at blendcon, it feels like they have their priorities wrong
>>999668i love rigging because you can do something incredibly simple and pass it off as something incredibly complex and no one will know unless they too are autistic enough to have learned rigging.
>>999783in that case, i want to ask a little question, i have this hand here and the fingers turns out are a little too skinny, without going back into sculpting is it viable to resize the fingers on the X, Z axis while isolating the Y (S, Shift + Y) and fattening the fingers a little to fit the hand better to close the gaps between the fingers and applying that scale as a rest pose to change the base mesh only on the fingers to fix that issue?
>>999814here is the same hand with the fingers at 1.1 scale, the gaps close, maybe another .1 or .05 will be better
>>999816yeah this might work, comparing it like this, the original seems way too skinny
>>999820>>999816>>999814also used it to make the bottom of the palm a little thicker, this is so jank, dont think its the intended use case but it works for this specific task so ill keep doing it i guess
>>999776>Sculptthey are doing the brush refactor and they have planed 2 more refactors dyntopo and multires, other than that the only things that I want are the unfinished prs that they have (color support for multires, projection brush, new scrape, repeat last relative, insert multimesh) and the functionality of the layer addons native inside blender (Ucupaint and Sculpt Layers).
>>999814> applying that scale as a rest pose to change the base mesh only on the fingers to fix that issue?Yeah that is possible, but not recommended as you probably want your base skin to be ready to accept additional meshes tailored for itlike say different set of gloves for your hand model. You wanna be able to skin-bind these to a zero'ed out set of bones and not to scaled ones.What I'd do is scale your mesh via bones the same way you are til it looks more right, copy it and and collapse the 'skinned & scaled' version back to plain geometry in that altered state. Next you zero out all your scaling and transfer the weights / skin wrap (whatever your software of choice calls it)by transferring weights by vertex proximity to re-skin your altered geometry so it's now skinned the same way it was but but with zero'ed scaling on all your bones.
>>999848this is after sculpting and applying the retopology and shrink-wrap, and transferring to a multi-resolution. i only completed the base model and wanted to make sure it will have anatomically correct or at least decent deformations before moving on to anything else
I have a character with like 50 clothes submeshes whose waist is too skinny. I want to increase the width of her waist for the body model and all the clothes at once. I can do this perfectly by just scaling the spine_tweak bones a little. Is there a way I can make this permanently be the new shape of all the meshes when the armature is in rest pose? 'Apply as Rest Pose' makes all the meshes jump back to their original size. Maybe there is an addon that does this?
>>999897>>999823>>999820>>999816>>999814when fucking around with this I had the same issue, I had to apply the modifier on the base mesh and then apply the rest pose and then re-parent the object to the armature, it keeps the weight data in my experience so parent with empties if you have a custom weight paints would be my guess? try in another save file of course
>>998835I think she cute.
>>1000063>photorealism in blender hahahahahahahahahaha roflmao lol even
>open blender>get white tab with no icon>shuts off after 5 secondswhat the fuck?
>>999721>>999724>>999705Thanks this is gonna help me create still lights to study value and help out with learning form for painting especially on the the face it can be very tricky but with blender you can make a head and lights that you can move in any direction
>>1000167the cubes of deleted's past has invaded the gui to seek revenge on their banisher
>>999321>>999149>>998944Are you FUCKING kidding me. >whine that they're not taken seriously by the industry >break engines, features, workflows, files, and courses on a whim because one of the autistic devs wants to play with his little pet project that will abandoned, unfinished, in a year Actual fucking children. No respect for their users, no respect for their program, no respect for themselves. The open source experiment has failed.
>>1000213imagine actually wanting to keep the barely functioning piece of shit that is Blender's NLA editor.Rip it up by the fucking root.
>>1000220Skill issue. The NLA is incredible, you just don't know how to use it.
>>1000222that guy said that it will be fully retrocompatible, idk where is the problem, are you using scripts?
>>1000220the NLA is now great, but inexplicably neglected.some years ago a random outside contributor finally added a proper "combine" mode, and at 3.2 another outside contributor added "full-stack" tweak mode, which made the NLA feature complete for proper animation layering (w/no thanks to the BF devs).the NLA stack has always needed to be its own datablock, so it could be saved and shared independent of an Object, but of course that would be too easy for the big brains at BF.animation layering is already there, thanks to outside devs. the animation module's time (and donors' money) would better spent updating the documentation, instead of ripping out contributors' useful, functional work to replace it with this convoluted horseshit.it makes no fucking sense. if they want a cute "animation layers" panel in the properties editor just use the GPL to swipe tal herskovich's addon, which itself is cribbing the way softimage did it -- just a smaller ui driving the NLA stack.
any idea how I can have transparency without resorting to Principled BSDF and multiple materials with different alpha values? this is an item from King's Field III on the PS1; trying to be authentic to how they would've done it, as when it's in blender it doesn't look as it does in-game I've tried vertex colors but they also require Principled if I want to use transparency / alpha
>>1000227here >>999321 and from the way he talks in the blog and repository it sounds like he means to remove the NLA. i just hope he continues dragging his feet and we get to another LTS before they axe anything.
>>1000222>you just don't know how to use it.I know how to use it. I'm forced to use it all the time. I don't call it trash out of ignorance, I call it trash out of pure contempt.Layering is a pain in the ass and works 20% of the time (if fucking that) and is still worse than the animation layers addon which apparently uses the same system under the hood, the UI is fucking horrible, there's no sorting for clips (or any kind of clip library), adding literally anything adds random tracks everywhere to the point you have like 20 extra tracks per channel unless you constantly clean them up, it's a dice roll whether or not your changes on an action propagate to the clip that's already on the editor or it just stays in the retarded temporary action, and working with it for any animation that uses more than a handful of clips is a lesson in extreme patience.The only thing "incredible" about using the NLA editor is that it's incredible that the person who made it has a fucking job.But by all means, tell me how it's "incredible"or >>1000228 "great"I've been using it for years and there's been literally no noticeable changes to how it functions.
>>1000229If you’re using the standard shader, make sure you project is set to linear color space, not gamma.
How many samples does an image need to make it stop looking like watercolor?I am practicing volumetric lighting and want a render of my scene.I tried with 2000 render samples here and it looks almost the same as with 500.Is there some setting i am missing? The resolution is 1980x1080 .
>>1000285The problem is that you have very few samples on the interior of your scene, you may need to add some "fake lights" to simulate and adequate illumination.
>>1000285Turn off denoising, it kinda sucks in most cases.
>>1000291>>1000285it looks pretty good if you use a denoise node in the compositor and split it so it's ~half denoised and half raw. It saves a lot of time as you need a lot less samples to look good. The renderer denoiser is always 100% so it sucks
>>1000296Ive got an unreasonably fat GPU so I sneer at the denoiser, but that might be pretty useful for animations.
>>1000231if you can't get animation to layer consistently that's the fault of the documentation, because i (and i'm sure thousands of other users) have been using it that way constantly since combine mode was added, and it got a hell of a lot easier with full stack tweak mode in 3.2. documentation and ui is what BF should be working on, not reinventing the wheel -- and herskovich has already provided them with the ui thanks to GPL.your post reminded me that the same guy who contributed full stack tweak mode made a detailed proposal to fix that annoying leftover "action stash" cruft in the project repository 3 years ago. of course, animators on there cheered his proposal, the animation module ignored it, and BF hired a couple dozen more devs to work on Cycles.sorting and a clip library would be solved almost automatically by making the nla stack a datablock independent of an Object, because it'd make arbitrary stacks accessible from python and the outliner like any other datablock.
>>998835I think this is the biggest amount of cameras i've ever had in a project and i'm scared it might become a bangladeshi soap opera because it's not even a third of the video and that it's only a storyboard for the final video.
>years later, donut man is still trying his ui thing
>>1000325I still remember his awful proposal with the shitload of giant buttons scattered all over the UI
Why is nobody talking about BCON? Was it because it was a €400 per person disaster?
I feel like most of you missed the best talk which is here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8dWFuBx3ZYThey're using Blender to explore the female erectile tissue and there's also furries.
>>1000326He never did what you suggest. He just wanted a top toolbar with giant button for giant retards and I regret not having appreciated it. Time proved him right.
>>1000366
>>1000366not watching this, I don't want to die of cringe
>>1000308>if you can't get animation to layer consistentlyYou have to basically make an animation piecemeal for it to layer properly. If you have a walking animation and you want to add another strip with the arm doing something else, it's not just a simple "toss on the arm clip with replace/add/combine!", you have to remove all the keys from the arm in the walking animation to get it to maybe work. Compared to animation layers which really is just "animate what you want on top of what you have".Not to mention the "add" mode is broken. It adds the fucking scale of the bones of both clips even without keyframes, so if you set ANY clip to add with another, every bone's scale is increased and it fucks your model (because a scale of 1.0+1.0 equals 2).
>>1000366Naaaa, Jess Wiseman's talk was better becase she's a cute. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KS_339c8hc0&t=775s
>>1000386Wonder how many babies she's killed.
>>1000325I thought that one bitch was trying to get this dude canceled? doesn't look like it worked
>>1000366>and there's also furriesthis will be perfect for my live action hoops and yoyo moviehehehehehehehehehe
how do i isolate thing in blender?i have 1 object selected how do i isolate it from everything else?in 3ds max you have the isolate option in the bottom of the screen or alt+Qhow do that in blender?
>>1000404/ on numpad
>>1000380true, the other modes are doing literally matrix + matrix or matrix - matrix, which must have been logical to some autistic dev who doesn't animate but is useless for animatiors and generally fucked the nla until combine mode.sounds like i'm animating a different way than you are, but the way i use it is: animate the main pass/loop -> push that down to a 'replace' strip on the bottom track -> create a new action -> drop that to a 'combine' strip on top of the stack -> go into full stack tweak mode -> continue animating.now all that shit SHOULD be automatic, which is what i expect herskovich's addon does, and there's some stupid defaults like "sync length" and "action stash" with easy fixes, but the guts are there and it works. it's just shit docs and shit ui, but that's just a matter of python and not as glamorous as this paradigm shift the Doctor is working on.tried what i think you're describing here and it seems to work as expected -- if there's no keys on transforms in the upper strip, the lower strip's keys propagate to the stack result. key all three arm bones in the upper combine or replace strip and they'll override the keys on those bones in the walk strip, even at "zero" in a combine strip. those geniuses removed the screencast function so here's the file: https://litter.catbox.moe/bve3tn.blend
this year's theme was sculpting, next year I'm getting good at geometry nodes
>>1000167yea definitely a GPU problem
>>1000388What do you mean? Cute grils don't kill babies and she's like autistic.
Can someone help me figure out why this sloped door animation is just going straight up and down after I export it and not sliding along the slope like it should be?
>>1000523It'd be nice to see it first.
>>1000408Hey, I appreciate the honest attempt at helping to clear my hangups, and I tried to take a look at your file, but I'm getting a 404.Not sure what the file contains (if it's just a replication of your understanding of my understanding of the NLA), but how I go about layering is this.>Make a source animation (let's say a normal walk cycle)>Make an animation to layer over top, (we'll say he does some finger guns), animate and keyframe ONLY the bones used for that action (so arms and fingers)>Duplicate walk cycle action (new clip so we don't fuck up the original), clear the keyframes of the arms and fingers so there's nothing on them to interfere with the finger guns, now it's just a walk cycle but the arms don't move>add them both to the NLA, put the finger guns on top, set it to replace or combine (whichever works better), and fix the holds for both of them so they don't do something fucky later down the lineI've tried other things, but this is the method that I've kind of landed on that doesn't fuck shit up. Things still fuck up, but not as much. I feel like it really defeats the point of the editor when I could just combine the curves myself into a single action.Like all I want from the editor is to take the walk cycle as is, animate the finger gun animation, put the finger guns above it in the NLA editor set it to replace, and have the keys from the finger guns replace the keys from the walk cycle. Like that's HOW it should work. THAT'S layering. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it never ever works like that, even if the action that's replacing ONLY has keys on the bones that are moving.Every time I try to do it the rational way, some bullshit happens. Maybe the bones fuck up and create an abomination, the armature just stops animating altogether, the replacement action doesn't apply, or there's some weird shit where the bones snap into place.Maybe it is a bit of a skill issue, but Blender should take its share of the blame here too.
>>1000535shit, i must've left the time on default. here it is again: https://litter.catbox.moe/rr26so.blendit's not on you at all dude, it's 100% on them at the blender foundation, because they've left it unnecessarily obscure despite a bunch of users contributing their hard work -- for free -- to make it work like it should have in the first place!and now instead of cleaning up the last crumbs of their own mess around the edges, these in-house devs are quietly chomping at the bit to rip the whole thing out because they've got a better idea! i love this software but i swear to god these assholes drive me up the wall lol
>>1000538Yeah I've got the file now.And yeah, looking at the file, this definitely seems to be how I would do things. Layering animations with specific body part actions keyed. The only difference is that for yours the walk cycle keeps the keys for the arms and torso bend (you don't delete them to clear space for the added poses). Which would cause something to fuck up for some reason when I try it. Looking closer, I think that's what the difference between your armup_replace, and armup_combine is demonstrating. The replace one actually seems to be properly replacing the keys for the arm (which is what's hit or miss for me), while the combine at first glance seems to be fucked, but it seems like it's actually combining the poses.Now I'm just more confused as to why yours works fine but mine occasionally fucks up.Is the way I've been doing it not the correct way to do it? Is there a better way?>i love this software but i swear to god these assholes drive me up the wall lolI'm right there with ya. I've been using this shit since 2.49. I can't say I have a ton of love for the program, I just stick with it because I'm just dug in too deep at this point. I'd probably be able to pick up something else if I really tried, but I really have no motivation to learn a whole new program of this scale from scratch again. Like the initial shit would probably be easy, but it's all the little quirks and shit of specific software that's like death by 1000 cuts.
>>1000550Going from Blender to literally any other 3D software feels like coming home from a weeks vacation and somebody's moved all your furniture six inches to the left so you keep banging your toe and tripping over tables.
>>1000559funny that the other 3d software i use is a literal game engine, which blender has no similar features
>>1000550>>1000538Shit, I'm stuck on Blender 3.1 and the full stack NLA option only got added in 3.2 How difficult you boys think it would be to backport it? I have a 60 IQ.
>>1000583>How difficult you boys think it would be to backport it?I know absolutely fuck-all about software development or coding, so take this with enough salt to keep an aquarium full of ocean fish alive and happy, but it might just be as easy as making your own fork, taking the full stack NLA code from 3.2 and copy/pasting it into 3.1's.I mean, that's like the entire point of open source, right? It's all there.Granted, there's probably some shit you have to do to actually compile it, and I know 100% it won't work flawlessly, but if you're serious about it, it might be worth a go. Worst case, you fuck it up, but it's not like you actually do any damage.>>1000559Honestly, that sounds about right.
>>1000559No.
>>1000550went over it again to get it all straight in my own head -- there are definitely a couple of steps to compensate for bullshit defaults that became muscle memory. change the upper dopesheet editor into an action editor, then:>put playhead at 97>hit the button in the action editor to create a new action>click the name of the orange "live" track at the top of the NLA>change the extrapolation to 'hold forward' or 'nothing' ('hold' is a stupid default & this panel doesn't appear unless you click the track to make it active)>pick 'replace' or 'combine' blending mode>rotate upper_arm_fk.R and insert a keyframe>use button to 'push down' to the NLA>position new strip on new track above all othersfrom here you can hit tab to go into full-stack tweak mode on the new strip and any keyframes inserted will seamlessly compensate for the strip's blending mode: 'replace' keys relative to zero (as usual), 'combine' keys relative to the stack result at the current frame.both the armup strips started like that, but armup_replace could have been done in a new action at frame 1:>mute all tracks>select all bones & clear transforms>create new action>animate and insert keyframes on only the three arm bones>push down to new strip on a new track>set blending to 'replace' and extrapolation to 'nothing'>turn off 'sync length' and check the start/end/repeat settings>re-enable the other tracks>place new strip at frame 97>use 'blend in/out' or 'animated influence'armup_replace has forearm_fk.R keyed at zero. delete those keyframes and the rotation in walk1 will pass through and make the forearm wiggle. armup_combine has rotation keys on the chest, which combine w/the chest rotation in drunk1. if you add similar keys in armup_replace by hovering rotation in the transform panel and hitting "i" (disable "animated influence" to place a key), the rotations on the chest in drunk1 get overridden. however, if you key just one rotation channel the others would pass through.
>>1000559iktf>>1000583technically doable but probably needs a few more IQ.there's build instructions here https://developer.blender.org/docs/handbook/building_blender/ and the relevant commits are linked here https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/commit/3acbe2d1e933 (looks to be 3acbe2d1e933, ad324316ce8 and 287fc277ec64deb537721406399ea9a1f2e3cce7). plenty of info on how use git on stackexchange.expect it would be much easier to port your projects to an LTS. if you're stuck on 3.1 because of windows 7 support there's a guy making compatible builds at https://github.com/nalexandru/BlenderCompat
>>1000599>>1000593Thank you very much, I'll post back later how it went.
Random Q:Are blender materials much like Unreal materials?
>>1000686As far as I know Blender mostly switched to an industry standard shader technique so it should be relatively easy to sync them both up
has anyone ever used that? I thought that was an addon but it's default blender?https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/editors/3dview/toolbar/add_cube.html
>>1000709That was one of the firsts Dobarro's work, you can use it to block geometry fast, it should have a boolean option but the faggots at the blender foundation thought that it would be hard to maintain or too complex, something like that, so now if you want that feature you have to use an addon.
what are all these dotted lines? i feel like i messed something up when parenting the armature to empty groups.
>>1000730parenting lines, are all those colors different objects? they are just being parented to the armature like the name says
>>1000716ah, Pablo Dobarro, that makes sense, I can see how he would use it to block out his sculptsI wish there was a demo because it seems very cumbersome to use, I don't think I can include it in my workflow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMPogxcBNlAjobquitter bros?
i hope the faggot responsible for gutting eevee in 4.2 dies painfully.
>>1000751https://xcancel.com/pablodp606/status/1146753390225088515#mhttps://xcancel.com/pablodp606/status/1151075246927208449#m
why is my HDRI so washed out?I downloaded the .hdr file and linked it up like so, but it's nowhere near close to the preview image. I downloaded the tonemapped jpg from the site and it's much nicer, but it says not to use it for lighting messing with color management didn't change anything
Why the FUCK did they remove subsurface color? Are they retarded?
>>1000786how do I add red coloring to my SSS for skin? It says it uses the basecolor to color SSS now, but my basecolor is not red and adding red turns the whole character red.I tried messing with the Radius and it works in Eevee, but in Cycles the red one adds green hue areas on the lips and nose. The blue one turns purple and yellow. Only when its 1,1,1 does it not look colored weird, but then it's not tinted red.They really fucked this up
>>1000779I just toss in an HSV node and crank up the saturation a tiny bit.>>1000786>>1000788I don't think it's the proper use, but plugging in whatever color I needed into the radius works for me. I've never noticed the colors getting fucked up or screwy, even manually entering values into the vector (which really should just be a regular color input).Also, not really helpful, but the individual SSS node still has a color input.That being said, I also agree that it's fucking retarded. Removing useful shit seems to be a running theme for Blender devs these days. Likely because they're incompetent and lack the ability to fix things, so it's easier for them to just remove it. Then when you call them out you get the classic "I'm a talentless programmer that has no art knowledge or creativity to speak of" response, "Why would anyone use it that way?"
Any tutorials/guides on creating this sort of stylized hair? Both the polygons, but mostly the material cuz this just looks like black magic to me...
>>1000816it's hair cards, most realistic game still use this system to save computing cost compared to particles. You have a pre-made hair texture image with a few set of hair strands and layer different flat meshes that's UV'ed ,each display a different hair strand in the texture. You can make your own hair strands through rendering in particles in blender/painting in PS/buying premade sheetYou can then arrange your hair card with Beizer curve, geo node, add-on or even moving vertcies manually. It does take time to layer the hair cards and maybe some shading/rendering trick to hide the fact that it has no volumehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvsQ79JkQ4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBvsQ79JkQ4
>>1000817Thanks anon.Is there a more polygon efficient way of doing hair than using flat mesh planes? I'm afraid my model would get too heavy for game/animation if I was to do that many strands...
I'm not going to sugarcoat it. I'm learning blender in hopes of making porn someday. I've downloaded some models off smutbase for study, and I've noticed some models have silver faces like pic related. After going through the comments, the posters say that its an issue only with newer versions of blender, but not 3.6 do some pros stick with older versions like how some people prefer photoshop cs3?Is
>>1000833I've done some more digging and it turns out that the multiply node connected to principled bsdf's IOR node rather than Coat IOR. Question still stands though, do some users stick to older versions by preference?
>>1000837it's not too uncommon to have multiple versions of blender installed
>>1000833Blender has multiple "LTS" ( long-term support, as they call it ) . Like 2.93 > 3.2 is one product line , 3.6 > 4.2 is another product line https://www.blender.org/download/lts/Usually they are forward compatible but not guarantee to be backward compatible . Like if you try to open file saved in 4.0+ in Blender 3.0 it will probably crash immediately, or if you somehow get it opened the material will sometimes be broken because they changed the MixRGB node in 4.0, so it will appear as a broken " undefined" node in 3.0
>>1000833I am rendering sexy images of a character I like for fun and a anon who is a 3D porn artist sent me some of his blend files because he thinks I have potential for that, and there's like 200 shape keys, 10 color attributes, a skin material with 4 micro skin details mixed up in a spider web of like 50 nodes (in a node group). I had detail maps and height maps but the materials I was using are babby shit compared to this; I can barely follow what he's doing with all these interconnected mixers. Also theres this huge geo nodes setup for water droplets on the skin, I've never even used geo nodes before. I guess now I understand how they do those awesome realistic materials, I thought there was some trick to it but nope it's a just a lot of work
>>1000828you can mix between poly mesh for big bundle of hair and hair card for strands . examples> https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/juliet-starling-chearleader-outfit-4b1258583b3a480baac7d9b0fe5cbc65 ( The alpha are fked but it illustrates the point well )>https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/genshin-0f78856d449f4aedb42961748ec76e59>https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/ashline-2021-6193b2d30f064d629be96924e1630a1cnote how the hair meshes are not exactly connected or even blend together, some have thickness some don't , it's mostly up to the texture that make the hair look good, to polygons are just there to display the texture
1. Should I just drop texturing in Blender in favor of Substance Painter? I haven't tried the latter but I'm told it's closer to Photoshop which I'm used to2. Any good courses for what comes after modeling/sculpting? I'm talking stuff like Retopo/UVs/Rigging.I'm okay at modeling since, but I lack at a lot of the technical stuff
>>1000876You have Ucupaint as free alternative inside blender but yes, substance is better.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_apXIn0g5wRetopo is usually done with retopoflow, it is sold in the market but you can download it from github, they are working in the 4.0 rnhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBO-C7lzLEfor the uvs I use textools idk if it is ported to the lattest versions of blender, I know they integrated a new unwrap method toohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEcJQ6Jdue4Rigginghttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLav47HAVZMjnA3P7yQvneyQPiVxZ6erFS
I actually dont know, but how do people do those meme dance stuff?Like is there a animation skeleton you can copy and paste onto a model to make them default dance?Surely people dont just, recreate it perfectly right?
>>1000891MMD motions?
>>1000891Yes, animations are only controlling the skeleton/rig, so if you download third-party skeleton and animations for it and then apply that skeleton to your model, you will have all the animations working automatically.
>lined up a bunch of courses to complete after stagnating after 2 years of blender usage>did the first one on the left >moved onto the Press Start console one >want to blow my brains out from boredom thing is, I'm not particularly interested in hard surface or mesh modeling. more interested in sculpting and characters, along with some low poly stuff (which would be retopo'd from sculpts anyway)should I just skip to the stuff that interests me instead? I feel like I'm cheating myself a bit, idk
>>1000902modeling is kinda the backbone to understand the internal logic of polygons, retopo is basically modeling but you're tracing a sculpt.Sculpting is also basically modeling but during the dynotopo/voxel remesh stage, it's been so abstracted and achieve using a gorillion polygons so the mesh behave mostly how a lay person expecting clay to behave ( as long as the mesh has no hole or non-manifold ) . After retopology where you have to work with subD and multires it's basically subD modeling but you're just manipulating the surface instead of creating new polygonThere's usually 2 types of modeling tho, subD vs non subD (some call low poly )https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atZzqHUZ2Ds
>>1000902Don't mindlessly do tutorials like you're going to learn anything.Just do your own projects and reference tutorials whenever you reach something you don't know how to tackle. That's how you learn.You're solving problems that you have in a real world setting, instead of some shit someone made up for you.
I'm pretty skilled when it comes to Blender's shader nodes, but I'm kind of reaching a point with procedural materials where they take too long to actually be worthwhile. I could bake them to a texture, but I'm wondering if just moving to Substance Designer and doing everything there (and exporting to texture) would be a better option.Is it difficult to swap over, or are they pretty similar in terms of workflows? I'm quite familiar with Painter, but I didn't really give Designer much of a go except for the one time back in the day where my retarded ass thought Designer was Painter and tried for a week to import a model into it and gave up. This was way back when Designer had those weird sliders and stuff.I'm not too crazy when it comes to using math functions and stuff in Blender's shader editor, and I mostly just use masks and stuff to do what I need, so if Designer needs a shitload of math nodes I might be fucked.
Why does this happen when I try to bake the normal? The engraving is made with a bool mod. The end goal is to export the low poly with the normal to a game engine (per request).
anything I need to know before I potentially waste time trying to bake this? it was colored with vertex colors in sculpt mode, then I just threw on some AO. I want to make a low poly retopo over it, then unwrap and bake all of the color, texture, lighting, reflections etc from the high poly onto the low poly into a single texturenot sure if it's even possible so I figured I'll ask now
Hey! I have a friend who wants to get into 3D modeling for game development, so I thought I'd ask here since you all seem knowledgeable. I suggested Blender since it's free and has a ton of features, but do you agree? Any courses you’d recommend? I’m all ears!
>>1000955CG Cookie and CG Boost are both great resources for beginners. Cookie has two free ones [the first two listed here] and Boost has two free ones as well. do NOT do the donut tutorial, it's an absolute meme since it doesn't teach you the 'why' of 3D modeling, instead tasking you with copying blindly also, it depends on what areas of game development he's specifically interested in. also worth knowing that even if you intend to focus solely on sculpting for example, it's helpful to know a bit about how to UV unwrap, retopo, texture and rig since it's pretty likely you'll be doing those at some capacity at some point. knowing how those processes work will also help since you know what other people on the team will have to work with https://cgcookie.com/courses/blender-basics-an-introduction-to-blender-4-xhttps://cgcookie.com/courses/press-start-your-simple-first-blender-projecthttps://cgcookie.com/p/corehttps://www.cgboost.com/courses
>>1000956Ok thank you very much I don't know if I misspoke but it's more 3D modeling for creating game assets tahn game dev
Trying to make a shader node setup to simulate snow accumulation in heavy winds, like how the windward side has the concavities mostly filled and the sheltered sides are clear with a bit of a tapered noise texture. Thinking its possible with some combination of bevel/AO/vector math, but also that this might be a good excuse to finally acquire Substance Designer and dick around with it a bit.
>>1000949right so this was a nightmare and I can't even get it to work I retopo'd the mesh, it's mirrored and UV unwrapped properly, I've made sure the normals are all facing the right way and there's no gaps in the mesh whenever I bake I just get this goofy texture. messing with the cage, extrusion and ray distance doesn't do much in the way of fixing it
What level of animation/rigging is Sircus3D at? His old work is incredible and I want something similar for my project.
i have a character. i want to slightly adjust some clothing on said character. it has a shitload of shakepeys though. when I extrude edges, all the shapekeys revert to their original shape, which doesn't fit the character. I can't apply shapekeys because most of them are corrective and required for the rig to function properly. what are my options?
>>1000979I took a quick look, and all of it is trash (not being hyperbolic or facetious, it's really awful). I'd say it's beginner level. You can reach this in a weekend after you watch a few basics on the UI and basic animation workflow.Have fun, try to do better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsfk9Ida918imagine the 3d pron you can make
My apologies if this question is too basic, I have zero experience with this program. I downloaded a .fbx model, along with the full texture in a single .png. Blender indicates it has multiple meshes, and while it applies correctly if I do it one by one, surely there's a simple way to apply this singular texture to all part at once, right? I tried looking it up, and while it sounds like there's a solution of sorts, I can't make head or tails of it. For instance, some solutions say to link everything, but the textures remain separate.
>>1000989Oh I believe I figured it out. Edit Mode > Select All > Select Texture > Assign.I knew it couldn't be too hard
is blender ever actually going to implement SDF modeling?
>>1000945My solution to this was to create the text in a 2D art program and use that to displace the mesh rather than bool. The commissioner is satisfied with it but I'm not.
>>1001010I haven't baked anything in blender in a long time, but it feels the ray distance is to low, it's not reaching the deepest parts of the engraving
need some help, how do i improve this shot?
>>1001017earlier draft
>>1001017>>1001018Learn the basics of composition in visual media, starting with the rule of thirds. The space around your subject is as important as the subject itself. As for specific suggestions I would tilt the camera down further and align the crocodile with the lower third. (I don't know what's in your scene or if you want a literal horizon.) You might also consider a different aspect ratio if this isn't targeting a specific device.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds
>>1001000don't remember seeing them mention it, but i've been using higgsas geo nodes for sdf https://files.catbox.moe/cu4uyo.zipdocumentation here https://higgsas-geo-nodes-manual.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sdf.html
>>1001000>>1001026They namedropped in the roadmap: parametric modeling, SDF, Nurbs, Gaussian Splatting, nobody is working on this so I suppose we won't see it before 2027.https://youtu.be/esZZGRAJOa0?t=1433
>>1001021i do follow rule of thirds but the phone aspect ratio makes it less appealing?
>>1001044first shot is a center shot
>>1001017Maybe a more dynamic angle?Also your gator's materials are kind of eh. It looks like one of those hollow plastic toys, mostly because of the flat look and the phong-esque shading. It'd be fine if that was the general look you were going for, but the rest of your scene doesn't share quite the same look.>>1001045This is better, if a littler derpy looking.
>>1001044>phone aspect ratio makes it less appealing?Probably just my personal biases, but considering how you intend your picture to be viewed can impact how you make it.
>>1001047first time texturing an organic thing and its harder than i thought and i cant really find any good substance tuts for it but yeah that was an earlier draft, this is what it looks like now. its in motion so its less jarring i think>>1001050should i switch to a square aspect ratio?
>>1001011I feel like I've stumbled down a rabbit hole. "Ray distance" is now called extrusion, which is different from "max ray distance". I'm still unsure why the actual depth of the displacement modifier doesn't change the results, while the boolean modifier creates those terrible black artifacts. It seems that tutorials for older versions may not be as useful for 4.0+
>>1001051in motion
>>1001053i like it
>>1001053Looks pretty neat, maybe experiment with a bit of displacement on the gator.
I'm trying to recreate an alpha effect in blender 4.3, following a 2.8 tutorial I can't find the alpha settings in the material no matter where I look. in the material [principled] under viewport display all I have is color, metallic and roughness left is from the tutorial vs mine on the right. I looked it up and couldn't find anything helpful
>>1001076>>1001077added some more minor details and improved the butterfly animation
>>1001077i dont have displacements i have only 1 normal map that i baked within substance. where can i find a proper workflow with all the displacements and stuff? although the main issue with the croc looking fake is the sculpt itself since it was my second ever sculpt and i was just sculpting details without the anatomy.
>>999311I couldn't find a way to easily do it in blender, but with Plasticity this is a breeze. I just sketched the lines I wanted over the solid, and used offset curve with [Tab] for lock distances, then selected the regions I wanted to dig into it, and extruded. Onshape also has the "lighten" featurescript for anyone wanting to do it for free, and it's actually better.
>>1001083Better, but those wings when the butterflies are at rest are really robotic. Let the wings go down, stay there for a few moments, then have them go back up. I'd also turn up the easing on them a bit so they don't start/stop as quickly. The butterfly may be small to us, but it has really big wings proportionally, and have to push a lot of air out of the way.>>1001084I don't think the sculpt is the issue here. It's just that your bumps/normals aren't doing much work. I'd turn them up slightly, or put on adaptive subdivision, chuck in a displace node in the shader, and plug your bump/height texture into that and adjusting the settings till you have some extra cragginess. Make sure you change the material settings to "displacement and bump" or just "displacement" for the disp node to work.Also, you should be able to grab a disp/height map from substance if you just export one. If you have NO height data at all in SP, I think there's a normal to height effect/layer thing that you can use.
how do i make auto weights less shit? am I doomed to manual weight painting forever?
>>1001098by adding like 200 more bones
>>1001107as in corrective bones?
>>1001108pretty much yeah, it is tricky but can be done, at first i thought it might be problem to add so many bones but ive seen the red dead redemtion character models and they have an absurd amount of them so maybe it isnt an issue after all idk yet i still havent done a proper good rig yethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeL2UXyBdJQ
>>1001109>idk yet i still havent done a proper good rig yet>posts maya in response to a very blender specific questionwhy are you even talking then
>>1001110same thing
>>999311>>1001092yeah, the solidify modifier doesn't like it when you have normals pointing every which way I think it would be easier to straight up subd modeld it blender, that's what I would do, but CAD is a better tool for that
where do i find the built in slider options for facial expressions?
>>1001096oh yeah fuck the butterflies are on linear. i wish i could focus on the bigger picture rather than tunnel visioning on random details. the normal bump is already at 2.5
>>1001139usually expressions are controlled by face bones or a shape keys
>>1001078it's over. realism isn't very fun
>>1001153Not bad. I have a fun idea. What if a fox girl had one apple in her mouth and another in her ass!Then two hilichurls come and each takes one of the apples away and bites it, then they replace the apples with you guess what. That would be really sweet animation!
>>1001153>it's over. realism isn't very funsometimes you really get into it, especially when you start doing weathering damageyou should try to do things you enjoy, especially if you're not getting paid
I'm thinking about building a network storage/render box out of my spare parts, and wondering if keeping the blend files on those slow ass bulk hard drives will be an issue. I'm assuming it loads the whole file into ram so only start up and saving might lag a bit.
How good is 4.3, bros?
>>1001203if you're into sculpting the new brushes are pretty nice. also good if you texture paint using vertex colors https://youtu.be/C0TjTMFkplk?si=S-tEb2FxcBp82OKP
>>1001206looks good, but too bad i dont have a 3d printer and i hear all 3d printers output a lot of toxic gas
>>1001207Nah that was in the bad old days when you had to use ABS. The standard stuff today is way easier to print and the only gas it gives off is a faint smell of sugar. If you're not currently pinching pennies you can get a printer for like $300, and its pretty fun to hold your models in your hand.
Just tried out geometry nodes. The facts are I cant do anything with it compared to houdini where I can do everything.
>>1001203I'm really looking forward to it, especially eevee light groups.
>>1001207>a lot of toxic gasthat's true for resin printing, but filament printers are pretty safe and you can print PLA as long as it's not in your bedroom and you have an open window
>>1001225I print PLA in my bedroom just fine. It's ABS that's shit. I have to leave the room when I use it.
>>1001251you really shouldn't print PLA in your bedroom, it's not as bad as ABS but it still has VOCs
I've been making some decent progress but holy shit does sculpting intimidate me. Swear it's gonna be 2 years before I even try it for more than 5 minutes
>>1001251>I print PLA in my bedroom just fine. t. 75 iq
retards really be like >well I can't smell it so it has to be fine! It's probably the same type of motherfuckers who huff gas fumes because it "feels good"
>>1001268I work 12 hour shifts in a place that has 6 printers chugging through ABS 24/7 and also a few resin ones right by my desk. I am already beyond fucked so hiding from a bit of PLA fumes won't change shit in the grand scheme of things for me.
why
>>100132176 shapekeys where these four vertices somehow got displaced...fun...
>>1001345use a vertex group to mask the shapekeys to just the face
Is there a "donut" course equivalent but specifically for animation?
>>1001345duplicate vertices maybe? merge just in case
what does everyone use now for ik rigging humanoids? is it still rigify?
https://code.blender.org/2024/11/this-summers-sculpt-mode-refactor/Maybe I will finally be justified for not switching to zbrush, I wonder if that will translate to being able to sculpt higher poly or just smoother experience
>>1001398just buy a bigger cpu bro
EEVEE was recently updated/revamped which means most existing courses on EEVEE rendering have become useless. Anyone knows where can i learn EEVEE 2.0/NEXT lighting/rendering? Youtube is full of 30-second bits to do specific things and 'experts' wow-ing at the new EEVEE for 20 minutes showing pretty pictures without actually saying how to get something like that.
>>1001407>most existing courses on EEVEE rendering have become useless. Not really. It's the same shit. Apart from NPR stuff with Shader2RGB (and even that I doubt), nothing is so fundamentally different that you need to radically re-think your workflow.
>>1001414It's a very different engine anon, even the specular doesn't work the same in 4.2, even with the same settings:https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/322528/how-to-reproduce-missing-specular-functionality-in-blender-4-2The shadows work completely different.It's a full overhaul and there doesn't seem to be any tutorial on how to deal with the new render engine.Most if not all videos mention options that simply don't exist any more in current EEVEE engine.
how the FUCK do i make the fill tool work in grease pencil? i can't make it do anything. what am I missing?
>>1001444Slight differences at best.Figure it out instead of perpetuating the cycle of retarded Youtubers making full-on beginner courses any time a useless feature is added to the next version of Blender as if you need to start from zero.
>>1001448you gotta click twice
hi, i just started using blender. im not new to 3D, i know my way around topology and a 3D toolset, just new to the software. i keep hearing people talk in the tutorials i was following about a few addons called hard ops and boxcutter, i think those were the ones, for hard surface. are they worth it for someone who already knows their way around topology? what specifically do they do?
>>1001456Repackaged Knife Project and Boolean F2,Looptools and EdgeFlow are more essential imo, adds more way to manipulate vertices Also this guy has some nice, free scripts for modelinghttps://kushiro.gumroad.com/?recommended_by=library
3D BRUSH IN TEXTURING MODE FUCKING WHEN
Anyone here subscribed to Ian Hubert able to link his latest world building video? I've loved this guy's talks on world building and this is his first video I've been interested in a long time. Just lost my job recently and am pinching pennies.
>watching a realtime sculpting vid>skip ahead 3 hours>everything looks exactly the same
Anyone here tried this cg fast track thing?
>>1001530gonna keep it real, I've only ever purchased 1 course ever and pirated a couple more, and every single one didn't have anything you can't already find on youtube. you have to dig past the shit that clogs the algorithm with their retarded donut tutorials but it's there, trust me.
https://youtu.be/eP9gH_2zRe0?t=358 I've never touched geometry nodes but I need to learn this effect. How hard is it to do this effect using simulation nodes? Any suggested resources for learning it?
>>1001544Describe the effect.
I cant believe this retard called his character "cute and funny" in front of an audience, kekhttps://youtu.be/M4v_hfGF4EM?t=1678still one of the worst talks this con. the guy spoke a lot about things he had no idea about (because someone else in the team handled that), couldnt explain half the NPR techniques they used (and give no credit whatsoever about well known ones) and worst of all spoke to the audience like they owed himCalifornians
>>1001550In the video he goes for two parts:1. Having the simulation nodes inform the visibility of the model. White = visible and black = missing. 2. He uses a different node to get just the edge which he uses to inform a particle effect.I want to create an effect that is a needle injecting into an arm and, from that needle, a blackness grows outward from it like a poison. I think I can figure out most of it once I've got the simulation node spreading across vertices down I just don't know how to do that.
>>1001552You have brain worms if you think cute and fun always refers to some creepy shit.
>>1001560i think i remember seeing someone use "sample nearest" in a simulation zone to do a growing mask effect like thatmostly learned geometry nodes from this guy https://www.youtube.com/@bradleyanimation12it might be in there but can't be sure
>>1001561in the context of anime it can only mean one thing anon.it's more than obvious he tried to get back at the audience, that couldnt give two shits about anime
How do I fill this part up with nice toplogy without filling it and cutting new topo?Something like grid fill that works on non closed loops?
>>1001573>Something like grid fill that works on non closed loops?you can always extrude some vertices to make a closed loop
>>1001139sometimes they are hidden and you have to hit alt+h to unhide
Anyone got this for free somewhere? I'd really like to give it a try right now
>>1001563Yeah it can mean that a character is cute and possibly funny you fuckin' creep
>>1001591Like 90% of Blender addons of this type, it's just going to be absolute trash you'll never use because it won't ever fit into your workflow and the screenshots aren't indicative of what it'll shit out.
Today I will remind them.
Does Blender editor viewport use NVidia GPU by default or the CPU?If I manually set it to use the GPU on the NVidia control panel, will that improve performance?
What's the current way in 4.3 to switch all bones rotation to Euler so I can properly use animation curves? Custom rig, I'm not using rigify.
>>1001634is it not>select bone>right side viewport tabs>item tab>transform menu>third section >change to euler??
>>1001635Does not work anymore for group selection. I have to do it manually for each bone, which is completely retarded.This is the second time I've had a similar issue with Blender 4.3. Had to go through some hoops for bone colors too.
>>1001636oh i see, for bone colors you have to select them in pose mode and click the "copy to selected bones" button, that sounds retarded that it cant be done altogether
Blendergpl.org got taken over by blendermarket.
>>1001623Not that anon, what are the 10% you recommend?
>>1001634if this 'copy to selected' in the right click menu doesn't work in 4.3 it's a bug and should be reported
>>1001650It worked. Thanks.
I'm not making it brehs.I'll never make kino like this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQQSe9bQn3I
>>1001658keep at it bro, unless you're not having funbetter than anything I can make
I tried doing deformation physics by creating a two spheres, one inside the other with rigid body constraints, and parenting them to a bone inside an armature to be deformed when the torso moves and another bone at the same location that has a copy transforms constraint at a low influence to follow the inside (red) sphere, it kind of works except for one issue I don't understand. When setting the collision "shape" in the settings tab of the rigid body, If I set it to sphere, the " collision shape" will refuse to follow the rest of the object when its is being deformed by the armature, but setting it to "mesh" it does follow the object when it is being deformed. I don't know why...How do I make the "sphere" and other options recognize the deformation of the armature? I will probably try something else to do physics but I really thought this would work. The "sphere" is a lot smoother and faster than "mesh" and I'd rather have that one working.
>>1001591cgpersia
>>1001662that's not how breasts behave.
>>1001696I am aware, I just wondered if it was possible to ad a jiggle + gravity effect in real time using this method but I don't think this it will work that way since there are some limitations preventing it, Blender can't or won't calculate the changes to the two objects as it happens, or maybe I just don't know how.
>>1001697>>1001696It works now using a constraint to copy location of an empty parented to the bone where I want the physics spheres to be. Now to see if it can be done in real-time.
>>1001698>>1001696>>1001697I got it working all by myself, no tutorials for this or any guides exist that I know of, the cage that holds the spherical "weight" has to have "Animated" checked in its settings BUT not the sphere, leave that unchecked for the (inside object) otherwise the position is overwritten and wont move. While for the outer object it simply updates the location/rotation of the mesh. To recap for anyone interested:>5 bones in the same location where the "center" of the breast is>1st is non-deform parented to the upper spine>2nd is non-deform parented to the clavicle>3rd will be parented to the 1st, but copies transforms of the 2nd at half influence so the breast/pectorals "stretches" with movement of the arms/shoulder, it will also be influenced by the location of 1 singular vertices of the "inside weight" placed at the same location as the origin of the bone so as to not deform until the "weight" starts moving>4th is the true "deform bone" that just copies the location of the 3rd (I believe this is for exporting purposes but I haven't gotten there yet)>5th is the same as the 3rd but its purpose is to only have an empty parented to it and has its vertex group locked to not accidentally deform the body(1/2)
>>1001699Now to the next part:>Parent the empty to the 5th bone, it will probably move away, place the cursor at the origin and just move it back to the cursor with Shift+S and that will update its place>Rigid Body Physics for a "cage" with its normals flipped inside so the "spherical weight" wont fall out.>origin is the same as the bones, and the empty>"mesh" option checked here, (haven't tried other options yet.)>check the animated box so it updates in real-time when moving it.>Rigid Body for the ball but do not check the animated box, "Spherical" collision option is best and fastest. >origin is also the same as the bones and the empty>instead of parenting to the empty, which will not work because it will rotate based on the origin of the bone that is deforming, use a "copy location" constraint for both physics objects to always update the location based on the world origins>I placed the inside mass at the center of the origin of the 5th bone, but the outide cage is actually off-center, moved forwards a bit, in order to mimick the effect that the breasts will not move "backwards" into the torso as much as it can freely move fowards and sidewaysIt will require some tweaking, maybe more/less friction, or bounciness and dampening, but the basic principles are there I think.
>>1001700>>1001699and here is with the Rigid Body physics objects unhidden.
>>1001701It's an interesting concept but pic related is what you what to look into. The idea is that you can define springy and limited joints and use Copy Rotation to transfer the movement to an Armature.
>>1001701Forgot pic related for >>1001707
>>998842This desu, but dropping 3D all together. Here's why, but for Blender:>try to look up countless tutorials>it's either a fucking timelapse "tutorial", or a tutorial that doesn't explain in good detail and leave out important stuff to note>it's 80% of all blender tuts, more or lessWaste of time.
any good rigify/autorig pro tutorials that are more in-depth than just slapping it on? goal or hopes would be like rigs you see on smutbase
>>1001712I know that one for rigifyhttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdcL5aF8ZcJt1GvL-Fcxy-fPgEFG-1fLp&si=hiZdRhx4JnZapxRD>>1001711Not everyone is meant to make it.
>>1001711Why do you need a perfect tutorial? Just make something you want to make, if something in a tutorial is any relevant at all it's already useful. Gather information and experience piece by piece.
>>1001712a lot of those smutbase rigs are just ports from daz right? i think there are plugins that convert everything over
How do I fix this shit? I finally got my hole closed and triangulated but sculpt turned it into this monstrosity. how do I even out this shit and make nice surfaces?
>>1001708alright ill look into it
>>1001733If you're looking to even out the polygons, You can try using the slide relax tool in sculpt mode, but if you just dont give a shit about the detail in your model yet, you can always run a remesh by choosing your mesh resolution with R and then running it with Ctrl+R
>>1001718I'm not asking for a "perfect" tutorial. Just a tutorial that doesn't fall in those two aforementioned categories made by third worlders.
>>1001708>>1001734Oh I kind of see what it is, not entirely sure how to implement it best, I have different ideas. ot
>>1001740Good luck with your ideas. I just wanted to tell you how it's done so when you'll have wasted enough time with your own ideas, you can get back to it.
>>1001739Post your donut
>>1001741I had seen before a style of breast deformation with a proxy mesh with cloth physics and air pressure simulation with heavy air viscosity that transfers its deform to the base mesh. I was thinking what if I used the generic spring to add a roundish weight inside the cloth mesh that bounces around and moves the cloth mesh around.
>>1001747The Cloth Simulator approach works but you need patience because it's slow and every time you make any change, you have re-run it. It's practical only for 30 seconds demo animations.>>1001708 is the basis for a "wiggle bone" approach instead and it's much faster. You can also use it to make ragdolls. I've tested it here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILIV5nCLbc0It works but for both methods, to my knowledge, there are no good tutorials or documentation available.
>>1001750Do wiggle bones and other add-ons transfer to other software like Unity, etc? I thought it doesn't and that's partly why I didn't use it and made this convoluted method. But the generic spring looks more practical. Another webm after giving some of the surrounding bones a copy transform as well to follow the main one for a little more deformation.
>>1001751Wiggle bones don't transfer directly from Blender but you can create them in game engines. Look for "godot ragdoll tutorial" on youtube. I know it's similar in other game engines but I haven't tried.Wiggle bones and ragdolls joints are essentially the same thing, you just have to change the parameters of the joint.
>>1001752ty for advice, saving all this info
I swear I keep having stupid issues with Blender since I switched to their new version. F-Curves don't fucking work as intended.> G > Z > move it > also moves the Y curve> XPasting anything gets the same weird behavior even if the original curve is perfectly cleanThere's absolutely no reason for it to happen since it's an IK bone, it's not parent-connected to anything that could cause this. What am I missing now?
>>1001759>it's an IK boneSmall correction not the hips my bad. I was thinking of the foot IK since it gets the same issue.But still, there's no reason for Y to be altered. The movement is not large enough to affect anything at the moment.
is there a decent way to paint pixel art textures in the UV space in blender yet? whenever I try it's always blurry as fuck, even with a 1 pixel brush I can take the UV into photoshop or aseprite, but that means losing out on the live feedback of seeing how it applies on the model, plus I have to try and remember where the UV seams are (leaving the UV outlines at such a low res makes them get in the way)
I look back at my work for the past 6 months and even though I've worked hard on it, it all appears just worthless and useless. I do a lot of technical work like remaking stuff that already exists but slightly differently and when I look at it now it just seems like all the time spent on creating the "improved" version could have been spent actually using the official version. Or, is this just how I learn?
>>1001759file reports at projects.blender.org if you can replicate a bug that appeared between 4.2 and 4.3. seems like they pulled a lot of stuff out of 'experimental' branches and into main too early.i finally got time to put 4.3 beta through its paces a couple days ago and it suddenly hit release candidate. have reported like 5 confirmed bugs so far.that being said, looks like they've got a guy dedicated to fielding bug reports and stuff is getting fixed quickly
>>1001837Everything I hear is Blender sucks and you SHOULD use an external image program
>>1001838you might be stupid. have you asked your parents?
>>1001838Yeah that’s kind of how it is but at least you know how to do it better I hope
>>1001837>whenever I try it's always blurry as fuck, even with a 1 pixel brushChange your texture's interpolation from linear, to closest.
>>1001837I use auto reload plugin, fill UVs in blender in different colors to see the layout, then edit in Krita and every time I save it's automatically reloaded in Blender on second monitor because of auto reload plugin.
>>1001854You can clearly see it's closest, look at bottom pic. It's just Blender brushes can't really paint without blurriness.
>>1001838Do less of remaking stuff and more of your own thing. Then even if it's bad it's still more interesting.
>>1001531>pirated a couple morePeople upload these somewhere?
>>1001910cgpersia and rutracker
>>1001591There is a telegram channel with a ton of plugins, I think you should be allowed to try a product before you buy it.>t.me (slash) blenderplugs
Is there any way to export the finished product of some shader nodes that only only affect color of a texture? I just applied 3 hue/sat/value nodes to a texture to get the color I want but I have no idea how to recreate that (I use paint lol) so I was hoping there was a way to export it.
how do people create the atlases [on the left] for use with texture hotspotting, like with DreamUV? https://github.com/RobertBeckebans/Blender_DreamUV
>>1002012
please someone help me how do i get hte old sculpting menu back in this piece of shit 4.3 update
>>1002015please someone for fucks sake help why can't I use shortcuts like before who had the bright idea to fuck up the shortcut menu in sculpting
>>1002020wtf they released 4.3 alreadyprobably has to do with this new brush assets, but there's no menu change even mentioned in the release notesdid it used to be a pie menu? if so maybe this addon https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/viewport-pie-menus/
>current projects viewport fps jumped from 11 to 16 with 4.3we're so fucking back bros. also what is causing that, my pc is decent. I have a couple armatures in the scene, is that doing it?
i am doomed i can't figure out how to model this part
the 4.3 changes to brushes are probably great, but I'll wait a bit until there are good guides to getting used to the new system instead of the usual clickbait slop
>>1002020maybe you had something enabled in preferences that was disabled when you updated?
Did they get rid of basic shortcuts in 4.3? why are all the object mode shortcuts (G / grab/move, H / hide, S / scale, R / rotate) just gone? I can't find them in the keymap, and i have tried manually exporting my 4.2 keymap and importing to 4.3, nothing changes.. The keymap doesn't even have the options available in 4.3, unless I am missing something. Can't find anyone mentioning this in other forums/comment sections..
>>1002058did you try clicking "import preferences" on the menu that pops up when you open blender 4.3?
>>1002059yea of course, my default file is highly customized so that is something I always do with new releases.. my custom shortcuts work but the basic, out-of-the-box shortcuts are just gone, and I can't find them in the keymap preferences in 4.3, but I can find them in 4.2
>>1002060I was able to make a custom shortcut to use the S key to scale, but I am still confused why they would have just disappeared altogether.. I'm not going to remake the functions, i'll just revert to 4.2 for now.
>>1002060weird, my shortcuts are all working
New Blender is out and it's breddy gud
