/3/ - 3DCG

Massive sculpting speedups are coming with 2.92

Please tell me that there is a better way to make hair with something better than curves that doesn't take hours to make. It seems so simple but it takes forever.

>>777028
it's still the best way.
just make yourself a toolbox set of strands that you keep re-using and then just some tweaking.

>>777029
Okay so let's say I wanted to convert my 3D printable anime babes to be game ready. Would I retopo the curves too or are they pretty much unusable?

>>777031
If you have the curve hulls still intact in your project you could just adjust their mesh density on the fly. breddy ezpz.
If you have everything applied then yeah, you will have to retopo for gaymen. Or retopo in general if you have advanced moving hair in mind.

As someone who is trying to learn 3d animation, I know blender is a good starting point, I've been using skillshare to learn how to animate, is there any other tools I could use to learn?

>>777016
>>777027
(posting reply here too just in case)
>But it doesn't really have anything to do with gloss.
It actually does.
Think about what roughness actually means/does.

IRL, the more rough a surface is, the more "bumpy" (for lack of a better term) it is on a small scale, which means that light rays don't bounce and reflect to the eye, but instead get trapped and disperse in different directions.
This is what the roughness value in 3d represents. The lower the roughness, the more things bounce back, the higher it is, the more things get dispersed.

Now think real good, what does a normal map do? It emulates surface displacement.
The more displaced a surface is, the more rough it is. Which means it's less glossy.
The more you crank up a normal map, the less glossy something will get.

I've been playing around with the array modifier, is there anyway to keep the spacing uniform?

i have this game i am modding and i want to do a simple edit to remove horns from a 3d model. I have the texture file and i have the .mesh file. I can't seem to figure out how to open a .mesh file can i use blender for this?

How do I bend the blend?

Move this shit up when searching for it, change my mind.

>>777136
Why? Can't you be normal, man?

>>777137

Retard question here, i have a character animated walking in place, and i'd like a ground plane under it moving back with the steps.

Can i place some sort of tracker/constraint/thing on it's feet that like... pushes the ground plane back with the walking motion when the foot is near enough, or do i just have keyframe it and loop the motion?


Also, how do i get not extremely terrible at walk animations?

>>777136
This shit angers me to no fucking end. Why can't you just plug the raw normal map into the node on the principled BSDF?

If you want to change the settings because you're retarded and can't make a normal map correctly, why can't you just add that node in between?

>>777183
Honestly this. Why the roughness/specular/metallic/fucking everything else is just plug n play while the normal map needs its fucking node, it's a goddamn chore.

Im getting sick of pirating 3ds max, do the skills learned in 3ds translate well into Blender, and can Blender be used to make and texture models for Source Engine games?

>>777183
>>777191
As another anon adding to this,
give a little checkbox on the Normal Map node to invert the normal map without having to do a bunch of channel separation and merging and shit.
And no, setting it to -1 doesn't work.

PABLO POST
https://code.blender.org/2020/10/cloth-sculpting-improvements-in-blender-2-91

>>777198
Go dreaming.
I use 3ds max forever and in no way another software have a better humanoid animation system than biped - maybe DAZ, but good luck exporting a model to that thing.
Most people use CAT system, but i´m a long biped lover and have too many move libraries that would go to waste.
Blender comes with an array of free animation tools that are universally hated, and anyone who does use the software pays for plugins.
When Blender develops a system that uses mocap with just a kinetik camera or somesuch (that actually works and is not some cheap scam) then i gladly abandon 3dsmax for it.

How do i make the circle thing in front have numbers and lines?

>>777253

like this reference.

>>777253
My dude, have you ever heard of UV unwrapping and texturing your object in the later project stages?

>>777253
>>777254
Take a texture of the numbers and lines that are arranged horizontally.
Unwrap the dial so the area you want the numbers at is straight. Bing bam boom, you got a dial with labels wrapped around it.

>>777258

Alrighty

Help me out here, relatively new to 3d. Found out you can just rip game assets and throw them in Mixamo for some quick fun.

https://www.renderhub.com/rip-van-winkle/master-chief-from-halo-5#

An example is the above master chief asset. When done in eevee there were no issues, but pic related is what happens when I try to render in cycles. What went wrong? White model on the left is the imported .dae, and the transparent one is the imported .obj

>>777288
Material might have something going on with the alpha.
Check that the principled shader has the alpha set to 1.
The reason it probably looks fine in Eevee, is because you have to manually set a material to use transparency in the settings for it. For Cycles, "It just works™"

>>777290
This solved it, thanks. There's an image texture attached to the alpha channel. Changing it from "single-image" to "movie" seems to fix it, but so does removing it altogether,

>>777018
This may sounds like a silly question, but is there a way to move the UV islands around with the corresponding map pieces attached to them? Let's say I changed my mind about something and want to replace a piece of a model, but don't want to waste UV space, but I also don't want to go through baking normals and texturing again for the parts that are already done. Doesn't have to be Blender specific.

>>777293
Yeah dunno why swapping to movie would do anything, but you'd be best just removing it.
I'd check to see what it looks like before though, just in case something actually needs alpha.
Also, unless it's a diffuse texture, all textures you're plugging into things should be set to "Non color" instead of sRGB. It doesn't make much of a difference most of the time, but often times where you get weird shit like this, it's worth a quick swap to see if it fixes it.

>>777308
You can't just map the new part of the model to the old UV map? If you want to keep the same island shape, just use the snapping to get the same UV island shape before you delete that part of the mesh.

>>777331
>You can't just map the new part of the model to the old UV map? If you want to keep the same island shape, just use the snapping to get the same UV island shape before you delete that part of the mesh.

The new part is going to be split differently, and I want to move the parts that stay around to make it fit in the tile. I want to just move them, no resizing or remapping, and that's easy. The problem is matching the existing texture to the new UVs without repainting and rebaking from highpolies.
I already discovered I can just bake the old map on the new layout, but maybe there is a simpler, less time consuming way that works by just cutting out the parts of the texture and moving them around with the UVs.

All of my experience is with 3ds Max. About to start playing with Blender. What am I in for, bros?

>>777337
No smoothing groups or edit poly.

Rest should be familiar enough.

>>777337
comfy keyboard shortcuts and good looking viewport, but also >>777339 this gayness

>>777337
Also, bad editing performance, especially with subdivided geometry.

>>777337
It has it's pros and cons, i like the shortcuts and how the windows work, but like others have already said performance is a bit shit at times and such.

Good thing is blender is at least currently developing very quickly, i haven't tried it but 2.91 is supposed to have noticeably better performance for example.

how do i setup a shortcut that switches between rest and pose position. when i try adding a shortcut to one of them it pops up a menu instead

>>777258

not exactly like the reference but I think it works.

>have an armature
>trying to fix the weights
>one bone has red weight on the wrong side of the mesh
>select brush, weight 0, size 1 and paint over the red area to turn it black
>it makes everything red instead
The fuck...

>>777388
You'll get there. I'm proud of you, Anon.

>3 imp lobby

I can't believe there are some actual fat fucking BARE tiddies in the last Blender Guru video.
This timeline gets weirder by the day.

>>777388
You got some stretching going on, I'd scale the UV down a bit to fix that.
But yeah, like the other anon said, you'll get there.

Besides, it doesn't have to look exactly like the reference. No one is intimately familiar with a meat slicer except the people that slice meat. Even then there's probably a bunch of variations and brands of slicers.

First sculpt. I had to stop because don't quite understand how dynotopo works since I can't smooth out the calves for some reason.

Is there a way to accomplish pic related with a displacement map / material in blender? I want high displacement on part of my object and then to have it taper off to nothing on the other side.

>>777462
Just mix them together with a color mix set to add.
Put your texture on the top input, gradient texture/node on the bottom.

ez pz.

>>777463
Thanks a ton, Anon.

>>777436
Her ribcage is basically crushed

>>777373
nevermind i did it

Anyone know why using object offset around an empty causes this?

Frens, where can i find sexy models for free?
I mean really hot girl, not a lowpoly from blendswap

>>777567
Daz is that way, scum

>>777574
Oh c'mon
I want to redesigned them a little

https://youtu.be/8K3lHBprvUw
What do think about this dude?
I think he did pretty good for what it is. Really nice animation, i bet no one here can do the same

Relatively new to 3D, and even newer to animation.
Can someone help me out with a small problem? I'm trying to make a walk cycle animation, for a video game character, and have been trying to fix this jerking motion in the knees. And whilst manually scrolling through the frames, I noticed that I have these two frames (frames 2 and 14, 3 and 15 respectively) that are without keyframes and should be identical, but for some reason differ from one another. Keyframes C_01 and C_02 are completely identical in both leg bones and upper body bones, just mirrored from one side to the other. Same goes for D_01 and D_02. The frames in between them should be identical, but they're not for some reason.
I've gone through the skeleton to check for inconsistencies but I can't find any.
Here's a link to the blend file with the skeleton and animation, https://mega.nz/file/ths0xJDT#iyaV9qDnOvlMzJjnOL1OhF9wDMJl0x185mLuOiEEU38
Would really appreciate it if an anon could take a look at this and point out my mistake that's causing this kind of behaviour in the rig.

I'm animating hands along with separate object in the hands, separating each clip in action editor. I noticed that the animations on both hands and object are doubled and aren't the same, like some keyframes are missing from the other one. How to assure correct animation for two separate objects?

what's the benefits of using blender over zbrush why is blender free and zbrush expensive I wanna get into 3d I came from /ic/ by the way

>>777610
ok nvm, just got it. You have to separately chose the same action clip on both objects, otherwise they play different clips at the same time. It's not really obvious with the new gui

>>777613
The advantage of using anything over Zbrush is that you don't wanna pour gasoline all over your person and strike a match because the UI is holly shit amazingly evil, like we're talking Klaatu Verata Necto tier here.

The downside is Blender grinds to a halt at a few million polygons, Zbrush is still rendering at interactive framerates at 10x that.

And Zbrush also has way more refined tools for just about anything. It's an industrial diamond that can cut anything to perfection, but it rest under a interface that is like million ton of pure German Scheiße fresh out of Satans ass.

>>777613
You answered half of your question yourself.
Benefit of Blender is the fact that its free.
Zbrush cost money, but its also the best sculpting program available.

>>777613
Zbrush utilizes completely different technology where you can work on fuckton of virtual vertices at the same time without a major hiccup, it's main focus is sculpting and over the years of development it has very handy options that support it. Besides that it's an ordinary commercial software, like CAD stuff.

Blender, on the other hand, is an exclusive suite of tools ranging from hard surface modeling through sculpting, rigging, animating, simulating and others to video editing. It's exclusive but it doesn't exclude on the terms of monetary status - it filters it's userbase by intelligence factor. Wise people don't pay idiot tax - instead, they get straight into action with competent free software. It's free because it's good enough to make people voluntarily donate to the dev team, while programs like maya are bought only in form of paying a bribe so the legal teams fucks off

>>777613
Oh yeah if you're from /ic/ you may not know. As >>777622 points out.

Zbrush is a dedicated tool for digital sculpting, not a complete digital creation studio where you can create finished gameready assets or make CGI film.

Blender is an equivalent to suites like Maya and 3Dsmax in this regard. But blender still have somewhat nice sculpting tools albeit a lot more limited in scope than what's offer in Zbrush.

If you are producing stuff you are using zbrush in conjunction with other suites like the ones mentioned. Not as a stand alone program.

>>777567
frens, i need to find something like this, but free
can you help me out?

>>777626
Since you came asking this to a blender thread the only reasonable response you should get is to make it in blender

>>777630
But i can't.
pic related is all i can right now.

>>777633
git gud then

>>777471
So you'd suggest that I scale it on the y-axis?

>>777617
>>777618
>>777622
>>777624
thanks for the responses I wanted to get into making 3d renders for video games I'm pretty sure blender can model this with no problem as well as zbrush

>>777635
Why can't you be nice to noobs like me

i just want to realize how does it look without render, i need to understand this kind of models from the bottom

>>777640
Just start from Blender and get a basic grip on making anything 3d. If you'll find yourself enjoying sculpting a lot you probably should switch to zbrush

>get free rigged model
>redesigned some features
>now it doesn't work properly

>>777655
Ahh, the same old story of a third party asset. Some things never change.

>>777626
You're horny anon. Don't waste your time with cg porn

>>777679
I just want to make money.

>>777505
Non uniform scale, and rotation.
Make sure to apply rotation and scale (on the offset object) before you do anything with object offset.
Or don't, both have their uses. Like rotating the empty by a few degrees, making an array that goes around in a circle rather than straight. Then also scaling the empty so the object gets bigger/smaller along the array.

But if you don't want to do all that, just make sure things like rotation and scale are applied and you'll be fine.

>>777686
Meakrob made all his waifus from scratch, and you should too.

>>777018
https://youtu.be/yYLLSqM_FZM

Why did nobody tell me what a pain in the ass retopology is?
Feels like my brain is melting.

>>777028
that's looking pretty cute. can you show the wireframe?

my problem with curves is how high the polycount is even when you set it to lowest

>>777689
But Guru doesn't have a tutorial for this.
And i can't find good references

>>777736
What do you mean? It's as low poly as it gets, you're probably using too many segments. You can also use the decimate modifier if you can't reduce the amount of segments

>>777759
Best git to drawin son.
If you can draw the forms, you can sculpt them no problem.
Or just watch shitty speedsculpters on youtube.

>>777765
I don't think drawing and sculpting the forms are at all related.
Trying to learn to draw actually made my sculpts worse.
Better forget that shit it's ancient garbage, learn anatomy and study hot bitches.

https://youtu.be/igSFNlN5IRY

>>777795
No, you're just retarded.
Forms is forms. A sphere is a sphere in 3d or 2d.
Understanding how something is constructed in 2d will be instantly applicable to when you do it in 3d. A shape doesn't suddenly turn into an amorphous blob once you transition to 3d.

>>777733
You get used to it. Honestly the more you do it the more it can sink into the background and you stop having to think of it as a brain melting puzzle and more of just a "time to sit down and do work" type thing where you can zone out a little.

I dunno why nobody told you it sucks though it's one of the least fun CG activities alongside baking and skin weights.

>>777799
No, 2d form is not 3d form, what you learn when you draw is interpolating light and shadow as shape, it is not the same thing as learning the shape.

Basically you are asking people to learn how to interpolate shapes instead of actually making them, it's a huge waste of time and brainpower.

There are resources in the drawing world such as anatomical books etc; those have value.
But learning how to draw is dumb af if you can sculpt instead.

>>777807
Yet you're still here asking for people to make you big-titted waifus instead of doing it yourself.
If you have all the necessary experience and knowledge, like you're trying to make it seem, then making waifus should be a cinch for you. You wouldn't need Guru to hold your hand.
Unless you're talking out of your ass....

>>777812
wtf are you talking about I haven't asked anyone for anything

Is there an easy way to handle texture painting a two-tone Bugs Bunny type character?

The only way that I'm comfortable modeling a furry character like this is to make the white chest and muzzle into their own separate objects. Because every single time that I've ever attempted to texture paint the white chest it looks absolutely fucking terrible. Even when I use symmetry and try to have a ready steady hand it always ends up looking bad. The only way I can make such a model look good is by modeling chest tuft on top of the body.

>>777831
I don't really get your problem.
My guess is that your UV mapping sucks ass, or even worse, you try to paint some messy ass sculpt instead of texturing a clean mesh.
If you do this, it's no wonder your paintjob looks like shit, no matter how "clean" you handle your brush.

>>777765
But i can draw.

>>777795
Oh fck
>be me
>learn how to draw very hard for a year
>now i can have commissios
>decided i like 3d girls more
>can only make a donut

>>777886
Btw i found a great 3d-wifu on blendswap, but still i can draw better than that. Visible polygons, broken bones, strange shapes etc. She's not perfect, like the other girls you see on twitter and ponhub

>>777831
you can literally texture paint using a bezier curve in blender if you want I think you're just too retarded to live.

PHYSICS ARE STILL NOT AVAILABLE TO BE COMPUTED BY GPU?
I need to do fluid sims and I have a shitty cpu.

What software lets me do it on gpu and export as alembic?

>>777831
Besides using strokes (or curves as brushes), they make it so you don't have to freehand; you can also create masks to be used as mix factors for shaders.

So you do a flood-fill white texture (or black) and then the parts you want to be colored you do the opposite, you can either blend the edges yourself (using blur) or do it procedurally using nodes

>>777827
>I haven't asked anyone for anything
>>777567
>>777626

>>777905
I could be completely fucking wrong and retarded,
but I thought GPU computation of fluid/physics/particle sims was actually a rather new field, and that it's not widely applied and adopted across the board just yet.
At least, that's what 2-minute Papers leads me to believe. So I could just be wrong as shit, and it's just Blender still stuck in the boonies for GPU support.

is there a place to find some of the tutorials that blender has on their blender cloud site?

>>777926
Its both(Blender is always stuck in the boonies, but using the gpu to bake fluid simulations isn't that common either)

>>777736
I haven't retopologized the head yet since I am working on making something worth retopoing first (I think I'm about at the point where I should retopo already). For now I don't really have any concept of what's a decent poly count but I'll get there when I eventually animate them.

>>777736
I'm pretty sure you asked for specifically the hair curves though so here's the hair curves isolated. Let me know if you want to see other angles, but I'm still learning how to 3D so it's a fun journey and I'd be happy to oblige.

On another note, if I am going to be working with curves I am wondering about the best way to reproduce this kind of fraying hair effect that I normally see in anime. At the root a tuft of hair starts as something much bigger, but by the tip it has tapered and breaks off into smaller forms.

Would would it be better for me to convert a curve into a mesh and then extrude a face? Or would messing around with curves coming out of other curves be better in this case?

>>777949
jesus christ nigger

>>777966
To be fair the head is a raw sculpt its not retopo'd yet

>>777689
he also hasn't made any money

>>777949
>>777950
very cute! I actually meant the entire wireframe, so thank you for sharing. I'd love to see the final result once you're done with it

>>777970
Sorry but that's one of my speed sculpts so I won't be "finishing" it any time soon, but for consolation take a WIP im working on for today's daily speed sculpt.

This took me way longer than I thought it would.
Retopology is hard

guys got any tips on rigging ass and deformations i want to to start getting into 3d printing figures

So I had a problem for a while and i keep ending with it

for some reason a set of vertex cant be seen nor interacted with and i have to unhide them to work with them. they hide again when i change into a different mode

am I causing it or is it spooky?

>>777971
that's pretty good also! I'm curious as to what they look like when textured. do you have a Twitter or sketchfab account I could use to follow your work?

>>777987
Not yet. I plan on making a twitter when I finish making a 3D printable base body that works as substitute for figmas or when I can make some fun 3D animated shitposts. Whichever comes first. I'm new to art in general but I draw and do 3D every day to catch up to my art friends. I'm the only one insane enough to actually like 3D. Although now that I have found that the blender general isn't as bad as I thought it would be you might see my slow progression into learning the 3D character pipeline.

>>777988
I see. godspeed anon, your work is very promising

Highpoly = sexy but slow
lowpoly = ugly but fast
And i don't know where is the balance in between

>>777976
You have some pretty good loops anon if you want to save time in the future you might want to start with bigger polys so it takes less time and you can just go in afterwards and subd it or add loops where you want them. I dunno if you already did that or not just letting you know, start big then go small.

>>778010
low with good baking

>>778010
Adding only the details you find sexy

>>777969
That just means he's a bad businessman/marketer, not a bad artist.

>>777020
2.9 is buggy as hell also prorender doesnt support it yet

is it true blender struggles with high poly compared to 3DS?
i might switch to max then

>>777978
bump curious

wow.........

So backups and auto-save happen all the time to the point where you basically can't lose your models, but if you spend an hour painting a texture in Texture Painting mode and something happens then LOL! It's gone forever! No backups or buffer of those changes you made can be retrieved.

Are you fucking kidding me right now? Please tell me that this is a joke. Where can I find the texture I spent so much time working on.

>>778038
power backup is your best friend

>NOOOOOO YOU CANT USE BOOLEANS
>haha blender 2.91 go brrrrr

>>778040
what are you trying to do exactly? I understand your frustration with booleans, believe me I've cursed it a bunch of times because it doesn't always "just work," but there's just a few things you gotta look out for and it should work for you.

1) you don't want vertexes directly on top of other vertexes or faces directly on other faces.
2) if you're doing it with a curve/Text object, make sure to crank up the resolution of the curve object in the curve settings before converting it into a mesh object.

just following those two rules will snuff out 90% of your boolean problems.

>>778041
I think you misunderstood me, i was talking about retards who go
>NO NEVER USE BOOLEANS
when booleans really arent that scary, even less now with 2.91.

>>778042
Oh

There are definitely times when you shouldn't use booleans because they can royally screw with the topology of your object and you get all sorts of ugly shading problems, but if you know what you're doing then it's an excellent tool for carving out pieces of a model to the exact shape of the secondary boolean object or combining two things together.

I totally understand the advice to steer clear of booleans, because it is easily to fuck things up or do it wrong because you don't understand all the unwritten rules of boolean operations.

>>778027
If you haven't noticed any slowdowns yet then why does it matter to you?

>>778044
I actually noticed some lag when editing vertices, though i heard 2.8 has some issues with subdivision causing lag, might switch to 2.9 to see if that's the case.

>>778045
Try to stay under 100k verts, for goodness sake.

>>778038
I love blender as much as the next guy but there is a very minimal amount of painting you should be doing in blender.

Pirate substance painter if you have to.

>>778027
Modo, Blender and Cinema4D struggle with Highpoly or large amount of objects.
Max, Maya and Houdini can take much more.

>>778054
>every option for highpoly is garbage aside from houdine
>houdine is too big brain
i could pirate it but i doubt i'd be able to use it.

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE i want to upgrade to 2.9 but radeon pro render still doesnt support it

>>778055
That's wrong. Max is as powerful as Houdini when it comes to mesh manipulation.
And you don't even know how to write Houdini properly - how can anybody take your comments seriously?

Got a commission from a furfag and this is my first commission (yay). Anyways making eyes is fucking torture. He's looking to use it in VRChat and wants it to look like the eyes seen here
>https://youtu.be/PePGkaEcbLg
I genuinely have zero clue how to do this. Please fucking help me because I've put so much work into this model that I'm not gonna trash it. Hell im gonna probably use it as a base for other models too.

>>778038
Welcome to Blender, punk.

>>778038
Lol I think every Blender user will have that experience at least once before learning to constantly save. I feel you anon, many of my textures were lost, like tears in the rain

>>778081
>>778083
This is just dumbfounding. I feel like everything should be auto-saved in case of a crash. There should totally be "texture_buffer_backup1, texture_buffer_backup2, texture_buffer_backup3, 4.. so on" What reason could they possibly have to exclude such a backup system for painted textures? This is a huge oversight and I am totally tempted to write an add-on that does just this because it seriously would be stupidly easy to implement.

Every "x" amount of minutes, if unsaved modified texture exists, filename = texturename + current time

Who wouldn't want that? There is no reason why that shouldn't exist right now

alright boyz, we need a new blender guru but with the sexy hot wifu, not a dougnut tutorial
we need a hero

>>778087
>we need a new blender guru
the old one is turning based and you want to get rid of him now? the fuck

>>778089
what's based about him?

>>778093
twattermob got mad at him for drawing attractive ladies so he made a whole video about giving them a middle finger, telling them to fuck off and telling artists to just create whatever art they want and not to care about what crybabbies say about it

>>777925
Get a brain moran

Does anyone know how to make fluids sticky?
I can't figure it out but I'm a dumb.
>>777954
You do basic planes with alpha, that's what they do with games etc.

If you're using it just for 3D use hair physics it works pretty good.

>>778123
terrifying

>>778123
>webm
Is this yours?
Teach me master

>>778135
Shampoo fiends are not to be trusted.

>>778136
yes it's mine, teach you what my fluid sim sucks dick (not literally also it may or may not be something wrong with that depending on you level of hotness etc).

>>778139
And what about the model itself, you made it, right?
How many years it takes to reach this lvl in 3d?

>>778144
No I didn't make the model, I made the shampoo bottle though

what could be causing this weird weight distribution?

I'm using a standard rig, all bones are in the right place and i've double checked the scaling and origin points.

>>778147
what does the resting pose look like?

>>778147
It helps more if you take a small recording and make a webm of what you do to cause it.
But try this;
Go into weight paint mode and select different bones (in this case probably right food/leg bones) and see if you have any weight spill from the right leg onto the left leg.

That's what it looks like to me anyway.

>>778146
Then where did you get that model, was it free?

>>778150
Buddy of mine told me i could just use a rigify rig for a scaffolding if i just wanted a basic FK rig, but i think that's lead to some pretty fucked bone envelope values.

Is there any quick way to automatically recalculate what they should be / reset them to default?

>>778152

>>778116
>moran

>>778064
I think there's an addon or something that handles it. Cat eyes or something gay like that.

>>778123
>basic planes with alpha
So you mean something like pic related?

>>778123
Built for SDP (sub divided phalloid)

>>778187
yes

Well the shader for the shampoo looks pretty good in cycles at least.
I think I figured out a way to make shampoo more sticky too with forcefields it's very tricky though.

>>778195
No idea how shit in blender works, but increase the resolution of your sim.

>>778165
I can't find anything besides the Autoeye which is more realistic. If you can remember the name please tell me

>>778198
this

Increase resolution and add substeps

Guys I've asked everywhere and no one was able to help. This should be simple, I think, and I'll upload the model if that's what it takes to get an answer.

Long story short, I followed two tutorials. One on making a low poly dude and a separate one on rigging and animation. The low poly dude tutorial had me link each piece of the model to specific bones while the animation tutorial was for IK and double joints. This tutorial worked fine on the arms but for some reason I'm getting this issue on the leg. It's bending the wrong way.

I've pulled the knee forward, I've completely rebuilt the rig with and without the knee. Nothing seems to be working.

In the other thread, someone said "Use the IK guide bones" but I'm not sure exactly what that meant.

I've tinkered with them, the kneed, the linkage so much. I don't know if that's the problem

>>778209

okay, so first of all I wouldnt make the knee cap a seperate bone and instead attach it to either leg bone.


The way to fix this issue regardless of what you do is to select the bone above the IK (yellow) bone and go into the "Bone" properties. There under "inverse kinematics" you can find different options on how to limit the way its affected by the IK bone chain.

That way you can tell the bones to only bend on the X axis for example which would stop your leg from bending to the side. Turning of X Y and Z would completely stop the IK from bending it which would be required to make your kneecap stop moving at all. hope this helps

>>778195
Shampoo, huh?

>>778063
yes that why everyone is dropping 3ds for blender when not in professional environments(and even then it's because companies)

>>778064
show me some details of your model, how good it has to be? especially i would like to see legs and maybe a tail

>>778212
2.79 PepeLaugh

>>778214
ok blendlet

>>778230
70k polys max. This is my first model. Textures hidden to try hiding the identity of my client. It's based off of an SFM model That I took orthographic pics of for references. Hands were taken from a downloadable file. Hair's from path curving.

>>778230
here's another look at the face. I just want live2d style eyes that do eyetracking but is making me want to kill myself

>>778245
forgot to fucking add the face in the post

>>778230
A little more. They want the eyes to look somewhat like these models. https://twitter.com/Cally3D/status/1318108430247337985?s=20
https://twitter.com/Cally3D/status/1317017910179659777?s=20.. They track targets in game.

>>778246
goddamn anon i am going to have nightmares now

>>778250
i hate it too. genuinely considering refunding this shit and trashing it.

>>778246
You could just say you couldn't do it, but do the "follow me" eyes that the faggot fursuit eyes sometimes do.
Where it just works off of parallax naturally.

Excuse the cringe, but here's an example. Since it works off parallax, it works naturally based on the viewer angle. Essentially it's just the eye, but inside out, like that statue bust illusion that makes it look like the head is following you.

That should be a decent compromise if you let the dude know that you couldn't figure out/find the script eyes.

>>778257
tysm im gonna try this later cause blender has made me consider deepthroating my shotgun for the night,

>>778258
Yeah the hollow-face illusion (apparently that's what it's called), is one of my favorites. Definitely one to keep under your belt, especially when doing 3d models that look like 2d characters.

Here's a less cringe example of it in action. There were other gifs that didn't have the text, but they were too big to upload, unfortunately.

Best of luck anon.

noob here
i've been trying to model a sword as a exercise but i've been having problem with the edges, i either only get them to be so thin it looks like paper, or they are too blocky, any tips?

>>778273
Show me the model.

>>778273
bevel the edges and scale them up.

>>777633
Wasting ur time doing render shit lmao.

>>778198
>>778207
Did and it took forever to bake with lots of crashes.
Got lucky it actually baked over night.

I think it looks worse somehow.

Up the timescale and whatever the parameter for updates per frame.

>>777687
thx anon

>>778290
Even completely ignoring the shampoo drinking antics this is the most autistic animation I have seen in a very long time.
And I mean actual autism as in not being able to understand a single thing about other people and how they move their bodies.

>>778294
Yeah because I spendt any time at all on the animation other than to add movement to see the interaction with the shampoo

>>778244
daaam boy, but since some furfag likes it - keep it up

>>778278
why are you so mad at me, show me your first work tough guy, was it better?
c'mon now, blender community is about to be friendly, so you'd better be friendly and helpful

Now srsly, how can i make it better? much more polys to the face?

>>778299
Subdivide and check references

hi guys, i have a question for the more technical of you. i recently got a pc with a pretty old pc and i'm planning to put a pretty decent graphic card in it and use it only for rendering. my question is: can this work decently? how important is having a good cpu for rendering if i use the gpu for it?

>>778299
You can't.
It's furry shit.
No amount of polygons will make it "better" or good.

>>778310
pretty old cpu*
sorry

>>778323
I'm going to make a cube tutorial and make lots of money

>>778326
I'm gonna make a pasta tutorial and make LOTSA SPAGHETTI

>>778212
Holy shit thank you so much.

As I said, I had the same issue both with and without the knee bone. The main reason I included it was because of the rigging tutorial I was following.

I know that in a low poly model like the one I made, it's not a necessity. I did it mostly for the experience. When the problem continued without the knee, I just left it in cause I figured it was something else.

You solved a problem that has been driving me crazy. I owe you one.

>>778231

no bully plz its a good version

>>778151
yes it was free, I don't remember where sorry it was in my folder.

It seems to have a lot of similarities with Buildabod, it seems to have been retopoed though.

Anyway look for Buildabod you'll be able to make whatever you want.

Also sorry for slow response I was trying to remember where I got it and forgot to reply.

how the fuck do you quickly boxhide in sculptmode of the latest blender?

>>778244
>>778246
Good job on completing a project, don't be discouraged by my honesty: don't use it as a feature base; scrap it (save the renders so you can track your progress) use the lessons you learned along the way to make it better from the ground up

It's clear you haphazardly copied forms and techniques without understanding or mastery, you bit off more than you could chew and had to slap stuff together to meet a deadline.
That's okay, just don't make it a habit or you'll end up like those people that have been using that one tormented Krystal model for a decade
Go back and do more tutorials, you need to improve your fundamentals. On the bright side you have the ability to do it, you just need to actually spend the time

>>778273
Do tutorials, it'll take your whole life to reinvent a wheel that's already obsolete
There's no shortcut, or if you prefer the tutorials ARE the shortcut

>>777626
At the risk of setting you on a unproductive path of coomerism:
smutba.se, sfmllab, models-resource, deviantart (mmd, xnalara / xps, fbx, dae, #model_release)

Learn to make them yourself, sculpting is fun, just remember you have to make a million frustratingly ugly lumps until you start getting nice results

>>778027
You can compensate with techniques like breaking your high poly into pieces then hiding the pieces
Or with better hardware, or other optimizations

Zbrush uses some secret technique that no other software does

>>778038
Save the texture before you even start, click include textures in blendfile (makes it so you can distribute the .blend with textures stored IN the file), the caveat is each backup is now has its own texture copy (which is a pro and a con), you can always unpack the assets too

>>778379
>You can compensate
No you can't if you ever have the ambition to have all the shit in one big scene.
Try opening a 20+ GB scene in Blender and tell me how that is going.
>Or with better hardware
Why invest in hardware if you can get more out of your current hardware by using a better program?
>or other optimizations
Which Blender doesn't have, that's why it runs like shit as soon as scenes get complex.
>Zbrush uses some secret technique that no other software does
Completely irrelevant since you can't build your final scenes in ZBrush.

>>778385
>Lazy workflow is 'amibition'

>>778385
>My workflow isn't lazy! It's AMBITIOUS!

>>777976
Update
I have no idea what I'm doing at this point.
I'm just winging the ear, hoping it's not too fucked.

>>778012
Yeah, I started this detailed but I'll definitely start simpler next time around.

>>778402
Unless you plan on taking close up shots of an ear where the ridges need to be modeled to allow for parallax movement, then this is fine. Let a normal map do the work.

>>778377
>Learn to make them yourself
I can only make a sphere or two and then I’m lost. I have no idea what to do next. I mean maybe I know, but I’m paralysed

>why yes i sculpt with a 10 dollar mouse how could you tell?

I need to know if this leg topology is ok or not. I was trying to connect the thigh and calf but the thigh was 12 edges while the calf was 10 and I tried to reduce the edge count but ended up with these weird triangle things after trying to merge and knife a bunch of verts.

>>778420
Pic related is the thigh and calf as separate pieces

Why can't you add an armature to your constraints target and pick a bone like always before? So any kind of IK rig can't be done with Blender anymore? This software keeps getting shittier and shittier I hope faggot Pablo gets corona and dies.

https://youtu.be/5_G79LJ_l2Y?t=21

how the fuck do i make a mesh "shrink wrap" around another like he does in this video? if not in blender, then is there any software that works well for this?

>>778420
Aim for something like this maybe.
I wouldn't worry too much about it but try to keep it "smooth" I've seen almost literal cylinders look fine once rigged properly.

Do keep in mind having very even geometry so the faces are approximately the same size.
You have some faces under the knee which will deform quite badly I think.

If you shrinkwrap a cylinder with loopcuts onto it, it would probably deform better, sad but true.
Cartoon style characters should definitely have very even geometry.

wtf did i do wrong

>>778430
maybe

>>778434
Can't tell

>>778430
like this

>>778434
can't tell whats going on

>>778437
>>778441
i just tried to do simple rig and thats what happens when i try to pose

>>778442
Edit -> Preferences
There go to Addons, search for rig
Enable Rigify and use that

>>778446
I did this is the result

>>778450
Uhm.. Make a video of you trying to pose it.

how to make spaceship assets

Not sure if what I'm asking here is fucking retarded or not since I can't find anything on Google.

I want to have the normal map of this model automatically "sculpt out" part of the mesh I guess? I saw that you can do that with displace modifiers but it turns my head into a balloon if I do that even at 0.05 scale and doesn't seem to really effect the mesh in any meaningful way.

I basically want to have those holes actually be dug into the mesh and same with the lines etc. without having to manually sculpt it out. Is this possible or am I asking for a lot here? I am a total noob if it wasn't super obvious already.

>>778466
like this?

>>778408
Based.
I still use my Logitech mouse I bought in 2003 for 15 bucks and use it for everything, even sculpting. Those glide pads were rubbed off like 15 years ago and those embossed "sockets" or something where they were put in are not even visible anymore, 100% polished off and planar with the mouse bottom surface. Keys have the silver rubbed off as well all logos are gone. Switches got cleaned about 7x (every time it started double clicking or having problems with clicking in general). Cable broke too about 5 times (literally broke near the mouse due to metal fatigue) but up until recently instead of replacing it I either bundled the cable a bit until it "worked again" and stuffed that bundle inside the mouse or I cut out the broken part and reconnected the cable again. Did this until the cable started to get a bit too short. Then at some point I just took the mouse cable of some shitty other mouse I had laying around and soldered that on. I also keep it clean but it is all shiny and rubbed off as I said and normies would have thrown it away after like 2 years of use while I don't see any reason to switch. I just keep repairing it.

If you have found the perfect mouse for you, you just stick with it, no matter what.

>>778471
>Switches got cleaned about 7x (every time it started double clicking or having problems with clicking in general)
Not him but redpill me. My current mouse is having a
>click on right but end up getting left click input
sometimes, can i fix it by "cleaning switches" how do i do that?

>>778472
Pretty much every mouse has microswitches (pic related) in them, which have that clicky, tactile feeling.
You open up your mouse and if you're careful, you can also open the casing of those witches and then clean the contacts with IPA applied on q-tips. Once you've done this one or two times without breaking plastic clips it's an ezpz job.

>>778473
>>778472
Forgot the image, those switches kinda look like this usually. Of course you could also just replace them but why spending money and doing solder jobs if cleaning them usually does the trick.

>>778473
>pic related
damn they must be small as fuck

>>778478
Well yeah, but it's absolutely doable

>>778477
gonna have a look at it them, it's nothing too important but is still annoying from time to time

>>778480
Yeah I'd absolutely tackle that. Small annoyances like this just add up and if you don't take care of them you'll just have constantly ruined days.

>>778466
You can do this.
I'll make a video in a moment.

>>778466
>>778486
Nevermind I misunderstood the question.

So you can't do it with a normalmap but you can do it with a displace map, sorta mostly.
What you want to do is make a new texture for the displacement, set the color of the displacement map to 50% gray, it has to be 50% gray otherwise it will deform the mesh in it's entirety.
Then you make black circles where you want the holes.

>>778466
I actually have a pertinent question though, why do you want non-physical holes in the mesh instead of actually making holes?

>>778466
>>778488
and also what is it for

is it really impossible to make good looking shit with sub 100k vertices?

>>778494
No it's not.

Also please someone help I'm trying to scult the inside of a cave and the view rotation is making me fucking nuts is it possible to rotate around "me"?

>>778498
Can't help yu but post the WIP

>>778512

>>778516
Trying out that new sky node looks great, pretty agressive denoiser looks like.

>>778498
>>778516
>>778522
Switch the view rotation to trackball from orbit in the settings.
Or you can go into "fly mode", I think it's shift+f (or it used to be), which basically works like a videogame "noclip" camera. Move with WSAD, and look with the mouse. I find it useful for times like those.

Or just get a 3d mouse. It makes shit like that a fucking breeze.

>>778522
that looks like it's painted

Tried doing a ghost and got this, there's a face there and I like it, but it wasn't on purpose. How would you go as to add this face purposefully? If I mess with anything it'll probably disappear

how true is this?

>>778566
>there's a face there and I like it, but it wasn't on purpose
Seems like you got one ghost already. DON'T DISTURB IT.

>>778567
A tremendous lie. Being good at sculpting will take years,

>>778433
It looks like at the knee there is what I think is called a double diamond back loop or something like that. Would you keep the faces even there too or would you smoothen out all of the vertices more?

>>778494
Fuck you

If you're doing hard-surface modeling and your model has more than 50k you're a shit modeler

>>778593
wtf is this stupid rule, lmao

>>778494
Yes, but I'm too lazy to repost the low poly super baked models that get reposted often
If you do a good enough job with planning and baking you can get incredible detail largely with textues

>>778593
polycount is borderline irrelevant to hard surface within reason. 50k tris is nothing for an organic mesh with deformation let alone a hard surface model.

Is there any way to make a ball of fire where the flames move on their own when I move the ball?

>>778624
yes

halp

>>778634
too much wrong to even begin.
You can start by recalculating the normals and removing doubles at least.

>>778634
you must SCOOOLPT

sculpters are low test
true chads do everything with polygons

>>778643
pyw

>>778641
It's hard
>>778637
now the subdivision at 1, but there's still something wrong

>>778645
>but there's still something wrong
yeah, furry-shit is wrong.
kys and yiff in hell

>>778647
can i model a astartes without sculpting?

>>778647
i couldn't agree more

>>778650
I don't know if you can but I could do that.

>>778645
For starters compared to your "expectations" your snout has a very sharp turn.

I wish that subsurf modifiers, and the like, could be applied while a model has shapekeys. I don't understand why this hasn't been solved yet. Would it be so difficult to take into account the location of extra vertexes while it's in the subsurf viewport preview state and then carry it over to the shapekey afterwards?

I find it much easier to create good looking shapekeys with less geometry.

I am still like baby, doing tutorials but I'm working on some LEGOs. I even figured by myself how to put a texture onto part of a mesh.
Modelling is fun. I wish I had more time to learn to do it.

>>778679
Keep it up

>almost 2021
>still no proportional editing in pose mode

>>778687
Does anyone else besides you request this?
If not, then you have a problem.

>>778627
How tho?

>>778690
https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/2bcbbc/

>>777018
making mechs is so fun

>>778695

>>778701
:'( i- its just supposed to look cool

>>778701
but seriously thx for critique, im working on it now.

>>778701
The red things on the legs is for inserting into human females.

>>778703
but why does your mech have sub-surface scattering?

>>778692
smoke sim.
Good luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f13vl1M-0k
LOL

>>778727
Wish you were permabanned for posting CGMatter spam every day, multiple times a day.

>>778730
this board barely gets multiple posts a day

>>778727
i use delete

how can I make her eyes show up?
selected the eyes and tried going to shading-materials proprities and changed blend and shadow mode to alpha hashed but no result

>>778746
are there alpha channel-less bitmaps involved for transparency? (for example using jpg textures to define alpha parts).
last couple blender versions permanently pick alpha out on the texture node instead of choosing between alpha and color depending of if the file has an alpha channel or not.
so if you want to define alpha parts with an jpg or similar, you have to switch that image texture node from alpha out to color out.

>>778754
>permanently pick alpha out
*whenever I import stuff that is using transparency textures

>accidentally tap the "pose" brush
>blender freezes for 4 mins
bravo

>>778746
remember there is two eye objects, inner and outer.

I have a model that I would like to change the dimensions of along the Z axis to an exact size while having the X and Y axis scale accordingly so it doesn't get squished, how do I do this?

>>778777
Can't you just calculate the factor you need to go from the current z height to your desired one and then scale the whole model with that factor?

>>778784
How though?
Is there a video of this anywhere?

>>778786
You can just go into object mode, hit s, immediately click the left mouse button to not change anything and then you have a little window you can enter precise numbers in or even math operations.
Click and drag over all three parts so you edit x y and z at the same time and then write your target height divided by the current height, so for example 3 / 2.7 and hit enter, afterwards apply the scale.
There might be nicer ways to do this but it's the first that comes to mind.

Halp my doughnut translucent, what do?

>>778727
CGMatter makes me ANGRY because he's an insufferable pretentious cunt, but his videos do teach a lot of useful stuff. It forces me to power through his videos trying to ignore the cringe stuff

>>778567
If you even are swayed by something like this, your thinking is fundamentally fucked and you're a child.

>>778793
nvm problem solved

>>778687
goddamn it, this
i remember aligorith was working on something like this back in 2.7 era

Hey frens can someone help me figure out how to un-heelify the rig, then heel it to higher heels?
I've tried changing a few of the bones but I just end up with messy deformation.
Surely there's a method to this that I'm not aware of.

>sculpt mode
>show overlays
>see this
what's wrong with these faces and how to fix it?

bros i use a rx570 recommend a renderfarm

>>778889
>rx570
Me too. What's wrong? Are you making videos?

>>778905
Yeah, stills are ok, for videos however it tends to take too long.

>>778754
umm this is quite advanced, how do I do it?

>>778889
I recommend waiting until AMD drops their new Ryzen 5000s
or Nvidia drops more budget friendly cards in January

https://www.cgdirector.com/how-to-build-your-own-render-farm/

new thread >>778942
new thread >>778942
new thread >>778942

>>777222
PABLO, PABLO, PABLO!

>>778195
How's that forcefield method working? Doing my first fluid sims lately and this is relevant to my interests

>>778862
Man, this is some abstract emoji shitposting.

>>778889
Kind of a meme, but I recently used SheepIt to render out 8000 frames at 4k. Would have taken me a month at minimum (even with a GTX 1080), but ended up taking around 4 days total. There's a few bad frames here and there, but that's to be expected with differing hardware. It's free, you just have to gain points by rendering other people's stuff. So it's kind of like a bank for your rendering power. Where you can save it up incrementally, and then use it all at once when you need it.

At this point, I'm probably just going to get a better graphics card (3080 when it's in stock), and farm points, but when it comes time to render, have them handle it.

:^)