/blend/ - Blender General

[Anonymous No.759918]

Welcome to the Blender General, where we discuss Blender, share our Blender-related works and ask for Blender-related help.

>What is Blender?
Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline.

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Previous Thread: >>757494

[Anonymous No.759921]

>>759918
anyone tried out 2.9 yet?

[Anonymous No.759924]

>>759921
Always wait for a stable build.

[Anonymous No.759929]

>>759918
Thank you for not putting that stupid shit about sculpting in the OP.

[Anonymous No.759931]

>>759918

There's already a Blender thread on the first page, why do you blendlets always need to have your safe space on every singe forum and imageboard? I don't see official Maya and Max threads on every single forum, and I don't see 3 official Max/Maya threads a day on this board.

>We are little snowflakes and deserve our own threads

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[Anonymous No.759938]

>>759931
well, you heard him guys
start posting about blender in every thread
no more containment zone
stupid fucking newfag

[Anonymous No.759947]

>>759931
>FUCK BLENDER
I will when they release 3.0 with the fuckbot mode.

[Anonymous No.759956]

>>759931
Almost all of the blender threads created on /3/ are made for the purpose of talking shit about blender. You are the cancer.

[Anonymous No.759958]

does anyone know why when i use boxcutter, the reflected part of my mirror modifier disappears? noob here

[Anonymous No.759959]

>>759918
The real and only relevant questions are:

does the blender foundation support BLM
does the blender foundation support trans rights

[Anonymous No.759970]

Is it normal for a bake of normals from multires 1kk tris to ~20k to take half an hour on a 3,4GHz 4 cores, 8gb ram, GTX 1050Ti?

[Anonymous No.759984]

>>759959
I have no doubts that they do. Dobarro for instance is in favor of preferential treatment of women to balance the gender gap and he took jabs at flat earthers and anti-vaxxers on his last stream after people started complaining about Microsoft's donation, so I'm guessing he's pretty mainstream as far as political values go. Still, they've somehow enough sense not to use their organization's name to spread their own personal views and values, so I can sort of respect that.
>>759970
That's too long. Did you try baking at a lower resolution first?

[Anonymous No.759992]

>>759984
>they've somehow enough sense not to use their organization's name to spread their own personal views and values
>what is FOSS proselytism?

[Anonymous No.760002]

Can I pay one of you fucks to rip game assets for me for printing purposes?

[Anonymous No.760003]

How do I get clean sculpts like pic?
All mine look weird and covered in cellulite no matter how much smoothing I do.

[Anonymous No.760005]

>>759924
Only if you are doing important stuff. Nothing wrong with testing out new features. You might even find a bug to report.

[Anonymous No.760006]

>>760003
Easiest way is to just polymodel the thing so all the clean curvature is already there as intended
then you just subdivide it to all hell and create them creases and such where you need them.

Or if you're adamant about sculpting or find that easier than modelling - make your sculpt
do a clean retopo into a subdivadable poly mesh that capture the shape of what you sculpted but now have absolutely clean surfaces.
Then you subdivide it to all hell and create them creases and such.

[Anonymous No.760007]

>>759992
>Free and open-source software
>political ideology
Trying too hard

[Anonymous No.760008]

>>759959
Shitposting aside, they probably do but they aren't American, so it isn't as big of an issue I guess, they aren't obsessed with the topics.

>>759984
>Dobarro
You mean Vazquez? The other Pablo? He was talking about the Microsoft donation on the Blender Today stream.

[Anonymous No.760010]

>>760008
Yeah, Vazquez. Don't know why I said Dobarro.

[Anonymous No.760012]

>>760003
Its most likely shit topology. This brush is your best bet if you don't want to do the work of fixing it. Havent used it personally but i use zbrush's equivalent all the time.
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/sculpt_paint/sculpting/tools/slide_relax.html

[Anonymous No.760015]

>>759918
>there are three blender generals on the board, one with 50 posts
>make another anyway
OP, what do you gain from this

[Anonymous No.760025]

>>760015
B.L.E.N.D.E.R.

[Anonymous No.760034]

>>760003
It's all about the texturing

[Anonymous No.760044]

how did this happen
what i did do wrong
i just want some legs for my mic

[Anonymous No.760050]

..... what was wrong

[Anonymous No.760276]

i wanna take models from model resource and make them 3d printable in blender
>where can i hire someone to show me the process?
I already know how to model for printing but i need more precise knowledge

[Anonymous No.760278]

>>760276
Don't misuse the quote function. Youtube is filled with tutorials about that.

[Anonymous No.760283]

>>760278
theyre all with 2.79 which is a bit different with importing models

[Anonymous No.760284]

polymodeling

[Anonymous No.760289]

>>760050
should i start over again? stuck at part 5 level 3 and i don't even have a clue what the hell am i doing

[Anonymous No.760297]

Would it be possible to render 60fps mocapped faces real time with openCV using eevee? I have an old DSLR camera that I could use as a webcam and one of my projects requires real time mocap, so I was wondering whether it was possible. I'm going to model and rig some characters once I'm back from my business trip, but I want to get some info for the time being.

[Anonymous No.760300]

>>760297
I don't know about 60fps which depends on how fast you can run both OpenCV and eevee but it's been done before
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7nNO3FLkLU

If you have a recent iPhone you could look into UE4's FaceAR instead.

[Anonymous No.760310]

>>760044
>object offset
This is probably your problem. The object you're using for the offset probably has some scale(s) that aren't applied.
Object offset inherits the transforms from the source object. So scaling, rotation, and position are transferred to the array objects.
It's really great in specific cases (like circular arrays, or objects that get larger and larger incrementally), but you have to be careful that your transforms are applied first on your source object.

Or just use an empty.

[Anonymous No.760314]

>>760297
realtime? no use a game engine for that.

[Anonymous No.760319]

I made a house for my game, but the hallways are too small. Is there a way I can scale the hallways up without messing up the rest of house?

[Anonymous No.760329]

>>760314
>realtime? no use a game engine for that.
remind me of that one time UE did a real-time character mocap with Andy Serkis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxErDzsIdKI

[Anonymous No.760355]

https://www.blender.org/download/lts/

LTS Release 2.83.4
Released on August 5, 2020.

Update now

[Anonymous No.760356]

>>760355
Already did an hour ago.

[Anonymous No.760357]

>>760300
I saw that video, it seems messy up until the lad plays back the animation. I also saw that the iPhone X and more recent models are really good for mocap, but I have neither the money nor the desire to put up with Apple's bullshit.

>>760314
I looked into that, but I don't know how to get the data from openCV into unity or UE in real time. I saw there's Faceware, but it's all jerky and I'd have to mess around to make it work properly, and at that point I'd rather learn openCV. The best option seems to be aquifer for the iPhone and putting it on unity 3D, but even then it requires a rather expensive toy.

I was thinking of using blender and openCV because its affordable (aka free) to be used for this silly project, but I'd need to make it at least 60fps and real time. The characters are pretty low-poly tho, and I still don't know how many blend shapes they will have, but that's my reasoning. I guess I'll have a better notion once I start messing around with it instead of posting on a basket weaving forum.

[Anonymous No.760358]

is there a way to reattach a part of the mesh I separated to work on shape keys? or do I really have to redo all the shape keys I made?

[Anonymous No.760362]

>>760289
here is detailed issue i can't separate handle

[Anonymous No.760363]

anybody have lesser-known tips for the skin modifier?

[Anonymous No.760364]

>>760362
>here is detailed issue i can't separate handle
what?
Mark seams around the edges it the handle connects to the cup, then mark a seam down the side of the handle.

[Anonymous No.760367]

>>760364
The whole UV and seams thing doesn't click with me, no matter how often I try. Being a dumbfuck AND aware of it at the same time is a cruel fate.

[Anonymous No.760368]

>>760364
i think i just fucked it up
can't find edge of handle connect clearly either

[Anonymous No.760371]

>>760368
Change view to Viewport Display Solid and turn on X-ray

[Anonymous No.760393]

>>760368
also disable subsurf cage

[Anonymous No.760402]

>>760003
>cellulite no matter how much smoothing I do
Did you forget to set your shading to smooth on your sculpt?

[Anonymous No.760421]

>>760402
No, he's probably just sculpting with an unnecessarily high resolution.

[Anonymous No.760423]

>>760421
Strange. Normally it should work out alright even at high density even though I have to say smoothing gets really shitty at these resolutions. Wish it would behave almost the same at every resolution.

[Anonymous No.760429]

i'm trying to link an updated version of an armature to another blend file, but when i link the armature it goes straight into orphaned data
how do i restore the armature??

[Anonymous No.760444]

Is geometry which follows anatomy forms bad for animation purposes?
I'd ask in questions thread but it has reached bumplimit

[Anonymous No.760453]

Hi, I don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but I don't know where else to ask. I want to learn how to make NSFW animations with Blender, but I'm pretty lost and can't find any kind of guidance. Could someone help me with some guide or something?

[Anonymous No.760459]

>>760444
https://youtu.be/f-mx-Jfx9lA?t=711
https://youtu.be/01WQlMD7dsk?t=482
You want edgeflow with compression and stretching in mind.

[Anonymous No.760465]

if I want to make a wall with a hole, should I just delete the face where the hole would be or make a transparent texture?

[Anonymous No.760471]

>>760444
Yeah, while it's the best for actually describing the static shape, for deformations you want a topology that flows with the way the joint will deform.

[Anonymous No.760481]

>>760444

yes. this is why rich companies turned their models into nurbs or high poly models.

[Anonymous No.760483]

>>760459
I've watched tonns of videos on character rigging, even the ones with DUDE ADVANCED rigs don't have the actual knee bending the way it behaves in real life. With the bones protruding and fat distributed evenly.

I tried to achieve this with shape keys on straight topology legs but it was hard to translate straight quads to the right form on the fly in my mind.
But yeah you're right, gotta keep in mind how it will deform while retopologizing. Expereince and only experience. That's why I'll give a chance to a mixed approach of roughly anatomical geometry, where it doesn't deform much, and bombarding with straight high-poly geometry, where it does. Will not work out probably, but gotta try.

>>760471
>>760481
=(

[Anonymous No.760488]

>>760444
I believe so

[Anonymous No.760491]

Is there a way to prevent "esc" from cancelling a render? I've disabled all keybindings to that key in preferences but it still does its thing. I'd like at least to change it to something more unmistakable.

[Anonymous No.760510]

Can someone plz post a link for the pirated addon Flip Fluids?

[Anonymous No.760526]

>>760358
You can try an addon to transfer shape keys from a duplicate of the old mesh to the new mesh.

A quick google search came up with this: https://github.com/fblah/ShapeKeyTransferBlender/tree/master

You may need to download an older version of Blender though, I don't know, haven't used it myself.

[Anonymous No.760527]

>>760526
Oh, and just a tip: If you do need to use an earlier version of Blender, don't open your file in the older version, it could potentially cause some issues. Append the object from your file instead and then save to a new file and append again to the new version.

[Anonymous No.760535]

>>760510
Bro, just grab it from its github page. It's "free" in the fact that it's GNU. The dev can't do anything about this either. All Blender addons are free. It's just that most devs don't put the source code out for everyone. Flip does though.

[Anonymous No.760538]

>>760444
it's also bad for UV and texture purposes too.

Outside of very simple stylised stuff the mesh itself is more like the foundation you build from with textures and baking and what not.

Utility is the goal here.

[Anonymous No.760575]

Is it worth learning how to use Blender for serious animation? Z-brush fag here, once I'm done learning all about Zbrush I want to know whether if to get into the blender bandwagon or pirate Maya

[Anonymous No.760606]

>>760575
>serious animation
If you frame it that way, then Maya is the only obvious answer. Blender fanboys may scream at you if you seriously consider Maya instead of their Lord and Savior; just ask them about Rig performance or performance in general and see them shiver and their eyes twitching. If you mention trigger words like: parallel rig evaluation, GPU acceleration deformation and OpenSubd running in 60+fps, you can see them getting flustered and conflicted.

[Anonymous No.760619]

>>760575
blender is perfectly enough for the amount of animation a solo operation can reasonably do, eevee is a pretty decent advantage in this scenario too.

Obviously it's nowhere near as useful as maya at the scale level though, I think either would probably work for you so I'd go look up blender and maya rigging/animation tutorials and see which one looks more like ur thing.

[Anonymous No.760623]

>>760527
>>760526
amazing it worked, thanks a lot anon! I was angry because I was prepared to do all the shape keys again but it just works now.

[Anonymous No.760624]

how do you guys get nicely shaped tits? mine look like shit.

[Anonymous No.760628]

>>760624
By studying real life examples.

[Anonymous No.760632]

>>760628
damn you have to mug me like that?

[Anonymous No.760633]

https://youtu.be/4NTp4PrSMwI
>Interview with a chick trying to replicate the Guilty Gear models/style in Blender.

[Anonymous No.760648]

I keep procrastinating by sculpting and retopoing models from scratch, because I can't make a cute face or texture the body.
Tell me please, is it possible to turn this mesh...

[Anonymous No.760650]

Anybody use mask tools? It seems like it doesn't do anything that you wouldn't be able to do yourself with shader nodes?

[Anonymous No.760651]

>>760648
Into this?
And
- Could it be achieved with blender texture painting?
- Can I make stencil painting more comfortable? I'm destroying my eyes just by trying to see anything past the transparent stencil square

[Anonymous No.760652]

My best model so far, /3/.

[Anonymous No.760654]

>>760606
>>760619
Thank you, gentlemen

[Anonymous No.760699]

>>760652
>My best model so far, /3/.
It's not even done, what are you talking about?
Most shit doesn't have bevels, and your input jack still has flat shading on it.

[Anonymous No.760701]

>>760699
>Most shit doesn't have bevels
I mean to say that some of your parts have bevels, while others do not. When they should all have bevels.

[Anonymous No.760702]

So i've symmetrized the mesh in sculpt mod after accepting to lose UV layout in favor of major mesh fixes.
And suddenly I have twice the texture space, because UVs have beautifully mirrored all by themselves. Will it cause problems in the future, if I'm not planning on doing assymetrical texturing?

[Anonymous No.760717]

>>760633
Ruki is a good person, she helped me out even if my questions were probably dumb and obvious.

[Anonymous No.760718]

Is there a way to apply normal edit modifier to a mesh with shapekeys?

[Anonymous No.760727]

>>760718
As far as I know, no there isn't. You would have to duplicate your object, delete all of the shapes, apply the modifier, then manually transfer each shape key one by one from the duplicate to the original.

You may be able to find a script or addon to help with this process.

[Anonymous No.760730]

>>760727
thanks I'll learn how to transfer shape keys.

[Anonymous No.760733]

>>760727
damn transfering the shape key messes up the normals big time.

guess I'm fucked.

[Anonymous No.760737]

>>760733
That sucks, when I tried it on a simple cube it retained the normals just fine.

I found this, I haven't tested it, maybe it can work for you: https://github.com/przemir/ApplyModifierForObjectWithShapeKeys

[Anonymous No.760738]

>>760737
Here is another that could help: https://lollypopman.com/2016/08/09/addon-shapekey-helpers/

You may need to use an older version of Blender for these so do this:
>>760527

[Anonymous No.760739]

>>760738
>>760737
alright I'll try these, I guess I'll update the model I have in my USB and cloud before I attempt to do this.

[Anonymous No.760740]

>>760738
>>760737
>>760739
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/155930/cant-apply-modifiers-with-shapekeys-on-blender-2-8

wait this actually worked perfectly, although its a bit slow. Is there any catch to doing this (aside that it will probably take me an hour)

[Anonymous No.760742]

>>760740
If it works, it works. It will just be a tedious process without any script for it

[Anonymous No.760743]

>>760742
yeah never mind, I didn't notice it rolled back me applying to normal editing modifier, I'm beyond fucked at this point. I even tried copying the mesh, removing all shape keys except one, applying the normal editing, moving it to the exact location, joining as shape. and STILL messes up the normals.

I honestly want to cry at this point.

[Anonymous No.760747]

How do you guys start a sculpt?
I've been trying different methods and idk what to stick to:

>subdivided cube
Gives me a something I can quickly get started on but it's hard to work with/control when working from a turnaround.
>blocky shapes, subdivide and formed in Edit to the drawing, then joined using booleans
Gives me a look into what the sculpt would look like from the start but Boolean union makes strange poles on the surface.
Starting takes a LOT of time too

[Anonymous No.760748]

>>760747
For the most part, the second, but using voxel remesh instead of Boolean to join the block-out forms.

[Anonymous No.760749]

>>760743
well, decided to learn how to edit the face normals to make them look better manually without data transfer modifier

[Anonymous No.760750]

>>760748
yeah that's what I do after, forms>union>remesh.
Things get real hard to change after remeshing though, really frustrating it's a "no going back" point

[Anonymous No.760753]

>>760747
Make sure your layout is perfect before you merge the parts with voxel remesher. Don't spend too long blocking out the primitives just get the basics in and start sculpting the arms/legs individually (snake hook and a big draw brush works well here). Make it look like you want the final thing to look (except for there just being seams). Keep the polys low enough and just focus on shape. Once remeshed get to a moderate level of density but no detailing.

NOW retopo + multires for the details, it works properly as of 2.90 so you can sculpt at any level correctly.

[Anonymous No.760761]

Does anyone know how to make your objects collide with the new pablobrush? For example when I drag a plane over some uv sphere, it just clips right through instead of colliding with it. He demonstrated it working a million times but not really showed what you have to do to set it up.

[Anonymous No.760823]

How do I get rid of an instance offset?

I'm trying to duplicate and linked a Sofa and its children. So I made it a collection and instanced an empty, but its offsetted from the empty.

[Anonymous No.760833]

>>760633
>She never bothered to wwatch the blender donut tutorial
Based!

[Anonymous No.760856]

How long does a full character sculpt take you guys?

[Anonymous No.760859]

>>760652
>This beginner shit made by a favela monkey has 600 upvotes.

[Anonymous No.760862]

>>760859
you make it sound as if you're jealous

[Anonymous No.760968]

>>759918
/g/fag here. I made a real-time multiplayer game (another agar.io inspired shit) and I am shit in anything related to art, so I found some 3d model of a running humanoid online, made sprites of all the running frames from 8 angles (5 actually, the rest are mirrored), and manually drew over them and made 40 different characters with shitty copy pasted wojak and pepe heads.
I don't expect this game to take off and make me millions, but at the very least I want to show this in my resume and I feel shitty running pepes would look really bad (especially if the recruiters recognize it as the evil alt right frog).
So I decided to learn basic 3d modeling, that I won't create anything from scratch, just tinker with that same running humanoid I mentioned before. I tried following guides and youtube tutorials and I literally got an actual headache, feeling pain in the blood vessels on my scalp. Jesus christ this shit is hard and frustrating. Is blender supposed to be this hard for newbies? Should I use a different program?

[Anonymous No.760971]

>>760859
i think it looks cute

[Anonymous No.760975]

>>760362
lol dude

[Anonymous No.760977]

How can I use a matcap while also having the normal map on a material? Kind of like Sketchfab's Matcap + Surface setting.

[Anonymous No.760999]

>>760977
It can only be done through the material, not in the viewport settings. For how to set up a matcap in the material, use Google.

[Anonymous No.761001]

>>760977
Oh, and if you want to use a Blender matcap they can be found in the datafiles>studiolights folder where Blender is installed.

[Anonymous No.761009]

>>760999
>>761001
ty anon, have a matcap with normals

[Anonymous No.761010]

>>761009
and a normal render too

[Anonymous No.761022]

https://vimeo.com/436895297

[Anonymous No.761027]

Guys I really need help. Is there any way to make a HUD like this? So it's projected in front of the cockpit but it's only visible if looking through that specific glass object.

[Anonymous No.761028]

>>761027
Nevermind. Found it.
If anyone's interested: https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/63372/material-thats-only-visible-if-seen-through-another-material

[Anonymous No.761030]

>>761028
>>761027
Fuck. Now it shows up inside the canopy from outside because obviously the canopy is glass so it only works as intended if the camera is inside the cockpit. You know what? That's fine tho. Fuck it.

[Anonymous No.761033]

shots fucking fired

[Anonymous No.761036]

https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1292068714423123969

[Anonymous No.761041]

>>761033
lmfao

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-WWld9001I

[Anonymous No.761056]

>>761041
I still find it interesting that there are apparently people who have bad problems with navigating inside Blender

[Anonymous No.761057]

So I'm trying to add shape keys to this model
https://smutba.se/project/29888/

it has a ton already but is missing bulges. I can't figure out why I can't edit the mesh though. Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.761064]

>>761036
>https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1292068714423123969

He just admitted Blender had terrible sculpt performance even though he denied it a few months ago.

[Anonymous No.761073]

>>761030
Just use a mix shader and swap between that solution and a regular texture for when it's outside.

[Anonymous No.761075]

>>761064
>He just admitted Blender had terrible sculpt performance even though he denied it a few months ago.
For real?

[Anonymous No.761093]

>>761064
>even though he denied it a few months ago.
Post link.

[Anonymous No.761094]

>>760761
Anyone?
Has no one here tried that collision stuff yet?

[Anonymous No.761095]

>>760761
Nevermind. Forgot he usually posts how to use stuff in the dev talk and not on Twatter.

[Anonymous No.761104]

>>761093

Do you really think I'll spend my precious time digging through his old posts for your blendlet ass? He posted a video of him sculpting on a very dense mesh saying it wasn't an issue (even though everybody knows it's an issue).

[Anonymous No.761105]

>>761104
Lmao, thanks for clarifying your post were bullshit then

[Anonymous No.761106]

>>761104
that guy constantly criticizes blender and states how he will improve things in the field he's assigned to. if you want to stir shit, find some targets that are easier for you.

[Anonymous No.761178]

How do you fucking loop an animation? I made the first and last frames the same, moved the last one one frame outside the loop so it doesnt repeat, I tried changing the curves but it always fucking does a hiccup when repeating. It stops for a moment and then loops. What am I missing here?

[Anonymous No.761199]

>>761178
>It stops for a moment and then loops
are you talking about the rendered result or realtime in the viewport? could also be a caching issue.

[Anonymous No.761200]

>>761178
Case a)
Zero and end frames aren't matching.

Copy zero frame to the end or end frame to zero.

Case b)
Zero frame should be identical to the last frame, yes, BUT you DON'T want BOTH the zero frame and the end frame to played because then you have 2 of the same exact frame right after each other in the loop, which makes it look like the animation pauses for one frame.

Instead of playing the whole range of, for example, 0 to 100, you want to leave out one frame and play either 1 to 100 or 0 to 99.

Case c)
(This is some hifi shit that no one normal gives a shit about and most likely will never spot)
The last and first frames are weighted against the void.
The start eases in from flat value and end eases into a flat value BUT the loop actually has no flat at the loop point so the arc of the motion looks wrong.
The end is preparing for a frame value that never comes and the start is continuing from a value that never was.

Copy, let's say, first 5 frames of the animation to the end of the animation and then adjust the end frame handles to get the correct smooth arc for the loop. (mass applying automatic or auto clamped is the fastest way to do this but sometimes you just have to go manual)
Next, you lock the handles of all the end frames by selecting them all and turning them from automatic to free(or manual or whatever it is called) easing.
Now copy the new end frame on top of the zero frame.
You can now delete the extra frames you added earlier.
You should now have zero and end frames that have identical values AND also identical handles that preserve and pass the correct arc of the motion from one loop to the next.

d)
>>761199

[Anonymous No.761201]

>>761105

There you go Blendlet, wasn't hard to find

https://twitter.com/pablodp606/status/1195827971799625728

[Anonymous No.761209]

>>761200
It was c. Seems like I had made the curves automatic and for some reason it fucked the beggining and end frames. Doing the third method worked like a charm. Thanks a lot man!

[Anonymous No.761212]

I like my blender generals the way i like my cocks

Two at the same time

[Anonymous No.761218]

>>761201
How do you read that and come to the conclusion that he's DENYING that sculpt has perf issues?
>It lags a little bit
Sounds like acknowledgement to me and today's patch fixes it.

[Anonymous No.761223]

>>761195
I want modify particle of donut texture bit bigger what should i do?

[Anonymous No.761229]

I've been making a massive amount of progress the last few days. My shit is starting to look good af. Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.761232]

For some reason all the volumetric effects disappear when i animate a scene in eevee, does anyone know a fix?

[Anonymous No.761234]

>>761027
I don't know about blender but this looks like a job for a stencil

[Anonymous No.761237]

why is OSL so slow?

[Anonymous No.761241]

>>761232
Make a bug report with a much more detailed description.

[Anonymous No.761244]

>>760357
>I don't know how to get the data from openCV into unity or UE in real time.
You could try out http://www.emgu.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page , .NET bindings for opencv so you can call it from unity c#. There are some other paid assets for unity + opencv out there too.

[Anonymous No.761256]

>>761237
finally done. 2 fucking hours with OSL. fuck that.

[Anonymous No.761266]

>>761256
Sexy
And hey at least it was probably faster than rendering it with Terragen

[Anonymous No.761270]

>>761256
why?
Why not use a competent shader for that?
Why not do it in compositing - takes 2 minutes.
Why waste 2 hours for that?

[Anonymous No.761273]

>>761270
because this way is physically accurate

[Anonymous No.761287]

>>761178
Post the anim.

[Anonymous No.761288]

>>761273
Why bother with accuracy if your texture sucks mega donkey ass?
Shit looks like an ai upsampled mess.

[Anonymous No.761291]

>>761288
what the fuck are you on about?

[Anonymous No.761295]

>>761291
Your planet texture is trash. It lacks definition.
If you're going to be an autist about physical accuracy, at least make sure your textures look good.
It looks like a fucking vector made in Illustrator.

[Anonymous No.761299]

>>761287
Finally got it working thanks to this anon >>761200
here is the one before fixing

[Anonymous No.761300]

>>761299
And heres the fixed one

[Anonymous No.761313]

>>761300
cute!

[Anonymous No.761319]

>>761201
>responding specifically to someone saying that you can't sculpt over 1m vertices in blender by saying there should be no trouble doing that amount
>hurr durr he's saying there's no performance improvements that could be made to blender ever!

Are you five years old, do you not understand how context works?

[Anonymous No.761322]

How can I best smooth this for 3d printing(so it has to be the mesh itself), Subdividing and using the smooth sculpt tool is a little too powerful and it damages the edges im wondering if theres a better way

[Anonymous No.761325]

How to remove these seams? I think they are from when i made the base of the model and joined but didnt use boolean, so the inside faces of the shapes are still there.

[Anonymous No.761327]

set it to smooth shading then maybe try the remesher in sculpt mode.

>Subdividing and using the smooth sculpt tool is a little too powerful and it damages the edges

maybe apply a little elbow grease and just smooth the bits you want smoothed

[Anonymous No.761328]

>>761325
the answer for you is also to use the voxel remesher, ctrl+r in sculpt mode.

[Anonymous No.761335]

>>761328
thank you my friend. had to update to get the feature

[Anonymous No.761338]

maybe someone here knows about this? >>761334

[Anonymous No.761340]

>>761338
nvm I got it, apparently the texture needs to be like really high quality so I just exported the texture as 700%

[Anonymous No.761343]

What the hell is this shit on texture paint i can't rid of this thing

[Anonymous No.761346]

>>761343
u're using a drawing tablet or something, right? r u sure it's not related to your pen? that'd happen to me every now and then when I used to draw with my wacom on Photoshop. I don't remember how I fixed it though

[Anonymous No.761347]

>>761295
it's literally the real heightmap from nasa retard

[Anonymous No.761349]

>>761322
Have you tried setting up creases and or sharp edges before adding a subdivision?

[Anonymous No.761350]

>>761322
that does not look manifold

[Anonymous No.761356]

>>761347
I didn't say shit about the heightmap. Your diffuse is flat as shit.

[Anonymous No.761357]

>>761325
just smooth it out using smooth sculpt

[Anonymous No.761368]

Is there a plugin to adjust bone position after editing mesh? I think someone else asked this last year, but I don't remember what people said in response, and I don't know what he wrote, so I can't search for his posts.

[Anonymous No.761379]

>>761256
It looks great!

>>761356
This guy is a faggot

[Anonymous No.761382]

>>761056
I don't think most people know what quick navigation even feels like, including the guy in the video, since he recommends using the numpad = moving your hand

[Anonymous No.761383]

recommend me an underrated tutorial, pref modeling related. will post results.

[Anonymous No.761386]

>>761383
https://www.mtfsurgery.net/dilation.htm

[Anonymous No.761391]

>>761386
tldr but I think I got the gist

[Anonymous No.761402]

https://twitter.com/NVIDIAGeForce/status/1292808003897311232

Should I buy Nvidia Ampere for more Blender performance?

[Anonymous No.761405]

>>759931
>>759918
Daily reminder the industry shills are afraid.
No need to pay for shit to model for video games.
Anime CGI is getting taken over by blender.
CGI cartoon and stylized animation in blender.

How hard will this burn autodesk in the pocket? All these canceled subscriptions?

[Anonymous No.761413]

>>759931
maybe if you're focused on working and practicing your skill will be more well known throughout the industry and instead you're just shitposting because you're salty that you wasted thousands of dollars on software and still getting outskilled by some retards playing around with a free software

[Anonymous No.761416]

>>761405
I have a feeling that the losses won't be as big as some might think. Most studios rely on support and that's what they gladly pay for and something that the BF does not provide. Almost no professional studios spend time hunting through all sorts of forums to solve a problem. Time is literally money there.

The biggest userbase they will lose is the "lol jusd birade evrything :DD". That userbase was at first a bane for them but later turned out to be useful since those people learned how to use the software before they became professionals and then paying customers in their job life.

So yeah, FOR NOW they won't lose too much but we'll see how all this will turn out. Maybe the BF will introduce some sort of paid customer service and that might change a ton of things.

[Anonymous No.761433]

Sorry for the dumb question. In the solid mode in viewport shading I want to use the Texture mode but it only shows the normal maps, not the diffuse/principled ones. I've been looking into the menus but can't find any setting.

[Anonymous No.761435]

>>761433
i think texture mode only shows the selected texture node

[Anonymous No.761436]

>>761435
You're right, damn I never knew about this. Thanks!

[Anonymous No.761439]

>>761416
My impression is that all this standart fag shilling happened after 2.8 came out.

>Maybe the BF will introduce some sort of paid customer service and that might change a ton of things.
This is more than likely FOSS traditionally sold support, And the BF already has a Blender Cloud thing you can subscribe to, it was so obnoxious that I remember people who did go for the first time to download blender where like
>Wait. I thought blender is free, whats this blender cloud subscription jamming itself into my face when I click the download button.

[Anonymous No.761452]

How the fuck do I make Node Wrangler work using the built in MacBook keyboard?!?!! None of the shortcuts work.

IM BEGGING FOR HELP. PLEASE.

[None !ITE2Jeran2 No.761465]

oof. my nodes are a mess.

[Anonymous No.761474]

how can i make the extrusions from the solidify modifer flatter

[Anonymous No.761476]

>>761474
"Even thickness" checkbox

[Anonymous No.761477]

>>761476
oh wew lad

[Anonymous No.761497]

Is there a command to fill this with polygons automatically? So I dont have to extrude and fill manually every time.

[Anonymous No.761501]

>>761497
F2 addon or maybe looptools

[Anonymous No.761508]

>>759918
Is there a good in depth tutorial about rigging? Most ones I found ramble way too much.

[Anonymous No.761513]

>>761508
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:9b93bffcb29eabd80a253e907484379f024abe94&dn=%5bGumroad%5d%20The%20Art%20Of%20Effective%20Rigging%20In%20Blender&tr=http%3a%2f%2fbt3.t-ru.org%2fann%3fmagnet

[Anonymous No.761517]

>>761513
Thanks man this is exactly what i want.

[Anonymous No.761519]

Hey /3/, I'm not really into Blender at all, and as of now I don't have much plans to learn it, though it does seem like something worth trying in the future
Anyway, Humble Bundle currently has some tutorials for about $1
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/game-design-animation-packt-books

Are they worth it, or am I going to find much better resources elsewhere?

[Anonymous No.761521]

>>761519
Rutracker has tons of this shit. But it's also $1

[Anonymous No.761523]

>>761521
Yeah that's kind of what I'm thinking
But also thinking if the video is 6 hours, and it's kind of shit, then it's $1 + wasted hours
Thanks for the shout on rutracker

[Anonymous No.761556]

>>761519
>for only £0.78, I can get a bunch of paid books
>and explicitly give all of the money to a charity for old people instead of Darren Lile
>only have £2 left this month
It's not much of a decision, is it?

[Anonymous No.761583]

If i want to get int sculpting and texture painting
Should i get Zbrush and Substance painter, i know Blender can do both of those but as someone who not really familiar with both of those topics should i stick with dedicated software would it be easier to learn or should i try learning it in Blender?

[Anonymous No.761589]

which one looks better, left or right?

[Anonymous No.761591]

I'm wondering if it's worth using high poly sources from Megascans in my render. I tried it out with one asset and just the asset itself is around 4 million tris.

I thought polycount affects render times as well, but it seems to be negligible? Is that true?

If that's the case I'd surely use a high-poly version instead of LOD0, but I'm afraid if the whole scene could handle that, because I'm not sure Blender likes having dozens of millions of tris all at once.

[Anonymous No.761596]

How would you approach modelling something like this? An object covered with broken tiles. Let’s say a simple sphere with a standard smiley face, what’s the most efficient way of covering it in broken tiles while making it look like a mosaic?

[Anonymous No.761598]

>>761596
procedural displacement shader

Voronoi pattern would do that easily.

[Anonymous No.761600]

>>761591
it's not negligible, it adds up in pure render time but memory is your big bottleneck if you're rendering on GPU.

[Anonymous No.761602]

>>761600
Yeah that's true, I'll just decimate it down to 10%, difference is unnoticeable if it's not a close-up anyway. But LOD0 they provide is too low poly, so that should be a decent middle ground.

[Anonymous No.761606]

Is there any tutorial on how to make a dildo?
Asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.761608]

I want to give this robot a ps1 style hand and have it be blocky, but this doesn't look good to me, any thoughts on how I could go about it better?

[Anonymous No.761615]

>>760367
>The whole UV and seams thing doesn't click with me,
Good.
UVs are unnatural. You are not supposed to "get it"!
They are low level shit you are not supposed to interact with, PTEX is what you want (its like painting real life miniatures with pain and stickers.).
Want advice for quick painting in pseudo-PTEX? Select all, mark seams on everything, unwrap.
Go to texture pain, start painting on the model itself.

UVs are hard, you are not stupid for not getting it.
Want to buy my payed tutorial where I teach you to master UVs?

[Anonymous No.761616]

>>760367
>The whole UV and seams thing doesn't click with me,
Good.
UVs are unnatural. You are not supposed to "get it"!
They are low level shit you are not supposed to interact with, PTEX is what you want (its like painting real life miniatures with pain and stickers.).
Want advice for quick painting in pseudo-PTEX? Select all, mark seams on everything, unwrap.
Go to texture pain, start painting on the model itself.

UVs are hard, you are not stupid for not getting it.
Want to buy my payed tutorial where I teach you to master UVs?

[Anonymous No.761618]

>>761616
UVs take like one day to learn they're just tedious if you need to maximize usage.

Think you're just an idiot.

[Anonymous No.761633]

>>761598
Thank you for replying. Is there a way to make the displacement “tiles” flat? Because normally it would curve with the surface like picrel. I’m trying to achieve the faceted look here >>761596 where the tiles are actually flat.

[Anonymous No.761648]

>>761633
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/80849/how-to-make-dried-desert-cracked-ground

Somebody puts it together here but it's not pretty.

Perhaps you could also try duplicating the base mesh and using a cell fracture modifier on it to make it from actual geometry.

Then you could use vertex colours on them

[Anonymous No.761666]

I made a table and chairs

[Anonymous No.761679]

Best free models to use for coomanimation in blender? Smutbase is from what i heard the only one that provides those but there are so few.

[Anonymous No.761682]

>>761666

[Anonymous No.761688]

How do I do a power of a fraction?
1/2, pow(0.5), Math.pow(0.5) etc don't work

[Anonymous No.761691]

>>761616
And here I though PTex guy fucking died.
2020 just got worse.

[Anonymous No.761692]

>>761616
gb2disney, fag

[Anonymous No.761697]

>>761691
>>761692
What's this ptex thing anyway? I looked on the site and it sounded pretty interesting.

[Anonymous No.761699]

>tfw i spent all the time memorizing shortcuts and learning in blender
All for nothing.

[Anonymous No.761702]

>>761699
Why?

[Anonymous No.761707]

>>761699
who the fuck memorizes shortcuts?
Just use them once and remember them. Blender has all of like 5-6 useful ones.

[Anonymous No.761714]

>>761702
https://cascadeur.com/
>>761707
>5-6
You mean 500-600

[Anonymous No.761719]

>>761679
There's like twenty pages of shit on smutbase. How many free coom models were you expecting?

[Anonymous No.761720]

>>761719
More than that because im priviliged white boi. Also most of them are outdated and not for blender.

[Anonymous No.761738]

>>761688
https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/imaginary-numbers.html

[Anonymous No.761776]

>>760859
>Caring about internet points
fuck off back to your normie popularity contest sites

[Anonymous No.761778]

>>761714
Again, 5-6. If it's something you use 1 time a month, it's not a useful shortcut to know.
Shortcuts are for shit you do regularly, not shit you do once in a blue moon.
That's why they're called shortcuts. It's a quicker "path" to an operation that saves time if you do it regularly.

If it's something you do all the time, that's why there's a shortcut that conveniently exists already, but something that you never use is a waste of time forcing yourself to remember.
You're not saving any time using a shortcut 1 time. It saves time when used in bulk, and as I said, there's probably 5-6 that you use that often in Blender to warrant actually knowing them.

[Anonymous No.761788]

>>761738
Math is not fun when you're low iq and also math isn't the problem here, smart guy.
The problem is python has always been able to raise numbers to the power of a fraction and is literally able to do so right now, except when you type the same expression in blender.
Invalid python expression my ass

[Anonymous No.761819]

>>761688
pow(max(rot,0),0.5) or pow(abs(rot),0.5), or the like, depending on how you want it to handle negative numbers.

[Anonymous No.761870]

>>761697
>What's this ptex thing anyway?
Basically Ptex lets you paint on a 3D model without UV unwrapping, you paint it like you are to paint a figure IRL with paint.

[Anonymous No.761882]

>>761870
Like that substance painter?

>>761714 Looks interesting, I've started playing around with animation so I'll check that out.

[Anonymous No.761888]

>>759970
Use handplane baker instead, the x64 version is free some where

[Anonymous No.761892]

>>759918
is Blender without plugins a cripple?

[Anonymous No.761895]

>>761892
It is WITH plugins.
I stopped using external addons years ago after I got so fucking fedup of developers outside of Blender not maintaining their shit so you ended up getting used so workflows that stopped working each time Blender gets updated which happens all the fucking time.

[Anonymous No.761897]

>>761882
>Like that substance painter?
Demonstration of PTEX in mudbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFwoeOLECe4

[Anonymous No.761898]

>>761697
a tl;dr of >>761897: every quad has its own texture so you never have to think about UV coords (since every quad just fills the whole texture in its own UV map)

[Anonymous No.761901]

>>761895
I feel your pain...as someone who has sunk thousands into 3ds plugins over the past 20 years.

[Anonymous No.761907]

>>761819
Damn, I am really one low iq retard, you can't take square root of a negative when dealing with real numbers.
Thank you

>>761738
This anon was right, I'm sorry

[Anonymous No.761935]

>>761901

Most old 3ds Max plugins still work with recent versions. Blender is fucking crap because it relies on addons and they stop working at random versions or even daily builds.

[Anonymous No.761939]

how do i model pusy

[Anonymous No.761941]

>>761679
It's pretty easy to use stuff from sfmlab:
https://github.com/REDxEYE/SourceIO/releases
Or XNAlara: (Fucktons on DeviantArt)
https://github.com/johnzero7/XNALaraMesh

[Anonymous No.761943]

>>761941
There's also an importer for Daz models, flexes and shit somewhere.

[IdioticLizard (yes) No.761944]

>>761340
If you have a pixelated texture, you can set the interpolation to Closest. This disables the blur without the need for a gigantic picture.

[Anonymous No.761978]

I would like to use the blender python API to selected whichever vertex (or face maybe) is nearest to a given point, say (-1.5x, 2.5y, 0.5z).

Does anyone know how to do this? Have been trying to google to no avail.

The ultimate purpose is to split this mesh up into several tiles as new files.

[Anonymous No.761989]

Is there a way to have multiple "image as planes" with alpha channels to be in the same location and not have z-fighting issue? i'm getting that tearing thing

[Anonymous No.761991]

>>761978
You could try to use
https://docs.blender.org/api/blender_python_api_2_67_release/bpy.types.MeshVertex.html?highlight=meshvertex#bpy.types.MeshVertex.co
And then find the closest one from your point, but that's probably horribly inefficient.

Although if you want to split that into tiles the most efficient solution would probably to add cuts where your mesh should split, separate them, separate by loose parts, set the origin at the center of each object and just export them individually.

>>761989
Try changing the clip start value in your view options but if both planes overlap exactly this probably won't help. Just offset one of the planes by a tiny amount.

[Anonymous No.761992]

>>761991
>>761978
* https://docs.blender.org/api/current/bpy.types.MeshVertex.html?highlight=meshvertex#bpy.types.MeshVertex

[Anonymous No.761999]

>>761991
Thank you for the suggestion.

Yeah, all of the individual tiles are contiguous, and aren't connected to the other tiles, so the loop cuts and splitting aren't necessary.

I have an ok way of doing individual export manually ('select more'ing until I have all contiguous vertices for a tile, then ctrl dragging to correct origin position, deleting the inverse of my selection, and exporting)

is it reasonably straight forward to implement your solution programmatically? I've found it really hard to get useful info on the blender python api.

[Anonymous No.762015]

>>761907
>This anon was right, I'm sorry
No worries, I'm /sci/ and am irrationally compelled to give shit to compsci niggurz.

>>761978
I'm drunk, but I dimly remember writing a script that transferred textures between totally different objects with different uv maps based on face location. I used a kdtree to find points and manipulate tris based on simple geometry.
That image looks really simple, and I don't understand why you're aiming for a programmatic approach.

[Anonymous No.762018]

>>762015
well, I'd rather like to just be able to run a script to do this as I'm going to have many different connecting tile types, and it takes about 10 minutes to manually export everything (they have to follow a particular naming convention etc. to work with my unity project).

[Anonymous No.762024]

>>761892
This.
>>761895

I keep getting badgered to learn specific workflows for convoluted plugins, but there's no guarantee that those plugins will even stay updated. Even more so when they're paid plugins.
I mean, I feel the pressure to learn Animation Nodes, but I keep thinking that there's an official implementation on the horizon, so once I do finally figure that shit out, it'd be useless since something better would be built in.

[Anonymous No.762025]

>>761892
I take a fixable cripple over a jew (maya) anyday.

[Anonymous No.762032]

>>761999
>is it reasonably straight forward to implement your solution programmatically? I've found it really hard to get useful info on the blender python api.
The best way to get infos on the API is to open an info window and do the actions manually to see which python operation is called.
For example setting the origin to the geometry is
bpy.ops.object.origin_set(type='ORIGIN_GEOMETRY', center='MEDIAN')
So you could use that and then set the origin's Z axis to the same Z position as your lowest vertex with something like
bpy.ops.transform.translate(value=(-0, -0, -1.45852))

For the rest of the operations you'll probably still need some manual operations anyway (select vertices -> rip -> separate into different objects)

[Anonymous No.762059]

>>762018
So, you want somebody to tell you how to automate a task that you can't define to save you a few minutes?
Are you even a programmer? You seem to know fuck all about specification.

[Anonymous No.762099]

>>761556
How will you spend your remaining £ anon?

[Anonymous No.762165]

How to make skin and other surfaces glossy, but not look like plastic?

[Anonymous No.762183]

>>762165
You are doing subsurface scattering yeah?

[Anonymous No.762202]

>>759918
>Try to do thing
>Doesn't look like it does in the tut
>10 minutes later find meme setting I haven't turned on/off that isn't mentioned in tut
>"Now just duplicate it and change X to Y"
>X won't change to Y no matter what I do
>Look at duplicate again
>For some fucking reason there's a huge gap that's just been left as if it hasn't duplicated that part even though it would be impossible to miss it if it duplicated everything else which it has
>Close Blender

Why does it have to be like this? Why is it every time I follow something it never ever works and I have to spend 20 minutes clicking around to try and find out why and even then there's only a 50% success rate of fixing the problem. Why can't I just git gud? Why can't I just make it?

[Anonymous No.762211]

>>762202
Stop following tutorials and start making your own way

[Anonymous No.762217]

>>762211
I generally do. But what I prefer to do is

>Watch tutorial on X
>Learn how to do X
>Apply X to things on my own

I did the same thing when I first learned to draw. Once I had a cube down I could turn that into a house, a TV, a cigarette packet, anything 3D with four sides basically, and then the same for any other objects from basic 3D shapes.
It might be a retarded way to do things, but it's just how I feel comfortable.
My real problem with tuts is that I hate videos and much prefer to read it because it's easier to reference back to rather than skip around videos.
I'll get there eventually, it just always frustrates the fuck out of me.

[Anonymous No.762235]

>>761583
Go for Blender
Look for sculpting tuts, it's easy and fun!

[Anonymous No.762317]

>>761583
Torrent zbrush, you don't need substance yet.

[Anonymous No.762344]

ks-23 hi poly

[Anonymous No.762407]

Guys, I finished my first idle animation. How do I save it, and start working on the next one?

[Anonymous No.762408]

>>762407

Jesus fucking christ Blender is absolute garbage for animation.

[Anonymous No.762414]

>>759918
what are the must have plugins?
or is native blender enough?

[Anonymous No.762421]

>>762165
roughness + normal map needed

[Anonymous No.762422]

>>762414
Extra Objects
F2
LoopTools
Node Wrangler
Rigify

They all come shipped with blender, you just need to activate them.

[Anonymous No.762424]

>>762202
If I can't find the solution to my problem in the comments, which you usually can if the creator simply forgot a step or something, I'll go back a few steps and try again.
If the doesn't work I'll give up and just try a diff tutorial assuming the pajeet is retarded

[Anonymous No.762425]

>>762422
What does F2 and Loop tools do you can already do?

[Anonymous No.762427]

>>762425
F2 has cool "smart" face creations features
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImSNOuvkKsw
LoopTools has a bunch of useful operators, like arranging selected vertices in a circle, bridging loops, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2MjvKy1yCo

[Anonymous No.762430]

>>759918
Excuse me,

how do I frame objects without a numpad?

[Anonymous No.762431]

>>762430
Buy a numpad

[Anonymous No.762432]

>>762430
emulate numpad in the preferences but then you can't use 1 2 3 to select vertex edges and faces

[Anonymous No.762439]

In Object Mode this mesh is missing Edges in some places but in Edit Mode looks like nothing is missing. Should I just ignore it or will it cause issues on the long run? if so then how do I fix it?

[Anonymous No.762440]

>>762439
you can ignore it.
blender shows a simplistic wireframe view by default. basically, if two polygons are planar, blender won't draw the edge between them. this has no impact on shading/rendering, it's just so things are easier for the user to see.
if you want to see all the edges, go into the "object properties" panel and, under "viewport visibility", enable "show all edges"

[Anonymous No.762441]

>revert
>also reverts brush settings
this shit is so annoying

[Anonymous No.762442]

>>762440
Well, I'll leave it like this then, knowing which faces are planar might come in handy.

[Anonymous No.762444]

>>762441
This is absolutely retarded. Is there a fix?

[Anonymous No.762514]

If I got a semispherical mesh with an open back intersected with a solid mesh and I want to trim out any parts of the solid mesh from the inside of the semisphere, how would I do it?
I remember that was a function in Blender that allowed to do this but I cannot find it anymore.

[Anonymous No.762517]

>>762514
Boolean modifier?

[Anonymous No.762521]

>>762517
It worked perfectly, thanks.

[Anonymous No.762545]

Can anyone knowledgeable guide me in the right direction where I can learn everything about color management in blender? I'll color grade my output in other software so as far as I understand I need to output raw exr file, gamma 2.2 and all that jazz. I don't quite get view transform and sequencer options: when to use sRGB vs filmic vs filmic log. Also I don't understand how can I decide at what point is my lighting "correct" and ready for grading, because I find myself often wasting time trying to get the shadows and contrast right by tweaking light intensities, gamma and exposure in blender forever, which is actually pointless if I'll have to do it again in post. I'm fairly nooby in this area and want to learn how to do it properly.

[Anonymous No.762729]

How comes textures with transparency are displayed as "masked" in the view until I select the mesh?

[Anonymous No.762737]

>>762344
texturrreeed

[Anonymous No.762740]

How do I make a door frame like in the video?

He says select 2 points, ctrl b and b again, but I move the cursor and nothing happens

[Anonymous No.762742]

>>762740

[Anonymous No.762743]

>>762729
Try changing the blend mode.

[Anonymous No.762744]

>>762740
>>762742
looks like I should have used ctrl shift B

[Anonymous No.762751]

I'm trying to copy and paste an animation from two different files but when I do I get the error "no animation data in buffer to paste." What does this mean and how do I resolve this? More importantly how to resolve it.
Surprisingly there is no coverage on this aside from one answer that doesn't really answer it.

[Anonymous No.762757]

>>762751
Why don't you use append?

[Anonymous No.762760]

>>762024
Exactly.

[Anonymous No.762762]

>>762757
Fuckin hell that worked perfectly. Brilliant.
HOWEVER I think there is still an underlying problem with why exactly copying and pasting the keyframes didn't work that should be addressed... it could cause some problems later on. Any ideas?

[Anonymous No.762764]

>>762762
Were you trying to do it from two separate instances of Blender? Some things cannot be copy/pasted that way, like nodes.

[Anonymous No.762771]

>>762764
Yes they were two windows of Blender open. They were both the same rig referencing the same "dash" animation saved as a fake user. The *only* difference is that I added an accessory to the armature of my new file, as a separate object. When I added that accessory it actually erased the entire animation for some strange reason.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by instances but I was able to copy and paste frames between two files before, I just did it just to make sure I could do it and it worked fine.

[Anonymous No.762777]

>>762771
I can't say what the problem could be. My only advice, if you really want to find the problem, is to attempt to reproduce the problem by retracing your steps. If you manage to find a reproducible error, you can make a bug report and it should get fixed at some point.

[Anonymous No.762787]

>>762777
>it should get fixed at some point.
This is why nobody pays serious attention to Blender in production.

[Anonymous No.762789]

>>762787
Because other products are all bug-free and they will get right on any that get reported immediately. Especially those submitted by literal whos.

[Anonymous No.762793]

>>762777
I suppose you are right
>>762787
Thats nice dear

[Anonymous No.762797]

How can I make an hair gloss/reflection shader like this?

[Anonymous No.762835]

how can I set up clouds like this in blender? I already have an atmosphere and added a volumetric affect to the global cloud textures off of the nasa site, which look ok from a distance but garbage up close. Is it even realistic to animate a something like a rotating planet without having to photoshop clouds into every frame?

[Anonymous No.762874]

>>762835
Idk maybe Google making clouds in blender

Maybe there'll be 1 billion tutorials about generating them

[Anonymous No.762927]

I'm trying to create a "bump" in the model of a shirt on the breast area because the nipples are poking out, but there is a problem with the vertices, in the red circled areas there're overlapping vertices and when I try to pull forward the selected area, it looks like the shirt gets ripped leaving void in between the two lines of vertices.

How do I select all overlapping vertices so I can drag them all together as one mesh part, without deleting the doubles? I couldn't figure that out.

[Anonymous No.762931]

>>762927
Actually never mind, I just deleted the doubles, there aren't any shape keys on this model after all.

[Anonymous No.762942]

Well, that messed up something else. Any clues what could be causing this? these random shadows weren't there before, especially not in the chest area.

[Anonymous No.762946]

>>762942
Recalculate normals

[Anonymous No.762960]

>>762946
It didn't change anything, but I understand that some normals are calculated from the wrong direction. I'm recalculating manually selecting each face and it seems to work, but is there any way to automate the process? I'm sure I'm flipping some of these normals wrongly. If there is any function that checked the actual value of the normal and changed it to the right one, it would be much better.

[Anonymous No.762961]

>>762797
Specular maps.

[Anonymous No.762962]

>>762960
>I'm recalculating manually selecting each face and it seems to work, but is there any way to automate the process? I'm sure I'm flipping some of these normals wrongly. If there is any function that checked the actual value of the normal and changed it to the right one, it would be much better.

My general workflow goes:
Display Face Orientation and normals so I can see what the problem areas are.
Select everything and do the automatic recalculate outside.
Manually flip anything that is inside out. Easiest method is to just look at the face orientation, select everything showing red (or whatever you set the back-side to) on the outside, then flip them all at once. Not too bad if the mesh is fairly low-density (if it's high-density, pray to god that the automated system handles it).
Add a weighted normal modifier. Turn off face orientation so I can see what the texture actually looks like.
Make sure that any remaining issues are normal-related and not the result of shitty geometry (internal faces, n-gons, non-planar faces, double vertices, intersecting faces, concave faces, overlapping edges, non manifold geometry; there are automated tools to address most of these).
Only if everything else fails, consider manually adjusting normals.

[Anonymous No.762968]

>>762962
How do you set a color for the face orientation? I can see the normals, they seem to be pointing towards the right direction even though the shadows are still wrong in some places. I believe the calculation from outside fails because the shirt is "open" and not solid, why can't Blender just use the position of the light source as reference?

>internal faces
The faces where you can see the laces of the shirt on the chest area have transparency and there're other faces below, with the messed up shadows. Does Blender have issues dealing with transparent textures over solid ones?

[Anonymous No.762976]

>>762968
>How do you set a color for the face orientation?
Enable backface culling in the viewpor shading options

[Anonymous No.762987]

>>762968
>>762976
Not backface culling, face orientation.

[Anonymous No.762989]

>>762976
2.79 doesn't have a color field for backfire culling from what I see, but I accidentally fixed the issue with "clear custom split data normals" and now it looks alright. Where do I find information on this mesh data in Blender? it's not the only mesh with custom data, but the others look worse when I clear it.

[Anonymous No.762990]

>>762987
I'll try to find that panel.

[Anonymous No.762991]

>>762989
Why the hell are you still using 2.79?

[Anonymous No.762994]

>>762991
I started this project in 2.79. Will this project file work correctly in 2.8+?

[Anonymous No.762997]

>>762994
Create a copy (or multiple copies) of your .blend file before opening it in 2.8 but it should be fine. Opening a 2.8x file in 2.7x is not recommended, however.
Anyway, backup your stuff and try.

[Anonymous No.763000]

What's the easiest job to get in VFX? Is making apartments for virtual tour widgets a good first stop?

[Anonymous No.763015]

>>762874
manually making a few clouds in blender is not remotely the same as generating an entire atmosphere of intricate realistic clouds

[Anonymous No.763035]

>coffee cup disappears
>liquid and plate still remain
>mesh is no where in the outline
>have render with cup

cool program guys

[Anonymous No.763049]

So this character has really short legs. Is there any way to prevent shitty deformations when doing stuff like having him seated or swing his arms a bit further?

[Anonymous No.763063]

>>763049
Bendy bones might help, but even normal proportion limbs are a bitch to get right. Legs that short attached to fixed points on the body are going to cause issues no matter how smooth your rigging. Consider modifying the character design if possible; either have the leg attachment points able to slide over the body (I believe you can make a seamless connection with the shrinkwrap modifier), make the legs thinner or longer, or just have the boots floating around the body with no legs.

[Anonymous No.763066]

>>762968
>How do you set a color for the face orientation?

In 2.8x you turn on display face orientation in the viewport overlays (icon at the top right of the 3D viewport, like two overlapping circles). I don't recall how it was done in earlier versions, but searching the documentation should show it. Changing the colour from the usual red/blue is done in preferences.

>I can see the normals, they seem to be pointing towards the right direction even though the shadows are still wrong in some places.
Then they are probably OK and the issue is something else.

>I believe the calculation from outside fails because the shirt is "open" and not solid, why can't Blender just use the position of the light source as reference?
It's smart enough to handle most open meshes, especially ones like yours where the internal sides are all facing towards the middle of the mesh. Using light sources to define in and out wouldn't really work; the light can fall on the inside faces of an open mesh.

>The faces where you can see the laces of the shirt on the chest area have transparency and there're other faces below, with the messed up shadows. Does Blender have issues dealing with transparent textures over solid ones?

That isn't really what people mean when they talk about 'internal faces' in Blender, but yes, depending on how you have things set up, transparency can cause issues sometimes. I wouldn't expect them to look like what you are seeing though.

'Internal faces' are more like when you have edges which connect to more than two faces, which usually happens inside the mesh, such as when applying a mirror modifier without deleting the faces which would be joined together. The name is confusing because not all of them are actually inside the mesh and not all faces inside the mesh have that issue. For example, you could have a hollow box consisting of one cube with normals facing out and a smaller cube entirely inside it with normals facing in and that would be OK.

[Anonymous No.763090]

>>763066
The shadow issue is more or less gone, what worries me now is not the clothes but the face, because unlike all other parts of the body, when I clear the Normal data it becomes uglier, it looks exactly as if Auto Smooth was disabled (after the change Auto Smooth makes no difference). I ripped the model from an application, I guess there must be some custom Normal data in it, maybe related to the 3D modeling software the original creator used.

[Anonymous No.763092]

I found a bit of a problem when I tried out shape keys in the tooth mesh of this model, the fangs are a separate mesh from the teeth and they don't move along them when I close/open the mouth, they have their own shape key. How do I merge them without messing up the existing shape keys? I will also need to merge them with the lips eventually.

[Anonymous No.763125]

>>763049
Unless you're set on having the legs always be in that exact attach point to the body, i would model the body as a separate mesh and keep it spherical, then have the leg 'sockets' just clip into the sphere and rotate from its center. That way you can rig the 'hips' i.e the point where the leg meets the body, to rotate along the surface of the body.

[Anonymous No.763129]

>>762737
are those textures done with blender or another program?

[OP No.763134]

How do i smooth the column? I hate the lines in it. I tried subdivision modifier but it made it worse, and adding more vertical vertices didn’t do anything

[Anonymous No.763135]

>>763129
substance painter

[Anonymous No.763255]

Is it possible to see a list of the vertex groups related to the selected mesh?

[Anonymous No.763259]

>>763255
litteraly in the vertext group menu

[Anonymous No.763261]

>>763259
That list shows all groups... I don't think that's the right one, unless this model has messed up groups.

[Anonymous No.763263]

>>763261
It shows groups per object, check again

[Anonymous No.763296]

>>763092
I might have found a solution... just to be sure, really nobody knows any way to fix this issue?

[Anonymous No.763456]

>>761519
I'm doing the foundations video tutorials now. I've just finished lesson 4.

[Anonymous No.763458]

>>763456
I ended up buying the pack too, good luck anon hope it serves well

[Anonymous No.763459]

Alright so I need tips

What is the best, fast and most easy way to make clothes
Blender Simply Cloth addon or Marvelous designer?
Im defensively more comfortable with blender since i never used marvelous, but i need easy fast and good results

Price doesn't matter btw

[Anonymous No.763461]

>>763296
Why not use a driver?
If not that, I'm pretty sure you've got the ability to make custom properties or something for this sort of thing, though I forget what it's called. So you can have 1 global slider that changes things for multiple objects. If you wanted to keep the fangs separate that is.
If you want to add them to the mesh, a quick and dirty solution would just be to add them to the basis and see if it works. Odds are things won't get too fucky.

>>763459
Marvelous is by far and away the best solution for anything cloth related. Anything attempting to come close to it in Blender is laughable in comparison. There's a difference between a program that wants to do all the things, and a program that wants to do one very specific thing; laser focus. It's purpose built for cloth, Blender isn't. That's just how it is. No shade on Blender.
MD takes a day to learn, it's extremely simple to grasp the basic functions of it. After that it's just a matter of actually being good at making clothing, like irl. Best start taking a sewing class at the community college.
Who'da thunk all those pro clothing modellers would make good seamstresses irl?

[Anonymous No.763463]

>>763461
I see, i give Marvelous a try
Thanks for help

[Anonymous No.763471]

>>763458
I hope so. I want to make miniatures to 3D print for fun.
What I've made so far is already technically printable so I'm keen to keep learning during my time off work.

[Anonymous No.763479]

Will Blender work OK on Intel HD 620 integrated graphics? i5-8250u

[Anonymous No.763491]

>>763461
>Why not use a driver?
I need to merge all in one mesh, otherwise it won't work properly in other applications. The solution I found is this addon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zBlaedkkVs

It works almost as I needed, after merging the meshes I had to fix only 2 vertices (the tip of the fangs) which took roughly 3 minutes for the first shape key, still better than doing everything from scratch.

[Anonymous No.763515]

A problem after another... I thought the new shape key generated from the mix was supposed to be set at 1.0? I can guess that setting the sliders to half the selected values will give me the result I want (more or less), but is this how it works?

[Anonymous No.763517]

>the result I want
Not even that works, I can't use this either.

[Anonymous No.763552]

OKAY now this is really starting to piss me off because it doesn't make any fucking sense. WHY does making *tiny* and *trivial* changes in my mesh with cloth physics cause it to fuck up beyond repair?

Example. I'm making a cloak for my character like Guts wears. While editing it I removed some geometry, that was just a simple edge right down the middle. Now I just went back and readded that edge to check something and now my cloth is spinning out, stretching all over the viewport in straight lines and just glitching. I can't figure this out and its frustrating because it doesn't make any sense.

This isn't a common thing right, does this also happen with others? And no I'm not going to use marvelous designer

[Anonymous No.763563]

I'm no pro but sounds like a vertex wasn't grouped properly and gets in the way of the physics of the cloak, did you delete only an edge or vertices too?

[Anonymous No.763564]

Yo can we get a new thread?

[Anonymous No.763566]

>>763564
pg. 5
and there already is another thread

[Anonymous No.763567]

>>763564
There is this in the catalog: >>757501

[Anonymous No.763569]

>>763563
All I did was dissolve an edge and add it again. But you could be right now that I think about it because it was interfering with a vertex group.

[Anonymous No.764546]

>>762797
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxWWBmIUxbc
Just found this, seems to be what we're looking for.

[Anonymous No.764704]

Just got into blender the other day. I downloaded an mmd model of Olimar from pikmin off of deviant art and I can't get his damn helmet to be translucent. I was trying to map the texture files to it but none that came with the mmd did the trick.
I appreciate any help

[Anonymous No.764770]

>>764704
Are you using EEVEE? Make sure you set the Blend Mode to Alpha Hashed in the material settings.