🧵 Blender General /BG/
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jul 2023 14:43:51 UTC No. 952838
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Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jul 2023 17:52:26 UTC No. 952855
is it possible to find out what in cycles is taking most time to render? like for example some glass jar with subsurface on that is slowing the render time down?
since i need to run quick test renders and they are painfully slow with a full scene so i would like to find who the offenders are
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:12:10 UTC No. 952857
>>952855
what you're looking for is probably a UV heatmap. never used one myself but I'm pretty sure it exists
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:54:44 UTC No. 952867
>>952855
Enable the debug sample count render pass if you're using noise threshold rendering.
Anonymous at Mon, 24 Jul 2023 20:23:55 UTC No. 952870
when i have array modifier which repeats a mesh is it possible to have vert group that only contains start and end verts of that mesh? without having to apply the array first
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:44 UTC No. 952891
Hi /BiG/uys,
I'm trying to design an STL for printing because my kitchen is missing a piece of an end and I don't want the landlord to blame me for it. It's also a challenge to get better at Blender.
I've done a few simple STLs before but just things I can easily form from geometric shapes and the Boolean modifier.
Making pic related seems like a bit of a harder challenge though, particularly because it needs to be the correct angles and radius on curves to match the skirting it's going on.
Can you tell me what kind of workflow I should plan for this? Then I can go find tutorials on the specific techniques referenced.
I did start out in FreeCAD which has a decent chamfer tool but kind of ran into issues and switched to Blender because it seems like it will be easier.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:22:44 UTC No. 952893
tried to recreate a look from Fantasia by taking a sample, adding a gradient color overlay and then using an emission material with the image texture
didn't exactly work. is this a bad method to even attempt or am I missing something? are there better ways to go about it?
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:57:51 UTC No. 952896
Is this the place to ask animation questions? I really want to git gud at animating in Blender but man it's hard. Are there any channels you guys might recommend? Preferably ones that show the animation process rather than just discussing the principles.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 02:19:07 UTC No. 952911
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:16:54 UTC No. 952918
>>952844
based 2.37
I started with 2.32 or 2.26, I can't remember anymore. Feels like home.
Funniest thing is when I hear people moaning about the UI. I don't understand it at all. When I tried to switch to Max many years ago I thought *that* had a clunky UI because I couldn't seem to customize it as easy as blender or fly around like sanic with hotkeys. DESU I didn't spend a lot of time learning it though, and it's probably all fixed now anyway.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:19:12 UTC No. 952919
>>952892
I'd just trace it onto a piece of paper, then in blender manually account for a mm or something of error. look into box modeling and go through a tutorial where you use simultaneous front, side and top views. You should be able to accomplish this in a weekend, hell maybe an afternoon.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 04:27:49 UTC No. 952920
>>952893
just use a musgrave node or something to make a procedural input. Your issue with the stretching is because that image only exists in 2d and you'd have to unwrap it to get it to look the way you want. But it's basically just a noise texture, which blender can generate in 3d, so do that instead.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 05:08:48 UTC No. 952923
>>952891
do not use blender for technical designs, use fusion 360
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:48:54 UTC No. 952947
>apply skin modifier to vert string
>apply texture to it
>doesn't look right
>ask on blender forums how to fix it
>"oh you have to apply the modifier and make a copy of the obejct before you do in case you need to edit later"
is that some sort of joke? i thought this was a mature software.
in a proper industry 3d design tool you NEVER have to apply modifiers, an incredibly destructive thing to do, preventing any proper future edits withotu keeping million clones of the original object
i am THIS fucking close to pirating maya
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:55:36 UTC No. 952949
>>952947
The person who answered you may be retarded, in what way doesn't it 'look right'? There are definitely ways to apply textures to un-applied modifiers.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:01:50 UTC No. 952950
>>952949
so how do you change UV on the skin modifier so the texture is drawn correctly on it?
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 09:09:19 UTC No. 952951
>>952950
If you're using a generic tiling texture, which I assume you are since you're applying it to a skin modifier, you avoid UVs altogether and use 'generated' coordinates. Combine that with box projection on the image node, and you have a seamless texture that's applied evenly on the mesh. This video explains it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyd
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:31:07 UTC No. 952957
>>952919
>I'd just trace it onto a piece of paper, then in blender manually account for a mm or something of error
Is this using View->Background Image and then use it as a template to deform a primitive or is there a scan->mesh function I should look up?
>>952923
>do not use blender for technical designs, use fusion 360
Not available for linux. FreeCAD works but is way harder to use than Blender.
I've used both for simple designs but I find Blender's UI way easier and faster to use.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 10:53:47 UTC No. 952959
>>952951
No matter how hard i try i just can't get it to work properly, i tried to box project the UVs but no dice, also every time i google it i find people claiming you can't texture skin modifier for shit and have to apply it first
Here, if you can figure it out, you are a chad
https://files.catbox.moe/at6pz3.ble
The left stick, which is just a string of verts with skin modifier applied, should look the same way like the right stick
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:20:42 UTC No. 952960
>>952959
Ah, you're dealing with ropes, you should have mentioned that. The rope pattern is much more tricky because it has to perfectly align with the flow of the mesh. For this you wouldn't use a skin modifier, you would use a curve. I left you a version with geometry nodes and one without. The one with it tiles better when you stretch out the curve. Play around with both of them, you'll see what I mean.
https://files.catbox.moe/lvpv7o.ble
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:31:56 UTC No. 952961
>>952960
thanks i'll check it out
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 11:57:55 UTC No. 952964
what animation have you made in blender that took you the most work? was it worth it?
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:47:08 UTC No. 952991
Jesus, i am making my first proper animation and it makes me want to kill myself.
It's just a simple one minue animation of a character walking around a room doing some shit like pikcing up objects and despite it being so simple it's taking fucking forever keyframing it all, and setting up the scene and all the models and shit, it's gonna take me like a week at this point jut for this simple thing.
I now have new found appreciation for SFM artists, this is crazy, how the fuck do they make full feature length animated movies in studios without mass suicides from animators?
The only thing even more suicide fuel that this would be stop motion animation.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 20:59:21 UTC No. 953028
I have a mathematical function that spits out a sequence of vertices.
How do I put it inside blender?
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:18:09 UTC No. 953030
>>952997
It's a common fashion now. Don't look too deep into it.
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:28:49 UTC No. 953031
>>953030
Don't worry, I won't. It disgusts me too much
Anonymous at Tue, 25 Jul 2023 21:30:28 UTC No. 953032
>>952991
Took Vicineko (2 people) 3 months or so to make a 9 minute Genshin slime porn animation. AI is creeping its way into animation, so I'd just hang in there before vomitting out my insides to death.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:16:16 UTC No. 953075
>>953028
ask chudgpt to write you a python script
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 07:18:56 UTC No. 953077
>>953032
people on /3/ hate AI because they know it will take away their jeeeerbs same way it's now doing to drawfags. But i mean, animating and modeling is so tedious i can't hate it. If animating a 2 minute porn animation will take as long as normies with nod 3d animating experience think it takes instead of the actual time which can be weeks to months then fucking yes, give me that sugar AI daddy.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:16:47 UTC No. 953102
I can pose the mesh just fine but after I make the first keyframe the mesh get distorted. any fix?
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:39:59 UTC No. 953104
>>953077
It just changes the task from doing shit with a mesh to configuring the AI and explaining what shit you want done with the mesh.
If you look at configuring and prompting SD then tweaking models and shit to get things that don't look like cosmic horror, it's just a new kind of job. You produce faster which ultimately means less animators/modellers/whatever for the same amount of work output but traditionally, this tends to mean same numbers of people doing higher quality or more work.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 15:20:26 UTC No. 953105
>>952923
>>952891
Do not use shitty cloud trash for anything. Blender is fine for this kind of shape and fitment.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:02:54 UTC No. 953117
>>953105
>>952957
>>952919
>I'd just trace it onto a piece of paper, then in blender manually account for a mm or something of error. look into box modelin
I gave Fusion 360 a go but it's not available in linux and runs like shit in a VM so am sticking with Blender.
I worked out how to set a background image and set one, then created a box that covers the template outline and switched to edit mode...
...set the box to invisible and then I click with the knife tool to trace a cut along the outline and Blender crashed.
Tried it three times and as soon as I click with the knife tool, Blender crashes, not sure if it's because I'm trying to cut an invisible object or it thinks I want to cut the background image.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:58:42 UTC No. 953123
>>953122
literally 2 seconds on google, nigger
https://blender.stackexchange.com/q
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 18:59:03 UTC No. 953124
>>952896
royalskies LLC maybe Doodley
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:00:43 UTC No. 953125
>>953123
im using Evee
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:31:26 UTC No. 953126
>>953125
>Evee
what the fuck is wrong with you? use cycles ffs
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:43:44 UTC No. 953134
>>953126
thanks for the help
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:15:18 UTC No. 953137
>>953122
To give actual help...
I think it is showing, but the offset is messed up and it actually ran through it before you rendered (or it hadn't ran through it yet at all).
Hit the cyclic button. It'll repeat the animation for the length of your animation.
If you don't want that, just mess around with the offset. The offsets are fucking retarded and even though I work with video textures all the time, I still have no clue how the fuck they're supposed to work. I'd just mess around with the numbers until something shows up.
Anonymous at Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:48:14 UTC No. 953139
>>953137
Its only showing up in material view, not in render view.
when i press render image to get an actual render its the same.
cyclic just makes it repeat.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 03:05:49 UTC No. 953148
>>953117
>>953105
>>952919
Thanks for your help, with the keywords from the replies, I watched a few tutorials and read up on background/reference images and got a template image from a traced outline and knifed up a rough shape and cleaned it up a bit, extruded a bunch of stuff and printed it.
It's not my cleanest work but it's good enough, in the unlikely event I have some time then I might make it a more polished part.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 05:43:03 UTC No. 953152
>>953134
you are welcome.
frens don't let frens use shitty evee.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 07:04:22 UTC No. 953154
>>953139
Dumb question, but is the plane disabled in rendered view?
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:18:21 UTC No. 953158
the fuck, without doing anything my vieport fps when animating dropped form 24fps to around 8, i don't get it
i disabled phys sims and all that shit, so what is doing that
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:05:11 UTC No. 953165
>>953158
what the fuck? the thing that has been taking my fps was just a simple boolean using a 50 poly mesh
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:53:38 UTC No. 953167
>>953165
Let me guess, the boolean was set to Exact
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 11:58:59 UTC No. 953168
>>953167
yes, they all are by default
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:23:15 UTC No. 953182
why is the blender manual lying?
it claims that if you cut a hole with a boolean then the hole will inherit the texture and UVs of the cutting object
in the picture you can see a boolean hole made by the dark wood cube, and yet if you look into the hole, not only doesn't have the dark wood texture applied to it, but not even the original gray texture of the rest of the cube.. the whole hole is literally just a single color gray
why?
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:09:44 UTC No. 953189
>>953182
try this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohg
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:13:36 UTC No. 953192
>>953189
holy shit that fixed it
i have been stuck on this for so fucking long
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:19:59 UTC No. 953196
>>953182
The Blender manual says that collision balls for physics simulations are vertices' "personal space".
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/
Unfortunately the whole thing is so bugged that vertices commit "consent accidents" during collisions all the time.
Somebody should get outraged and declare emergency.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:43:46 UTC No. 953212
>>952838
am i using bevels wrong? i got the rounded shape but the only way i can get a loop edge on the top is by using the knife tool which creates triangles but no shading issues so far
the chair nerd at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 16:59:09 UTC No. 953219
>>953212
Correct geometry. Red loops control the corners, green loops also control the profile of the corner and blue loops control the limit of the curve. Ishoul'dve added another loop to limit the effect of the curve but you get the point
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:17:11 UTC No. 953224
do i need to get a second monitor?
arranging panels around for animations in any comfy way seems to be impossible on a 27" monitor
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:25:21 UTC No. 953232
>>953229
nevermind I found where I misclicked
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 18:17:32 UTC No. 953238
>>953219
>Correct geometry
wait really? but i can't seem to get the red loops without the knife tool also can you recommend some good uvwnrap tutorials? should i start learning rizzomuv?
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:11:19 UTC No. 953244
How come the knee won't pop out? I just want the knee to pop out and then rotate the target to change which direction the knee points in. I tried using a pole but since I technically have a chain of three joints it gets fucky.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:36:46 UTC No. 953248
>>953244
you have to give the joints a small bend in edit mode so they know which direction to bend in
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:44:01 UTC No. 953250
>>953248
I locked all but 1 direction so I thought they'd figure that out on their own. Picrel solved my problems though, I can just twist the target instead of adding a pole. this way I can control which direction the knee points in as opposed to just the angle, plus the shin also tries to match the rotation of the target now so I can just bend the target back and it pops.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:55:21 UTC No. 953251
Should my model use IKs and stuff once it's rigged? What's the importance and whats the best tutorial?
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:18:01 UTC No. 953255
>>953251
go ahead, try to make an animation using FK
you will commit suicide
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:40:58 UTC No. 953263
>>953238
UV tutorials aren't necessary at all.
It's a box.
Learn how to unwrap a box.
After that the only other shapes you'll come across are cylinders and spheres. Learn how to unwrap those and anything else is a combo of those 3. No tutorial is going to help with that. Just start cutting up primitives.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 20:51:19 UTC No. 953264
>>953255
What's the difference? I currently have made animations by just moving and posing the bones.
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:54:10 UTC No. 953276
>>953263
waste of time
just use smart UV unwrap it does everything for you
Anonymous at Thu, 27 Jul 2023 23:50:01 UTC No. 953283
Why is BF so eager to shit out new numbered versions of this shit? 4.0? Nothing ever fucking changes thats worth a new release so often.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:31 UTC No. 953284
>>953264
Any pose or keyframe you can make with IK you can technically also make with FK. You still want IK if you don't want to be doing any math. Consider a character whose feet are planted on the floor, and imagine twisting their hips sideways. On an FK rig you'd have to twist the hips then work your way down each joint and pick the right number of degrees for the foot and the floor to eventually line up. On an IK rig you just twist the hips and the feet stay.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:19:16 UTC No. 953306
What's the best way to keep the feet on the floor? I'm not even trying to make this guy walk yet, I'm just going for airhockey hovering. I can always twist the target to make the foot eventually line up with the floor but I'd rather not eyeball it. It would be easier if the target twisted on its own as I moved it to make the ankle's height match.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:21:40 UTC No. 953307
>>953306
DESU I should just make a longer ik chain since I need the foot and not the shin to match the target, then I think I'll be good if I uncheck "use tail"
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 01:22:42 UTC No. 953308
>all caps desu
has this always been a thing?
🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:24:41 UTC No. 953316
I'm starting to remember how this all works again but I still don't get why the IK solver wants to point BC at the ankle instead of AC. Here is how I think this should work:
>point AB along AD and inherit its roll
>point BC along AD and inherit its roll
>if the length of AC > AD, bend the knee until AC = AD matches without changing roll
Like how hard would it be to make my own solver, really?
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:26:01 UTC No. 953317
I'm starting to remember how this all works again but I still don't get why the IK solver wants to point BC at the ankle instead of AC. Here is how I think this should work:
>point AB along AD and inherit its roll
>point BC along AD and inherit its roll
>if the length of AC > AD, bend the knee until AC = AD matches without changing roll
Like how hard would it be to make my own solver, really
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:29:51 UTC No. 953320
>>953317
disregard I'm a retard I just needed to add 1 to chain length
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 03:43:13 UTC No. 953322
>>953320
undisregard this, if I have a 3 chain the pole fucks up and if I have 2 then the chain doesn't aim right it's absolutely stupid
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 04:55:54 UTC No. 953330
>>953325
I threw on a mesh and realized that the hip joint drums need their own magic bones to react to the pole moving.
This was a good exercise, maybe I'll use the rig for something.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 05:36:58 UTC No. 953336
>>953325
This is what I was going for. I'll probably put a pivot on the floor in the long run though. I like your octagons but you don't have the same rotation locks I do, like at 15 seconds look at the thigh.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:56:56 UTC No. 953341
>>953276
>smart UV unwrap it does everything for you wrong
ftfy
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:41:15 UTC No. 953343
I think Rigify sucks
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:09:51 UTC No. 953344
my dream is it eek out a living by making lewd animations in blender, but i don't know, the 3d lewd scene seems pretty saturated, lewd websites are full of it, do you think i would be wasting my time?
Cycles would be my advantage since a lot of what is see is crappy SFM, which cannot compete with the chad cycles light quality wise
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:11:06 UTC No. 953345
>>953344
there is never enough porn
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:22:58 UTC No. 953347
you know what really fucking annoys me in blender? all the time i click on an object and find out there is a random keyframe on it, like what the fuck? i didn't do that, where do they keep coming from?
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:05:12 UTC No. 953349
is it possible to turn a driver on an off in an animation?
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:18:12 UTC No. 953350
>>953349
I don't think you can animate any animation properties due to weird recursive shit, is what I'm guessing
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:41:32 UTC No. 953351
>>953350
shieeet. it's annoying running into these kind of limitations that i thought would be super easy to do such as turning drivers on and off in the animator
i have another more annoying issue i can't figure out tho.
i have downloaded a rigger character and it works fine but there is one issue, the IK bone for the hand is parented to the root bone so when i move the root bone the ik bone moves as well, which is correct, but i instead need to parent the bone to the hips bone so it moves when i move the hip bone, any idea how to do that?
i tried the typical Ctrl + P set parent, but that had no effect
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:41:41 UTC No. 953352
>>953343
that it do
the base concept and original versions by cessen are great, just needed a few updates to enable easy regeneration when id properties became a thing, but instead the new maintainers fucked the whole thing up
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:50:36 UTC No. 953353
>>953352
the fuck? are you telling me i just watched several hours of rigify tutorials for nothing??
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:54:36 UTC No. 953354
If rigify is shit then what am i supposed to use?
some models i downloaded use mustardui rig but it seems overcomplicated as fuck it comes with a big menu and a bunch of python scripts
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:51:19 UTC No. 953356
>>953353
idk if anything changed lately, i dropped it a while back when it started using materials for bone group colors and shit like that. never tried any of the newer alternatives myself, either. guess it depends on your application, if you need to export to a game engine or something like that.
i'm just making rigs for myself that stay in blender, so it's quicker to just build it by hand, set up the constraints on one limb at a time and use the "symmetrize armature" operator. ymmv
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:58:54 UTC No. 953357
>>953356
>i'm just making rigs for myself that stay in blender
i am conflicted
on one hand i like to make my own armatures since pole and ik target for hands and knees is all i need for animation
but every time i see a professional animator stup they use these crazy rigls with millions of circles and squares and shapes than control the bone positions and rotations and shit and every time i try them it feels cluttered as fuck and pointless, but the pros are all using them so they must be good so if i don't want to be a peasant i must use them too
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 15:28:29 UTC No. 953387
>>953284
Doing what math? I usually just grab my bones go into pose mode and move them around and save poses?
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:43:23 UTC No. 953403
>>953387
If it isn't intuative why you'd want IK try imaging doing all your motions irl with FK instead of IK. Imagine thinking to lift your thigh, shin, and foot in that order instead of just lifting your foot. You would be constantly stubbing your feet and hands on things.
>>953357
You don't need all of that, you just need to make sure your rig doesn't neglect anything. Leg rigs without pole targets can't twist their thighs.
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 21:12:59 UTC No. 953414
when i select object in the scene that is child of some object is there a way to show that child object in the outliner? because it's super hard to when i select a child all i see on the outliner is this on the parent, which is barely noticeable and then i have to manually jump through the hierarchy, is there any way to jump directly to the selected child in the outliner?
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:07:38 UTC No. 953416
>>953414
Yes, hover over the outliner with the object selected and press "."
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:11:50 UTC No. 953417
>>953416
thank fucking christ
i was seriously about to switch to another 3d program because of how annoying this was
now all i need is for blender to treat hierarchies properly so when i click the eye icon on parent all children also dissapear or when i move parent to another collection all children also move
blender has the most unintuitive UI i have ever seen
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:25:06 UTC No. 953418
>>953417
>when i click the eye icon on parent all children also dissapear
Hold down shift when you click it
Anonymous at Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:36:16 UTC No. 953419
>>953417
Yeah the way blender treats hierarchies is weird, they basically force you to use collections instead
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:46:24 UTC No. 953445
i'm having a weird issue, when i went into the cycles mode it was working fine before, but now when i go there it doesn't render lights for some reason, it renders all the models, but no light source is emitting any light
just now i got this error i havent seen before as well
also another strange thing is that in cycles it's showing a wrong texture on the floor, i replaced that material some time ago with another and in material preview it's showing correctly but in cycles it's showing the old material
what the hell is going on here? i tried restarting blender an all to no success
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:57:47 UTC No. 953446
>>953418
>Hold down shift when you click it
Thats not as good because if you have some children that are disabled and you click the parent off an on with the shift then those disabled children get reenabled
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:07:36 UTC No. 953449
I am so fucking confused.
I opened new blender and tried quickly adding a cube and some lights to see if the light issue in cycles was only it that one project and in this new blender instance it rendered just fine.
So i copy pasted those lights into the "broken" scene and they fucking work there, what the fuck?? how??
look at this shit, on the left the lights work just fine, but on the right it's totally dark, fucking how?
so i duplicated the working light and dragged it over to the dark scene to see if it's just the existing light sources that got fucked, but nope it has no effect
how in the fuck can lights be broken and working at the same time in the same scene? frens pleeese help
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 08:59:36 UTC No. 953451
>select hierarchy skips any hidden objects
yet another retarded illogical blender quirk
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 10:23:41 UTC No. 953452
>>953443
>Are there recordings of the blender meetings or are these just never released?
Nope, Pablo Vazquez would be interested in livestream or upload them maybe, he does the blender weekly report thing.
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 18:19:21 UTC No. 953483
Every time i see a blender render using evee it fills me with unimaginable rage.
Why the FUCK do people still use that inferior worthless piece of shit rendered when the masterrace cycles exists?
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:02:44 UTC No. 953485
>>953483
Try rendering a long animation in cycles, retard. People mostly use Eevee for NPR anyway.
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:21:23 UTC No. 953490
How many unique background characters do I need to make a somewhat convincing city?
At the moment, I've got a procedural system that randomly generates a character's
>hair color
>eye color
>skin color
>shirt color
>pants color
>shoes color
Problem is, their hair style and actual body/face are the same. I only have three unique models so far. How many would you say I need to make large crowds not look like shit?
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 19:41:20 UTC No. 953498
>>953490
jesus.
you need a body type slider with many many types of variations
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:05:01 UTC No. 953527
>>953490
The magic number is seven. You need seven variations of each distinct thing, and then people can't immediately tell that your grass textures of tree models repeat.
>7 adult male bodies
>7 adult female bodies
>7 faces for each sex
>7 shades of every hair color
>7 hair styles for each sex
If you make a set of variations that numbers seven but appears to repeat at a glance, then some of the variations are too distinct and you'll need to either separate a quality into a different set or replace the most distinct variation with something more average.
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 21:50:30 UTC No. 953534
>>952844
Holy shit. ye olde blender, back when right click was the default.
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:05:53 UTC No. 953541
>>953077
This. Most people are too lazy to use AI. I had to tell my friend what ChatGPT is last week, and we're both under 30. And think about photography. Until modern technology reduced the effort to a single button press, almost all amateur photos were disposable camera quality, at best. Even now, most people don't bother to learn the fundamentals. That's why Google had to put out that thing about better algorithms for processing images of dark skin. Most people have no idea that photographing dark skin requires additional considerations.
Until AI can make creating animations as simple as using a snapchat filter, there will be room for artists.
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 22:54:28 UTC No. 953549
>>953527
Very helpful, thank you
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:14:23 UTC No. 953553
is the Fundamentals playlist in OP still relevant for 3.6?
Anonymous at Sat, 29 Jul 2023 23:55:56 UTC No. 953560
>>952838
suzanne be lookin like a scrotum with cataracts
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:07:45 UTC No. 953561
>>953541
>This. Most people are too lazy to use AI.
It's not normies you have to worry about, it's bosses.
>>953077
>animating and modeling is so tedious
ngtmi
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 01:23:04 UTC No. 953569
>>953561
True. Plus with 0 production cost, no barrier to entry besides a PC, competition skyrocketing. Any artists left are going to be fighting for scraps.
Either way, I'm trying to learn Stable Diffusion now, and watching AI news closely.
>picrel
>nothing spetchul but im learning :)
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 05:23:32 UTC No. 953583
>>953574
The cloud needs more detail for one. Like on a scale of 1-5 with 1 being mush and 5 being too fucking detailed to the point it's unrealistic, you're at a 2 (maybe 1.5). You need to be at a 3-4.
I'd also say that the cloud is a bit too dense and could be dialed back a bit.
Then again, I'm not sure what you're going for and what scale it's supposed to be.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 13:38:02 UTC No. 953618
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:13:47 UTC No. 953620
>>953569
>learn Stable Diffusion
Have fun not being an artist and ALWAYS being limited by your tools.
>>953618
don't lump me in with those hacks, I don't even like to use AI denoisers.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:22:26 UTC No. 953621
every day i use blender i find at least one more retarded thing in the UI that makes no logical sense
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:42:50 UTC No. 953625
Why is bloom showing up in material preview window but not in cycles?
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 14:52:36 UTC No. 953627
>>953625
Cycles uses the glare node in the compositor instead of bloom
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 15:57:15 UTC No. 953639
>>953618
>>953620
Luddites spotted. Same as the faggots who said computer animation isn't real and you should draw every cell by hand. Same as musicians who think "computers automate the whole process". Time has shown what that mentality brings.
>typing a few keywords
Okay, bud. Tell you what, I'll give you a specific commission. If you can generate an AI image that satisfies the criteria I specify, I'll never touch AI again. The skill element is not being able to generate a one-off image through random luck, it's pinning down and refining variables until the specific image you want emerges. The image I posted is 3 different generations using over a dozen models, and then merged via photoshop. Was it as difficult as learning digital painting? Hell no. You got the balls to try it? I doubt it.
>being limited by your tools
Are you retarded? Mind telling me how you subvert the limitations of your tools as a traditional artist? They're limitations. Go ahead, draw something you've never seen before. Draw a picture of my boss. I won't show you what he looks like, and I won't give you "a few keywords" to describe him. Best of luck.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:17:17 UTC No. 953642
>>953620
> I don't even like to use AI denoisers.
Honestly thats the one thing where AI actually helps. IOD is mind boggling
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:22:20 UTC No. 953645
>>953639
You will never be an artist.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:24:25 UTC No. 953647
>>953645
And nobody will care that you are.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:49:34 UTC No. 953649
>>953646
What are you using for a test? Light files will show almost no difference.
Try this one:
https://cloud.blender.org/p/gallery
I doubt the 3060 will even be able to run it in CUDA, it uses almost triple the memory. My 4090 was sweating.
My times:
>CUDA: 08:36.47
>OPTIX: 00:27.10
For more test files:
https://cloud.blender.org/p/gallery
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 17:43:00 UTC No. 953651
>>953639
>draw something you've never seen before
I do this every day
>Draw a picture of my boss. I won't show you what he looks like, and I won't give you "a few keywords" to describe him. Best of luck.
So drawing with pen and pencil is inherently limited because I don't magically know what your boss looks like? AI can't do that either. Are you retarded? That's a limitation of reality.
Is drawing bad because it isn't a time machine? Would drawing be better than AI could draw a spaceship and fly away?
I like to draw in photoshop on my gaming PC with a nice drawing tablet, photoshop, my custom brushes. What happens when I'm not at my PC? Say I have a biro and napkin, what happens? I just draw the picture. Similarly with 3D, you learn skills you can take from place to place, to different software, to different fucking professions.
Now what happens when a prompter doesn't have access to code that runs on someone else's machine? Uh oh, looks like you have zero utility. Your composition looks like shit btw, which is fine you're just learning, but you should focus on learning something like that instead of playing roulette thinking you're learning skills. You're not getting a leg up on the competition by demonstrating you can use software that doesn't have a learning curve. You know what happens when you spend hours trying different prompts, and you post it online thinking you worked hard (lol)? Someone sees that and says "wow look what AI can do!"
You're not in the picture.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:23:19 UTC No. 953655
>>953651
>I do this every day
No you don't. Not in any way that AI doesn't. Unless you're only making avant-garde crap, your work is derivative. You aren't inventing techniques, you aren't making something totally unrecognizable from what we've seen before. Artists are lucky to get those moments once in their lifetime, let alone every day.
I take your point, real art skills can be utilized with limited resources, but that doesn't invalidate AI creations. With a napkin and a biro, you're not going to be able to do the same things you can with all your art equipment. In the same way you can doodle on your napkin and then take it home to give it the full treatment, I can write down ideas for a prompt, and refine it at home. Again, I'm not comparing the skill required, so don't get your feelings hurt.
>code that runs on someone else's machine
Not that it matters, but I generate locally.
>your composition looks like shit
What's so bad about it? Composition was always something I was hit-and-miss on, no matter the medium.
>focus on something like that
I am. You seem to think that utilizing a tool means I'm relying on only that tool. When you see construction workers hammering nails, do you think they're trying to build a house using only a hammer?
>playing roulette
Except that's not how it works.
>software that doesn't have a learning curve
My challenge stands. Seriously, have you ever tried using it?
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:49:24 UTC No. 953658
>>953655
>Except that's not how it works.
yes it is, you don't get out exactly what you put in. if I make something then every pixel is where I put it. You're hoping that it puts the pixels somewhere appealing. There's some happy accidents with art of course, and mistakes, but it's all me. When it's not you, it's a gamble.
>composition
I meant compositing. The composition is generic enough to be fine.
>lighting doesn't match
>depth of field doesn't match (there's an AI trick for this but I'm not going to tell you lol)
>platform she's standing on doesn't make sense, not as a platform and not as something in that scene
>words and signs are gibberish
It's fine, you're just learning. But get better at this. Learn how light works IRL, pick up photography. If you want to at least be better than other prompters you'll need to do stuff like this.
>My challenge stands. Seriously, have you ever tried using it?
I tried midjourney when it first came out. Won't use it again because I consider it distasteful.
I have skills that take people years to learn, I don't think this shit has a learning curve.
Sure it has some, but way less than dark souls game for instance. I basically consider it trivial.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:00:55 UTC No. 953660
Is it possible to repeat animation in the NLA? but not in the way you think.
Say i have a simple animation, cube moves up then back down, 3 keyframes.
I push it down into NLA and then i can set repeat and stuff. But is it possible to repeate it inside of the animation strip?
Say the strip with the animation is 3cm long, i set it to repeat 3 times and and it's now 9cm long because the animation repeats 3 times in it.
So i don't want to repeat the strip 3 times, i want to repeat the animation inside of it 3 times so i can copy paste it around the NLA timeline and have spaces in between
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 19:37:40 UTC No. 953665
>>953658
>yes it is
I'll make this point again; the skill aspect comes in minimizing that RNG element. I agree there is less control, but I don't agree that it invalidates it.
>compositing
Fair. That was something I was unsatisfied with. I also now realize that I fucked up. That's my first draft, not the final version. I did more work after this, and the final version does address some of your points, but you have no reason to believe that I didn't make a bunch of edits just now, so I won't use that as an excuse.
>learn how light works IRL, pick up photography
Although that piece doesn't show it, I actually am pretty good at this. I know 2/3 point lighting, how to emphasize form, color theory, etc. One thing I get regular compliments on with my 3D work is lighting and shader realism.
>>950801
Is me, for something I'm a little more satisfied with. Didn't make the model, but I do know how to make it look good.
>words and signs are gibberish
Fair. That's a limitation of the tech. One that is going to be eliminated soon, by the way.
>won't use it again
I guess that's your prerogative. I think it comes down to usage. If you train an AI on an artists work, then use that AI to generate similar imagery, and then compete with them in the same marketplace, there's no question that's scummy. But if I want to make a game, and I can't afford a concept artist, why would I not use it? Should I limit my ambitions? If I want to make a chicken sandwich, and I have a chicken generating machine, is it wrong to use it? Should I be forced to either pay farmers, or raise the chicken myself? Idk man, just seems like luddite pearl clutching to me.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:05:26 UTC No. 953672
>>953665
>you have no reason to believe that I didn't make a bunch of edits just now, so I won't use that as an excuse.
I'm not testing you anon, people are at different skill levels. It's fine not to be as good as other people, progress is what matters.
>If you train an AI on an artists work, then use that AI to generate similar imagery, and then compete with them in the same marketplace, there's no question that's scummy.
I think putting another artist's work into the machine without their consent is scummy full stop. It's not economically bad, but I do find it very distasteful.
>But if I want to make a game, and I can't afford a concept artist, why would I not use it?
Purely for concepting for your own stuff? I think it's fine but I wouldn't do it. I think putting ai assets in any kind of finished product is unwise, especially as an indie dev who needs be charming to have any kind of success.
>seems like luddite pearl clutching to me.
Luddites were smart people. They were looking out for their own best interests as workers, which is something most wagies neglect to do today and they wonder why their lives are getting worse.
On the subject of labour saving devices, my opinion is this: we have never seen advances in productivity reflected in the wages of workers. Every year productivity goes up, wages stay the same, or fall. So why would I be happy about technology that doesn't bring anything new to the table, and can only supress my wages? There are some applications for the technology that are useful, like noise removal, but generally I think it's bad, and I don't fuck with people who want to see it have a wider adoption. I want customers to reject AI "art" as the inferior product that it is.
And beyond all that, some jobs are always going to be bad, like digging ditches. If we could do away with them and look after the ditch diggers, that'd be great. There's no perfect world where humans stop creating art. The job should never be automated.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:22:34 UTC No. 953673
>>953672
>progress is what matters
I agree. I was just saying that I don't suck as bad as that first image would imply.
>I do find it very distasteful.
Agree to disagree. But I hold the same standard for my own OC.
>putting ai assets in any kind of finished product
Again, I think it depends on the individual implementation, and how much you use the AI as a creative crutch instead of a tool.
>lives are getting worse
By what metric? I see people making minimum wage spending money on fucking OnlyFans. They're not going hungry, they have AC/heating, they don't live in squalor. Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think entry-level workers were living luxuriously 100 years ago. Yeah people aren't growing economically, but that's because living at a lower economic level is getting more and more acceptable, as technology improves living conditions.
I also think it's futile to fight the tide. AI will dominate productivity soon. When that happens, even far-right figures agree there's a solid argument for things like UBI, universal healthcare, etc.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:23:06 UTC No. 953674
>>953661
You could use the cyclic f-curve modifier on the stuff in the strip, and when you go to specify how long the NLA clip is you can make it an arbitrary length. So for example, if you had that 3cm strip, and extended just that single strip to 9cm the animation would keep repeating because the cyclic modifier is on in the keyframes for that strip.
Obviously you'd have to cut it at the loop points, but I think what I described is what you mean.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:37:04 UTC No. 953675
>>953673
>By what metric?
Housing. Debt. Life expectancy.
Phones and TVs are cheaper now, but your economic level isn't just about toys and gizmos. Owning a house is becoming a pipe dream for many middle class people.
You mentioned hunger. Hunger is a solved problem. We can feed the whole world easily. Hunger is still a problem in America, as is the related issue of food insecurity. America is a hard working country anon, there's no shortage of people working every hour god sends them, and a lot of them are struggling.
>When that happens, even far-right figures agree there's a solid argument for things like UBI, universal healthcare, etc.
You can't get liberals to agree on universal healthcare right now. We're not in a situation where we can sit back and expect problems to be solved, the people who will benefit the most from automation will damn sure work their asses off to make sure people like us don't benefit from it at all.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:49:56 UTC No. 953676
>>953675
Housing is a problem, but not one caused by automation. Inflation is the problem, but I don't think either of us have time to solve that in this discussion.
Food insecurity is overblown. There are two levels. The widespread one is when people need to make changes to their food spending. If I go from buying wagyu ribeyes every week to buying prime, I qualify as that level of food insecure. That's not an exaggeration. The level of food insecurity where people actually struggle to get food is incredibly rare.
Can you elaborate on life expectancy? The only data I know is that it goes up every year.
>you can't get liberals to agree right now
Right now. If there's a massive unemployment crisis because of AI, things WILL change. People profiting from automation don't continue to profit if nobody has any money to spend.
Anonymous at Sun, 30 Jul 2023 22:54:12 UTC No. 953681
>>953676
Not interested in having a political debate here, but you're right that those issues aren't caused by automation.
But what these problems are caused by, and that includes inflation, is bosses having almost complete power to dictate terms.
Right now actors and writers in unions are striking, and some of their demands include drastic limitations on how corporations can use AI in those industries.
That is the right move, that's people looking out for themselves, protecting their careers. I just wish visual artists were in a position to make those kinds of demands.
>Can you elaborate on life expectancy? The only data I know is that it goes up every year.
google it.
>things WILL change
if things change, it's because people take action. People with power are going to fight things like UBI as much as possible, because they would have to increase wages to compete with it. Nice things don't happen unless people fight for it. We wouldn't have things like weekends if people didn't fight for them.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:03:14 UTC No. 953698
>>953692
Can you post your .blend?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:32:31 UTC No. 953702
>>953699
Messed around with it until I could reproduce the bug you're getting.
Try this:
Edit Mode > Select All > Alt+N > F
Or in the menus:
Edit Mode > Mesh > Normals > Flip
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:36:31 UTC No. 953703
>>953701
>>953702
restarting it seemed to work, but I get this weird shimmer effect
was just trying the flip normals thing before you mentioned it. when I flip normals before applying the outline, the outline I try to apply doesn't work, and when I flip normals after I've got the outline working, it makes the outline disappear
odd
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 03:49:02 UTC No. 953706
>>953703
Good shit. Glad to help. Mind telling what your project is?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 04:06:40 UTC No. 953707
>>953706
just trying to figure out low poly modeling so I can get to work on a game. looking at games with flat shading, cel-shading and such for inspiration since it's easy to make for a beginner
the game I have in mind is a combination of Jumping Flash and Jump King, which doesn't seem 'too' difficult to make. in my head I just see it as needing a win condition at the top, and then the actual jumping mechanics
first-person view, hold a button and release to jump and work your way up into the sky. each jump is committal, meaning you can't change trajectory once you've let go; if you miss, you could fall right down to the bottom
I'd like to use diegetic HUD like in Metroid Prime, for example a bar fills up showing you how high you'll jump as a gauge on the inside of the visor. adding stuff like rain drops hitting the visor would be nice too
tentatively called Pogo Robo
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 06:41:48 UTC No. 953711
>>953707
I like your style. Making basic movement fun and engaging can carry a game on its own. Mirror's Edge is one of my favorites.
I also love diegetic HUDs and immersive shit like that. The Metro series is a great example, where you can get coom on your visor, and you need to wipe it to see again. Really makes you feel vulnerable in tense situations.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:20:28 UTC No. 953723
if i have a driver attached to some property is it possible to affect it in an animation? for example add a variable into the the drive which i can cnage the value of during an animation?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:30:02 UTC No. 953725
>>953723
>for example add a variable into the the drive which i can cnage the value of during an animation?
Yeah, you should be able to add a custom property into the driver and animate the custom property value
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 11:01:58 UTC No. 953726
>>953725
oh yeah, i could just like do * custom property i guess that will work fine
i have one more issue though, in the scene i want to have tv model which on the screen is showing the footage from the scene camera, is this possible? wasn't able to google anything gainful
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:14:06 UTC No. 953739
>>953726
There might be a way with texture mapping and the UV pass in compositing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbR
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:22:30 UTC No. 953760
>>953739
Interesting, i have never used compositor before, does that mean i won't be able to see this working in the editor, only after rendering?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:13:18 UTC No. 953777
How to make blender not include some bones when using automatic weights?
I don't want my IK handles to have weights, it's a pain to clean it up
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:07:18 UTC No. 953782
>>953757
I'd throw the image in photoshop and make an emission map.
If you want to do it all in blender, I'd use a Separate Color node, and run the red channel through a color ramp like picrel. The disadvantage to this is it only works if the only red in the image is the part you want to glow. So you couldn't have red paint and red lights on the same map. I'll post an image of the result next.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:17:30 UTC No. 953783
>>953777
Don't select them and/or move them to another layer.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:23:29 UTC No. 953786
>>953782
how did you make the lines so tidy between nodes?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:33:55 UTC No. 953789
>>953757
>>953782
Here's the result. As you can see, the selected vertex also glows, and the non-monochrome nature of the light makes it look iffy. There is probably a better way to do it procedurally, but honestly the photoshop option is just so much easier.
>>953786
Node Wrangler. It's a built-in addon.
Edit > Preferences > Add-ons
Type "node" into the search
Then in the node editor, hold shift and right click and drag across the node path. It should generate one of those little dots, which you can then position however you like.
I'd recommend watching a video on Node Wrangler. As soon as you use it, you wonder why they don't have it enabled by default. It's so insanely useful.
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:05:23 UTC No. 953798
>says until next time
>actually doesn't do a Blender Today next time
>repeat this over and over
inb4 "alright guys it was a good run, someone feel free to take over the format I'm done here"
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:03:17 UTC No. 953806
>>953786
Are you going to start obsessing with nodes topology too? Or are you already?
Anonymous at Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:20:49 UTC No. 953811
>>953777
This is wrong >>953783
All you have to do is uncheck the "deform" option on the bone. Bones with the deform checked will contribute to weighting, while those without will be ignored.
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:11:43 UTC No. 953866
what is the point of this setting when it doesn't shop up on renders?
only in the editor
How do i make it show up in renders?
I tried Alpha over in compositor but its shit and only put the image under the rendered images not on top
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 08:41:10 UTC No. 953867
>>953866
>I tried Alpha over in compositor but its shit and only put the image under the rendered images not on top
Have you tried spending 5 seconds figuring out how it works and swapping the input sockets so the image is on top?
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 10:40:07 UTC No. 953872
modeling on a slow pc is truly suicide fuel
having the viewport lag every time i turn it makes me want to rope
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:01:00 UTC No. 953876
>>953875
why? weight painting and uv unwrapping are the most two relaxing activities in modeling i always look forward to doing them
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 12:09:16 UTC No. 953878
>>953875
I've completely fucked up my weight painting 2 times already, I've come to learn that automatic weights + some small adjustments work best, if you try to make big changes it will fuck the model up and trying to fix it will take more time than starting over
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 20:22:26 UTC No. 953911
>>953901
dang turns out the models i downloaded from asset store were unoptimized as fuck, like for example broom handle which is just a cylinder had like 5000 faces, fucking gay as fuck
I put decimated mod on it and most other models and reduce the poly count by 96% without noticing any difference in the model, wild. Fucking shitty designers can't topo for shit.
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 21:26:46 UTC No. 953913
>>953911
Ever since I discovered baking normals I've never done anything else. Depending on the complexity of the object you can get it from hundreds of thousands of polys down to a few hundred with no real difference. Obviously if it's a bit more complex it might be a few thousand. Either way I prefer it.
Anonymous at Tue, 1 Aug 2023 22:04:07 UTC No. 953921
what should i look for in a drawing tablet if i want to use it for modelling/rigging/animating with blender? in a pure gamedev context if that distinguishes my use case in any way
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 04:11:43 UTC No. 953948
>>953921
If it has a screen, don't skimp on the size. 12-13" might be cheap, but you're not doing yourself any favors when it comes to using it for work (both in terms of room, and screen detail). 17" and up is where I'd aim for.
Besides that, they're nice as a second screen, but for "modelling/rigging/animating" you won't be using the drawing functionality of it that much. If you're doing texturing and sculpting and stuff you will though.
If it doesn't have a screen, I'd still opt for a nice sizable one so you have room to work with. It's less important though since your movements are extrapolated to another screen.
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 06:23:31 UTC No. 953964
xpbd still isnt out but im sure they are cooking up something good haha!
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 11:10:39 UTC No. 953983
when i put a driver on a color it creates 3 separate drivers for each r g b, is it possible to only use one driver and set the color all at once? such as #ff0000
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 13:22:47 UTC No. 953991
>>953948
thanks for the input
not sure i can afford a screen one honestly, i'm quite poor and even secondhand ones seem fairly pricey...
i'm also quite sensitive to latency but i imagine a tablet with a high report rate would mitigate that, right? i was looking at a huion rtm-500 the other day and it seemed like a nice fit in that regard (300hz i think, and more than enough "lines per inch" to map to a 4k screen), and my monitor is very low latency too, so at least for sculpting and texturing something like that could be good for me
my desk is rather small so a smaller one is probably better for now until i can afford to rebuild my whole workspace
i'd kind of like to be a one-man army in as many ways as i can manage, which i know is an insane aspiration but i've got nothing better to do with my life
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 15:28:43 UTC No. 954005
man i love drivers, i don't have to deal with the retarded blender ui and its limitations, i can just program that shit straight in with python to do exactly what i want, it's saving me tons of time, but man, blender is a 3d modeling app and so far my project is like 40% model 60% code
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 16:53:01 UTC No. 954012
>>954004
Post the image reference if you have used one, right?
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 21:58:59 UTC No. 954029
Please, please, please help me. I have an animated shader on a character that I want to always flow down the global Z-axis, but when I animate her in pose mode, the shader rotates with the rig and winds up flowing sideways or even up her body.
Using object texture coordinates works perfectly when everything is still, but causes the texture to spaz out when animating because it's using the model's mesh origin instead of its updated pose location. So I have to use generated coordinates and they cause this problem.
I'm fucking around with vector transforms and nothing is working. Please take pity on this retard.
Anonymous at Wed, 2 Aug 2023 22:39:16 UTC No. 954032
Are there any creative ways to reduce flickering in fluid simulations without baking at a higher resolution? For this instance I'm also using turbulence and harmonic force fields and zero gravity.
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 08:16:19 UTC No. 954058
>>954029
Can't you just use an empty for the object coordinates then? That's why there's a little box to specify what object is used for the coordinates.
After that just put a copy location constraint on the empty to do exactly what it says, copy location (of the rig). You probably don't want copy rotation, since you'll run up against the issue you're having now. Parenting would also cause the issue.
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 09:07:47 UTC No. 954064
>>954029
Use Camera from the Texture Coord node as the input vector
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 12:43:58 UTC No. 954076
>>954075
okay the circle was skin modifier so not realted to my problem, so why it's not working? look how the hook pulls the second vert more than the first one, both of those verts are assigned to the vertex group assigned to that hook modifier so they should both move
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 12:46:11 UTC No. 954077
>>954076
nevermind i just fixed it, despite those vertexes lighting up when i selected the vertex group only one was part of it so i remove and added them again and now it works
mature software my ass
Anonymous at Thu, 3 Aug 2023 12:51:46 UTC No. 954078
>>954077
Selecting a vertex group extends your current selection, not replace it. So yeah, add it to the list of things that are misleading or illogical to new users.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 01:23:56 UTC No. 954132
>>954082
Cool robot
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 03:20:06 UTC No. 954136
i'm thinking about getting into making tutorials, mostly for abstract and motion designy stuff. what are some things you guys love/hate about blender tutorials?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 04:09:01 UTC No. 954137
>>954118
Your light fucking sucks.
Also, try to avoid tiny point lights where you can.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 05:00:58 UTC No. 954139
>>954136
I hate tutorials that drag on for ages when it really isn't necessary and I hate when there's no screencast keys on, but I think that's just my autism.
One thing that I really can't stand, but it isn't specific to 3D tuts, is when someone uploads a tutorial and leaves their mistakes in and undoes them in the video or hasn't really prepared for the video at all.
I like things to be simple, straightforward, and to the point.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 05:08:37 UTC No. 954140
>>954139
100% agree with all of those
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 05:40:48 UTC No. 954142
>>954063
There's nothing worse to me in porn animations than those shitty cum strings that are attached from one point to another and don't break or anything throughout the entire animation.
The shit is so viscous in those animations it's like you could make stalagmites out of your dick the moment it comes out.
It's like they got covered in spiderman webs, not cum.
If you're fine with that, the yeah, I guess it'll work.
>>954118
If denoising doesn't work and it's a still image, stack a few renders at different noise seeds (ideally with denoising on), at like 50%, 33%, 25%, etc opacity.
It might also be a fundamental problem with your scene (can't tell without seeing it). If you're using emissive objects to fill the scene with lights, stop. Use the emissives, but also supplement it with actual lights. If it's a dark scene with like one tiny light, make the whole scene brighter and make it darker via exposure or post processing.
>>954136
>what are some things you guys hate...
Faggots that feel the need to put a webcam feed on their shit like I'm there for them and not the information, indian accents, faggots with intro animations, faggots that don't show the end result at the start of the video so I can tell if they're full of shit or not, retards that spend 90% of the video droning on and on, and the tippy top, retards that are doing advanced stuff still going over basic bitch hotkeys like I haven't been doing this shit for 10 years. Special mention for retards that are regurgitating the shit they've read in the manual for views or have only the most basic knowledge of the shit they're going over and don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Granted, most of the stuff I watch now is more workflow and theory oriented (the whole "why didn't I think of that", type shit). If I do dip into basic rundown tuts though, it's for things I haven't done in ages and forgot, or some corner of the software I haven't touched like the rigid body constraints or smoke sims.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 08:28:01 UTC No. 954151
>>954142
>d from one point to another and don't break or anything throughout the entire animation.
well excuse me, do you have any idea how hard it is to make breakable ones? it's a massive chore and extra work where with these regular ones i can attach them turn on cloth sim and forget about them, where with custom ones you have to animate each cum string individually, and i'm not fucking pixar i ain't got time for that
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 09:20:51 UTC No. 954160
I want to have several custom properties which i'm using in drivers around the scene and i want to have them in one place what is the best way to do this?
Just add a cube and attach the properties to it? Or script some sort of custom blender tab? I want to have them all in one place for easy access
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 11:10:30 UTC No. 954164
I'm trying to swap the colors of a hair texture with a custom driver
I have 13 colors (ramps) to apply on the texture, I made it work with 2 using mix, I think i could probably make it work with more colors using this method, but it would become a nightmare with so many nodes for the color ramps.
Is there an easier way to do this? Idk how to code in python yet.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 11:57:16 UTC No. 954167
>>954164
You can make a node group with the color ramp and then instance it.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 14:09:57 UTC No. 954171
i'm not sure what i did but my rendering stopped working, when i hit render it just finishes instantly and show a blank screen like this
When i switch to another scene i have in this blend file and try to render there it works fine
What the fuck happened? i never changed any camera settings as far as i'm aware
google told me to check clipping distance and that surfaces checkbox is checked i did both and those settings are find, so why am i getting this?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:15:07 UTC No. 954177
i dont know what awaits once i jump into blender so i want to ask some things.
i plan on doing the topology in blender with the shrinkwrap function, is there a way i can punch out a hole for the mouth while doing that or should i seperate the jaw in zbrush beforehand?
and how do i maintain the detail i have in the sculpt when topologizing. i plan to do some animating and i dont want the face looking like n64.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:25:40 UTC No. 954178
>>954177
>how do i maintain the detail
bruh there isn't much detail to begin with
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:31:16 UTC No. 954180
>>954178
thank you
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 15:45:35 UTC No. 954182
I have 3 positions in the scene and during animation i want to be able to tell camera to move there and look in that direction smoothly, what is the best way to do this? So then during animation i can simply switch between these positions smoothly at any time
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 16:26:12 UTC No. 954185
How can I rotate my 3D view around the current view point (limited to pitch and yaw like in FPS games)?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 16:39:11 UTC No. 954188
>>954185
I figured out you can enable walk mode with shift+`, but this caps the framerate at about 100fps so it's not ideal.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 16:46:12 UTC No. 954190
>>954188
Also it's a mode, rather than a modifier key, so it's inconvenient to use. There should be some modifier I can hold to make the MMB rotate around the current view instead of the center point.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 18:23:09 UTC No. 954205
How can I automatically scale an empty cube to fully contain a selection?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 19:05:10 UTC No. 954210
am i doing something wrong with path curves for hair if moving an end into another mesh causes the whole thing to rotate
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:03:31 UTC No. 954221
>>954177
You can delimit whatever vertices you want shinkwrapped using a vertex group and then do whatever you want with the ones not affected by the modifier.
And you maintain detail primarily by baking a normal map and any other maps like AO or whatever from the sculpt to the retopologized mesh. If you want actual geometry detail you can use multires, a modifier like subsurf that stores vertex offsets from higher subdivisions while letting you manipulate a low polygon version.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:43:33 UTC No. 954223
I made a path curve and used the follow path constraint so the camera follows it, but once it arrives at the end of the path how do i make it stay there? if i turn the influence of the constrain off the camera jumps to different position
and also while the camera is moving along the path it's position in the item menu is not changing so i can't keyframe the final position, so how do i smoothly leave the path?
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 21:57:09 UTC No. 954225
>>954151
I'm just saying not to leave it there the whole time.
Shouldn't be hard to keyframe the hook on one end to drop, and then the other some time later.
Anonymous at Fri, 4 Aug 2023 23:38:05 UTC No. 954231
>>954167
i'll do some research about it, thx!
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 00:12:35 UTC No. 954237
Why the FUCK is it possible to select bones that are in invisible and protected layers and modify their roll? My whole rig is fucked AGAIN!
FUCK!
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 00:50:50 UTC No. 954239
>>954237
blame Pablo lmao
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 01:25:06 UTC No. 954242
literally just starting out, only previous experience is fucking around with pre-made models (sims 4 shit, you know how it is). anyways this was the vivid mental image i got when i got hyped over figuring out ho to extrude edges.
for the record the last time i tried making a model I was like ten and only managed to add a monkey to the scene. so this is impressive to me at least.
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 03:40:06 UTC No. 954247
>>952838
pass docs 4 blender as fucking top tier VFX for video
Anonymous at Sat, 5 Aug 2023 19:44:07 UTC No. 954293
i hate animating
when will AI do the animating for me
why are all animation packs so shitty
Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 04:16:29 UTC No. 954295
Can you guys rec some good guides on architecture with blender
Anonymous at Sun, 6 Aug 2023 06:10:38 UTC No. 954297
>>954242
Congrats you are at the beginning of a long and masochistic journey. Most people quit within 3 months. Some people stick to the hobby but never progress because they are permanently trapped in tutorial hell. 1 out of 100 blendfags will make it and you are not the one.
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 04:22:33 UTC No. 954374
>>952838
Ryzen 5
1060Ti
8 GB of RAM
Win 10 Pro
On a scale of 1 to 20, with 1 being Space Quest 1, and 20 being Devil May Cry 5, at what level of complexity will Blender give my computer a heart attack?
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 04:25:12 UTC No. 954375
>>954242
I also just started out, too, anon. I made a cube go across the screen, and then I made it fishtail like a car going out of control. I felt like He Man.
We can do it, anon.
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:47:00 UTC No. 954401
Pls give me a concise tutorial with a project to follow that covers modeling, UVing and texturing with Blender?
I learned the basics of all that years ago but never opened the software since then. So I actually remember the operations of modeling and all but need a refresher. Never did any UV and textures stuff tho.
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:58:36 UTC No. 954402
>>954398
There's an addon called texel density checker that does it iirc. You put the values in and it makes them all the same or something like that, I could never get it to work so I just fucked it off. It does work though. I was just too much of a brainlet to be able to use it.
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 16:10:55 UTC No. 954403
>>954401
its literally in OP
>Fundamentals
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
>Donut
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?li
>>954402
thanks anon, wonder why its not built in
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 19:12:03 UTC No. 954408
>>954297
>>954375
Cheers lads. I've got the gumption to stick with this little endeavor for now. I was already an artist before hand so some skills have translated over. Here's another thing I'm working on - I needed a good 3d model of an alligator head for a character of mind, but the only one available in the clip studio material catalog was pay-to-use so I'm just. Making my own.
Also been dissecting models from games who I hope to emulate, mostly ps2 era shit since nostalgia goggles are on. It's wild seeing how different models can be - also funnily enough re4's models seem way less dense than sh3's. not what I expected given how nice both games look.
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 20:39:51 UTC No. 954410
what do i need to know to follow a blender -> substance-painter -> unity workflow?
i am aiming to create stylized game-ready assets
i also wont be creating anything too complex or highly demanding technically
lets see if i am correct
i need to be careful about the scale i use, learn topology, convert models to tris, unwrap the model, export the unwrap to substance painter, apply the painted texture on the model, bake texture details in substance, apply the normal mask as well, export the model to unity and put the masks in the proper slots
is this all?
tutorial recommendations would be highly appreciated, thanks!
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 21:07:53 UTC No. 954413
>>954408
Out of curiosity where are you getting the models from? Are you ripping them yourself?
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 22:03:27 UTC No. 954416
I have driver on an X axis position of an object, but the problem is i also need it to be drive by an animation.
How would that expression look like?
For example if there was no driver and the position was 5 then with the driver it's 5 + var, so basically i need to somehow get the value it would be if there was no driver.
I tried doing this
self.location.x + var
But that doesn't work correctly since it seems it kinds of recursively add the positions together which causes the position to just become some high nonsense number.
I just want
position_if_it_had_no_driver + var
Anonymous at Mon, 7 Aug 2023 23:25:45 UTC No. 954418
>>954413
There's a handful of sites that have vidya models up. models-resource is great but sparse. I do have copies of the games myself and a model ripper if I need something specific.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 01:01:01 UTC No. 954424
Never really 3D modeled anything before but I had a horrible idea and I just HAD to see it become a reality. It took a long ass time. I took measurements of the real thing, this should in theory be 3D printable and subsequently made into a mold. How did I do guys?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 01:03:08 UTC No. 954425
>>954424
I hope a swarm of locusts manifest under your foreskin.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 01:04:46 UTC No. 954426
>>954425
I honestly can't say I blame you, may well be the single worst thing I have ever created
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 02:45:43 UTC No. 954431
>>954416
Keyframe the same animation on an empty object, and use its animation data as a driver variable.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 03:40:32 UTC No. 954440
>>954416
Don't ever fuck with expressions unless you're doing something actually complex with drivers. It's an easy pitfall to get into when learning drivers.
Just mess around with the driver graph curves till things work fine. 90% of the time, it's exactly what you need.
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 07:17:28 UTC No. 954447
>>954431
thats too cumbersome, i am using that driver for an armature bone and having the animation on an empty would make it a huge chore when animating the armature
>>954440
i am already using the drivers all over the place since they are so powerful, i have to since i need a bunch of thing to be procedurally animated based on a music fcurve (without it i would have to keyframe all those movements manually which would be a nightmare) and then i'm trying to add my animation on top of that
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 08:08:18 UTC No. 954448
>>954399
Thanks anon
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 17:20:43 UTC No. 954489
I'm trying out some animating and it makes me want to kill myself.
Is it always this tedious? Just moving bones and pressing I for hours upon hours? Jesus fuck, it's not even a good animation. I have seem some AAA tier lewd animations from patreon artists are you telling me they sit there for a month moving bones and pressing I like retards? How do they stay sane?
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 20:06:07 UTC No. 954509
>>954447
>i need a bunch of thing to be procedurally animated based on a music fcurve
Oh that shit is "easy" (easy being subjective). I did a whole music video like that with a bunch of little background things pulsing to different parts of the music.
The trick is to have a few master controls (empties) that sync up with the music, doing something simple like moving from 0-1 on the Y axis with the music (webm related). Then for everything else you just use those empties to drive what you want. Again, you don't need expressions for those, or what you're driving, (apart from plugging in the variable), tweaking the Driver's F-curve is all you need for any of them really. Especially when zeroing out values.
I should also mention that using multiple tracks, like the melody, bassline, drums, etc are a good way to keep things separate and have a bunch of stuff moving in more ways than just a single channel, and you have more control over what moves when and with what part of the music. In cases where I don't have those, I usually just go into FL studio and make those tracks myself. They don't have to sound perfectly like the original song, it just needs to be enough to move stuff with the instruments.
I also did a few "quantized" tracks, these are the same as the normal tracks, but I intentionally make the notes short so they go on/off quickly. This has a different effect than the normal ones that stay on during longer notes. Pretty useful when you want to sync something up to the melody or bassline but keep things pulsing rather than lingering between notes (watch the difference between the normal bassline/melody and the quantized ones to see what I mean).
Anonymous at Tue, 8 Aug 2023 20:09:42 UTC No. 954510
>>954509
the fcurve itself is easy, the issue is when i need to combine the fcurve with animation keyframes, but i figured it out i just need to diable the driver when i'm keyframing
what do you use separate the song into separate instrument channels? some online tool?
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 06:47:40 UTC No. 954557
when i download a blend file with a character model and it has rings and custom scripts and all that in it, how the fuck do i set up a scene with several characters like that? i have several blend files one with each character but how do i put them into one? if i try just copy pasting it doesn't work since it doesn't bring all the scripts and shit with them
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 07:22:07 UTC No. 954558
>>954510
>the issue is when i need...
Ahh that's what you were having a problem with. I was having trouble trying to figure it out. Yeah, disabling the driver is what I'd suggest.
>what do you use separate the song into separate instrument channels? some online tool?
Ideally, I'd get the musician to give me the stems (each instrument on their own track), but as said before, if they can't give those to me or I don't have the stems, I'll just remake the track by ear in FL Studio. I've got some experience making music (I used to make shitty dubstep back in the day when that was supposed to be considered "cool"), and I used to play guitar, so it's not too difficult to piece together a song depending on what it is. Like I said, it's not too important to have the instruments sound perfect (if you can get close, great), it's mostly important to have the sounds and notes match up since those are what's driving your animations. No one will notice if an object in your anim is vibrating in a way that when you analyze the frequency of it it doesn't 100% match the instrument in the original.
>>954522
I'd just put some emissive spheres in a square and use an array to make them repeat downwards. Throw a plane on top with the grid and glass and that's it. If you want to go even more simplistic, you can even just use a texture for the lights. or even further beyond, a procedural gradient texture.
As for the the way the light is cast, just put a rectangular area light near the top.
>>954557
File>Append
Append the collection that contains the character so it includes everything. Usually if there's custom bone shapes, they'll come too automatically.
You can use File>Link instead, but fucking around with library overrides is a headache you probably don't want to be dealing with at this stage.
I don't think there's any way to import scripts with the charater (I've never tried), but if the other ones don't just append to a copy of the file with the one that does.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 08:49:27 UTC No. 954559
>>954489
The effort is the payoff, anon.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 09:49:05 UTC No. 954563
Two questions for you guys:
- Has Blender managed to give a nice animation environment yet? (I had a bad experience with it years ago)
- Best follow along tutorial to make game asset (hard surface stuff) that covers the complete workflow (from modeling to texturing) please?
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 11:09:24 UTC No. 954568
every time i append a rigged character i get a bunch of this orange shit
is there any way to stop that? i can just delete them, but why are they getting imported in the first place? i don't see them in the original file
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 12:35:53 UTC No. 954575
>>954568
Those are the bone shapes, put them in a collection and hide them.
>default cube
lmao
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 12:38:16 UTC No. 954576
>>954575
>put them in a collection and hide them.
why keep them? the character already has rig on it made from these shapes, these loose ones don't seem to do anyhing
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 19:25:08 UTC No. 954604
I joined an intermediate 3d course with sketch up, anyone has any ideas on how to use it, am i gonna make it? I don't have experience with 3d modeling, is sketch up as good as blender
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 20:30:03 UTC No. 954613
>>954568
So do you not read or what?
>>954558
>Usually if there's custom bone shapes, they'll come too automatically.
>>954576
>these loose ones don't seem to do anyhing
They ARE doing something. Those are the shapes the bones are referencing to have the rig "made from these shapes". Get rid of them and the rig will no longer be made from them. Because the rig ISN'T made from them. It's made of bones, and the bones are just set to look like those objects.
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 22:00:47 UTC No. 954621
https://youtu.be/c-FNca-D6gw
Anonymous at Wed, 9 Aug 2023 23:50:47 UTC No. 954625
>physics module meeting doesn't feature notes this week is just straight up didnt happen
>no blender today stream last monday
I am up to date :)
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:54:04 UTC No. 954688
what is a good place to get free human models at? various generic ones like say man in a suit etc
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:04:35 UTC No. 954696
>>954688
https://www.mixamo.com/#/?page=1&ty
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:51:26 UTC No. 954701
>>954696
thanks fren, i guess i'll have to add cocks and stuff manually, but at least i don't have to make the whole model from scratch
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:42:28 UTC No. 954704
>>954701
SFMlab has a lot of blender stuff, despite the name. They link to a nsfw version of their site there, too.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:18:47 UTC No. 954708
So i started rendering my first animation and i wanted to do it at 4k 60fps but every frame took like 10 fuckings minutes, so i reduced to 1080 12fps and it's still slow as shit, what am i supposed to do now? i can't play games and shit while i'm rendering and at this pace it will take like two days to finish. This surely can't be right, is there a way to speed this up?
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:47:12 UTC No. 954709
>>954708
you can try turning down the samples and using denoising
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:52:24 UTC No. 954710
>>954709
i'm already using de noising and only 256 samples per frame
my gpu isn't even shit it's 3060ti, i can't believe how slow this rendering shit it
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:25:05 UTC No. 954721
>>954710
de noising in blender is not temporal stable so do NOT use it for animation. I repeat - do NOT use denoising for animation
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:28:38 UTC No. 954722
>>954721
it's not like there is any other choice.
if i render at 256 samples without denoising it looks like a mess of rgb dots, without denoising you have to run that shit at at least 4096 samples which would take fucking weeks to render
the noise isn't really very noticeable anyway, plus you can use AI gimmicks to remove it
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:32:07 UTC No. 954723
>>954722
>it's not like there is any other choice.
use a non-toy renderer
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 20:58:35 UTC No. 954725
>>954691
Start disabling render view in collections and figure it out.
If you're using fuckhuge 4k textures for little pebbles that's a big contributor as well.
>>954708
4k60 is going to take forever no matter what. You're rendering an extra 30+ frames for each second of footage, at 4k. Unless you have a 3080/3090 4k60 is astill going to take a while. Get some points on SheepIt and have the people with beefy rigs render it for you. Or at the very least you'll have multiple people rendering at once.
You'll have this problem with any renderer.
All that being said, while 4k60 is nice, I highly doubt you fucking need the extra fps. No one does.
>>954721
You "can" if you keep the noise seed the same. Some frames here and there might need re-rendering but on the whole denoising in animation is fine if you keep the noise seed static.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:00:58 UTC No. 954726
>>954725
>You "can" if you keep the noise seed the same. Some frames here and there might need re-rendering but on the whole denoising in animation is fine if you keep the noise seed static.
so its not stable. I accept your concession
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:10:32 UTC No. 954727
>>954621
you do realize that this is garbage? its like making an actual meal vs some faggot putting frozen food into a microwave (even worse than that)
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:13:18 UTC No. 954728
>>954604
its mainly used for architecture stuff
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 21:59:23 UTC No. 954733
>>954730
The high contrast smoke looks weird. It stands out against the sky more than the volcano itself.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:08:45 UTC No. 954736
>>954730
you could do this a thousand times better with industry standard megascan workflow in real time to boot. Shame.
Anonymous at Thu, 10 Aug 2023 23:42:38 UTC No. 954744
>>954733
I think you're right. It seems to command a much greater amount of attention that it really warrants. It's just a simple volume scatter shader, so it'd be easy to change.
>>954736
Yeah, I hear you, but I enjoy making my stuff from scratch. I definitely want use some actual textures instead of simple 10-minute procedural ones next time. The ground and rock face would have benefited tremendously from it, and even the grass. However, the process of modelling a bunch of things for the scene is fun in itself.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:32:23 UTC No. 954745
>>954743
You might also consider RTX 4060 16GB if you're short on memory, otherwise it's a good choice
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:31:13 UTC No. 954751
>>954725
>if you keep the noise seed the same
This. Don't listen to the other anon. Unless you're a richfag who can afford a render farm, the tiny bit of artifacting is nothing compared to the render time saved. Just put more samples into volumes and transparencies.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:56:45 UTC No. 954754
>>952838
Any free plugins that can just do automatic shapekeys/ rigging? Ive been trying to learn for months and I feel like a retard I give up. Easily the hardest thing when modeling IMO
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 03:52:07 UTC No. 954756
>>954751
You need to get a non toy renderer that conserves energy, can do temporal stable denoising, and function as a hydra delegate. Forget about cycles. You need good renders that will stand up in native 4k, not blurry, mushy,.shifty garbage
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:43:43 UTC No. 954762
>>954754
https://www.mixamo.com/
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 06:57:34 UTC No. 954763
>>954743
make sure whatever you get has at least 16gb vram i have 8gb vram and keep running out all the time and it's fucking annoying as fuck
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:01:28 UTC No. 954764
>>954725
>If you're using fuckhuge 4k textures for little pebbles that's a big contributor as well.
is there any way to find out?
Let's say i have scene with a bunch of models i downloaded, is there any way to show some sort of list of how big all the textures in the scene are?
Because i would have to check like 200 objects manually otherwise
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:18:25 UTC No. 954771
in fact it would be idea if i could set a texture limit for everything in the scene except selected objects
so do pic related, but hand pick some of the objects where this limit won't apply to them
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:06:55 UTC No. 954777
>>954764
I've wanted something like this too, so I decided to get gpt-4's help writing a script that prints out the list of your images and their size info.
For listing all images in the blend file:
https://pastebin.com/QjXsHx9M
For listing images being used in the current scene (only checks object material slots, not geometry nodes or anything else)
https://pastebin.com/JF1iZB3B
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:38:30 UTC No. 954784
>>954777
i'm gonna try it thanks
i really hope it's not some trick and you aren't planning to steal all my buttcoins
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:03:03 UTC No. 954786
>>954763
You dont need 16gb of vram, idiot. Render smaller scenes and composite them in a industry standard compositor like we do in actual production
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:49:55 UTC No. 954789
>>954786
>industry standard
Yeah i don't think so you amateur. Pros have actual render farms and don't need to use cheap gimmicks like splitting the scene into multiple batches because their poorfag 3090 potato with 24g vram can't load all those textures
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:02:16 UTC No. 954792
>>954789
Learn how compositing works in production, crayon
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 16:15:42 UTC No. 954804
hmm when i render my scene with lots of moving camera at 24 fps it looks stuttery i thing activation motion blur is probably mandatory
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:19:42 UTC No. 954821
>>952838
>Sit down take time to learn Blender proper.
>Didn't follow Guru this time since every time I say I'll learn Blender I at most make the Donut and cup and drop it for months time.
>Finally finish and enjoy my result even if it's not a best.
>Don't know what to do next.
I guess I keep making random objects and scenes until then (I do wanna get into characters/animation)? I kinda feel bad I didn't think I get this far. It was enjoyable though. Also nodes seem like a giant clusterfuck even if I did basic ones, if I wanna get more complex with a texture, it seems huge.
Pic in question Eevee, I'm unable to use Cycles
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 22:34:01 UTC No. 954834
>>954726
Even without denoising you'll run into issues where some frames need re-rendered.
Besides, 5 or so frames that need redone out of several thousand, I'd say that's pretty fucking stable.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 22:39:58 UTC No. 954835
>>954821
Nodes are pretty simple when you take the time to learn them. It seems overwhelming and complex, but if you've used anything like Photoshop layers and filters, it's not really all that different. It's just presented in a different way.
Just start small and do simple things like changing a texture's colors or something and work your way up.
As for your aimlessness... Just make fun scenes or something. Scenes are better for learning since you have to make a bunch of objects, and not just single ones. It also gets you learning composition and stuff as well. It's been close to 15 years since I was at your stage, but at the time I was just making shitty animations to show my friends.
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 22:50:16 UTC No. 954839
>>954835
Yeah, I'll keep going on making fun scenes. Maybe an environment this time.
Also, what's your 3D work now?
Anonymous at Fri, 11 Aug 2023 23:43:07 UTC No. 954843
>>954756
Any recommendations? I actually have wanted to shift away from Cycles ever since I found v-ray for doing physically realistic caustics.
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:11:45 UTC No. 954845
>>954843
Prman
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 06:59:49 UTC No. 954867
>>954839
>Also, what's your 3D work now?
Making shitty animations to show people online. But now I get paid for it.
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 08:13:35 UTC No. 954872
>you can't animate turning a collection on and off
every day blender disappoints me in some another way
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 14:10:50 UTC No. 954897
I just cannot get satisfactory cum string results.
It always looks more like a string than good, which makes sense since it's a cloth simulation, so the results always look okay but never truly amazing. I wonder how the other artists do it, they probably don't use cloth sim, but fuck me if i'm anything cum physics frame by frame
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 15:42:11 UTC No. 954900
okay 2 minutes to render a frame not too bad... but wait at 24 fps a 3 minutes animations... thats... jesus christ
i just want to go back to doing still frames
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:11:16 UTC No. 954907
>>954902
there is a reason it's crashing, find it and fix it. don't become complacent, don't compromise, accept only the best and finest.
Anonymous at Sat, 12 Aug 2023 21:20:33 UTC No. 954923
>>954872
Yeah it's fucking horrible. I think it's because collections themselves don't have a data block to animate like objects do.
Pretty sure you can do it with linked collections though.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 01:01:03 UTC No. 954936
>>954907
Yeah, its because my PC is friggin' 4GB of friggin' RAM.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 01:07:48 UTC No. 954937
>>954936
Get a job - LOL
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 04:13:31 UTC No. 954946
>>954937
Making indistinguishably canon FNaF commissions IS my job BITCH
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 07:38:07 UTC No. 954985
>>954946
if you get paid then buy more ram pleb, ram is so fucking cheap you can buy 8gb if you skip lunch
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 08:34:11 UTC No. 954986
>>954985
Oh yeah? Then maybe I WILL
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 10:43:53 UTC No. 954999
what is the difference between scenes and view layers?
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 11:51:21 UTC No. 955005
>>955004
no blur. Remember, Spiderman : Into the Spiderverse and its sequel, Beyond the Spiderverse (both of which used blender in production) did not use any motion blur.
Anonymous at Sun, 13 Aug 2023 16:19:00 UTC No. 955025
>>955005
and they both had that annoying low frame stuttering which made it look worse
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:01:15 UTC No. 955056
>>954730
Made another landscape. About 4ish hours on this one. I wish I would have added some kind of familiar object to the foreground help communicate scale. I am fairly happy with the level of detail in the foreground, though. I also think that this one has better depth than my previous one. I think the clouds are kind of sucky. I don't know. I think they need to be more detailed. Looking at it now, they look kind of bloby. I think the mountains could also have benefited from incorporating another rock texture. One seems passable but breaking up the surface uniformity with a second or third texture probably would have helped.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 03:02:16 UTC No. 955057
>>954821
Looks nice anon. I think a rim light to help separate the apples from the background would benefit the image. Also, the text on the knife is mirrored. The fabric looks nice. If you have a displacement map for it, you could make it appear much more 3D. Keep making diverse scenes.
>>955039
That's a pretty good model. Do some simulations and crush it.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:54:52 UTC No. 955064
>>955004
Motion blur is preferable imo, but I do hate rendering something only to find out it turned out terribly. If I could save the motion blur vectors separately or something and composite them after I'd be a happy camper. Vector blur is kinda that, but it just doesn't look as real to me and sometimes has weird errors.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 08:42:35 UTC No. 955077
Does anyone know whether two graphics cards will increase render speed? I have a second one but would have to upgrade my motherboard as well to utilise it.
>>952918
Funny that. I came from Max and thought Blender weird. There are some really weird things I still don't get in Blender though. Like, why can't I just delete materials I don't need. But once you can wrap your head around shit the rest is kinda intuitive in both
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:02:41 UTC No. 955078
blunder denoising is very impressive
i legit couldn't tell a difference between 128 samples and 2048 samples pic after denoising
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:04:27 UTC No. 955079
>>955039
Thats a great way to make yourself sick of 3d modeling and leave it forever
Don't model this boring shit
>look at me i'm extruding cylinders someone kill me please
model actually fun stuff like hot naked girls with dicks
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:07:12 UTC No. 955082
the fuck is up with lights, i have room with ambient ligfht set to 0 and i'm using only point lights but they seem to penetrate very poorly, like i have to crank them up to 100W to actually do a semi decent coverage, while in my basement at home i am using 10w bulbs and they put out way more light
All the models are scaled to be real world sized
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:48:19 UTC No. 955084
>>955078
its not temporal coherent nor accurate. There is a big loss of a detail and it doesnt hold up in animation. Simple as.
IF you want a good denoiser it has to be created via ai machine learning with multi frame sequential images (~7 frame sequences should suffice)
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:54:54 UTC No. 955087
when i make instance to scene from a collection it places the origin of that copy at some retarded location in the scene and i can't change it, the fuck?
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 11:56:02 UTC No. 955088
>>955084
>There is a big loss of a detail and it doesnt hold up in animation.
there isn't and it does
i just used it to render an animation and no noise is visible during playback
so this would only be issue in some super high detail scens
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 12:26:12 UTC No. 955094
>>955088
>there isn't and it does
you are blind and inexperienced. You lost all your detail, your result looks soft af and it doesnt hold up in animation.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:45:59 UTC No. 955104
>>955094
i have tried it both ways and it looks the same and my eyes work just fine
for most animations the temportal noise is simply not an issue, but whatever grandpa keep rendering your shit at 24000 samples for 10 years while my render will finish in 3 hours and be just as good
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 13:52:08 UTC No. 955106
>>955104
I'm literally rendering my results at 8 samples on a production renderer by Pixar and denoising it with their production proven AI denoiser used in actual full 3d animated movies. You don't know what you are talking about
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:39:04 UTC No. 955110
>>955079
anon please that was my third model ever and I had fun
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:19:15 UTC No. 955119
>>955110
texture it you little bitch
then load up HDR background add 2 more area lights so the lighting doesn't look like shit and then use some mesh nodes to add droplets of water on the surface of the can
then render and show us the result
aim higher than a silver blur inside of a white circle with a black blob around
it's time you learn that we, blender anons in this threat, won't accept anything less than absolute perfections
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:20:55 UTC No. 955121
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:22:17 UTC No. 955122
>>955121
he was just being nice, but sadly niceness breeds complacency
it makes you think "good enough" when in reality if you walked into Pixar and show them that, they would kill you on the spot.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 19:56:40 UTC No. 955137
Watching an animation being rendered is like watching paint dry
i'm just praying i didn't forget to turn one some physics sim somehwere or some shit coz i ain't rerendering this shit
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:19:49 UTC No. 955160
>>955077
I'm not sure, but I feel like at that point you're limited by your CPU. After all you still have to wait for the shit to compile before it's sent to render.
If you have a really good CPU with overhead when rendering with 1 GPU, then yeah 2 would probably give you gains, but if you're skating by with your CPU, 2 GPUS might actually be around the same speed or slightly faster than you have with 1. Actual "RENDERING", like putting pixels down would definitely be faster, but that bit right before that sometimes takes longer than the time it actually takes to render the frame will be the deciding factor.
>why can't I just delete materials I don't need
You can. In the little dropdown in the outliner, change it to "Blender File" and you can completely delete any datablock in the file. Hitting the X on materials just removes it from the current user. If a material doesn't have any users when the file is saved and reloaded, then it's removed from the file (unless you click the little shield icon).
You can skip all that by just doing the shit in the Blender File though. It's actually pretty useful when it comes to all sorts of shit. Particularly remapping a material that a bunch of objects use but you can't see all of them, to another material.
Anonymous at Mon, 14 Aug 2023 22:21:57 UTC No. 955161
>>955094
>render at 4k with denoising, with a sample count that renders in a comparable time to target resolution
>downsample
>????
>profit
Please just kill yourself at this point. You haven't given any good advice to people except telling them wrong information.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 00:18:04 UTC No. 955172
>>955025
Fucking this. I hope the industry doesn't start copying that. A whole generation of future artists are being influenced by it now. It's like watching stop motion, but there's no excuse for it looking like shit.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:28:07 UTC No. 955174
>>955161
the resolution does not matter. You do not need to render very high with Pixar's state of the art denoiser.
wean yourself off of toy renderers
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:06:18 UTC No. 955193
Anyone know how to take 2 actions and blend them together in the NLA editor?
When I do it the armature spazzes the fuck out.
Further context (it's porn shit, so fair warning).
Got some tentacle action going in every hole. I had it all on a single action, but I decided I might have some better control over each part of the anim if I separated each out (ass/mouth/vag) by just duplicating the action and deleting the keyframes on the other tentacles, and then blended them together in the NLA editor. In my head, I figured that the bones that don't move would be unaffected and stay put, and the tentacles that do move in their respective action would just do their thing, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
It's just the tentacles that are moving (the rest of the bones are keyframed but in static positions), but when I go to add them all together it makes every bone spaz out (same happens when using combine).
I'm guessing it's because each action has the rest of the armature keyframed for the static pose, it's combining those as well and throwing the whole thing off.
That being said, I'm not sure what the approach to fix it is. Have an action with ALL the bones (including tentacles) static, and then overlay the actions with the tentacles moving (and delete all of the other bone's keyframes)?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 07:15:08 UTC No. 955194
>>955193
I feel retarded now for typing all of that out and asking since the time it would take to test it out would have taken the same amount of time.
For anyone wondering, yeah, removing all the keyframes but the tentacles on their actions, and then making a "pose" action and removing the tentacle animation from that works. I don't even need to change blending modes, they just overlay naturally.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:14:25 UTC No. 955201
if i understand it correctly to use animation like mixamo i have to use their rig, because the animations are keyframes for the rig bones, so what if i have my own custom rig? can i somehow transfer thos animations?
like the mixamo has keyframes on the leg bone, and my rig also has a leg bone so can i just put it on that somehow?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:43:08 UTC No. 955202
>>955201
The word you're looking for is "retargeting"
There's a addon called Rococo or something that can do that for you. I don't remember the exact name, but it was supposed to be used in conjunction with a mocap suit they offer, but the retargeting works without it, and the addon is free.
I've never used it though, so I can't speak for how well it does its job.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:34:11 UTC No. 955212
>>955202
addon? is it not a thing that is commonly done and thus a built in blender feature?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:47:00 UTC No. 955219
>>955202
the fuck is this gay shit?
blender should ban this shit
plugins that can work offline should not be allowed to require stupid ass login
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:10:33 UTC No. 955223
is it possible to set object A to always render in front of object B? Even if B is in front of A?
Any other objects should be unaffected, just these two. I simply need A to be always visible in front of B.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 18:38:47 UTC No. 955226
>>955223
render? no.
comp layers, yes.
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:44:48 UTC No. 955232
>>955226
is it possible to do it in a way where i don't have to render the scene twice every frame?
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:53:19 UTC No. 955233
>>955232
attach the compositors output to your render chain
Anonymous at Tue, 15 Aug 2023 20:17:15 UTC No. 955236
>>955235
you have to mask your objects dude
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 05:55:21 UTC No. 955284
>>955212
>is it not a thing that is commonly done and thus a built in blender feature?
I don't think so. But I'm not an expert on mocap or retargeting. I always figured when you mocap you do it for the rig you're intending to use the data for.
Theoretically, I think blender just checks for bone names when importing mocap data, so I think you can just use the data as long as your bones are the same name, and it'll ignore the ones it doesn't have. I might be talking out of my ass though.
>>955219
>plugins that can work offline should not be allowed to require stupid ass login
I agree. I didn't know it needed all that, I just knew offhand via word of mouth that it handles retargeting.
I figured something is better than nothing. I'm sure there's other addons that do the same thing, that's just the only one I knew of off the top of my head.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 06:28:38 UTC No. 955286
>>955284
>I figured something is better than nothing
can't you just simply use bone constraint that copies location and rotation for each bone?
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 06:44:26 UTC No. 955288
>>955286
Yeah I don't see why not. It's just that the process is a good bit of manual tedious work since you have to do it for every bone. Or at least just the ones you want to move.
I guess you could write a script for it that checks for names or something.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 17:18:43 UTC No. 955333
fuck i'm dumb, i have 3 minute animation where 10 seconds of it character looks at a phone screen that plays a video from a scene camera
so i had compositor with second render node setup which means i was basically doubling the render time of each frame since it had to render 2 each time when the phone screen is only visible 10 seconds, i realized i could just render it without it and then after that just delete the frames with the phone and only render those with the render bubble on saving myself two days of render time
good job retard you played yourself ;_;
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:17:07 UTC No. 955358
>>955333
Ya gotta love it.
Bonus points, if the scene where the phone was largely static (like it's just a close up of the screen), you could have just rendered like 2-3 frames, looped it and then comped the screen on top.
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:19:53 UTC No. 955359
>>955358
shieet i keep restarting the render, having it run for several hours, then find some flaw in the animation, stop the render, fix it, restart render
this will take forever
but i am glad i'm going back to fix those errors, they are only small, people probably wouldn't even care, but they would annoy the living shit out of me seeing them every time i hit play and it will feel so good after its done knowing i took all the extra time to fix it
and then i will get probably 3 views on the video and rope
Anonymous at Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:26:34 UTC No. 955362
>>955359
>shieet i keep restarting the render, having it run for several hours, then find some flaw in the animation, stop the render, fix it, restart render
If I had a dollar for every time that shit has happened, I'd actually be able to say I "made it" with 3d.
It's a never-ending struggle. Best advice I can offer is if you can just render a section of the offending area and patch it over your existing footage, it'll save a ton of time.
Granted, a lot of the shit I do is loops from a single angle, so that shit is pretty easy, but it works for anims where the camera moves as well.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 01:08:47 UTC No. 955385
>>955378
use industry standard tools like Adobe Substance 3d Painter
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 07:22:38 UTC No. 955404
>>955378
Not like that. If you want it to be even, you're gonna have to make sure your UVs are even. The model you have now is super easy to unwrap. Excluding the windows and the top and bottom faces, you can do the whole thing in a single seam. Just plop one down on any of the edges, and a ring around the top and bottom. For the windows just put some seams in the corners and that's all you need.
If UV unwrapping is still too daunting (it's incredibly simple) for a texture like that and how you're doing it, I don't see why you wouldn't use something like object coordinates. Can't be any worse than what you're doing now.
>>955385
Just fucking stop. SP won't help fucked up UVs.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:43:28 UTC No. 955428
>>955404
>Just fucking stop. SP won't help fucked up UVs.
yeah, they will actually. Its called triplanar projection, blendie
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:54:07 UTC No. 955432
The time i allotted for completing the animation i wanted to do was 5 days.
I am now on week 4.
How do i make it stop?
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:08:50 UTC No. 955434
>>955432
do your animation in industry standard maya with animbot
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:28:07 UTC No. 955437
>>955428
Blender has an equivalent (box project on image texture nodes). And from what I've seen, SP's triplanar projection doesn't change the UVs, it avoids using them by using a different projection method.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:28:54 UTC No. 955438
>>955437
exactly what you want
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:35:20 UTC No. 955440
>>955438
Ok, so don't pretend triplanar projection is SP's gotcha over blender. Brag about the texture painting or something like normal.
>inb4 seeth blendie x3
I think Substance Painter is very good from the small amount I've used it, actually.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:43:28 UTC No. 955444
>>955440
>so don't pretend triplanar projection is SP's gotcha over blender.
Painter is industry standard for a reason my guy
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:56:45 UTC No. 955452
>>955444
Yeah it is, and it's leaps and bounds above Blender in many areas. But triplanar projection is not a +1 for SP, blender has something that is functionally the same. Up your shill game, disapointing.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:58:09 UTC No. 955454
>>955452
Dude, triplanar in Painter is one click. You're going to have to try harder.
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:28:32 UTC No. 955458
>>955432
use AI
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:44:30 UTC No. 955503
https://www.blender.org/download/lt
Blender 3.6.2 LTS August 17, 2023
UPDATE NOW
Anonymous at Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:51:48 UTC No. 955505
>>955503
"no"
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:29:27 UTC No. 955512
>>955432
Give up.
Or make a ton of excuses.
Or just suck it up and start working. If you're drained on grinding the same part of the animation, shift to another part of it and work on something small so you feel like you're making some kind of progress. Every step forward is good, even if they're super tiny shuffles.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:51:04 UTC No. 955521
>>955121
The model looks good, but that schizo is right about you needing textures. There's no real excuse for not downloading a label and putting it on your can.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 05:59:37 UTC No. 955523
So I'm using blender to edit a model for genshin to use with GIMI. The model looks fine in blender (right img), but in-game (left img), it looks distorted. I've adjusted the weight paint, the vertex groups, and the UV maps to no avail. When editing the model, I had to connect the midriff to around the middle of her breasts since there were no vertices or faces under the dress. I would understand if those parts were distorted, but the top half of the breasts wasn't edited. Any clue as to what might be part of the problem? Not asking for fixes, just general opinions on what might be causing issues so I can look in that general area.
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:48:57 UTC No. 955531
how does the multilayer open ex file format work?
if i have render node in compositor going into vector blur node going into file output node which saves is as multilayer ex does that mean the blur is saved on different layer so i can remove it later if i want?
Anonymous at Fri, 18 Aug 2023 21:31:09 UTC No. 955592
fuuuuck i ran out of space on the hdd which means the last 1500 frames i rendered didn't save.
i can't believe blender didn't fucking toss up a warning and made me think everything was fine
so i basically wasted a full day
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 08:49:35 UTC No. 955629
wow i disabled cpu so the render is only running on gpu and by pc stopped lagging and render time dropped by 20%
good job blender, you failed me again
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 16:58:10 UTC No. 955669
I deleted some frames form an animation, unchecked the overwrite files in render settings and hit render animations and isntead ob blender instantly skipping to a missing frame it's moving incredibly slowly through the time line at like 1fps, what the fuck? why can't it skip to the missing file directy?
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:11:00 UTC No. 955670
>>955669
thats not how deleting frames work, kiddo
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:12:31 UTC No. 955673
>>955670
well it is working just fine, but what annoys me is how blender goes frame by frame instead of scanning he directory and quickly checking for the next frame number that don't exist
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 17:46:42 UTC No. 955679
>>955673
It usually does skip to the missing frames, it must be doing something else like outputting something you're not aware of
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:46:15 UTC No. 955690
>>955606
done with this for now
there's probably much better ways I could be texturing besides just finding an image online, throwing them in blender and then having to tweak in photoshop if they look bad, takes ages this way
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 20:57:04 UTC No. 955694
>>955629
That's your fault, not Blender's.
See the bit in >>955160 about using 2 GPUs to render. It's a similar premise.
You're using the CPU to render frames, AND compute for both itself and the GPU. You're giving the CPU double the work, but I doubt you have the overhead to do it. So no shit your computer started "lagging", and renders took longer.
1. You have no CPU power to spare for you to look up gay furry vore porn, and 2. Your GPU has to wait for your CPU to finish rendering so that the CPU can calculate the next frame for it.
>>955690
>there's probably much better ways I could be texturing
Substance Painter might blow your mind then.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:17:01 UTC No. 955697
>>953873
Learning addon basics will help you a ton, though you could also use geometry nodes, extra objects or extra curves also supports it IIRC but not sure in which dimensions
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:32:11 UTC No. 955699
>>953991
Get the cheapest non-screen one you can afford, I'd say. You may well find that you'd just rather use your mouse for rigging.
Then you can upgrade based on what you've discovered using the cheap one and make sure you spend based on what you need.
Anonymous at Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:41:26 UTC No. 955700
>>952838
When I'm in cycles, the skin of this model has a greenish and reddish look to it that I can't seem to get rid off in any other way but to disconnect the SSS and set it to 0. Without SSS, the skin looks weird up close, though. As I understand, I would have to fix it via the subsurface radius. But I can't get to that option. That option is only found under principled bdsf shader nodes but that's not what is used here, what do I do?
Left is with SSS connected, right with SSS disconnected and far right is how the whole thing is set up, it just begins with image textures. Idk how to bring subsurface radius into the mix.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 01:33:41 UTC No. 955710
>>955700
Click on the little node icon with the '8' on it in the top right corner of the MorriganSkinCycles node. That will bring you into the custom node group where you'd get access to the underlying BSDF nodes.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 07:16:41 UTC No. 955732
I am making a donut. I am currently animating it, and I can't figure out how to get the animation to loop smoothly. When it goes from the end (final frame is 300, final keyframe is set to 301) back to frame 1, there is a jump, and I can't figure out how to eliminate that so it's a smooth loop.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 07:59:58 UTC No. 955734
>>955732
Linear interpolation?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 13:56:18 UTC No. 955747
how do i make a scene look as if the camera is under water?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 21:47:02 UTC No. 955771
do I really need to learn manual UV mapping and how to use seams for texturing low poly?
why can't I just get away with using unwrap, smart UV project, a bit of cube projection and project from view? what's the downside?
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:30:39 UTC No. 955777
>>955700
look inside the node group
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:43:59 UTC No. 955778
>>955747
Study reference. Thick blueish volumetrics l
(to emulate absorption of shorter wavelengths aka red light) lots of floating tiny particulates (possibly highlighted by godrays), water caustics.
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:49:09 UTC No. 955779
>>955747
>>955778
Compositor vignette, chromatic aberration (stronger toward edges) and blur on near-edge objects, lens distortion may also help sell it but I'm not sure
Anonymous at Sun, 20 Aug 2023 23:44:57 UTC No. 955783
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 01:28:47 UTC No. 955791
>>955734
I tried that on the first keyframe. I am going to try it on the final keyframe.
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 08:03:55 UTC No. 955806
taking days to render an animation is so damn annoying
i can't even do anything else like play games on the pc during render so i just sit here watching anime and feel like i'm wasting precious time
i am very tempted to use evee but cycles just looks so much damn better
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 09:56:25 UTC No. 955809
>>955806
Have you really done everything in the book to reduce render times? How long is that animation, dayum
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 11:11:59 UTC No. 955813
>>955809
>Have you really done everything in the book to reduce render times?
yes i looked up several tutorials, the animation is about 3 minutes long and i'm even cheating and only rendering half of the frames frame and interpolating rest with ai
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:00:10 UTC No. 955869
after 3 weeks of toiling away i have finally finished my first lewd animation and now i'm about to post it on lewd sites but i am stuck on coming up with my lewd artist name since i can't use my usual nickname for obvious reasons
fug this is hard, since i'm gonna be stuck with it forever, so i need to choose carefully
Anonymous at Mon, 21 Aug 2023 22:59:51 UTC No. 955872
>>955869
I used an anagram of my usual nickname
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 10:54:15 UTC No. 955906
>>955141
Rig it. See how it deforms.
>when?
Before moving on to textures.
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 20:30:35 UTC No. 955960
>>955869
No, you can just announce it, link it in comments or whatever. At worst, you'll lose a couple of followers if you really want to change.
Anonymous at Tue, 22 Aug 2023 23:58:42 UTC No. 955981
is there a way to place down textures from a preset palette of sorts, without having to manually set the UVs?
sort of like how it works in 2D engines, pic related
it's taking me way too long to make shit like this when I know the textures fit perfectly into 1:1 ratios and squares
having to line up UVs perfectly to the edge of the image texture just feels silly
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:52:07 UTC No. 956010
>>955981
So you're not using snapping? In the toolbar of the UV editor window, turn on snapping, set to Increment, tick Absolute Grid Snap. Then over in the overlays menu (picrel), set to Fixed and then adjust the subdivisions to suit your needs.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 08:04:30 UTC No. 956011
>>956010
Also adding that you may want to turn off absolute grid snap if your UVs are snapping to the halfway points of where you want them to go
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:42:14 UTC No. 956032
>>955806
I'm seriously considering getting a 3060 for my second, older computer, just so my main machine can spend its time rendering, and the second machine can allow me to keep animating/modeling/etc.
Anonymous at Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:47:53 UTC No. 956033
Had fun making some cracked glass. If I wanted to animate a crack in the glass snaking its way through the glass, how would I do that? The shattering is simple enough with physics, but I've got no idea how to animate the cracks spreading throughout the glass. I get the feeling its beyond the scope of Blender. That, or it'd be best to just use a 2D effect for the glass cracking, then transition to a cell fraction for the animated portion, and add a bit of dust so people don't notice the pieces aren't the same as the cracks spreading.
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 04:05:12 UTC No. 956103
>>956033
looks like an oil painting, very nice
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:26:55 UTC No. 956117
jesus why are facial expressions so hard
animating normal limbs movement and shit is fine, but facials are such a pain in the ass
either you can't tell the emotion or it looks straight up retarded
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:17:39 UTC No. 956136
>>955082
Blender actually assumes lights are 100% efficient, so 100W in Blender is brighter than any real 100W light. The reason it looks dim is because your eyes automatically adjust exposure by changing pupil size. Blender lets you change exposure manually in Render Properties tab, Color Management, Exposure.
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 20:40:13 UTC No. 956169
yayyy my lewd animation i posted already has almost 2000 views, i know it's not a lot but it is to me, i thought it will get like 20
it feels amazing knowing people enjoy my work and bust nuts to it
it's giving me this huge drive to jump right back into blender and make another one
this is such a huge difference with the non lewd animations i made and posted on youtube, nobody gave a shit about those and it killed my motivation
it's true what they say, animation porn is working on easy mode
Anonymous at Thu, 24 Aug 2023 21:11:32 UTC No. 956171
>>956117
use a facial muscle system
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:35:09 UTC No. 956198
If i have armature in blender, make some animations for it and then let's say i have copy of that armature, same amount of bones, same bone names
How can i take the animation from armature 1 and put it on armature 2?
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 10:09:54 UTC No. 956199
>>956171
yeah just use WETA bro it's so easy bro just become billion dollar animation studio
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:08:52 UTC No. 956213
i'm not sure what am i doing wrong here, i downloaded a model from blendswap, i opened it in blender and the model is there but the textures aren't visible, even when i go into material preview or cycles preview the textures aren't visible
when i click on the model go to edit mode and then UV mapping tab, i can see the texture image and also the correctly unwrapped faces from the model placed on that texture, so why don't i see the texture on the model? it's just white
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 14:29:31 UTC No. 956215
>>956169
over 7k views now, holy shit this feels so good, i bet those bigger animators who get like 1m views per video must feel like gods
alright i'm starting a new project, i'm charged with energy and i'm officially a smut animator now
Anonymous at Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:28:37 UTC No. 956231
>>956213
Go to the shading tab and check the base color slot on the Principled BSDF node. It should be hooked up to an image texture. If it is, check that the image texture node is correctly pointing to the image.
Anonymous at Sat, 26 Aug 2023 13:57:12 UTC No. 956287
>trawling through the archive
>find an Anon saying he uses Sprytile and that all his textures are 64x64
>too retarded to figure out how that even makes sense, since not all objects in his scenes are perfect squares
how do you use a 64x64 texture on something like a locker or a light in this pic? I wish I wasn't retarded
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:58:28 UTC No. 956375
>>956213
You're in a texture view, right? Not in solid view, right?
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:10:22 UTC No. 956409
>>956375
yes i'm not a retard
>>956231
the vsdf node was there but no image node so i added it and it works now
but it's weird the author of that model surely made it correctly so why did blender fuck it up
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:28:49 UTC No. 956417
is there any hotkey or something to quickly switch between cameras?
Say i have 5 cameras in the scene and i want to quickly toggle which one is the active one without having to right click it and set as active.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 13:38:27 UTC No. 956420
>>956417
You can if you set camera markers in the timeline with ctrl+b, which is meant for switching cameras during animation, but can work for your purpose if you set a hotkey for jumping to the next/previous marker.
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 18:00:08 UTC No. 956443
>>956441
the ceiling beams seem a bit too glossy and reflective, the amount of light it's picking up from the fairy lights seems off
other than that, looking good
Anonymous at Sun, 27 Aug 2023 22:06:39 UTC No. 956453
Is 3.6.2 fucking bugged or what? I was working on my scene and when I hit bake for the cloth physics it took 2 fucking minutes for one single frame to bake, and that was with the default settings, without self collisions. Decided to test it on a new file, added collision to the default cube and put a plane made of 256 faces above it with cloth psychics, quality set to 3, no self. Same shit, 1 minute per frame, which is unreal, a month ago I could bake 5 frames per second with better settings. Looking into task manager shows blender barely uses the gpu or the cpu during bake. I'm retarded, and have missed a setting, or is it like this for everyone else?
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:35:01 UTC No. 956465
FUCKING PIECE OF SHIT GRID SNAP AND BLENDER AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
it's such a joke. it's set to Global, Snap to Increment, Absolute Grid Snap, affect Move, Rotate and Scale
yet it still fucks me, either with insane sizing like in this webm, or just deciding that the grid I want it to use is no good so it'll do an insanely smaller one that might as well not be a grid
even getting it to stick to the floor grid is a nightmare. and when I scale down the cube, it just decides to ignore the grid entirely
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Aug 2023 02:36:04 UTC No. 956466
>>956465
pic related, piece of shit giant cube scaled down that now decides it's too good for any kind of grid that's useful to me, because fuck consistent sizing and actually doing what it's told
Anonymous at Mon, 28 Aug 2023 07:53:13 UTC No. 956476
>>956465
I don't really understand this one, the huge cube seems to be snapping to the grid, but in smaller increments because of the scale of the cube? Isn't that what it's supposed to do, unless you want the grid to dynamically change based on the scale of the object?
>>956467
Hold ctrl while you extrude
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:16:22 UTC No. 956612
>>952838
How can I select the surface of a very complex cavity without having to manually navigate the camera inside the object to select all the parts?
I tried using the wireframe visuals, but then I have to manually deselect the exterior
Anonymous at Tue, 29 Aug 2023 19:43:41 UTC No. 956618
>pablo skips another week
I hate blender today so much its unreal.
Anonymous at Fri, 1 Sep 2023 15:27:47 UTC No. 956842
not sure what i did but somehow i managed to make a text window in blender fullscreen and now i don't know how to exit, esc and f11 aren't working
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 06:31:53 UTC No. 956976
I created a cone, then I duplicated the bottom face of the wide end in wireframe, brought it down, and used F to create faces between each set of 4 vertices, one by one, so the result is what you see there, a cone with a cylindrical base. Was there a faster way to do this?
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 06:50:03 UTC No. 956978
>>956976
E to extrude?
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 06:54:57 UTC No. 956979
>>956978
Would that have created additional verteces with the associated faces? If so, then it seems that would be the answer.
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 06:57:20 UTC No. 956980
>>956979
Yes it keeps your mesh manifold, meaning no holes, and no unwanted faces inside the mesh
Anonymous at Sun, 3 Sep 2023 07:03:30 UTC No. 956981
>>956980
very nice. Thanks anon