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>>274425
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can i see some the work you guys do on blender?

>>274429
nothing good im afraid

i'm not that great either

Another Blender user here

3ds max master race here.

Blender is great for a free piece of software. Anyone that disagrees is a massive faggot elitist

hey i'm poor what can i say

>Buying software
>2012
What are you some kind of faggot?

Another blenderfag sounding off. Render is old, haven't worked on it in a while.

>>274434
Wow this is awesome! I am starting out and not really getting anywhere major in a hurry, any tips?

Is there a specific tutorial for a storm trooper helmet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dow8SnAntiY&feature=channel&list=UL this guy is also a beginner but he teaches pretty well and if you want too get started on modelling right away http://www.youtube.com/user/weeliano/videos his tuts are fairly easy too follow and he explains a lot of things

other than that YouTube and Google is your friend

I'm not super excited to be using Blender (and it shows in my work), but the price is right, and I'm in a position where using pirated Autodesk products could get me into trouble.

blender user here, pic related, made entirely in blender and rendered in blender internal

I like programing more than modelling, but damn, I dont have anybody that can make them so I have to do all the models by myself for the game I'm making.

Heres a pic of a render, its sucks though.

Blender is cool though I take to much time to model something. must be my shitty skills.

#model is sopossed to be really low poly and shitty texture size.

BTW poorfag here.

>My visage when Blenderfags are the only cunts making 3D here in /3/.

saged, called the cops, revived goku

There's also me.
I never finished this shit because Cycles can't render clouds yet it seems.

>>274530
Care to explain how you make this kind of style?

>>274475
gee a programmer who makes his own art, what a surprise. i always go to amateur game dev vidya threads and try to work on 3d games.. and always i get shit.

>>274475

Did you even use smooth shading for that?

>>274530

Render the clouds in another layer with blender render.

loving Blender

Started using blender a few weeks ago, originaly used max. I like it alot. Though no Ngons sometimes pisses me off, And the bevel is a shitty modifier.

>>274578

ngons will be in the next version.

>>274578
Bevel used to be so much better in 2.4x, it did what it was supposed to, I guess you could just extract that tool and force it into 2.6x

>>274596
>implying anyone on 3 has ever even seen a git

>>274593
really? thats really awesome. I really like blender for most other things, the game engine is a nice thing, the cycles renderer is extremely awesome, and auto rendering is a great feature.
>>274596
I remember finding while googlin about bevel on blender something about what you said, maybe it was an addon. Ill check it out.

If youre using 2.62 & are still using the modifier to bevel you deserve a slap.

>>274613

So what do you use?

>>274614
c4d

>>274531
It's just lowpoly rendered with cycles and a few post production effects.

>>274561
I started to do that but it turned out to bee too much trouble.

The two best sources for learning Blender:
http://cgcookie.com/blender/
...specifically http://cgcookie.com/blender/category/getting-started/ for complete beginners
and
http://dev.blenderguru.com/index.php

Also, if you want to understand how something specific works (hit of miss):
http://wiki.blender.org/

And to stay decently up to date on developments:
http://www.blendernation.com/

>>274658

Blendernerd and some other site I can't remember are also great.

>>274530
How long have you been modelling?

>>274679
3 years or so. But I barely do any 3D most of the time, so if you ask the actual time spent modeling it's probably more similar to 6 months.

>>274597
I'm actually a coder and not a modeler. I just hang out here because I'm a little jealous.

Not to be technical, but Blender uses an SVN repository.

>>274791
That is incredible. I can not wait to see what you achieve in the future.

>>274593
I remember when you started this peace, it was from a 2d image right? You had some questions about how to aproach it. It came out great ma.

Hello /3/ this is my first ever post in /3/
Just started learning blender. I get the feeling i'm not going to be any good for a while though, but just dropping in to say hi. hi

>>274831

when your teaching yourself. you always should go with simple shit like glases, mugs, pots and so on. later go to more complicated like weapons, car and end with heavy shit like huge carriers and spaceship with naked people.

>>274578
The integration of "BMesh" will allow n-gons and some new modeling tools for Blender 2.63 which should be released soon (in April).

If you want to try it you can get clean builds from here:
http://builder.blender.org/download/

The most noticeable tools are the new knife tool (K), inset (Ctrl+F) and bridge (Ctrl+E).

But you also have dissolve (X), vertex slide (Shift+V), vertex connect (J) and a very broken bevel tool (Ctrl+F). There is however work being done on a new bevel addon which looks very promising so far.


>>274596
>I guess you could just extract that tool and force it into 2.6x
What? No.

>>274837
The Knife tool has been in blender for months, it's nothing new

>>274848
I'm well aware that <= 2.62 has a knife tool but it sucks in comparison to the one in BMesh.

>Aquire Radeon 5670
>Have a Athlon64 2400k
Sculpt "limit" is roughly 20 million polygons before the performance is too lackluster to be usable in scrulptmode. FUCK YEAH!

>>274932
A protip btw. Multitexture and Singletexture are software algorythms, so their are not good for sculpting. You also need to have VBOs enabled, otherwise there is a hefty performance decrease.
Also: On some Nvidia cards, using double sided drawing will eat the performance, its under the Objects "Object Data" tab, the triangle icon, uncheck "Double Sided".

andrew prices tuts are pretty cool

>>274937
Multi-texture and single texture are certainly not "software algorithms." GLSL can be a lot slower than those.

>>274975
"Can be" is not the case when it comes to sculpting.

And you know "software != slow", Opera has a example on this, their software renderer is still faster than their GPU renderer except on raw performance benching.

>>274982
But it all goes through OpenGL and all of those paths should be hardware accelerated for a decade.

I do not know what your experience is, but GLSL is usually slower than the other methods, especially in sculpting. That is one reason why I proposed rewriting the viewport rendering code this summer.

>>274814
Thanks.
I guess some of the stuff "sunk in" while I wasn't modeling in some way.
I'm working on making a 3D game now actually with a fellow artbro, since actually my career is Comp Engineering.

>>274425
>how many use blender here?

>I'll never use blender till I can rig a skirt properly

Imported from Ldraw.

can you use direct x with blender instead of open gl?

>>275113
My first ever render with YafaRay.

>>275174
Use smooth shading on the cylindrical pieces

>>275158
No.

>>275188
The geometry of an Ldraw export is terrible, I am afraid that checking smooth just doesn't have any effect on the geometry.

Bored.

>>275819
That's actually a pretty cool composition, you should add onto it.

>>275819

How did you set the triad rule or whatever its name is?

>>275820
Wow, really? Thanks!

>>275821
When you select the camera and go into its options in the side menus (along with the are you can set focal length and aperture bits), there is a menu dedicated to camera overlays.

>>275819
I am having a problem with it, though. Renders are coming out far darker than the render preview mode suggests. What is up with that?

>>274425

On graphicall.org they released the tile compositor branch for windows 32 and 64 bit. It's glitchy as fuck but its nice to see the openCL compositor being ported over to the windows architechture probably. Ya'll should check it out

http://youtu.be/O24zoxHFpuQ

just uploaded

So, how do I know when the LuxRender is finished? I want to get back to working on some vases, a fireplace, and maybe a small rug later, but this noise amount is crazy.

>>276196
You use unbiased rendering? It's ready when you think it's ready (when there is little noise left).

this thread explains why the vast majority of /3/ is talentless

>>276196
can luxrender do blender particle hair and SSS?

>>276355
Yeah, I read the FAQs right after posting in this thread.

>>276375
WAT.

>>276378
I'm not sure, but I think it can do hair right now.

me
>realtime screensot

Workin' on it.

Trying to write an article for Blender Art Magazine about compositing without going through a whole lot of the complicated stuff that scares newbs away from nodes.

Is there any reason to pay for 3ds max when you can use blender?

Blender user right here

>>277018
Mind showing off your wires?

>>276969

Your original image and composition was cool, but you are going in the wrong direction imo. The desaturated look and subtle lighting would have looked nice as a dirty, old, used up apartment. Now it looks completely like every other arch viz render: Perfectly clean, bland, and boring.

I could even imaging throwing in some color into the original desaturated image for contrast. Like, the manufactured objects growing old covered in dirt and dust, desaturated; while plants have started creeping in from the direction of the light adding vibrance to the otherwise dull and broken scene.

Take it how you will, I just think going in the stereotypical "Perfect Arch Viz Render" direction won't make your scene stand out.

>>276969
are you doing that one cg cookie tutorial

>>276979
Honestly it's just better, has better support and more standardized practices in it. You'll find hundreds of books and classes for a program like that, not so much for Blender (and with Blender's recent stupid overhaual, anything written before 2.5 isn't valid anymore).

>Blender

>>277031
I pulled out how to make a chair from that, but everything else is just kinda "whatever works."

>will not touch blender till I know how to rig a skirt on that shit.

>>277026
Thanks for your advice, I'll definitely toy with it more now. I just don't want to end up looking like pic related.

>>277116
Stop trying to force your shitty meme.

>>277116

why dont you figure that out?

I really like Blender because the interface doesn't require multiple monitors unlike some professional programs. It also demands very little CPU power unless you want good renders. Nice for precise vertex construction.

The cons:
1. The new layout has been difficult to decipher
2. Some features have to be re-activated in the User Preferences panel
3. Floor constraint still doesn't work
4. No muscles or jigglebones
5. All ambient lighting options just make everything look grainy

whenever I feel like my 3d is shit
i come to /3/
and i start feeling great again

Some of you stink :D

test

I had time to kill before class the other day.

And this other time I just got finished playing Dwarf Fortress(much "fun" was had) I wanted to make a Warhammer apable of pounding Goblins into dust REALLY BAD.

>>277293
Fix the handle.
Handles don't work that way.

>>277278
Hey, what the fuck, man? Ever hear of constructive criticism?

>>275174

get your lazy ass up and remodell those bricks. Direct import from LDraw looks like shit.

Here's an example for remodelled Lego-bricks

>>277293

How did you create all those tricky shapes?

>>277338
he probably sculpted a lot of the little details

>>277339
Eh?
I can't see anything that would require sculpting

>>277324
Oh hey, commercial guy! What was your process for modelling bricks?

>>277398
I think I saw this guy in the WIP thread, or someone similar.
He modeled every brick and followed the actual construction manual.
Every.
Fucking.
Brick.
Dude put the effort in

>>277402
Yeah, watching the ships go up was really neat. The entire stud/coupling setup of the bricks though seems incredibly difficult.

>>277398
>>277402

Yes every fucking brick. The big ship had 1664, the little about 950 and the isle about 350.

Well first I made a brick with hard edges and then I selected the visible edges and beveled them with just one division.

The material was shader based and had a HDRI in enviroment channel.

For most of the bricks I was able to use the LeoCAD exports to look up for the length and so on, but some pieces weren't in their database so I had to meassure them by hand ( I bought the real thing).
e.g. the front of the ship or the mast.

If you have any questions you can write on my blog if you want, it's all german but you can write questions in english, no prob

http://wendel-design.net/Blog/?p=406

I use C4D, but I think you know how to get that stuff started in blender.

guys, i just started 3D again after a few years, and I wanted to do a certain thing that I forgot the name of.
I think it was called normal mapping? Where you have a low poly model, and you bake a higher poly/higher detailed one onto it.

Is this what it's called? and it this possible with blender?

>>277445
Wow, that is a very high attention to detail you put into this. Are the bricks correct on their undersides with their couplings?

Also, general question to Blender users in the crowd, how do I bevel and chamfer in Blender?

>>277025

no problem here you have

>>277477
Wow, looks great! Thanks, I was just curious about the areas between the fingers and wanted to see you how went about it.

>>274434
can you post your blend file for me?

>>277474

thank you

I accidently bottom side.This bad?

I guess that was 90% unnecessary cause there were just a few bottom sides of the bricks to see but I wanted to do it complete. (autism.jpg)

>>277517
here's another of the top

>>277517
>2012
>appreciating praise from someone who doesnt know how to bevel or chamfer

ISHYGDDT

>>277517
>>277519
Wow, just what I expected, really high attention to detail there. Are the couplings just cylinders joined to the brick walls,?

>>277478

here you have the basic shape after that i just add a subsurf modifier

i hope you can clear your doubts

>>277575
I never doubted you, I just like seeing how people solve problems.

>>277581

I thought you wanted to model a similar hand and you were experiencing some problems

>>277565
yes, but I merged them into one polygon object and deleted the unseen polys.

>>277700
Wow, about how long did it take you to model a standard brick?

1,5 Minutes

>>277836
Oh, that isn't bad until you think about the scale of what you were doing. I'll definitely give a few bricks a shot to practicing beveling now.

>>276969
Well, I quit this render. Just going to start something new and move on from there.

>>277984
/3/ is not /b/

Everyday I discover something new in 3d then i waste a day trying to do it in blender only to discover it cant really do it.
I waste hours because people cant explain things simply, hours waiting for people to get back to me cos theres no documentation & what theyve written doesnt quite work.
Using blender is much like dragging my face across a cheese grater. god i wish id have picked some other program to get comfortable with. my life is hell, i hate you blender i really do.

>bawwwwww open source it doesnt have a feature and im too stupid to spend a week learning C bawwwwww

>>278230
oh shut up.

>>278231
lol what CAN u program in? Python at least? I mean, even a child can code py...

>>278232
I have for some reason been here from the beginning, you post the same shit over and over and over but ive never seen you post anything half intelligent. You just get quite tiring.

>>278233
stfu newfag

>>278234
If all you are is a tape recorder whats the point of your existence?

>>278234
>If all you are is a tape recorder whats the point of your existence?

WHY IS THERE SHITPOSTING IN THIS GOOD THREAD

>>278238
>implying

I made a pair of glasses last night.

I'm a software student looking for a 3D artist to make a rubik's cube for my senior project. I'm thinking about making a rubik's cube solver and game, but if anyone can come up with a cool idea for my senior project that incorporates 3D i can still change it. I plan on using the Unreal Engine and the UDK (Unreal Development Kit) in my project. If anyone wants to help with graphics it would be greatly appreciated, and will most certainly be credited as such.

I can learn scripting for the actual movement of the cube, but I am pretty bad at Blender haha.

>>278368
Now with LuxRender.

using blendar

>>278726
suuuuper stretched textures everywhere.
Lrn2 UV unwrap gooder

>>278404
I totally failed at that once. Could not figure out how to set up the constraints for interaction. Glad to be of no use again!
you could always build a physical replica of the mechanics of the actual construction of a Rubik's cube, but that will only cause the physics engine to send the pieces flying off into infinity.

Seriously, though, I suck.

>>278404
why in yahweh's name would you use udk for something like that?

I use it. Absolute beginner. Try to get deeper into it.

At least for the 2.6 series, it is not as difficult to learn as in previous versions. The interface seems to be intuitive, and there are a lot of good tutorials (text + video) for 2.5/2.6.

There are also some good tutorials at
http://www.blendtuts.com

Especially some really good beginner tutorials.

is there some kind of feature in blender, or really in any kind of 3d software, which is capable of generating flat models through images like this? as in, it uses the boundaries between white and black(or some other mechanism) to automatically define vertex locations and create a model?

it seems to me like something that would exist but i've never heard of it... i know it's possible to create models using fonts but i don't know if that's the same mechanism.

any help is appreciated.

>>279177
import image to photoshop or similar, make selection, convert selection to paths, export ai paths to blender.

>>279182
alright, thanks. i'm not really sure whether my ancient version of photoshop has that function but i'll research it.

>>279183
if not, come back and maybe someone can do it for you.

maybe that free vector program inkscape can do it

>>279187

i tried doing that with inkscape but when i try too convert the model into a mesh it turns out weird how do it convert it properly? it keeps turning into lines

>>279187
heh, yeah, i looked it up and then when i went to try it, it seems like blender 2.6 is lacking a "paths" option in the import menu, which is where most resources i found told you to go to find it.

there was an svg import option though, and so i went to try it with inkscape and it worked(well, with a simpler image, but i just wanted to confirm the process worked). thanks, this should prove a really useful tool for making abstract objects.

>>279188
are you doing everything according to this tutorial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h78qN3QcF7o

it sounds like you may not be doing the alt+c step in blender.

>>279190
well atleast you got there. cntrl N to recalculate normals is a must.
there are a few things u can do to improve the topo. like beuty fill, triangles to quads, poly reduction, and maybe that new remesh modifier which ive yet to try.

I'm trying to create a model with edges. By edges, I mean black lines outlining a model, where(in simple and probably inaccurate terms) the black lines are produced one face on a mesh "falls behind" another. See pic.

Even slight roughness in topography can really stand out with edges but be almost invisible without them, so it's important to me that I can see them while modelling.

Basically what I want is:
1. Models to be displayed with edges(black lines that come out when faces near perpendicularity with the camera)
2. When a face intrudes into another face, that face is displayed in black. I.e., if a face that's "behind" pokes through a face "in front" it's displayed in black.

Is this possible? Sorry for the noob question. I did search for it and found it on the Blender wiki, but it sounds like it's only possible in render mode.

>>279274
Not possible bro

>>279274
Yeah, it's super easy, you duplicate the mesh, fatten it (alt-s, basically shifting vertices along normals), flip its normals and assign a black material to it.

One important thing is you won't see the effect inside Blender with solid shading viewport because that one always hows everything as two-sided, you need to set it to textured mode (or make a render).

>>274460

you are in the position to learn human anatomy and modeling techniques

does anyone have tips for modelling skin bulging out of clothes(as in tight clothes)? i can more or less guess how to do flat shapes like stockings(cylinder), but something like breasts(sphere) or partial curves seems like it would be more difficult.

i tried searching in other places but all i could find was how to use constraints to simulate the bulging of skin when joints move. any advice/tip is appreciated.

modofag here

Any good tutorials for UV unwrapping curved objects to achieve a straight clean UV map or will I have to pay for an overpriced product?

>>279652
>take my hand
>pay to take my hand
Yeah, there's probably no other way.

I'm reading the manual right now. :) I'm a dick who can't even manage the interface of Blender without destroying it all.

tried it first 8 months ago and nearly vomited because I couldn't handle the interface, coming from Hammer.

Started again last week doing a project with a mate, no modelling yet but i'm learning the materials/rendering basics.

glad that there are tons of tutorials available.

speaking of blender can somebody help me how to unwrap this kind of shape?

>>279715
another one this is really a bothersome shape I have tried smart project or sphere projection but the cut and seams are very obvious any suggestion how to put seams and unwrap this kind of shapes?

>>279715

give bigger pictures or fuck you

>>279719
you really need a bigger picture?

>>279715
no matter how you do it youre going to get a seam, just put a seam around where they join, then one the length of each cyliner then unwrap them both flat.

then clone the seam out

>>279722

if he wants to have seams drawed on the picture that troll cocksucker should give bigger pictures.

>>279715
>>279717
Why is it so hard to think? You can also do it in 2 pieces, which means you get 2 nice cylunder unwraps

op here
>>279722
sorry this is all I could find on the google web
>>279726
Is there a better way to cut or hide those seems? its definitely gonna be obvious once I put the texture on and much more on a 3 joint pipe.

>>279729
some issues I may think possible is stretching which would definitely give uneven uv maps texture and obvious seams and cuts.

>>279729
>>279730
what?
how to hide seams...well just don't paint any seams into your texture, ???

also, unwrapping this shit is easier than shit, using no mapping at all you get nearly perfect UVs automatically...

>>274425 You are going to have to cut into 2 pieces unless you want a really warped texture. I would use cylindrical mapping on the long part, than on the short part.

and you will get seams (unless you use a projected texture, not uvs). They are a harsh reality of life. If you want to get rid of them, blender has a project painting tool. Use photoshop or gimp + project painting+ clone tool = what seam?

>>279786
>how to hide seams...well just don't paint any seams into your texture, ???

>also, unwrapping this shit is easier than shit, using no mapping at all you get nearly perfect UVs automatically...


>well just don't paint any seams into your texture, ???
>using no mapping at all you get nearly perfect UVs automatically...

>>279786

>>279790
I don't know what you are trying to tell me...


what I'm saying is: seams aren't apparent unless you're being stupid while you paint the texture

build a simple control cage with face mapping, subdivide, instant neat, smooth uvs

>>279793
>>279790
what the fuck are your reaction faces supposed to tell me

LOL! op here
>>279794
blender has really improved this past years damn, yeah im new to uv mapping was it possible not to put seam at all?

>>279794
>what I'm saying is: seams aren't apparent unless you're being stupid while you paint the texture
Seams aren't apparent... unless you make them so?
>build a simple control cage with face mapping, subdivide, instant neat, smooth uvs
the fuck is a control cage with face mapping, how does subdividing create good uv's

what the fuck are you talking about

also fuck blender

>>279804
control cage, base mesh, whatever, the thing you have before you subdivide


face mapping, like, each face gets a planar map applied, sort of.

when subdividing, the new vertices that are created should automatically get interpolated UVs