Jonathan Lampel
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Finally got an RTX card and dang it even improves the default cube
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Here's a quick and basic multi-object LOD setup using geometry nodes:
Quick question for my fellow Blenderers: Are there any good techniques for using LODs inside Blender currently? Preferably without having to use an add-on?
#b3d
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I woke up to a thin layer of default Musgrave everywhere. The detail size is too consistent and it just repeats forever. Too obviously procedural to be real IMO
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The new Blender Basics is up! 24 lessons, all free. The YouTube version will start rolling out tomorrow morning.
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Our new UV tool will have a quick toggle to enable helpful 3D overlays, including checker textures, high visibility seams, and even stretching or UDIM colors. No setup! And it can be on by default if you'd like.
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Well, it's 2021 and ray tracing multiple animated 3d objects with 4k textures and applying AI denoising on top of that is now like 50x faster than moving a rectangle in Premiere Pro.
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Here's a challenge:
Create a mesh build effect that creates the faces in a specific order.
How would you solve it?
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To practice the dark art of using triangles and n-gons when subdivision surface modeling, I turn wires on at 50% and optimal display off. It's pretty cool to be able to see the final flow of quads update as you go, and it makes it really easy to spot pinch points.
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Many artists know that AgX is *technically* better than sRGB, ACES, Filmic, etc., but don't like the muted, washed out look it gives out of the box. It's because of a misunderstanding. Here's the secret to using it and getting vivid colors directly in Blender 🧵👇
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I'm sure plenty of people have done this before, but I just stumbled on a way of making cavity masks in Cycles that I'll probably use everywhere now
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Not sure why this isn't default, but set the
#b3d
3D Cursor hotkey to Geometry. Then you can set your orientation to 3d Cursor to move stuff perpendicular to any surface or align objects super fast.
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I just made a small Blender add-on that focuses the view on the 3d cursor because I found it near impossible to rotate around individual pieces when constructing big things with geometry nodes. You can grab it for free from GH:
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A new Blender Basics course for Blender 4.0 is up on
@cgcookie
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@O_Domenech
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Since I was doing it too many times manually, here's a small free addon that sets an object's local orientation to the normal of whatever you have selected:
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I'm very excited that Auto Smooth won't exist in Blender 4.1. You can actually just mark an edge as sharp and be done! Or mark by angle and then clear a few manually! I've been talking about this for... over 5 years 😄
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UV Flow is just about ready! Sign up to be an
@orangeturbine
alpha tester and get the initial release for free:
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I've used F2 for like 10 years and had no idea you could just make a quad from a corner vertex.
From ethanglitch and spikeyxxx:
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UV editing in
#b3d
is slow and boring, you say? Our new project with
@jfranmatheu
might change that👀
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What else?
For the next April fools I should make an add-on that adds these to Blender as a helpful walkthrough, but comes back months later when least expected with increasingly unhinged suggestions
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RetopoFlow's Strokes tool is similarly awesome - just draw to extend quads!
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I really love that the brightest spot in HDRIs can now cast shadows in Eevee Next. There are no lights in this scene. So great!
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I love when Blender screenshots are mixed in to make things look more hacker-y
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Did you know that Blender's bridge tool can make perfect arcs when you increase the number of cuts? Still one of my favorite tips. More on using it to make pipes here ->
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Scattershot 1.1, with automatic PBR grouping and natural noise blending is now out! Just select a bunch of images and hit scatter. You'll never see repeating tiles again.
#b3d
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The big 40 lesson, 17+ hour
#b3d
modeling and texturing course that I've been working on for the past 3 months is now out! Watch the full trailer:
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It wasn't obvious to me right away, but to use the new thin film interference Cycles feature in Blender 4.2, set the regular IOR to 1 so the solid inside of the object doesn't refract at all. Input real values or push them for artistic effect. Looks amazing!
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UV Flow is now in beta and on the Blender Market:
Use the coupon code uvflowpresale today or tomorrow to get it ~45% off, the same price as during the BM sale next week.
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Resolve's Color Boost control is pretty clever. Here's a recipe you can use to create it for yourself in Blender or any other app:
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Reminder that the sun can be 200 - 1000x brighter than Blender's default and setting it (or your HDRI) to at least the right ballpark first can help you make more consistent and believable color and shading decisions.
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Blender modeling tip: Use Subdivide on a continuous set of edges to create an edge loop where loop cut won't work, like through n-gons and triangles.
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Purposefully making interior faces like this feels so cursed, but the solidify modifier handles it surprisingly well
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You can technically use emojis in any text input in Blender (I do not endorse this behavior)
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One of my favorite small details of the upcoming Blender 4.1 release is the new toggle for Lock Camera to View. No more digging through the sidebar! Fits right in like it was always meant to be there.
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Quick
#b3d
unwrapping tip from the upcoming Pothead character course:
Follow active quads on just the straight quads, pin, then unwrap everything else. Works like magic.
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Now that it's closer to release, Eevee Next is looking pretty great! Significantly better than a few months ago. Can you tell which is Cycles now?
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Nobody:
Me: Here's the Windows 10 wallpaper except it's the default cube
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Updating my
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Eevee glass shader with a few things that couldn't fit in a beginner course. Should work for everything from architecture to liquids.
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Transitioning from one transform to another is the most foundational idea in animation, but I've yet to see a general-purpose tool for doing it in geometry nodes. So, we'll build one in next week's YouTube video! One the most useful downloads I've ever given out for free
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Quick
#b3d
modeling tip we'll be using in the next course: The Inset tool has an Outset mode that can create edge loops around any shape. Or, use a bevel with a shape of 1. Nicely cleans up Boolean results.
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AI based UVs are possible, the one thing artists actually want, but so far the top players are not even trying
i was curious to see how they're doing UVs with their AI✨ and... it's just Blender. They're using Blender. A free tool we already have.
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New video! The Complete Guide to Retopology with RetopoFlow 3 in Blender:
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It really is the perfect example of how to use a dot product. If the two vectors are pointing the same way (resulting in 1), the chase is on. If they're opposite each other (resulting in -1), hide!
I remember seeing a tweet that used Boo from Mario to show how a dot product could be useful. Who was that by? I want to do a similar example and give them credit
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I know it's been solved other ways, but this voronoi scatter technique also instantly improves tiled background textures
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The Action Constraint in
#b3d
is pretty darn cool. You can control a complex effect from one bone without drivers, and it's super easy to tweak.
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Simple Deform probably wins the award for most helpful but difficult to use modifier, but the secret to bending is aligning the main axis across the bend and the tangent axis away from the bend.
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How I feel when showing how to rotate an HDRI in Blender in a tutorial for complete beginners
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I forgot to render with a z pass and that's a mist opportunity
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Does anyone actually use a 3D Mouse with Blender? They've been around for years, but I've never seen one in action. Is it genuinely useful or just kinda fun for a bit?
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#b3d
#Nodevember
Day 10 🌷
I gotta figure out how to make actual shapes with vectors - there are some things plain noise combos can't make. But, they can get surprisingly close!
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Whoa. Smart Fill is F2 on major steroids! I'm just using the F key. Nice one
@JimmyLivefjord
#b3d
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I've used
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for about 10 years and just yesterday found out that G + holding MMB will interactively constrain to any axis. In the graph editor too! Just wish releasing would confirm. Thanks
@PabloVazquez_
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All 26 lessons of the new Mesh Modeling Fundamentals for
#b3d
2.8 are edited and ready to go. Coming soon!
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New video is up! It's a big one, all about how 3D artists can think about vector math so that it actually makes sense:
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Is there a model you dread UV unwrapping? I'll do it for free (and send a beta copy of our upcoming UV add-on) if the model looks cool and I can use it as a demo.
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I'm working on adding some light presets for Blender. May as well link up the sun and sky! I've always thought that should be easier to set up.
#b3d
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The Fundamentals of Digital Lighting in
#b3d
course is almost done. Just a few more lessons and a bit of editing.
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When you were learning 3D, did you find UV's to be difficult or intimidating? What was the hardest part?
I'm finishing up a few (9) lessons on it for the Fundamentals of Texturing and don't want to miss anything.
#b3d
#polycount
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I'm overhauling my list of all the best
#b3d
add-ons for 2022. What should I not forget to include?
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This is huge because not only can it run right alongside all the other Blender tools, but the performance is also amazing. Here is RetopoFlow 4 alpha's PolyPen snapping to a 10 million tri source while working on a 10k tri retopology with zero lag.
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The
#b3d
Mesh Modeling Fundamentals for 2.8 is live. 23 lessons, three quizzes, and an exercise!
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Working on some examples of
#b3d
geometry nodes to walk people through at the SIGGRAPH demo. Any simple but fun ideas that anyone could follow in under an hour?
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This is the last sale where UV Flow and Render Raw will be in beta, so they will never be cheaper than they are this week!
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Soon UV Flow will let you unwrap straight to a real-world scale or desired texel density, and scale existing UVs to match. It'll be helpful for tiled textures like brick that have a known size.
Check it out while it's still in beta!
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For the next April fools I should make an add-on that adds these to Blender as a helpful walkthrough, but comes back months later when least expected with increasingly unhinged suggestions
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Ever try unwrapping more than one UV map per object in Blender? It's quite the process. With our upcoming tool, you'll be able to save different seams for each map and automatically switch between them.
Our new UV tool will have a quick toggle to enable helpful 3D overlays, including checker textures, high visibility seams, and even stretching or UDIM colors. No setup! And it can be on by default if you'd like.
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This is what glass can look like in Eevee! Video tomorrow. You can either copy the shader from the video or get it at CGC or the Blender Market
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You can use the hue of a noise texture in
#b3d
to blend any number of nodes together, but it's tedious for all outputs of several nodes. So, I scripted it. I'll use this function in Scattershot to blend any number of scattered PBR texture sets super quickly
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The Fundamentals of Digital Lighting in
#b3d
is live! 30 info-packed lessons, 4 quizzes, and a fun exercise at the end:
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Ok, I think I got the eyes! Simple, procedural, rigable, and without volumes
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Let us not forget Blender's most prestigious theme, 10 years ahead of its time
Tech is getting boring because light and dark mode is everywhere now. Let’s shake it up with a party mode.
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I've baked a lot of normal maps, but it still feels like magic when I plug them in.
#b3d
#polycount
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PSA: Don't save a file in Blender 3.4 alpha if you ever want to open it again in 3.3. All MixRGB nodes become the new Mix nodes, which are not backwards compatible. I know it should be common sense to not use pre-release builds, but I learned the hard way 🙃
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The UV method wins! First suggested by
@BartekMoniewski
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Here's a challenge:
Create a mesh build effect that creates the faces in a specific order.
How would you solve it?
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