1b326d No.24909 [View All]
Last thread was bump-locked. Starting a new thread because I'm a narcissist, but also trying to salvage anything worthwhile from the last thread into copypasta. :)
After getting frustrated at MudBox and listening to some feedback here, I've decided to try and learn from the ground up using Blender.
ITT: Beginning 3D in Blender
Specifically, I think I'm going to stick to this playlist and try to get 100% through it before moving on:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLda3VoSoc_TR7X7wfblBGiRz-bvhKpGkS
Resources:
YouTube channels:
the d-dub show / ward7299
https://www.youtube.com/user/ward7299
Blender Guru
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOKHwx1VCdgnxwbjyb9Iu1g
BornCG
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdioEctcBLd2nw2aQkl8msw
Websites:
http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/
http://www.blenderguru.com/
https://cgcookie.com/learn-blender/
http://www.blendernation.com/
"youtube user MetalX1000 has one of the oldest and most complete programming and development channels, and has several playlist of blender game engine and blender render tutorials.
Here's his playlist of Blender Game Engine development with python, which will basically leave you ready to start your first project.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBD687C66079FA40F"
"Blender's documentation is notably crappy, with entire versions having no documentation whatsoever, so if you're not already a member of the http://blenderartists.org/forum/ and http://blender.stackexchange.com/ you're gonna have a bad time as soon as you can't find an updated tutorial on that one very specific thing."
"This looks popular on Amazon, and covers 2.7 the newest version:
The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics, Second Edition: Computer Modeling and Animation 2nd Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Blender-Graphics-Second/dp/1482216639/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442589600&sr=1-1&keywords=blender+2.7"
"http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/696/how-to-reset-the-center-of-rotation-of-the-3d-view-when-it-is-not-the-center-of
Use the period button on the ten key to reset camera back to the selected object. Nice. I'm sure there is somewhere in the settings to make the "orbit selected object" default, gotta find that later."
"after hitting S to scale, I can hit X Y or Z to then limit it to that axis, like using the manipulators."
"S to scale, then Shift + Z to scale on the X and Y at the same time (so, s for scale, shift z for "not Z")."
"I like this guy because he comments everything he does. His videos are about general modeling/animation, which doesn't always works in game dev (especially his animation techniques), but, I've learned more from him than any other youtuber, only because of the way he is teaching...
https://www.youtube.com/user/aadigitalproductions/videos"
http://www.cheatography.com/mikero/cheat-sheets/blender-2-7-basic/
Basics
Shift + A
Add menu
Tab
Toggle Object Mode/ Edit Mode
Selection
A
Select all / Deselect all
B
Border select
C
Circle select
Edit
CTRL + S
Save
CTRL + Z
Undo
CTRL + Shift + Z
Redo
Editing
G
Move
R
Rotate
S
Scale
E
Extrude region
Alt + E
Extrude menu
F
Create Face / Edge
LMB + Shift + K
Knife cut midpoint
Alt + M
Merge menu
CTRL + R
Loop cut
U
UV Mapping menu
W
Specials menu
Camera
NUM 1
Front view
NUM 3
Side view
NUM 7
Top view
CTRL + NUM 1
Back view
CTRL + NUM 3
Side view
CTRL + NUM 7
Top view
T - Toolshelf menu on the left
N - Properties
>Would be nice to be able to "orbit" the object itself, and not some center-point as seems default.
File > User Preferences > Interface tab > Check "Rotate Around Selection"
File > User prefs > Themes tab > Science Lab (noice)
File > User prefs > System tab > DPI. Default is 72, 76-80 is easier on the eyes
To use OpenGL (AMD):
User Preferences > System > Compute Device Panel, and configure it as you desire.
500 sample image took 00:47.64 with OpenGL, 00:51.48 with CPU. 1.08 times faster with the GPU
http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/560663/blender-vs-mudbox-workflow-for-games.html
Answer by VesuvianPrime · Oct 22, 2013 at 12:49 PM
Deygus, a typical workflow for games:
1) Build your low-poly character in a modelling tool like Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, etc
2) UV map the character
3) Export the character into zBrush/Mudbox
4) Do your high-poly sculpting
5) Bake out the detail into a normal map
6) Apply the normal map to your low poly character
After adding the mirror modifier, click "clipping" to keep the two halves "glued" together.
When using "I" insert of faces, like for the mouth, make sure to uncheck "Boundary" to make it work correctly along the mirror modifier.
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1b326d No.24924
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How To Unwrap A UV Sphere In Blender
In this mini tutorial I go over how to unwrap a UV Sphere for usage with Equirectangular maps and tilable textures as well due to it's seamless UV layout. Check out the text version of this tutorial on my website: http://enigmatoots.wix.com/enigmatoot....
You can get the images of Earth from here: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Check out this video and others at my website: www.enigmatoots.co.uk. Feel free to contact me there or by emailing me at enigmatoots@hotmail.co.uk :)
Keep up to date on twitter: https://twitter.com/Enigma_Toots
Follow me on Google+: https://plus.google.com/1058652631047...
Good Luck with your Blenderations and have a nice day :)
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1b326d No.24925
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Cycles' Volume Materials
Here I just go over the new volume nodes available in the Cycles Render Engine, and how to make some pretty marbles using the Volume Absorption node.
My text guide on Volumetric Lighting can be found here:
http://www.enigmatoots.co.uk/#!volume...
A great tutorial on smoke/fire rendering can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiV5...
Check out this video and others at my website: www.enigmatoots.co.uk. Feel free to contact me there or by emailing me at enigmatoots@hotmail.co.uk :)
Keep up to date on twitter: https://twitter.com/Enigma_Toots
Follow me on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+EnigmatootsC...
Good Luck with your Blenderations and have a nice day :)
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1b326d No.24927
I wanted to learn more with 3dsmax but I'm a beginner so should I learn the basics with blender? I'm going to assume a lot of general principles carry over.
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1b326d No.24928
>>24927
Yes, learning the art is essentially independent of the tools you use. You will, of course, know and come to adopt the methodology of whatever tool you do choose, but Blender is a good choice for a number of reasons.
What you learn in Blender will carry over to 3DSMax later.
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1b326d No.24930
>>24927
3DS max is suprisingly really easy to use, and it is an industry standard along with 4D studio, MAYA and blender, just use what you got honesly. I use maya.
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1b326d No.24958
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Blender 2.7 Tutorial #33 : Sharp Edges on Smooth Objects #b3d
Visit my Blender 2.7 Tutorial Series playlist for more Blender Tutorials:
In this Tutorial #33 I cover:
-How to create hard/sharp edges on otherwise smooth objects using two methods:
#1) A Combination of Edge Creases, the Edge Split modifider, and marking edges as sharp.
#2) Using Proximity Loop (make an extra edge loop on either side of an edge you want to be sharp)
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1b326d No.25010
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Blender 2.7 Tutorial #34 : Intro to Bones & Rigging (Minecraft) #b3d
In this Tutorial #34 I cover:
-How to create a simple six-block minecraft human
-Loop cut tool (ctrl-R)
-Bevel tool (ctrl-B)
-Adding an Armature object, adding more bones to an armature in edit mode.
-Naming bones
-Recalculating bone roll (ctrl-N)
-the Snap menu (shift-S)
-Attaching an armature to a character mesh using automatic weights.
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1b326d No.25135
Self-post, I want to try this shit out. Politely saging my own thread.
Pixel Shader Tutorial
http://initialsgames.com/main/?p=1360
The instructions are in Japanese. With online translating tools, this isn’t a big deal, but the program itself is quite hard to get started with, so let’s take a look at how to use it.
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1b326d No.25144
>>25010
Finally got this done.
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1b326d No.25145
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Quick Rigging With Rigify in Blender
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1b326d No.25147
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1b326d No.25149
>>25147
Nice man, I like it.
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1b326d No.25153
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Blender 2.7 Tutorial #35 : Weight Paint Mode (Minecraft) #b3d
In this Tutorial #35 I cover:
-After connecting an armature (bones) to a character mesh, the best way to make sure the bones properly control the correct parts of the mesh is by using weight paint mode.
-In this video I'll show you how to use weight paint mode to paint 'weights' (the amount of influence each bone has on each vertex) easily and quickly. I also cover how to *mask* parts of your mesh (in this case each block of the Minecraft person) to make it easier to paint only the sections you want.
https://www.blender.org/manual/painting_sculpting/painting/weight_paint/index.html
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1b326d No.25156
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1b326d No.25157
>>25153
To reset the pose:
Select all the bones with A
Alt + R
Alt + G
Alt + S
Use Mix brush.
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1b326d No.25336
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1b326d No.25487
Any good info on how to just get better at modeling and sculpting in general? I have a lot of tools down at just don't have good workflow and all that.
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1b326d No.25521
>>25487
For sculpting, work with references. Start with something that ticks your fancy, like a woman's body. Learn Zbrush's most-used brushes (Standard, Damian Standard, Clay, Move).
Your Zbrush workflow can be something like mine, which is like the 3rd pic's (minus the 3DCoat retopo part, no one uses that anymore):
1a. ZModeler (to make a low-poly base mesh)
OR
1b. Start from a simple sphere, or something made out of Zspheres, whatever
2. Dynamesh (start sculpting in the basic shapes of your model)
3. Decimation Master to lower the res and to make it easier for...
4. ZRemesher (to retopologize and clean your model up, making it easier to...)
5. Sub-divide your mesh (for final surface detailing work)
Lots of further tutorials you can torrent at CGPeers, too. So try to look into that. If you need base models and can't ass yourself to make your own, there should be .obj's floating around that people donate freely on the 'net.
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1b326d No.25522
>>25521
And of course, by "3rd pic", I meant "4th pic".
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1b326d No.25531
Is it better to simply make models in blender or sculpt them in zbrush for some not so advanced 3D game?
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1b326d No.25539
>>25531
Blender is faster and already has all the tools you need for rigging and animating characters, things which ZBrush does not have. There's even a Sculpt mode with all the basic features from ZBrush, too.
If you're working with Minecraft-tier stuff or Nintendo DS-level models, there's no pressing need to go into sculpts.
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1b326d No.25561
>>25522
Ok makes more sense now.
>>25539
That pic is so aesthetic.
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1b326d No.25562
learning 3d modelling is just as easy as learning to paint
just do a lot of still life from references or actual physical things lying on your desk
do one every day
you're the best
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1b326d No.25564
>>25487
This was from the last Beginning 3D thread:
>http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/560663/blender-vs-mudbox-workflow-for-games.html
>Answer by VesuvianPrime · Oct 22, 2013 at 12:49 PM
>Deygus, a typical workflow for games:
>1) Build your low-poly character in a modelling tool like Maya, 3DSMax, Blender, etc
>2) UV map the character
>3) Export the character into zBrush/Mudbox
>4) Do your high-poly sculpting
>5) Bake out the detail into a normal map
>6) Apply the normal map to your low poly character
Beyond that, I think it is just practice, practice, practice! Just like render art!
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1b326d No.25575
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Blender 2.7 Tutorial #36 : UV Mapping for Minecraft #b3d
''In this Tutorial #36 I cover:
Detailed instructions on how to add a Minecraft-like texture to a simple character:
-The process of marking seams, unwrapping, laying out a UV Map, Exporting a UV Map into Photoshop or Gimp.
-Painting a texture in Photoshopusing layers and the Dodge/Burn tool, Pixelating the texture using Photoshop's Mosaic Filter, saving .psd file and exporting to PNG, finally applying the texture back onto the character model in Blender
Remember, before UV unwrapping, go into object mode, then object menu > Apply > Scale
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1b326d No.25577
Click this button to sync up the UV editor window and your mesh, so I can select faces and see where they exist on my object. I'm not sure WTF this isn't clicked by default.
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1b326d No.25578
Use this to pack all images into the blend file, fucking brilliant. No more worrying about where da fuk did I put my textures FUUUUUUU. But bigger .blend files.
Also, my render thus far.
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1b326d No.25654
how the fuck would I do billboard sprites in blender.
i.e. a flat alphamapped quad that rotates to face the view in place. but can still be rigged to bones.
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1b326d No.25663
>>25654
For renders, I'm guessing you need to create a UV-mapped quad and then assign your vertex groups to it. Slap your image on to it (make the material Shadeless too), then go into Particles, create a new function and look for the Billboard option.
Don't forget to make a camera too.
Hit F12 and you should get something like pic related.
Then you can lose the rest of your day figuring out how to assign a translucent image to your particle (sprite), because I haven't found a way yet.
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1b326d No.25679
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>>25663
>translucent
Translucent or transparent?
Blender 2.7 Tutorial #37 : IK Rigging (Part 1/2) #b3d
In this Tutorial #37 I cover:
-The difference between a simple FK armature rig, and a more advanced IK Rig.
-The creation and setup of bones and IK target bones to create a more advanced IK rig. This includes the overall structure, parenting, naming, and orienting of bones required.
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1b326d No.25680
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1b326d No.25681
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>>25680
Blender 2.7 Tutorial #47 : Image Textures with Transparency #b3d
In this Blender 2.7 Tutorial #47 I cover:
-How to use a PNG image file's alpha channel as a "transparency map" for image textures in Blender Cycles. This will allow you to have textures with transparent areas, eg: surrounding the edge of the a leaf. :)
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1b326d No.25691
>>25681
Mm, I see. I'm just used to controlling transparencies straight from the Material menu.
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1b326d No.26058
Anyone know decent retopology tools for blender?
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1b326d No.26060
>>26058
Just activate the BSurface plugin mate!
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1b326d No.26596
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1b326d No.27245
Thanks for all the hard work OP. You've inspired me to pick Blender back up again.
I am currently writing some software to simulate robotics problems (my own code), and decided I should try and integrate with ROS to kind of standardize my approach. Long story short, while it was probably an OK idea, getting past dependency issues while trying to build on my current setup never really worked out.
Now I see I could have just used Blender all along for the visualization part (and much more very likely) and so I've got a copy of the latest code built on my system now and digging through it atm.
Appreciate it OP.
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1b326d No.27321
God i hate blender, which the faggots would fix their shitty ui and make it so you dont have to remember a shortcut for every goddamn command. then maby i would use it.
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1b326d No.27611
more related with Blender than game development, but is it possible for a one or two man team to make an animated short worth anything with Blender?
I look at 3D cartoons now on tv done by teams and the animation often looks stiff with the models looking mediocre at best, but is that just due to a lack of talent in the industry?
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1b326d No.27612
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1b326d No.27613
>>27321
Press space and type the command name you want.
Learn or set keybind until satisfied.
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1b326d No.27614
>>27321
>using any software without having hotkeys for everything that can be hotkeyed
It's like you enjoy being slow.
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1b326d No.27629
>>27245
No problem anon. OP here from a different computer. I let this thread go stale while picking up some Unreal experience, but now that I've got enough to get a shitty demo going I find myself needing art and coming back to this thread. Glad someone got something out of all this work. :)
>>27321
Use 3DSMax or Maya then?
>>27611
Good question, and I think it really depends on the scope of the project. Models, textures, animation, composition, lighting, editing, music, sound, etc are nothing to sneeze at. If you are looking at like 1-2 minutes long, simple, not complex and not too detailed I don't see why not. But to be honest I haven't done one in Blender so I am really just speaking out my ass. :)
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1b326d No.27650
>>27629
>Glad someone got something out of all this work. :)
Anon here from a different part of the country. Yup. In fact I'm building the latest releases of Blender at least 3 or 4 times a week now. Ton shared some cool news the Cycles renderer getting a sponsored full time engineer from an animation studio in Toronto working on a new film pretty much entirely in Blender.
>I also had a sneak peek of the excellent concept art of the new feature that’s in development – more budget, and much more ambitious even. For that project they offer to invest substantially in Blender, we spent the 2nd day on outlining a deal. In short that is:
> Tangent will sponsor two developers to work in Blender Institute on 2.8 targets (defined by us)
> Tangent will sponsor one Cycles developer, either to work in Blender Institute or in Toronto.
> All of this full time and decently paid positions, for at least 1 year. Can be effective in September.
https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/siggraph-2016-report/
So yea. I've personally met Ton and a few of the staff before at SIGGRAPH and they are all very cool guys. Glad to connect back again with this remarkable opensauce project. Thanks again.
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1b326d No.27724
Anyone here have advice for addons?
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1b326d No.27732
>>27724
I use this batch rename tool:
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?272086-Addon-Item-Panel-amp-Batch-Naming
Pretty useful when you have a lot of things to rename, like objects, bones, vertex groups, etc. before porting the model to another software that uses different naming conventions, which normally would've taken you half an hour.
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1b326d No.27736
>>27724
thanks for the great poster anon. any others?
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1b326d No.27888
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1b326d No.27961
>>27321
>Not appreciating the essentiality of hotkeys
It's like you want to be unproductive and fail to meet all your deadlines or something.
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1b326d No.28197
>>24914
This video isn't quite the holy grail I was hoping it would be. UV especially from Blender to Unreal has been quite tricky. In fact, Unreal as a whole has been a HUGE chunk to bite off, so much so that I'm considering just going back to Blender only, and maybe joining a team as an artist rather than a solo (no-game) dev.
I just saw that the BornCG series I was following is up to like video 72 now. I think I'm going to go back through them to catch myself back up.
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