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Manifisto

Khanstant posted:

dumb question are faces and normals the same thing basically? like, the normal being the intended-visible side of a mesh(or rather the space between 3+ vertices)?

as far as blender is concerned, face normals seem to be the only ones that are used in the program, and yeah, it's the "outside facing" surface of the face. you can make the interface display vertex normals as well, and I gather these are used in other software packages, but if there's a way to make them useful in blender I'm not aware of it. (they may well be used under the hood, I'm talking about taking advantage of them from the user perspective).

Jenny Agutter posted:

when i was blendering this guy https://i.imgur.com/cc0i4bj.mp4 my computer was struggling so i turned on the stats and realized it has over 2M faces in the middle of the animation. note to self be more careful with curve generators

this is neat, is that the ivy generator?

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Sep 28, 2020 15:17

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# ? Apr 29, 2024 16:09

Jenny Agutter

Manifisto posted:

as far as blender is concerned, face normals seem to be the only ones that are used in the program, and yeah, it's the "outside facing" surface of the face. you can make the interface display vertex normals as well, and I gather these are used in other software packages, but if there's a way to make them useful in blender I'm not aware of it. (they may well be used under the hood, I'm talking about taking advantage of them from the user perspective).

this is neat, is that the ivy generator?

yeah, i love the extra curves and extra objects addons

# ? Sep 28, 2020 15:40

Khanstant

any of you blendermen got XP with character modeling?

Initially I was going to go with: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QT1GNMevfc&t=7s
but I noticed it's quite old, and this workflow kind of looked tedious from what I'd seen so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-mx-Jfx9lA
Then I saw this and my jaw dropped. I didn't even think about, just like, mushing up some 3d clay and going at it like you would with Sculpey or something. Then they make a semi simpler mesh of the sculpted model, shrinkwrapped to the original model. Then hes doing animation black magic, and then he has to rebuild the mesh again, this time much more like the method in the 6 years old video. I mean, obviously I'm not going to be making Pixar on my first attempt and probably don't need to do some of this just for my own uhh pointless and stupid endeavors.

Then I'm seeing this one, and a minute and a half they've already kind of way shot ahead of the other one by starting with a vaguely head shaped mesh rather than building one out from a little spa mask you make. Seems kind of like a middle path, but with less explanation of anything. hmmm might just be referencing multiple tuts

# ? Oct 1, 2020 17:08

Oldstench: Let's talk about where you're going.

Here's a modern chair thing I made.

Wireframe if you're into that.

# ? Oct 1, 2020 23:59

Oldstench: Let's talk about where you're going.

And an experiment with trying to make convincing OJ.

# ? Oct 2, 2020 00:00

Manifisto

Oldstench posted:

Here's a modern chair thing I made.

Wireframe if you're into that.

really neat! well done, the deformations on the cushions are quite realistic, and the stitching is a great detail. actually, how did you make that stitching?

Oldstench posted:

And an experiment with trying to make convincing OJ.

I like it! I was trying to make pulpy lemonade for a summer sig I did for pot smoke phoenix and found it a challenge. is that a particle system (what I ultimately used) or something in the material?

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Oct 2, 2020 00:46

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Oldstench posted:

Here's a modern chair thing I made.

Wireframe if you're into that.

really cool, thanks for sharing

ty vanisher, ty khanstant

# ? Oct 2, 2020 01:01

RazzleDazzleHour

Oldstench posted:

Here's a modern chair thing I made.

Wireframe if you're into that.

This is real cool, did you use physics to do the squishes or make them manually?

# ? Oct 4, 2020 05:43

Khanstant

Oldstench posted:

Here's a modern chair thing I made.

Wireframe if you're into that.

the slight pillowing wrinkle effect looks fantastic! also just a cool chair

# ? Oct 4, 2020 05:55

Oldstench: Let's talk about where you're going.

Manifisto posted:

really neat! well done, the deformations on the cushions are quite realistic, and the stitching is a great detail. actually, how did you make that stitching?

The stitching was done using a bezier curve with a very small bezel to give it thickness.

Manifisto posted:

I like it! I was trying to make pulpy lemonade for a summer sig I did for pot smoke phoenix and found it a challenge. is that a particle system (what I ultimately used) or something in the material?

Just a Principled BDSF using subsurf scattering.

blaise rascal posted:

really cool, thanks for sharing

Thank you.

Khanstant posted:

the slight pillowing wrinkle effect looks fantastic! also just a cool chair

Thanks. The wrinkling was done with the sculpting tool. This was done before the cloth sim was added, so this was all manual. Not sure if it was worth it (hence the closeup glamour shot).

RazzleDazzleHour posted:

This is real cool, did you use physics to do the squishes or make them manually?

Thanks. Manual squishes using Lattice deformations.

# ? Oct 4, 2020 17:11

Manifisto

Oldstench posted:

The stitching was done using a bezier curve with a very small bezel to give it thickness.

in order to get the stitchlike appearance, did you use a modifier, or some curve property like a bevel object or a taper, or what?

# ? Oct 4, 2020 17:40

owlhawk911: come chill with me, in byob

https://www.models-resource.com/nintendo_switch/supermarioodyssey/model/24029/

i found this whilst googling wedding bowser. is blender the appropriate tool to make him wink and me and give the ok sign/a thumbs up?

https://giant.gfycat.com/PlasticAngryHousefly.webm
_{this sig a mf'n vanisher joint. gobbos by khanstant}

# ? Oct 4, 2020 19:21

Manifisto

owlhawk911 posted:

https://www.models-resource.com/nintendo_switch/supermarioodyssey/model/24029/

i found this whilst googling wedding bowser. is blender the appropriate tool to make him wink and me and give the ok sign/a thumbs up?

it was hard to tell just by looking at the download information, they don't really tell you what format is inside the zip. I downloaded it and used Blender' "Import FBX" and was able to import the wedding bowser, which came with a rig and textures. the rig looks a bit strange, the bones are not aligned how I would expect, this may be an artifact of the import. but yes, I was able to open it, move one of the arms, open one of the eyes, and make this render:

the materials are not perfect, I had to adjust the "rougness" sliders in the materials and probably a better job could be done. It's a fairly complete rig, so while I think you could do most of whatever you needed with it figuring out the way the rig works would take some time.

I guess the answer is, yes blender can do what you are looking for in all likelihood, but I think it might be challenging for a beginner to blender and/or to animating rigs.

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Oct 4, 2020 20:04

Oldstench: Let's talk about where you're going.

Manifisto posted:

in order to get the stitchlike appearance, did you use a modifier, or some curve property like a bevel object or a taper, or what?

OK - IIRC this is how I created the stich pattern.

1) Duplicate an edge loop on the main cushion cylinder.
2) Convert to curve.
3) Select all points in edit mode and subdivide once.
4) Checker deselect so only every other point is selected.
5) Scale those points inward just a touch you have a sin wave sorta pattern. The lower parts of the wave should clip into the mesh for the cylinder, so it looks like stitching.
6) Select the Object Data Properties tab for the curve and increase the Geometry->Bevel->Depth to taste.
7) Add a subsurf modifier to smooth it out.

Hope that makes sense.

# ? Oct 4, 2020 20:29

Manifisto

Oldstench posted:

OK - IIRC this is how I created the stich pattern.

1) Duplicate an edge loop on the main cushion cylinder.
2) Convert to curve.
3) Select all points in edit mode and subdivide once.
4) Checker deselect so only every other point is selected.
5) Scale those points inward just a touch you have a sin wave sorta pattern. The lower parts of the wave should clip into the mesh for the cylinder, so it looks like stitching.
6) Select the Object Data Properties tab for the curve and increase the Geometry->Bevel->Depth to taste.
7) Add a subsurf modifier to smooth it out.

Hope that makes sense.

it does, and the node checker deselect thing is how I probably would have made the wave if I couldn't figure out something else. I was sorta hoping there was something procedural, but it certainly looks good! thanks for the info.

ty nesamdoom!

# ? Oct 4, 2020 20:55

Oldstench: Let's talk about where you're going.

Manifisto posted:

it does, and the node checker deselect thing is how I probably would have made the wave if I couldn't figure out something else. I was sorta hoping there was something procedural, but it certainly looks good! thanks for the info.

You can do it with a script really easily probably.

# ? Oct 4, 2020 21:37

Khanstant

i love that the same site i used to use to download sprite sheets to make, like, OC megaman characters is also where you can download game models now. im messing with n64 link rn!

keep on truckin my boy, sorry what i did to your bones im still learnding

Khanstant fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Oct 5, 2020

# ? Oct 5, 2020 00:25

RazzleDazzleHour

What the hell N64 models with current material shaders look dope as gently caress

# ? Oct 5, 2020 09:02

owlhawk911: come chill with me, in byob

i'm gonna use blender to put everyone's favourite video game characters in wack-rear end crystal prisons

https://giant.gfycat.com/PlasticAngryHousefly.webm
_{this sig a mf'n vanisher joint. gobbos by khanstant}

# ? Oct 5, 2020 09:36

RazzleDazzleHour

owlhawk911 posted:

i'm gonna use blender to put everyone's favourite video game characters in wack-rear end crystal prisons

This is the plot of Smash Brothers Ultimate

# ? Oct 5, 2020 17:30

Jenny Agutter

# ? Oct 19, 2020 01:20

blaise rascal: "Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Pearl...."