You just need to change the width property in the script's function that generates the image. The UV is independent of that and is a simple view projection yes, so the UV will automatically fit any res.
So, in this video I show a couple ways to align a bunch of verts together on a single axis.
You can scale them and snap them afterwards to their new location. You can align them on z axis and snap them back. Or you can use miau script, Align Verts to Vert, where the last vert selected with act as the point of reference for where to move them.
Is there a way to have the same in blender using a pie menu? Being able to move verts along the selected axis or axies? Also, is there a way to stop blender from doing a negative scale? That way i could also scale the verts on a single axis and then snap them to where I want. Always great to have lots of ways to do the same thing. Cheers!
@Pedro Amorim, you could in blender scale on any axis you want - I normally hit S(scale), Z(axis), then 0, to snap them to the same position on the Z axis, and then from there you can snap that group to a vert.
You could also using the pie menu editor addon, assign that command macro to a custom button, or you can string the commands from the python window, and place it into a python script that calls the pie menu. There are many ways to achieve it, but all of what you've shown is doable in blender quite quickly with either existing shortcuts, pie menu editor, or a custom script.
So, in this video I show a couple ways to align a bunch of verts together on a single axis.
You can scale them and snap them afterwards to their new location. You can align them on z axis and snap them back. Or you can use miau script, Align Verts to Vert, where the last vert selected with act as the point of reference for where to move them.
I think this addon is what you are looking for is the "Viewport Pies" addon (specifically the align menu, shortcut Alt X) Blender Wiki Link Blender Artist Link
You can change align those verts by changing the pivot (active,median,individual origin, 3d cursor,bounding box) Pie menu shortcut is "."
This is all the same addon.
Also, is there a way to stop blender from doing a negative scale?"
If you want to align verts at an angle, use the flatten feature.
I'm not sure what you mean by that You can type out the scale rather than adjusting using the mouse. So you can scale selected verts and press "0" and constrain the operation to a specific axis by pressing x,y,z.
Yama : that's interesting, since on my end I find the blender sculpting tools to be way more controllable and working "just as expected" compared to Zbrush tools. Of course it is not able to push anywhere near the same amount of polygons on screen, but for medium density sculpting I find the tools to be excellent and providing very accurate control (for instance the tools don't do any of the weird "bleeding over" that Zbrush brushes do).
Don't hesitate to let me know If there is a specific kind of model you are trying to achieve and it would be my pleasure to do a demo. I suppose something like a smooth, stylized character face ?
Note that I use GoB a lot, and I still always do my final highres pass for organics in Mudbox if I need finely controlled details. But yeah Blender really is excellent (and in my opinion, the best out of all the solutions out there) for blockouts and medium res sculpting.
I suggest to think sculpting tools in Blender as an addition to polygon modeling, I often use it to fix up shapes without even adding multi resolution modifier.
I use Blender sculpt as much I can before probably jumping in zbrush for final details addition. To be honest now days in the substance era, I add most of small details strainght in painter..
Is there a way while sculpting to have the "hide selection box" hide everything outside the selection rather hide whats inside it?
I like sculpting in blender too fwiw, not sure if its unique to my setup but I found that there were 2 sculpt brushes it would toggle between when I hit the hotkey and so change size/intensity without meaning to, might be worth checking that's not happening to you Yamanote.
just to state i'm not actually sculpting in blender, it's all zbrush for me. i do love sculpt/maks/mirror tools in there though for asset tweaking purposes but i only use them as a fancy replacement for what soft selection might have been used for in older software.
When it comes to scaling, I'm often in the situation were I cannot use Global or Local coordinates for transformation. In that cast I mainly use Normal as Transform Orientation and set Pivot Point to Active Element. Works for vertex, edge and face normals. As a keyboard shortcut you have to press S for scale and the axis button twice. Aligning the view to a certain element normal (e.g. Shift + Num-7) and use View as Transform Orientation works as well, but can make selection difficult. Of course the 3D cursor can be handy as well when scaling in some cases.
Sculpting in Dyntopo and Multi resolution are quite different in the brush feelings. Multi Res feels way more clean, dyntopo usually show little artefacts when the detail gap is too strong. It' a good idea to do a "detail flood fill" in a medium detail scale to avoid that.
For dyntopo, I use Subdivide and collapse - Constant detail. You can also look at the "autosmooth" function of the brushes, it really helps in order to have clean result in Dyntopo. I still struggle with not regular surface that are hard to solve, the smooth of blender seems to destroy the shape too much compare to ZBrush.
Here's auto smooth result with 0 - 0.5 - 1. You have to tweak a bit the strength of the brush though.
Not a ton more functionality, but a whole deal more stable. I'm very interested in any input/feedback if you think this could be useful. as @Jakro suggested, I will start adding some painting functionality layered on top of the gradient. It will probably be very basic and not support multiple layers to begin with, but really just focus around simple hand painted details etc.
As I mentioned, I'm very open to inputs on what you think this addon could become!
Another update for the cloud engine I've been working on. As the results are slowly converging to more acceptable (still refining it though), I can soon start working on better cycles co-operation, i.e. let the objects rendered with cycles catch shadows from clouds. It already works the other way around, clouds themselves can catch shadows from objects. Basic depth compositing is fully functional.
Thanks all! Always nice to have some positive reactions .
Here's another from the same scene:
And the obligatory Stanford bunny. The ground illumination might be a bit too prominent on this one. Probably have to find a way to separate that from the sky lighting.
@wazou: think you could give us the option to turn each pie on or off in the settings? I use your previous two radial menu addons, but I have to go in and delete keymap entries for the ones that conflict with my own!
@wazou: think you could give us the option to turn each pie on or off in the settings? I use your previous two radial menu addons, but I have to go in and delete keymap entries for the ones that conflict with my own!
Witch previous addon ? The first rmb pie menu to have the sculpt pie ? I will update my wazou pie menus with it.
Your rmb menu (v1) and your pie menus. I don't use them all, so I'd like to be able to turn some of them off in the addon preferences, as you can in more addons now. Currently I turn them off in keymap, but it's less convenient (and everytime you update the addon it's reset)
@wazou Hah, that is awesome, cool to see it extended like that If you like you can add a push request on my github, I really like the connect + merge combo.
@wazou Hah, that is awesome, cool to see it extended like that If you like you can add a pull request on my github, I really like the connect + merge combo.
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Then bake the result, it works with both Cycles and Blender Internal, the only trick is to tweak the multiply value to match the objects height
oh nice! That's an awesome trick, I clearly need to delve into the material node editor! Thanks
You just need to change the width property in the script's function that generates the image. The UV is independent of that and is a simple view projection yes, so the UV will automatically fit any res.
Edit: Oh I actually forgot to post the script
https://github.com/martindur/gradient_texturing
Some of you might be interested in this as well:
https://github.com/martindur/import_multiple_fbx
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lh74bqjf07o9k55/2017-05-04_14-05-51.mp4?dl=0
So, in this video I show a couple ways to align a bunch of verts together on a single axis.
You can scale them and snap them afterwards to their new location.
You can align them on z axis and snap them back.
Or you can use miau script, Align Verts to Vert, where the last vert selected with act as the point of reference for where to move them.
Is there a way to have the same in blender using a pie menu? Being able to move verts along the selected axis or axies?
Also, is there a way to stop blender from doing a negative scale? That way i could also scale the verts on a single axis and then snap them to where I want. Always great to have lots of ways to do the same thing.
Cheers!
You could also using the pie menu editor addon, assign that command macro to a custom button, or you can string the commands from the python window, and place it into a python script that calls the pie menu. There are many ways to achieve it, but all of what you've shown is doable in blender quite quickly with either existing shortcuts, pie menu editor, or a custom script.
You can scale them and snap them afterwards to their new location.
You can align them on z axis and snap them back.
Or you can use miau script, Align Verts to Vert, where the last vert selected with act as the point of reference for where to move them.
I think this addon is what you are looking for is the "Viewport Pies" addon (specifically the align menu, shortcut Alt X)
Blender Wiki Link
Blender Artist Link
You can change align those verts by changing the pivot (active,median,individual origin, 3d cursor,bounding box)
Pie menu shortcut is "."
This is all the same addon.
If you want to align verts at an angle, use the flatten feature.
I'm not sure what you mean by that You can type out the scale rather than adjusting using the mouse. So you can scale selected verts and press "0" and constrain the operation to a specific axis by pressing x,y,z.
Modular building tool inside of Blender.
It isn't final yet, but is looking wonderful! (link to the alpha in the description)
Don't hesitate to let me know If there is a specific kind of model you are trying to achieve and it would be my pleasure to do a demo. I suppose something like a smooth, stylized character face ?
Note that I use GoB a lot, and I still always do my final highres pass for organics in Mudbox if I need finely controlled details. But yeah Blender really is excellent (and in my opinion, the best out of all the solutions out there) for blockouts and medium res sculpting.
I use Blender sculpt as much I can before probably jumping in zbrush for final details addition. To be honest now days in the substance era, I add most of small details strainght in painter..
I like sculpting in blender too fwiw, not sure if its unique to my setup but I found that there were 2 sculpt brushes it would toggle between when I hit the hotkey and so change size/intensity without meaning to, might be worth checking that's not happening to you Yamanote.
In that cast I mainly use Normal as Transform Orientation and set Pivot Point to Active Element. Works for vertex, edge and face normals. As a keyboard shortcut you have to press S for scale and the axis button twice.
Aligning the view to a certain element normal (e.g. Shift + Num-7) and use View as Transform Orientation works as well, but can make selection difficult.
Of course the 3D cursor can be handy as well when scaling in some cases.
For dyntopo, I use Subdivide and collapse - Constant detail. You can also look at the "autosmooth" function of the brushes, it really helps in order to have clean result in Dyntopo. I still struggle with not regular surface that are hard to solve, the smooth of blender seems to destroy the shape too much compare to ZBrush.
Here's auto smooth result with 0 - 0.5 - 1. You have to tweak a bit the strength of the brush though.
Not a ton more functionality, but a whole deal more stable. I'm very interested in any input/feedback if you think this could be useful. as @Jakro suggested, I will start adding some painting functionality layered on top of the gradient. It will probably be very basic and not support multiple layers to begin with, but really just focus around simple hand painted details etc.
As I mentioned, I'm very open to inputs on what you think this addon could become!
In other news a solid looking texture painting plugin got released:
Test render result and tone mapping:
Obligatory screenshot:
Uploaded my maya style merge tool to github: https://github.com/Stromberg90/Scripts/tree/master/Blender
I will update my wazou pie menus with it.
I don't use them all, so I'd like to be able to turn some of them off in the addon preferences, as you can in more addons now. Currently I turn them off in keymap, but it's less convenient (and everytime you update the addon it's reset)
Update of the rmb pie
Smart Cursor Addon.
Stromberg90 : it would be super handy to have the possibily to merge 2 vertices at center by hoding shift
https://github.com/Stromberg90/Scripts/blob/master/Blender/MergeTool.py#L74
The line is this:
Overwrite it with this (make sure to copy even the leading blank spaces):
if event.shift: bpy.ops.mesh.merge(type='CENTER') #Note that CENTER is the default type anyway. else: bpy.ops.mesh.merge(type='LAST')And reinstall that .py file. Hopefully it should work.edit: This is another way to do the same:
I used the same code to make a connect tool.
We can also combine join and connect !
If you like you can add a push request on my github, I really like the connect + merge combo.
https://pastebin.com/28u2fbsh
I made a video to show you what I did.
http://pitiwazou.com/screenshots/connect_merge_001.mp4
@wazou