Aidy Burrows

Here i have a vertex rotating on the view axis, pivoting around the 3d cursor.

I've made a circle to show the possible path of the vertex when it rotates.

When i press Ctrl to snap (to the face) wouldnt we rather it snap to the point that circle intersects with the plane? 🤔

Quick Blender PSA:
Did you know in #b3d you can get different framerate playbacks depending on which window you press play in?

Also, if you have lots of nodes even if muted and unplugged that can make a difference?

Color me intrigued! ✨

Color grading with Render Raw - Blender add-on mini course

Color grading with Render Raw - Blender add-on mini course

Color grading with Render Raw - Blender add-on mini course

As for the tomorrow's planned release of Color Grading in Render Raw mini-course - we've also renamed the Resolve chat and support channels on our Discord to 📟🎨-color-grading-chat and support - makes it a broader church as @AidyBurrows3D mentioned 😃
#b3d
discord.com/invite/nNReR... < our Discord

I know it's a tough job market out there, but I realize not a lot of people who work in AA\AAA know about WorkWithIndies- but it's probably one of the best places to find off-the-beaten-path listings that you might not come across on LinkedIn.

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YouTube video by Blender What's New in Blender 4.5 LTS! Official Overview

Hey everyone, What's New in Blender 4.5 LTS! Official Overview is live! I'm talking about the Eevee changes in this video and @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social owned the compositor module overview!

Thanks to @jonlampel.bsky.social for the opportunity!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPhA...

#b3d #blender3d #3d

Just to let you know: our free LUT pack for Resolve (AgX, Filmic, OpenDRT and other pro view transforms from #b3d and not only) is now available on Gumroad too 👇🧵
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cosmic web in Blender

cosmic web in Blender

Space VFX 2 research

cosmic web in Blender - wireframe

Hey everyone, we've just shared a Cosmic Web Geometry Nodes setup for Blender. It is useful for creating superstructures resembling galactic filaments – that actually run super fast and are super well optimized thnx to @bradyajohnston.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjgu...

#b3d #blender3d

A fantastic cosmic web #geonodes setup for Blender. It is useful for creating superstructures resembling galactic filaments – that actually run super fast.

Based on the fastest Plexus by @bradyajohnston.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjgu... - the tutorial & the download

#b3d #blender3d #3d

Really impressed with this lighting addon. Light wrangler, as useful for lights as node wrangler is for nodes
@glebalexandrov.bsky.social breaks it down here :

youtu.be/L-dVsmOlzhU?...

New quick #b3d environment tutorial.

youtu.be/KMmdUeB2UcY

KISS: a good Blender exercise for reducing distraction and endless iteration is to just keep it simple. 😗😃

Get more from Creative Shrimp on Patreon Making 3d/ Blender tutorials/ gamedev/ music!! [Gleb and Aidy]

Heads up for the amazing patreon folks, few new posts/videos just made live. 🥳

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YouTube video by Gleb Alexandrov Game Asset Workflow in Blender: Introduction / Promo Video

OUT NOW! 💥🥳 Game Asset Workflow: A Complete Blender Guide. 🕹️

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11+ Hrs! 😅 A Step-by-Step Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Texturing, UVs, Optimization and Exporting for Game Engines. 🎮

Links ⬇️

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OUT TOMORROW! This took a surprisingly long time to put together and we shrimpcerely hope you enjoy it. 🙂

That's my fave method too. 🙂

I can imagine beginners getting pretty confused that it's not just a simple option among the other settings is all.

Then potentially finding it in the multires baking settings, then realising that it requires several more steps with shrinkwrap etc.

I wonder why height is not a bake option after #b3d v2.79

Or maybe a better question is why not add it as an option for cycles/eevee?

I guess lack of demand? Does anyone miss this straightforward bake option? Rather than hacking it together with multires and shrinkwraps?

ACES tone mapping - left, AgX - right

Wow, @aidyburrows3d.bsky.social noticed that one of the updates for Godot 4.4 includes AgX! 🤯

p.s. ACES tone mapping left, AgX right.

The snapshot with other Godot changes in 4.4: godotengine.org/article/dev-...

#AgX #godot #godotengine #realtime #gamedev

mountains 3d render: Foundations of the Earth

Twisted mountains 3d render, Foundations of the Earth; Gleb Alexandrov in red fireman's gloves

Foundations of the Earth arid desert 3d render

3d mesh of a terrain, grey shader

New Realistic Terrain Library for Blender is out, here's a full review/walkthrough:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukRq...

@classydogfilms.bsky.social 😱

40,000 people have now signed the Statement on AI Training, which says training gen AI on creative work without a license “must not be permitted”.

Thank you to all who have signed.

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A simple yet powerful trick to transform your Blender scenes with easy-to-follow lighting techniques 🦐😊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDi...

p.s. can you also ring that bell icon or whatever it is on YouTube that makes you actually get notified about our videos? please 🥰

#b3d #3d #blender3d #lighting

blender node group showing custom tri-planar setup

For reference in case anyone finds this here - The amazing @krisp.bsky.social pointed out that we can recreate the tri-planar effect with this node setup ❤️

Have you seen/downloaded our SuperNoise freebie 3d texture?
#b3d #blender3d #3d

creativeshrimp.gumroad.com/l/supernoise

Here's a video - at the start, that's how we want to be able to manipulate the coords - like at the start, not the streaky style at the end. :)

intriguingly i notice a bunch of folks mentioning it and consider it a bug here...

projects.blender.org/blender/blen...

Does anyone know how to rotate coord's in blender so that they never turn into streaks (as they do with the mapping node?)

Here i'm simulating that of course we could just rotate the mesh in edit mode - but can that be done with vector nodes instead? 🤔

robo, dramatic hdri lighting

robo, soft and relatively flat hdri lighting

#b3d blueskiers! There's a new video drop on our Patreon. A very simple yet *very effective* lighting principle, to create a better-looking HDRI lighting in Blender, packed into a 17-min video.

p.s. This technique itself is nothing new, still super useful for #3d.

www.patreon.com/posts/use-th...

incidentally i was pretty impressed with how easy it was to poke around and test the export with sketchfab - pretty convenient since it's free and in the browser too. :)

ah yeah, very possibly. Sometimes whether the output needs to be linear or srgb can again affect the look there. But on the other hand, cycles does just tend to look very good thanks to its path tracing. :D A hard thing for some real-time engines to replicate by default I guess. :)

if even in cases where the normal map isn't working that hard, it could be that either the colorspace is wrong - i.e. needs to be non-color/linear or sRGB - or vice versa, or perhaps the Y i.e. green channel needs to be flipped.

Those are the usual suspects for weird normals anyway. :D

YouTube video by handplane3d Controlling Shading Behavior

For extra ref & info around the same topic there's this great video from ages ago that pretty much sums it all up.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXT...

I'm currently just assuming that because of engines doing things slightly differently to blender that artifacts still happen in these extreme cases.

your stuff looks super cool and very crisp! I can see why you'd be interested in knowing how to not smudge that crispness into oblivion due to some shaky normal maps.

Though in most circumstances it seems to look fine, it's just in this somewhat over the top example. :)