>>1021529
Glender Beneral

>>1021529
SEEEEEXOOOO SEX SEX SEX sex

>>1021551
I hate to ask, but the snowman, dog or little boy?

In that interview Crabnuts mentions the layouts for Ranking of Kings were done in Blender. Anyone knows if there's an article or video that goes over their workflow?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGD1znnEr-c

Any good, free texture brush sets for blender? I don't have any png brushes.

I could use a few grunge type brushes and anything basic like the legacy PS brushes (chalk, dry media, wet media)

>>1021554
Mentioned in this article, seek the bit about Shouta Goshozono
https://blog.sakugabooru.com/2022/03/10/animating-modern-nostalgia-ranking-of-kings-ousama-ranking-production-notes/

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Is there something I missing as to why IK always ends up not working right?
Its either the bones point in the right direction, but they're rotated to the side like pic related, or the bones point in the wrong direction but the rotated correctly.
It happens almost everytime I make an armature and I can't figure it out.

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>>1021565
changing the pole angle, its bending in the wrong direction but facing the right way

>>1021565
>>1021567
bending the knees very slightly forward in Edit Mode fixed it

>>1021565
The local X axis of the first bone points towards the pole target. You don’t have visible axes on, so you can’t know this yet.

>>1021567
>trans folks, my sovl lowpoly ww2 trans soldier model

>>1021575
so glad I'm not a schizo that imagines trannies around every corner
life must be hell for you

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how the fuck do I use knife tool so it would snap to grid? Google says it's just impossible and gives me some retarded workarounds that don't work. I hate this program like you wouldn't believe.

I just need to make a cut at an exact place but I can't use loop cut and move newly created vertices because face is at an angle. Fuck do I do? Pic rel is where I want to make a cut

>>1021645
The way I would do it is:
- Select all the edges you want to cut, then right click and choose subdivide.
- Add a plane (can be in the object or a separate object) and align it to the grid line you want the vertices to snap to.
- Turn on vertex snapping (face), select the vertices you created, and double press g to slide them to the plane. You may have to slide them individually because slide doesn't always like to behave.

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>>1021657
>do 200 steps of something
>blendlet's insane amount of coping around
NURBS chads, we win

>>1021662
You know what, cris? That's fair.
I'm still not paying for software though.

>>1021665
cris can't even make a donut, and I paid 0$ for my software

>>1021529
How’s the video editing side of Blender?
And what are the best Blender video editing tutorials worth my time to look at?
I know it might be the overshadowed function because the 3d related sides are more popular.

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>>1021645
report the bug to the blender developers and move on with your life knowing it'll be fixed in about 10 years from now

>>1021645
I'm not sure if you have addons to do that >nsolve, hardops, half knife (free).
To snap to the grid with the knife the only solution now with vanilla blender is to use knife project, if you think it is needed you could also try to contact the modeling module via chat.blender.org , they hired that Turk from the GSOC and he could be interested, you also have https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/, the Chink from the sculpt module uses it and he could be interested too.

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>>1021698
>blendlets need 200877 addons to do one simple operation

it's hella sick to add ur ipad as an extra screen to ur mac and use apple pencil in blender hell yeah

>>1021645
blender loop cut tool can't loop cut that? why not? it's all quads isn't it?

I'm starting with blender and sculpting in particular.
I have read that it's good to have a drawing tablet for sculpting, but I seem to have misplaced my old shitty Wacom I used for online teaching.
Would you recommend buying a tablet or is my regular trackball more than enough?

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>>1021702
>blendlet problems

>>1021703
buy a tablet, it's less than $100 and you need the pen pressure

>>1021713
Got it, thank you.
Ordered an Intros Pro Medium, since I want proper Linux support.

>>1021645
you can literally solve this with 2 keystrokes
and yet you seethe at the program instead of your own stupidity

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>XPBD still not out

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How do I get rid of this gap?
I just print STLs and so want a quick solution

>>1021753
some fimo will do the trick

>>1021529
Anyone got retopoflow 4?

>>1021755
I'm printing a lot of these so I'd rather just be able to print it right

>>1021753
using chudptimizer pro v2

>>1021753
I take it you barely know how to use blender? The model's already been decimated so that complicates things
The simplest way would be to join, move the parts so they overlap, remesh with a small voxel size, sculpt and smooth the joint, decimate
Hopefully you don't lose too much details

>>1021760
I take it you barely know how to use Blender. Just delete the inner faces and bridge loops.

>>1021764
Anon...

Is there a reason Ucupaint isn't a "default" addon everyone uses like NodeWrangler?

>>1021779
Probably they'd have to get rid of the in-plugin ads for supporting it

>>1021779
The blender foundation wants to make its own layer system in 2026, yes they should hire that guy to port it to the core blender instead.

>>1021779
It probably needs a much cleaner UI/UX before being official. It looks more complicated than it is and that scared me away from it for a while. The workflow isn't immediately obvious with the menu designs/drop downs so it's not friendly to experimenting. It's full of features but most artists who are handpainting textures just want a layer stack like in a digital painting program.

This is the best tutorial I'm aware of but it's not that professional and is missing some parts like using the masks for non-destructive painting, so you need the second video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_apXIn0g5w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UBSmHdO8gw

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>>1021782
Yes, the interface is a bit shitty, one of the things that lacks to me is the integration with other programs like Photoshop or Krita, I'm not sure if you can save layer groups as assets but that would be nice too.
>is missing some parts like using the masks for non-destructive painting
this is from the download page

>>1021779
some people are more used to painting without layers
others have given up on texturing in blender
and I haven't textured a model in 2 years

>>1021783
I meant the tutorial video I linked misses out on showing some of the non-destructive features, not that ucu is missing anything.

I've not tried it, but there is a way to do live link with external programs
https://youtu.be/D90UpxA-VDw?t=10
https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/auto-reload/

Why is it when I try and import a MMD model into Blender, I try and delete the old bones
Throw a quick Rigify, generate, and then parent the model and Rig with Automatic weights, moving the rig doesnt do anything?

>>1021849
delete all vertex groups after deleting the old bones

>>1021853
Sorta worked, I can get it to work now but for some reason Auto Weighting just isnt working, but manually can work

>>1021854
try scaling up the mesh and armature before autoweighting, then scaling them back down. Also check all the bones you want to be deformers actually have deform set

>>1021753
Separate it, extend it, then boolean it together and smooth out the area.

When's 5.0?

>>1021936
November 18? It adds nothing interesting, the half done volume nodes and a couple of geometry nodes based modifiers.

>>1021937
There are a ton of features to look forward to even if none of them are interesting by themselves. Those geo node modifiers, new sky texture, adaptive subdivision, compositing nodes as assets, uv sync selection updates, automatic bounding box for lattic, color management/working space changes, the list goes on

>>1021940
As I said I doesn't look like a big release, they should have focused on the tablet port and the animation layers for the 5.0.

>>1021937
It doesn't add much for me, maybe next update will be better for me
https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/


The fix to sculpt mode radial symmetry is welcome but not life-changing
It looks like the shapekeys menu is going to be better, that's nice, it'd be nice if they improved the attributes menu too
Compositor improvement is always good even if I don't do that part, I think the EXR channel thing is neat too (you should check out https://youtu.be/KQ66j6DJ6Lo if you composite in blender)
New improved matcaps, nice, maybe they're better than my custom matcaps
New modifiers are nice, especially the array and scatter, most of the geo nodes and volume stuff flies over my head but someone will probably make a toolkit I can use

I'll decide how I feel about the UI changes when I switch to 5.0

full aces 2.0 support + aces rendering space is a very welcome and very fundamental change. it should be the default and will impact most people who use cycles going forward.
adaptive subdiv is also very nice and the multi-bounce sss is a good step in the right direction to fixing cycles' awful subsurface implementation.

Am I stupid or is there no pressure curve setting for sculpting brushes when there is one for the grease pencil?

>>1021949
Funny you ask that, I've never felt the need for pressure curves, but it's coming in 5.0

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Is this good for someone who's been learning for about a week? How to I make my retopology look less wavy and retarded?

>>1021957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3NHU6uXvk

>>1021957
Thank you, this is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I tried asking chatgpt and it told me that there was basically no way doing it

>>1021962
At least that's one way AI has grasped the essence of /3/

>>1021962
meat for>>1021958

>>1021942
I do not care at all about tablet port.
The geometry node backed modifiers are instantly usable by beginners and experts alike which makes iteration and modeling much faster. It's the biggest and most accessible change they've made in recent memory.
https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/modeling/

Out of curiosity, I just checked the 4.0 donut tutorial and it completely removes almost 60 minutes of the geometry nodes sprinkle section.

>>1021946
This, those are huge improvements that you get for free or changing one dropdown like Rec. 2020 in the working space dropdown

Dark shadow artifacts disappearing with SSS
https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/cycles/#subsurface-scattering
The multi-bounce sky texture
https://youtu.be/cWd-TPvvXE0?t=628
https://youtu.be/2IuOUDwZdiw?t=604
Thin film on metals (anodized metals too)
https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/5.0/cycles/#metallic-thin-film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWXSkXaexo4
Wider working space giving better render results even if you're not pushing crazy colors
https://youtu.be/cWd-TPvvXE0?t=284
https://youtu.be/2IuOUDwZdiw?t=136

hate that I'm like michelangelo when sculpting ass and thighs but a playdoh eating retard when it comes to the face

>>1021984
>Out of curiosity, I just checked the 4.0 donut tutorial and it completely removes almost 60 minutes of the geometry nodes sprinkle section
I think that's a shame because it was an early introduction to geometry nodes
But I'm an hypocrite because I don't want to create my own node setups

>>1021547
More irrefutable proof that blender is better than maya. Imagine if there was a maya general, if you swapped the letters it would say "gaya meneral", as in gay men. This may seem like some silly wordplay, but the antichrist and the nwo know the power of word magic and puns and use these as tools to penetrate the anus of your mind.

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>>1021997
He agrees

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Please recommend how to map the buttons on space mouse to replace the keyboard as much as possible.
I'm trying to learn sculpting and will be using space mouse + drawing tablet on Linux (Hyprland).
I have little knowledge about the common keybinds, since my only previous experience is the planetoid and rocket video on 2.8x or around that time and general basic introduction from CGCookie on 4.5.
Could you please list the most common buttons/combos one uses for sculpting and what is the keyboard still used for besides the numbers?

>>1022009
Do yourself a favor and open Blender, start sculpting and figure it out. You're not going to be able to map shortcuts if you don't even know what brushes you use.

The keyboard key you need that's not a brush shortcut is F to resize brush (and Shift+F to change brush strength, Control+F to rotate brush). There's also A and Alt+Q.

I recommend combination shortcuts, like [1] for Draw, Shift+[1] Sharp Draw, Control+[1] for Crease Polish, Alt+[1] for Crease Sharp, etc.
Break them into categories, maybe set the Grab brushes to [1], the Draw brushes to [2], Clay and Inflate to [3], Scrape brushes to [4].

>>1022011
That is a very reasonable point, thank you.
And thank you for your suggestions.

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Is it worth learning to rig? Looking at the Art of Effective Rigging Course, it’ll take me at least half a year to get through it all since it’s basically engineering which fries my brain. Not sure if it’s worth it when things like rigify or other addons exist.
Are blender riggers obselete? Should I drop it or continue?

>>1022037
Do you want to make rigs? Then yes. Otherwise maybe no.

Beyond that, you'll learn a number of workflow tips and tricks that'll greatly accelerate your work with bones in general and come in handy whenever your autorigger doesn't seem to do what you want, or even when it does. Something like rigify won't help you with clothes or appendages, you'll also learn a decent weight painting workflow, corrective bones, a bunch of the obscure constraints, how to easily place bones accurately when setting up the meta rig, etc.

>>1022037
Also stop with the mindset that someone is obsoltete whenever they get a tool, motherfucker, you're the tool

I'm stuck in a perpetual loop of bookmarking more and more tutorials to watch later
I don't think I'm cut out for this

>>1022046
Easier than you think, just pick one you've saved at random and try to replicate the thing it teaches

>>1022040
>>1022041
Ok, thanks, I'll continue learning rigging. I want to eventually learn to animate and rigging seems like it'll give me much more freedom if I keep at it.

>>1022055
You can hardly imagine to what extent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfExejqdr5w

Think the Steam Machine would be a good rendering box?

>>1022064
It would be good in the sense that it's a second computer and that it runs Linux (Blender runs ever so slightly better on Linux)
It is nothing special compared to buying another PC

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Where can i learn shaders properly?
I tried cgcookie shader "course" of pic here, but it's absolutely garbage. The woman doing it just reads the blender documentation (which is a technical explanation of a shader) and nothing more. Everyone in the course reviews calls cgcookie out for it and how appalling the quality of the "course" is.

>>1022091
You're honestly better off learning anything but blender for shaders or rendering

>>1022091
Most prople won't even read through the manual unprompted so you might actually learn something

>>1021779
No add-ons can save blenders texture painting

>>1022005
I just started learning geometry nodes, and they're pretty cool. It's what I was always trying to do with just drivers but it is all much smoother.

>>1022091
Stylized station has some pretty good tutorials. They are mostly for cartoon/anime styles but they give a good idea of how to build up specific effects in a shader. I'd recommend it even if you want to do realistic shaders.

I don’t want to sculpt, do I need to learn sculpting? Or can I model rverything?

>>1022109
You can, but you'll be much slower.

If you have any models you'd like to share for free I'd love to use them

>>1022109
You don't have to learn to sculpt if you don't want to. As a matter of fact you don't even have to make models.

>>1022111
Links for free shit are in board OP

I'm still stuck on 3.6, am I missing out on anything?

>>1022125
>am I missing out on anything?
Everything anon, we're having the time of our lives with 5.0.
What's holding you back in 3.6? Is that where you met your deceased wife?

5.0 is finally here, didn't think it'd make it today with the Cloudflare outage
https://www.blender.org/download/
Recap video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEqD-jK0DU

>>1022125
The vulkan backend performs way better, sculpting performance is miles better, there are new geometry nodes backed modifiers

You know what wasn't added to blender 5.0? Vertex painting for multires objects.

>>1022130
They are working on the spikes rn, and they have that in the workboard, maybe for the 5.2....
https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/148976#issuecomment-1767069

>>1022131
I like that optimism, it reminds me of when I was younger

>>1022129
What did they do to the matcaps, how do I get back the old look? There's a really pronounced shadow gradient on the bottom now

>>1022110
NTA, im new to modeling and its been fun so far, but i do wonder if all im doing is hard surface objects, is sculpting really all that needed there?

Where can I get loli models?

>>1022142
Links for free shit are in board OT, also there's a couple download links in the two aiee threads, look up the archives. Also Mihoyo provides MMD downloads of most of their characters, which you can easily import into Blender

what the fuck, i was just a month late to updating to 4.5 and 5.0 is out already?

>>1022147
blender goys updating this shit fast. not complaining, 5 was unexpectedly a huge update with lots of really good shit

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I think the matcaps are better but I hate them because they're new
Maybe I can get used to them, I'll try them, I'm interested in the green clay that's my favorite for trad sculpting

>>1022154
The black fresnel is pissing me off, I want the old one back.

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>>1022155
If you really want it back you can install it from your 4.5 installation files, matcaps are stored in /datafiles/studiolights/matcaps/

>>1022147
I don't like how quickly they basically obsoleted the most recent LTS release by adding such an important feature for UV mapping.

>>1022156
Thanks a bunch, had no idea. You're a lifesaver

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https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-0/

>>1022157
and then ppl will wonder why major projects like movies and triple a games use stable stuff like maya that get a few incremental updates every year. i suppose for the blender tutorial industrial complex having blender change drastically every 18 months is great cuz then people have to constantly refresh their tutorial collections.

>>1022009
Hey anon, since 5.0 is out and NDOF devices are broken in 4.5 LTS, you should upgrade asap.

>>1022194
I'm not sure how you're able to rationalize that Maya never improving is a feature, but Blender has LTS versions for long term major projects.

>>1022198
Please elaborate. Mine was working fine as far as I tried so far.

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Blendjeets will never ever get on this level of dedication and support from industry.
Needless to say Cycles is biased and unrealistic renderer, too.

>>1022233
That's nice, you should post that on the Cinema 4D thread.

There was a youtube tutorial posted a few threads back showing a really shader set up that looked like a painting on a desert landscape or something like that. anyone happen to know what I'm talking about? I can't find anything when looking in youtube

What's a shader node actually? It seems like whatever crazy shit i do with normal maps will export just fine, but if i blend textures or materials it shits the bed. How do i know what it will export properly and what only exists in blender?

>>1022341
A shader is a program that computes the final color (or other attribute) at a given pixel of a given triangle based on the triangle attributes and other scene elements. Essentially, you can see it as a series of math formulas and functions that are executed in sequence.

Since those programs are in their own languages and deal with some pretty complex math and physics concepts, they were abstracted into materials, ie "given those inputs, the formula for the color is this", so you only need to know what inputs to feed into the material. The phong lighting model is an example of an early material shading formula, the Disney principled shader (what 3d people really mean when they say PBR) is a much more recent one.

But actually that approach is very inflexible, cause you may want a material that doesn't conform exactly to those models, so whenever you need another material shading program you need one or more engineers or big nerds to write it. Artists can't write code.

Enter node graphs! the programs are cut up into their components, the shader nodes, high or low level (there's an addition node that'll translate to a "A+B" in the program but there's a principled node too that might result in a couple hundred lines) and so the writing complexity is hidden from the artist. They wire up their nodes, then the program goes over the graph and writes the matching code. So now artists can "draw" code with immediate feedback.

However, the choice of nodes and exactly what kind of code they translate to is dependent on both the surrounding program and the mood of whoever contributed to the node system. Blender or Unity or UE wire up their nodes differently and have different formulas. There's no standard, not even in naming.

So you have to write a graph converter, a titanic, ever-evolving task because the nodes and graphs don't inherently match. On average it's a much more efficient workflow to just rebuild the same materials in each engine's own authoring system.

>>1021529
Wow, I can mark brush textures as assets in the 5.1 alpha instead of to have to save the whole brush, at fucking last.
>B-but it isn't working and it does nothing.
I know.

>>1022254
Not much of difference when you pay for blender addons to make it barely usable.

>>1022353
Yes, paying for Blender addons is like going to the cinema4d thread

>>1022233
>c4dfag
See https://x.com/eyedesyn/status/1991868120085242295

There was an anon talking about a web page where he selected muscles to learn to sculpt properly.
Seems I didn't save it and how he recommended using it.
Anyone has a link?

>>1022175
Compositor finally available in VSE is a gamechanger for me.
I regularly use the VSE for funposting and that change really makes me happy

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Im making anims in blender here and part of this animation requires this dude to remove his hat for a salute, whats the best way to do this? i can make a separate bone for the hat but then i have to manually input the keyframes for the rest of the animations. is there a way this separate bone can be attached but also be able to move off the head? or is the only solution to hide the hat on the head and add a hat to the hand?

>>1022367
not a blendlet, but I know the answer.
You parent constrain the hat to the head, and the hat to the hand. When he's wearing that hate turn on the head constraint. When the hand picks it up, turn off the head constraint and turn on the hand constraint. When he sets his hat down, turn off both constraints.
Convolute the constraints through other transform nodes as necessary.

I'm trying to make chibi porn assets I like forward to the sky, I want examples of drawing chibi please in books?

>>1022370
Wrong board, /ic/ has a thread for that

>>1022342
Hmm i see, thanks. Im working with godot so afik its shader node system is "write it yourself in vulcan faggot" and if i could do that i wouldnt need blender...

>>1022380
You might get more help on /g/, I believe they have game dev generals there
This is the Blender general

>>1022364
Do you have any recs for ways to learn it or just learned it over time?

I tried ages ago in 2.7x and it was complete ass, I remember downloading add-ons to get basic functionality for clips. Now whenver I try to learn motion graphics stuff it's all geometry nodes slop instead of anything like 2D or video editing

>>1022382
>2.7x
In my opinion (as someone who uses it almost daily) was unusable.
VSE became fun and mostly reliable only like 2 years ago. There are still bugs of course but it depends on the version of Blender you're using. For example I've been using a particular release of 4.3 for a long time without switching to newer ones because of a persistent bug that existed before it and after it (up until recently).
>ways to learn it
Mostly learning by doing.
I usually have in mind what the video should roughly look like so I just go for it and whenever there's an issue I look up how to achieve the particular thing I want it to do. After a short while of doing this I know where everything is and usually don't have to look up shit anymore if I'm not doing something new and fancy.

I especially love Blender's VSE for the ability to digest almost anything I throw into its timeline. I can literally just grab something from my file explorer and drop it on the video timeline. Other software I've tried had some weird project container where you have to put stuff first and then be able to use it AND they usually also are really picky about formats. For example in the VSE I can just plop WEBMs I found in a thread or even GIFs. Pics, too. It eats almost anything.
When you're done you could even directly render to VP9 WEBM so you could instantly post your result here. I usually render uncompressed though and convert to WEBM later since that way I have finer control about quality/file size.

So yeah, you learn the fastest by dicking and while having fun.

If I wanna create a video with a car driving around for a longer time while the camera follows and also changes to different viewing angles, etc. Would that be possible in blender or should I rebuild the scene in something like unreal?

I'm talking about a video of 10 minutes or so. I imagine setting the path for both car + camera in that length quite time consuming. Also given that the wheels need to roll depending on the speed.

>>1022392
Is the car driving on a track, a road or something?

>>1022394
Yes on a road

>>1022395
The way I usually see this being done is by having a stationary car and camera, and the scenery moves around the car in a seamless loop

>>1022381
Ill take a look, im sure its not too hard to just blend two textures, but i would prefer not to (and in the short term ill probably just use more geometry so that i dont have have to)

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>>1022392
I'm a big fan of the Milky Highway method of having the road basically be a repeated segment on array/curve modifiers with an animated offset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSc27JPm3r8

>>1022392
There's a free addon for Blender somewhere that makes car animation quite easy since you can either drive it inside blender and record it or define paths. It also has physics enabled so the car will roll, have suspension etc. You can plopp pretty much any car on the rig and bind the physics to it

I looked on /g/ and all i got was brain damage so thanks for nothing asshole

>>1022446
Game development, not even once

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>hi anon, time for another donut tutorial. no you can't leave, you have to watch and follow along!

>>1022467
i enjoy watching the donut tutorial for each new blender version

>>1022467
I've never made a doughnut

is Substance 3D Painter viable for texturing low poly assets? I'm talking PS1 level
manually painting things in blender is a bit of a pain and I'm a drawlet, and using photos for textures has its limitations
it'd be nice to set up something with procedural edge wear or chipped paint etc without having to mess with a ton of nodes, is all. just not sure if that stuff requires complex geometry

>>1022467
in that shot he looks like he's ready to die

>>1022556
If you can't draw Substance isn't going to help you

Ucupaint can do edge detect masks

when you guys animate, do you use sfm or blender to do it?

>>1022562
This is untrue, SP can do a lot without drawing manually

Does anyone have that webm of a guy modeling a really basic pussy? It was from an older blender general. Or just a decent video of one.

>>1022566
If you're considering Substance because you can't be fucked learning to paint low poly textures, you're ngmi no matter what software you use

>>1022569
>>998377

>>1022571
appreciated anon but I saw that thread and those are some of the most hideous pussies I've ever seen and not what I'm looking for.

>>1022575
The precise webm you're looking for is in that thread, along with the link to the archive of the previous one

I like blender and idea of creating 3d stuff, but have no motivation for it unless it's gonna be interactive, like when modding games. What is this curse called?

>>1022579
Being a piece of shit. But thankfully all you have to do is just create some shit

>5.0
>Add subdiv and bevel to a model just to see how it will look
>It bumps the poly count to about +100k
>However Blender shits itself and the performance goes to singe-digit fps
Is it because of my shit topo or is there another reason for that to happen?

>>1022588
Keep the high subdiv levels for render, not preview. Also kinda depends on what modifiers you have around the subdiv

>>1022590
>Also kinda depends on what modifiers you have around the subdiv
Just a mirror mod and auto smooth.

I thought that smooth might be the reason, however I just tested these mods without the smooth and the program still chugs.
So I guess my topo is just too shit for blender to handle.

>>1022585
Huh why

>>1022588
Your computer could be shit. Make sure you're in Vulkan and GPU mode

>>1022588
100k is nothing, you have a screenshot?
Or are you doing something like subdividing a 256 vertices ngon?

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>>1022602
Pls no bully too hard.
Tris and quads. No ngons as far as I can see.

Prior to that I made a 500k+ model and subdiv + bevel worked fine there.

Also it seems that Blender only chugs when I initialize the modifiers. When I apply them it goes back to normal.

>>1022603
We all start at the bottom.
Blender shouldn´t be struggling. Weird.

>>1022576
No it isnt. I know the one you think it is but that isn't it.

>>1022576
nta but im pretty sure the one he means, the guy does the entire vagina, lips included, not just the inner fleshy bits which that entire thread is about

>>1022603
Topo is kinda shit, but high enough that you don't need subdivision.
Try setting the bevel weight of the unmarked corner edges to 1, apply a bevel (only one segment, with limit method 'weight') and add the "weighted normal" modifier. That should already do a good job

>>1022588
are you adding like 50 segments of bevel or something?

>>1022603
Sounds like there's other stuff that's messed up which we're not being told. Also depending on the bevel modifier settings, you might be making ngons with the segments and miter. Usually you want an even number and Arc

This vid has good general subd tips for modeling. In particular 16:20, you want to reduce edges where they have no detail. You should be modeling from subd from the start, after initial block-in. Your base mesh cage should not need that much detail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmbttkNF2Zk

I'm sure I'm the 80-billionth person to ask but is there a beginner course that covers doing blender shit for gamedev? Went through the doughnut, checked the Joey Carlino vids, and am going through the CG cookie series. I get the basic basics but I imagine the methodology or workflow for gamedev is different than like making renders for xitter.
I'm gonna poke through warosu and see if someone has already answered this question but just in case I can't find an answer or somebody answers faster than I can find anything I figured I'd ask.
sorry and thanks

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>>1022640

>>1022642
Thanks. I'm not in CGP so I'll see if I can find these in public spots. Spoonfeeding accomplished
>4003
Maybe I'll start there

>>1022643
I've been taking a look a bit and the ones that I like are:
Game Asset Creation: Modeling & Texture Painting in Blender by Art Studio313
Blender: Stylized character creation for videogames by The Parabox 3D
3DTudor - Blender 4 The Modular and Kitbash Environment Guide
animators pipeline from Blender to engine By Hamish Calthorpe
GameDev.tv - Blender Animation & Rigging - Bring Your Creations To Life by Grant Abbitt
The Gnomon Workshop - Architectural Design for Games using Blender & UE5
Full game character in Blender course - Moth Girl by SpeedChar
FlippedNormals - Sci-Fi Game Environment in Blender & UE4 by Emiel Sleegers

>>1022640
Specifically for rigging, Art of Effective Rigging places some emphasis on keeping the rigs compatible for game engines and it has an extra chapter dedicated specifically to game rigs at the end.

There's also this book
https://www.routledge.com/A-Complete-Guide-to-Character-Rigging-for-Games-Using-Blender/Halac/p/book/9781032203003

>>1022645
I've found a ucupaint course that could be interesting > Layer Based Texturing In Blender (Ucupaint Course) by FR3NKD, it is mandatory for texturing, to download something to learn hardops could be interesting too, maybe > Blender Bros - Complete Guide to HardOps and Box Cutter OffRoader

>>1021755
this anon knows his stuff, I'd rather use miliput for GK stuff tho. And most experienced builders know to use this for any bubbles and gaps
>>1021757

>>1022640
You're overthinking it. You make a model then you export it to your game engine. There is nothing else to learn until you know what you need to do

>>1022656
I mean, at least they should know stuff like how game engines have low weight count limitations per vertex, bone count might be limited, they can't deal with most modifiers, the size units need to be right for the engine, materials will probably need to be recreated, using the fbx checker is a good idea to see what the result will look like without needing to get it into the engine, and so on.

>>1022657
He's going to quit before he comes close to any of those potential problems

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what's the simplest node setup / method for blending two image textures together with vertex paint?
I'm using cube projection and project from view for my environment work but I need to learn blending, pic related (not mine)

>>1022659
just use a color mix mode with whatever's driving the blending as the factor

>>1022658
You can't assume everyone's as soft as you are

>>1022662
not him but you won't believe how many people quit along the years
just make something and keep making things for a couple years...

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>>1022615
Thanks for the link.

I tried following that video with accordance to my references. So far Managed to make a grip for the knife. Turned out to be pretty decent for my "Bottom of the barrel" skillset.

As for the blade, I basically decided to remodel it from scratch, as seen on picrelated, (Top is old one, bottom is the newer one.) Though I can't honestly say if I did a better job than the last time, especially since I still can't get a solid grasp on vert positions and they end up having a very jittery placement.

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>>1022660
this seems to work, thanks
not sure if this would export neatly into engines like Unreal, Godot etc since it seems to rely on the nodes and vertex paint rather than being purely UVs

>>1022666
>not sure if this would export neatly into engines
Nothing is going to neatly export, you should be focusing on what the final export deliverable is. You can sketch out a material in Blender but anything more complicated than a basic principled or emission shader is going to be tailored to the rendering program.

Some examples of various techniques
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcqJckp_q3M

>>1022666
alright fuck this, chatgpt is being beyond retarded. is there a way to simply add normal maps of the image textures to this, while still having the blending be controlled by the vertex color?
tried using the same setup and adding the normals as their own separate material, but I can only have one applied at a time

so i tried the blender remesh tool in the sculpt menu, man, it produced some seriously funky geometry. like, yeah, they're all quads, but they're so random that you can't even loop select on them? sorry man maya has u beat here. did blender just implement the easiest shittiest remesh algorithm just to say they have this feature? cuz this isn't really usable.

ohhh, i see, i have to buy a "quad remesher" plugin from a 3rd party to have what comes built-in to maya. interesting.

>>1022675
Try zbrush if you're going to bait with sculpting tools

>>1022674
Can't you just put the normals in the same setup and plug that into the normal of the shader? Why would you need another material?

like this:
normal1.png + normal2.png + color attribute (the same one) -> mix -> normal map -> normal

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>>1022677
think I got it working with this setup, seems to react to light on a flat subdivided plane as expected although kinda hard to tell with the moss
I'll try your setup too, seems like that'd work just as well

>>1022667
cheers for this btw

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>>1022679
I think this is the set-up you meant. idk if there's a real difference between the end result

>>1022676
>answer to blender being jank af is to recommend some shit that costs more than maya indie
a blender guy actually admitted it's not as good as professional software? woah

>ucupaint
for once in my life can i see someone use one of these texture painting things not making some metallic object with the paint worn off on the edges?

>>1022640
i'm p sure humble bundle has the gamedev.tv blender courses on sale for hella cheap rn. it's all low poly tho.

>>1022686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V91VzGe2T4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UBSmHdO8gw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdlbvC-ikNw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaO9HiuOeVA

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how would i go about making this distort effect? i want something similar to sell the impact of a shot but the stuff i'm finding online is just for regular explosions

>>1022693
The directional blur compositor node is what you want

>>1022694
is there a way i could say, apply the effect to a mesh as a texture or would i only be able to do it through compositing? i don't mind splitting things up into layers but still

>>1022682
that's exactly it
I think the only benefit would be performance as you only have one shader; on my dogshit laptop mix shader doesn't always have the best performance

>>1022656
>>1022657
>>1022658
Doing and learning the technical shit is what has kept me in art as long as it has. The whole "just do random stuff, then figure out what stuff you need to actually do when you've fucked around for 5 years" thing doesn't jive with me.
I'm more likely to drop blender doing the "just fuck around" method due to sheer boredom and lack of direction than I am from getting overloaded with technical shit. Not gonna pretend I'm some art wizard but I do find being stumped more enjoyable than being aimless.

>>1022701
>Doing and learning the technical shit is what has kept me in art as long as it has
That's a very standard type of self-taught internet artist. They hardly, if ever, make personal work. They do studies all the time and are stuck in tutorial hell, possibly whining why no one likes their boring work if they even bother to post on socials.

>The whole "just do random stuff, then figure out what stuff you need to actually do when you've fucked around for 5 years" thing doesn't jive with me.
That's the mindset you posted with "Doing and learning the technical shit is what has kept me in art as long as it has"

I never said to do that. Solve problems you have and look up how to solve problems when you need them like a normal human with a brain would.
>how do I make a model?
>how do I get my model in game...oh, export to game engine tutorials, wow there are so many options
>how do I texture my model? looks like I have to learn UV unwrapping, and maybe learn what "materials" are
>how do I animate, oh looks like there's rigs and other things to learn, does this work in my game engine?
and so on.

There are too many things to learn for a beginner and no single way to correctly do it all. By the time they need the skill, they'll have forgotten it or never practiced it enough to become good at it. 3D is a fractal of skills to learn, and then gamedev is another entire universe. It is a long haul that will take years no matter what you do.
Here's your tutorial channel, https://www.youtube.com/@grabbitt. You can watch and learn everything you can here and that's barely scratching the surface even with years of industry experience guiding you.

>>1022368
its working with that animation, but now when i switch to another action the hat disappears on this animation as well. how can i make the hat disappear from his head for only the saluting animation?

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also how do i stop this stupid shit from happening?

>>1022640
The problem is what you need to do depends on the engine, and, even worse, the game you havent made yet.

Any good resources/tutorials on how to properly turn a high poly model into a low poly one?

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>>1022714
better video

>>1022717
use whatever blender's equivalent to maya's quad draw tool is?

>>1022717
Enable the F2 and looptools addons

Minute long videos of the setup and basics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY7FlJ8xTz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG6eyIjaZ0M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAVuPYCcd1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ3NHU6uXvk

There's a newer Face Nearest setting that works a lot better for snapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwbG-HAd6Qc

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I did UVs for this character. Then made the outfit. But when I came back to UVs to plan how to cut my model and add the clothing to the UV map I notice blender folded the left and right halves of the UVs on top of each other.
Any ideas why this happened?
I'll have to remake these UVs because I want the L and R halves to be unique. Goddamn.

>>1022728
Just select each "wrong" UV island, scale along x by -1, then if necessary select the stitch and press alt-v to join, otherwise just place on the correct area

>>1022729
Thanks, yeh, I guess that could work. Any idea what might have caused it? I really don't want fix this only for it to happen again tomorrow.

>>1022733
Presumably you hadn't applied the mirror modifier when you generated them

I'm currently retopologizing a rough highpoly sculpt for the first time. After finishing the retopo, can I go back and add details to the sculpt and still use it to bake a normal map for the retopo'd model?

>>1022744
Yes

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i just learned how to do a gradient two-colored background in the compositor. here's how i did it. please no bulli, i'm a noob and i thought this was neat.

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>>1022780

added a pink area light so her fur matches the background.

>>1022603

i'm assuming that the center of the knife is completely flat on the sides? if that is the case then you don't need all of those extra vertices, they are slowing down the render.

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it's my first time using blender and i'm making a die model and i need to add numbers to it
i don't really know how to go about positioning the texts under specific angles around the model
i need to add the text perpendicular to the lines i highlighted, they will be on the edges - not the faces - and there will be 10 total (5 on the opposite side)
are there any tips on how to align text like this? or just a pointer toward a video or something?

>>1022056
How the fuck any of this done

>>1022795
sure man, its tedious but dead simple

basically the info that describes "up" for each triangle is the UV map, which is what this guy >>1022728 is editing. its basically the unwrapped net of your 3d shape.

What you need to do is go to the UV editor, select every face, unwrap them, then find the UV option in the top menu to "reset UVs" or something. basically it makes every single UV into one big overlapping triangle. then you do this
>shrink every face (10 faces so 25% should get you plenty of space)
then
>click just one face on the mesh
>move the UV triangle so its out on its own and not overlapping (snap to grid helps)
>repeat for all 10 faces
>find the "export UV map" option and set the opacity and scale
>open the image in your editor of choice
>write numbers on it (ideally in a new layer so you can export just the numbers in a format with alpha
>go back to shader editor window
>new node > image > image texture
>set the image to your numbers, link the colour to the material's albedo and the alpha to the material's alpha
thats all it takes. you can fiddle around with different effects like using the image as a height map if you want the text to look indented, but its pretty much just those few steps

>>1022741
No the mirror modifier was applied.
I think it was when I edited the mesh afterwards with X/Y symmetry on. Some of the verts on the R didn't follow along as they should have so I went to sculpt mode and used the symmetrize operation actoss the -X/X axis. I think that's what did it.
Anyway trying to move those islands was such a cluster fuck I decided just to unwrap again from scratch.

>Ask ai: how to add blender animations from one blender file to another.
ai responce: open both files in the same instance, and copy-paste the keyframes over from one to another
>how do you open two files in the same instance
ai: you cant

wow thanks

>>1022822
you probably need to append the animation from one file to the other.
Are you familiar with using append?

>>1022823
>>1022822
I'd recommend linking over appending

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I'm trying to recreate PS2-era graphics. with material A I'm blending two image textures together to create an overgrown mossy look, and with material B I'm just applying a second texture for the chipped area
since I'm already using vertex coloring to determine where the moss goes, how do I apply another layer of vcol on top to actually paint it and fake lighting?
looking over noclip.website and looking at PS2 games makes it seem clear that they were capable of texture blending

there's some info on it here but idk, not sure
https://polycount.com/discussion/232570/blending-of-textures-in-ps2

>>1022838
Stop wasting everyone's time holding yourself to obtuse limitations. You're not going on real hardware, just finish it with techniques we use today and fake it like every other concession you'd be making.

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>>1022839
chill out wee man, I find this shit interesting and I want to go for an authentic look
looking at some GC games it looks like they use alpha to erase parts of a texture to blend. FFX seems to do an overlapping texture alpha trick whereas the GC ones just connect the two textures in a single mesh and fade, not sure how exactly that but it's a start
doesn't solve the fact that I can't texture blend and use vcol lighting at the same time but fuck it

>>1022718
>>1022714
>>1022367
solved

Is there a torrent with tutorials like /ic/ has for 2d art?

>>1022839
Shut up nigga no one listens to you + you're annoying

>>1022866
There aren't any paid courses worth watching

>>1022839
I see the broken record decided to show up again. How was Thanksgiving?

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Where does one start in "downgrading graphics" in Blender to resemble Source Filmmaker's style of rendering things?

I'm moving from Source Filmmaker to Blender.
I love the way the Source Filmmaker renderings come out when done right.
Mostly because I just like the look of it.
I'm fine with Source 2 Filmmaker renderings as well it kind of has it too.

I don't really want to push my hardware to the very limit, and so downgrading Blender's renders to resemble Source 2 filmmaker renders or even Source 1 Filmmaker renders is fine as well.

Here's an example of Source 1 Filmmaker's rendering style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRzwL6BN6ww

Here's an example of Source 2 Filmmaker's rendering style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loCuaDAaYqs

>>1022879
You learn lighting, shading, and compositing. You can try using EEVEE but there's no such thing as "downgrading graphics" which makes it sound like you never learned to render anything in SFM in the first place.

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I made this today, learning blender is fun :3

>>1021529
which tutorial vids/series to learn creating game ready characters? preferably something simple

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>radial tiling node
>when you STILL cant do the same shit to model wheels like a normal person without doing an entire fucking rig
fuck this troglodyte backwardsthinking shit

>>1022958
https://www.udemy.com/course/blender-stylized-character-creation-for-games/

>>1021645
I bet you have some double vertices, because otherwise it would just work. My guess is user error. Do a merge by distance on all the points.

>>1022882
>which makes it sound like you never learned to render anything in SFM in the first place.
You got me. I only dicked around in SFM. At most I would just pose stuff and then take funny screenshots of making funny GMOD faces back in the day.

>you can try using EEVEE
Okay I'll look into EEVEE thanks!
>no such thing as "downgrading graphics"
I should have said something along the lines of a more stylistic choice. I'm not looking for high fidelity.

>>1022965
Make something before worrying about your results looking "too good" or too high fidelity. You don't make that by accident

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>>1021529
Hello. I got some Metroid models and wanted to print them but they are T-posing. I suck really fucking hard at manipulating Blender to the point I keep enlogating bones over properly adjusting their joins and even then I keep taking too long to get anything done.
Is it possible for me to use something like a specific pose to make the model follow? Even if there is a fucking canon in the place of the right forearm? I'm thinking of perhaps something like a pose pack and making Samus follow those poses and then print them as those. Perhaps do the same for others.
Any way to do that?

>>1022972
Mixamo

>>1022977
Thank you very much. I will check

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Can someone spoonfeed a dumbass such as myself a tutorial or course for a mid poly character? Yes, I suck at blender but I am trying to learn. I have made the donut, followed plenty of low poly tutorials, but I cannot make my vidya character for the life of me.

>>1022987
Add the arms and legs and you should be good

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So I've been playing a bit with the sdf nodes again and i've made my own version based on the one from the demo files page.
All is slow as fuck so I have to work at lower resolutions >(voxel 0.1, Band width 10) and to increase it at voxel 0.03 Band width 30 at the end.
Some things are missed, it is just a basic version, just in case somebody want to play with it.
https://files.catbox.moe/0y60du.blend

>>1023006
>all that spaghetti
at a certain point isn't better to just write a python script?

Any recommendations for a good UV addon? I need something like Looptools and Even Loops that can change verts to circles with even spacing. Mio3 can do circles but the verts get bunched up in places.

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>object parented to armature
>weight paints applied to bone
what arcane combination of keyboard shortcuts did I forget in order to to properly attach the object to the armature

>>1023034
Select mesh then shift select armature then ctrl-p. If you think you already have weights select the option "empty weights" or nothing

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Need help again. Mixamo didn't work. I guess the model I'm using, pic semi-related as it's a Dread Suit Samus, was incompatible. The option to apply the animation to the rig was greyed out and forcing it just glitched it causing an error.
I just want to print Samus in something like holding a canon or aiming. in fact I planned to use a Mixamo animation of someone aiming onehanded with a gun for that.
Is there any way for me to apply like a pre-made pose to Samus? In a way even if it's someone holding a pistol it'd force her in the right way to seem like she is aiming with a cannon?

>>1023040
Just go through a basic posing tutorial. Any automatic solution will take you more time to learn than just discovering the incredible process of rotating a bone without fucking it up

>>1023038
the mesh was missing an armature modifier

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>>1023006
I've fixed the emboss and cleaned the nodes a bit
https://files.catbox.moe/twhnnw.blend
>>1023015
This is not that hard to read, you should take a look at the demo files.

>>1023055
Anyone you recommend? All the ones I try are super complicated for me. I don't even know how to navigate Blender properly.

>>1023067
then start with a blender navigation basics tutorial. There's like a whole thread mocking Donut Lord but he will in fact explain you all that stuff from the get go

>>1023068
Understood and thanks

>>1023068
Err which thread do you refer to?

>>1023078
Seek the donut

>>1023081
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbSCMbJA6o
This?

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When I remeshed my character for sculpting the spaces in between the fingers got all combined. Is there a tool to carve out the polygons in between the fingers? I was trying the crease and inverse clay strips tool but it wasn't really doing anything. I thought I'd be able to just leave it, but I'm retopologizing the hands now and it's becoming an issue

I need to finally learn Blender(properly)
I am willing to spend money on a course as long as it's reasonable.
Is there somewhere that updates their resources to at least a decently recent version of Blender so I don't have spend most of my time googling around where to find stuff that changed since the course was made? I took a look at Udemy and at least for some courses it was still an issue, I hate that shit.

>>1023101
Just get the same version your course of choice is for, then once you're done you can upgrade and it'll be easy since you'll already know the program

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Any topo advice on how can I proprely face up this shape without getting pinches? Tried merging and spacing away the verts, but I still keep getting pinches at the sharp edges

>>1023115
can you post a screenshot with the pinches

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>>1023116

>>1023117
also one in edit mode please

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>>1023118
Nevermind, I figured it out.

This shit look ugly as sin, but it somehow gets the job done without any pinches, which is fine by me.

can someone help me understand how the curve modifer works in this software?

it keeps always adding a seemingly random offset between my geometry and the curve. i've tried clearing the transforms, making sure both object and curves origins are in the same spot, the relation between the geometries orientation around the curve and the curve itself just seems completely nonsensical to me

and of course every tutorial just starts with both object and curve at world zero origin with nothing else in the scene and works perfectly, which is completely impractical when im trying to model wires or a belt or something on a character

>>1023101
Never paid for a course but CG Boost or CG Cookie are probably your best bets. There are actually a lot of pros who make decent videos now for free on youtube to fill in gaps, but there aren't any overall courses to recommend.
You should be fine with anything past 2.8 really. 5.0 just came out but anything with 3 or 4 should be fine, there's only better ways to do things

If you were stupid enough to look at Udemy though, you're probably ngmi

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>>1023123
sorry, here's a bit more context

>>1023120
Looking good! Congrats for figuring it out

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im trying to make a low poly tank and i want to add some camo netting on the barrel. i made a net like picrel and made it cloth in the physics tab. the barrel has collision enabled but the cloth wont fall. i looked up tutorials on the internet and their cloth objects were falling instantly. any ideas?

>>1023129
did you push play on the timeline? collision on the netting and gun? cloth on the netting?

i just tried it and it worked with all those, so you're probably missing one of the above

>>1023123
be sure to check which deform axis the curve modifier is using. Then everything deforms based on their position on that axis, using the curve's pivot as a reference, and following the curve itself. for the purposes of that deformer the curve is considered as extending as an infinite straight line at its boundaries, along the curve's direction at those points.

so basically decide on your deform axis, center the mesh on the curve, then translate it along that axis to see how it snakes along the curve. Prolly a good idea to make the mesh a child of the curve.

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>>1023130
turns out the bevel modifier was preventing it from falling. but now this happens lol

>>1023120
The vertex bevels in the corner isn't a great way of doing that. You should be using insets and proper control loops with subd instead of trying to use sharp.

Topo for controlling corners
https://youtu.be/8MLEzEn8hN8?t=230

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>>1023131
okay, i still dont fully understand it but that helped. an array modifer also seemed to help instead of trying to just subdiv and stretch geo along the path, instead adding array steps to progress along the curve. it behaved much better doing that.

thanks

>>1023134
Looking pretty rad!

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>>1023055
>>1023068
>>1023081
I didn't find any of that but I sought a basic tutorial to move with the mouse wheel and tab as well as asking Grok help here and there to move the joints.
Thanks bros.
Now this is what I got. I think it's pretty good isn't it? This model was just standing before

>>1023144
You'll only know once you print it

https://x.com/Yonemaru_NH/status/1996183506481983617 Does anyone know what this is or what it's used for?

>>1023151
It sounds like he's fitting a proxy mesh to his VR chat avatar for a standardized swappable clothing system.
At least that's what I'm picking up from the Japanese text, why he's doing it that way I have no idea, must be related to the system.

>>1023154
Once you fit a mesh deform modifier cage it'll work for any mesh so it's a really fast way to reasonably fit an entire clothing set to different body proportions

How do I ''limit'' the legs? I can move arms just fine but when I move the legs I have to be extra careful I don't super extend them and elongate the bones

>>1023161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6F3knAcNB0

>>1023161
Give more information, and include a screenshot

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>>1023162
Alright this will take a while but thanks for the link I'll probably learn what I seek
>>1023163
Specifically this. When I move the position of Samus' arms they are properly restricted to their maximum length but when I'm moving the legs they get stretched if I exceed a limit. I want to fix this limit so I can try more movements and newer poses later.

>>1023164
Select the foot controller for a given leg and look in the rig UI for an IK strech toggle. Alternatively, switch the leg to FK

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>>1023164
That looks like a custom rigify rig, what you want to do is select the IK controllers for your legs and set IK Stretch to 0
Also disable Auto IK, why do you have that on?

>>1023165
>>1023166
Thanks bros. I set to zero and it seems to be working.There was a bit of a stretch but I assume in that case it's just the joints themselves lining up or something, similar to now we don't stand completely still.

Additionally, does anyone know why my Samus >>1023144 is now pink and yellow as here? >>1023164
It also seems like the tendons of the suit lost their detail, the suit looks smoother.

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>>1023172
Right now you have viewport solid active, it disables the textures and shading for performance, you can switch to either preview or render view
Were you planning to 3D print that? You're going to have a nasty surprise because a lot of details are textured with a normal map and not part of the mesh

>>1023174
Thank you bro. It's still a bit weird but now I see the rest
>Were you planning to 3D print that?
Yeah, learning how to move the poses solely for this. Though I also plan later to do the same with models from other games like Warframes
>You're going to have a nasty surprise because a lot of details are textured with a normal map and not part of the mesh
oh boy...

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>>1023174
Now I understand what you meant. Is there any fix for this? It isn’t like I was looking for something ultra detailed but not super polygonal either.
If it’s too much I suppose I can find models of good old Varia suit that has a smoother design with her metal parts compared to Dread Suit’s biomechanical.

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>>1023177
There's no easy fix
You can try using a subdivision modifier (left monkey), it will divide the faces and smooth them, but it might cause issues if you mesh is not prepared for that and it might smooth out details and shapes
You can also try remeshing (right monkey) and smoothing the facets manually with the sculpting mode but the learning curve is higher (but if you learn to sculpt you can sculpt details back in)

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>>1023180
Decimating didn't seem to make a chance in the slightest. Subdivision didn't affect the polygons, though it erased her shoulder pauldrons.
I don't think there is much that can be done about it this way.
Seems like this is it.

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>>1023180
Also thanks a lot for the help. The way I see it just learning to pose her was a big advancement. I'm gonna hope it's just that her model is too complex or too simple to smooth out like that and that maybe other video game sprites will be smoother.

i've been doing the bad.

i've been modeling some hard surface fast and loose with bevels and n-gons. designing models for 3d print, i thought it wouldnt affect it that much, its all hard surface, it'll tesselate just fine i dont have to worry about deformations or anything.

boy was i wrong. crazy artifacting and pinching left and right from the export tesselation. the shapes are all simple but the model is like 1000 pieces . does blender have anything like zbrushes zremesher or something that can quickly shit out some reasonably clean quadded topology? i really dont want to have to go back through and manually fix every part on my model. it doesnt have to be perfectly professional cleanly topo'd borders or anything, just serviceable enough that i can print it without sharp triangle faceting everywhere

>>1023182
Subdiv will definitely help you but I guess you'll have to fix it, and I have no idea what you did wrong

>>1023184
quad remesher on blenderplugs

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>>1023184
Join all the pieces with crtl + j and remesh it is what i do, all the geometry has to be solid, this one has 2300.

There should be a separate 3D print general for tech support questions of people who can't even bother to follow a tutorial

>>1023188
We have 2, one in tg and other one in diy .

>>1023188
>dont talk about 3d on the 3d board

come on. this board has posts that are months old, it's not exactly like we get a ton of traffic here anyways that we need to split off separate threads left and right

i'll take printing tech support over another doomer jobs post any day, at least the printers actually doing 3d

>>1023187
I like the subdivided icosphere.
Something I've been doing more often since 4.5 is boolean manifold instead of join-remesh, since boolean manifold is so fast and clean.

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blender noobie here. i'm trying to make a bundle of muscle fibers for joints but i can't think of a way to get what i want. i tried arraying a curve to a cylinder and parenting it but i can't apply the array to get individual control of curves because it's not a mesh. i'm kinda stuck.

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>>1023191
Idk how fast the solver with collections is but that could be too much for my computer.
>I like the subdivided icosphere.
ty, I use it a lot.

>>1023197
i am a big fat blender retard so take what i say with a grain of salt since i barely know shit myself and have only gotten back into modeling very recently

you could try using bezier curves and adjusting the depth of them in the object data properties. you can convert them to mesh once you're done and you can control it pretty well