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Kind of bummed that there don't really seem to be any serious threads about animation on this board. Of course, most games nowadays just use motion capture for everything, but I'm still of the opinion that animations made by hand such as all the animations in Fumito Ueda's games have a special something about them that mocap cannot reach. And these aren't super stylized or cartoony animations either. They're grounded and realistic but have a lightness to them. I was trying to find resources on how to learn to animate like that, but it seems like a lost art. There are blender courses for animation out there such as the "Alive!" by P2D Design academy, but they all focus on they all focus on this over the top bouncy Disney style. Pretty much all across western animation courses.
>>1016052that was terrible try again. Decide on what type of ball it is and how bug it is and match a real ball bouncing of that type. if all you take from a bouncing ball exercise is that it has to go up and down and move a little and maybe roll and squish you're getting ingrediants but then just haphazardly throwing them together expecting a cake.
Are there any programs then let you select controls/bones via keybind instead of relying on visual representations or a character picker?
>>1028496That picker features about as many bones as a full keyboard has keys and it's a pretty simple one without facial controls, so it sounds like the most useless idea ever
>>1028501Modifier keys exist, and work. Shift + 1 = !, same concept.
Also individual keys/combos could be set to cycle through a range of controls/bones, this really isn't a difficult concept, it's been in videogames since... forever?Is there really no 3D program that supports this?
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>>1028625Appreciate it mate
>>1025537i mess around with a blender model, how do i toggle the alternate hair style on?
>>1028726There's a custom prop for it
>>1028727please elaborate i REALLY just mess with blender trying to get a semblence of grip, i menaged to switch hair in another model but the trick doesn't work with this one
>>1028729Maybe you could tell us what model tgat is since that question completely depends on it
will my CPU really cook itself if I try to use FreeCAD? I don't normally have any reservations about piracy but since I'm actually going to be making things with it I feel differently about CAD software, if possible I want my tools to belong to me indisputably, as a point of pride
>>1028696as with all programs, it'll only cook itself if you disabled the safeties that prevent your cpu from running too hot
>>1028698then will it run like shit and crash all the time from the cpu choking it?
>>1028700Nope
>>1028694I used frerlecad in a shitty ass laptop from 15 yrars ago, It should work
It's 2026. We're beyond this. "It'll cook your cpu" is hyperbolic poetry. It will run, run slowly, or not run.
Is learning 3D suppossed to be this hard or I just dont like it?. I hate how there's a billion tools and all the vertix bshit, holy hell modeling seems to be so hard. Can I learn animation without giving a fuck about how to use all the modeling tools?Im still gonna learn a bit more about modeling anyway but holy nightmare fuck these dots
>>1028403It's like movie production. The light rigger, costume designer, camera operator, director all need to know at least a little but about the other's jobs to do their job right.
>>1028397Plenty of other people manage it fine so maybe it's just not your thing
>>1028397Learning animation with what? A lot of tools do animation, so need to be specific here. Might get lost using Blender, as you have to learn the interface first before you even get to animation.
Is op pic you? Breedable with my BWC at 25.
>>1028397Use the buzzword, fundamentals of animation, and avoid blender, you will be fineAlso watch what others do in their work, no losers gurus from youtube that don't do animation work for a livinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5MKB5ovI8o
Blender is finished.Lets face it Blender in 3.1 was getting better then the retarded devs basically ruined it and made it worse and worse.1) They literally removed the superior way to pick a modifier with muscle memory it is 1 click and a swipe to get what you want. Instead we got the retarded search bar where you need to type in the name of the modifier. >Ah yes 2 clicks or 1 click 2 letter on the keyboard and ENTER>Now picking a modifier is 400% slower!Classic blender!This was so controversial that people messaged the devs about all of this.The bullshit fandom reason was that blender will add so many hecking modifiers that this needs to exist.This started in version 3 We are on version 5 now and we did not even get 1 extra modifier and this shit stayed.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1028692Many new features were introduced since 3.1, but whether it is worth installing depends on the type of content you are creating and the environment you're working in.Just a couple examples from the top of my head.- Khronos Color management for better colors in neutral lighting (important for product visualization)- support for many additional color spaces- Vulkan, makes Blender run 10x faster- many new geometry nodes, allows to create complex systems and simulations- better asset handling- shader nodes have new additions- better UV unwrapping- EEVEE supports ray tracing to, can be enabled in render settings, if you so desire.I'd say it's definitely worth upgrading Even if you don't use the new functions, Vulkan alone will make blender run faster once enabled, so this is already worth it
You're shortsighted, the changes they're making are better for the future.A single monolithic menu isn't scalable for adding new modifiers, and the new one with the categories works better for custom user-made modifiers using the geometry nodes.Essential features should not be plugins. Plugins should be specicific features downloaded separately so the bloat the application of people who would never use them. Removing the built-in plugins but also making it easier to download them and every other plugin is a step in this direction.Dunno about the Cloth filter though, never used that. Are you sure it's removed? It's still in the manual for version 5.1. I can't be arsed to open blender and go test it though.
>>1028716>so the bloat the application of people*so they don't bloat the application
>>1028712Genuinely, there arent even any raytraced games worth installing. Why would i need raytracing in blender? Yes i know it should have it in principle of "this software should do everything", but... more than it needs some brushes?
>>1028712I swear someone at Blender dev team is here. Those are the exact features i said that Blender lacks (except Vulkan). Also for context, the color management is from Photoshop because Maya and other paid don't offer the best colors just basic. Node is from Cinema 4D, Blender is clearly copying that without understanding why such nodes exist. Lastly, UV unwrapped was me saying Wings3D had better options for beginners to understand while Blender requires videos.Someone is clearly reading our comments.
>no parametric modeling threadsWhat is this? Just an artcvck board?
>>1028274>Screenshot of CEO toy program.Are you industry larpers branching off into other fields now? Do some research before you post ffs.I've done some shit in OpenSCAD and geometry nodes if anyone's interested.
>>1028274is this car underbody ?moving via skid?
>>1028282Too scared to pirate NX? Fear being a John Doe defendant to a $150k+ federal suit?Learn how your firewall works faggot, or install it in Qubes OS.Also never share .prt files, each licensed instance signs its changes to the file like a CA trust chain, and legit instances will see an invalid out of chain key signature and signal to Siemens.
>>1028274parametric shit is boring you nigger i don't want to see this shit outside of work anymore
>>1028274> What is this? Just an artcvck board?yessir
Ia this program as good as it looks? I want something like this for a standalone headset, but I don't feel like giving money to Adobe (piss be upon them).
>>1028714>Should I make a deal with the devil himself?I don't know anon, what could go wrong selling your soul?
>>1028714Just pirate it and decide for yourself lol
>no, you can't save your animation, you have to mark those keyframes you're working on as having a "Fake User" or we'll GC them out of existenceWho came up with this shit? Fuck blender.
>>1028622So no real answer? Wtf is the problem described in the op?
>>1028585It's the 3D equivalent of making a circle in Gentoo. Freetards think autistically hypermodular software with poor UX is a good thing because there's no reason GUI software shouldn't adhere to the Unix philosophy of "ls | grep | awk | cat >&2"
>>1028683>GentooGIMP*Semi-Freudian slip
>>1028585There's an addon fo that https://www.blenderkit.com/addons/e1c19457-113b-4f5d-b1f2-317318942cb7/
>>1028683In fairness though Blender's regular 3D modelling workflow is fantastic, 10/10. It's when it comes to animation that it becomes a clunky unintuitive nightmare. I hope some day Blender is as good for animation as it is for modelling.
I found a neat trick on blender that allow me to imitate the soft shading on the breast, flat shading on the rest of the body, that I saw on AI low poly renders.:D
>>1028670>another shitty cris thread
>>1028670I always thought you were using flat shading because you didn't know how to make it smoothI can't believe it was intentional this whole time
>>1028685pretty sure it's marking specific edges as sharp
>>1028691Don't even need to do that. You can just manually set faces to shade flat/smooth.
>>1028690Some of his works looks good. He did complete low poly characters with animations and showcased some footage of his game he was working on - it looked good. I can totally see a nice game being made (like PSX era games). Except for the tits. The tits are just off.
Previous: >>1021529DLSS EditionSomeone needs to leak that build
>>1028661Yeah I assume that was the caseThanks
I don't understand the interface of the action editor at all. Everything that can go wrong does.>half the actions aren't referenced by any object but have keyframes (how the fuck?)>can't loop playback to just the start and end of the currently selected action? have to manually set playback start and end frame???>exported object's animations have overlapping start and end frames or 0 frames, suggesting it's completely fuckedIt can't be this bad if so many people use it. Surely there is just some obvious step I'm missing here?
>>1028702yes. what you ar missing s that blender devs are retards that want to reinvent the wheel so that autodesk dont sue their ass for using the same interfaces every other animation software usesalso forget about it theyll spend 10 more years adding geonodes shit while people use Houdini instead
>>1028702>half the actions aren't referenced by any object but have keyframes (how the fuck?)An action is just a group of curves with keyframes and organized into tracks. It doesn't need to be linked to an object. This is what enables you to share the same action between different objects to have 2 characters walk the same, for example, or combine multiple actions in the NLA editor or animation layers addon>can't loop playback to just the start and end of the currently selected action? have to manually set playback start and end frame???Actions don't inherently have a start and end frame, and even if you enable them in the action properties there's no particular reason to think the playback range should always be fitted to the action length. Might be a short action in a longer sequence involving more objects, or the action itself is set to loop in the NLA, or the last keyframe is meant to be held for a number more frames, or there are keyframes outside the intended action range (which you need for some animation elements like followthrough). Of course all those ambiguities are lifted in the NLA, where you work with action strips that do have a start and end.Also one of those things where if you really need it to hug the keyframes knowing the shortcuts makes it trivial (press down until you've jumped to the first keyframe, press ctrl-home, press up until you've jumped to the last keyframe, press ctrl-end). Or there's an addon to do that in one click.Or another alternative is to make a second, linked scene in the same file with the playback range and action already set, if you really need an out of the box one-click toggle.>exported object's animations have overlapping start and end frames or 0 frames, suggesting it's completely fuckedThat's on the exporter or on you for not reading the exporter's docs on how to set the animation range for each action.
>>1028675You can't edit the geometry of instances. That's why the trim node won't work. Think of instances as "objects" only. Non-editable. You can move, scale, and rotate an instance in whole, like you would in object mode. But you can't edit them like you would in edit mode.So in order to edit each branch's geometry, you have "realize" them. Using the realize instance node. That will convert them into editable geometry. And then you can use trim and all that jazz.
I've seen a lot of people dislike it. But there is no need to hate it. Blender is an alright little utility buddy. It's not the best at anything, though it's a great helper. Personally I only use it to clean up models post CAD modeling, store my hp and lp's in seperate collections, and it's simply great for that. I like Blender.
blender is absolute fucking dogshit. its only useful because its 100% free. thats it. real companies use other software and pay for support.
>>1019874>Blender is an alright little utility buddyi could say that if it werent almost impenetrably obtuse. ive used a lot of free software for image, video, and basic model editing for little projects and most programs tend to be intuitive. you click on a thing and a menu appears that is relevant. without knowing anything, you open blender and you have 10 tabs that dont do anything. tons of options that have no purpose or effect. usually free software is supposed to make advanced tools accessible to the public. blender does the opposite. you need to watch 10 guides, 8 which solving the wrong problems to figure out what you dont know the terminology to even search for the answer you need.
>>1028630>filteredHow humiliating...
>>1028630no that's 3D in general, it be complicated
I'm looking around and I think it might be impossible to set up a material in such a way that it ignores the depth buffer (renders on top of everything). All solutions appear to be completely fucking insane gobbledegook about having an entirely separate object in a different scene. I'm going to lose my mind if this is actually the case.
WHY BLENDER ALWAYS UPDATING EVERY FUCKING WEEK ? I STILL USE 2.8 FOR FUCK SAKE
i'm still using Blender v4 from last year. no rush to update.
>>1027208i think when 5.2 comes out in a few months im probably just gonna sit on it till the next LTS. ive started using more addons over the past year and its annoying having to wait like a month for them all to update/bugfix every blender release.
>>1027469the last splash i really liked was 4.0, wish we could just set the splash image manually in settings. all the ones after it have felt kinda boring or samey to me
>>1027170>get with the times grandpa. use 4.1 at least (eevee next sucks dick and balls)See: >>1028681>why are you complaining about removed features and the new version being worse?>grandpa?Kill all zoomers.
>>1027153>>1027148>>1028681fuck off, cris
Previous: >>1024628Daz youtuber's and general guides:https://www.daz3d.com/help/help-daz-3d-video-tutorialsWpguru, Parmy, Travis Davids (Marvelous designer), Thundornd, CgBytes, Kelvin Jin(Pruned some long inactive suggestions from past OP)Bridges: https://www.daz3d.com/daz-bridgesSuggested Blender Bridge: http://diffeomorphic.blogspot.com/ (GOATED)Use this if you are an AMD or Intel pleb.News: Daz content now on Unreal's Fab marketplacehttps://x.com/daz3d/status/2041910820612010085Daz 5.0 this year for reals!Some anon created a cool character morph. Meet Quinn! https://mega(.)nz/file/rmZQWLKZ#lh4aluWj6drjfPLkW7FVAUVDaOZZqJfqjoAvsREDo7UComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>1027830you write like a german. Have fun finding out that DAZ is a broken Software and the devs have complete lost control over it. Enjoy the lag in Alpha which you need to use your 50xx and enjoy all the fucked up products causing problems everywhere so you spend 90% of your time bugfixing
>>1028653based
>>1028654>>1028658I thought so too>>1028660>>1028662and how does it hold up to different angles and lighting?
>>1028654>>1028660i think he's definitely using a photo to do the diffuse texture, the top half of her face looks very different to the bottom half texture-wise. still very talented though, any time i try to just eyeball sculpt a likeness like that it looks like shit
>>1028677>>1028673https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-y1SK_B1TU&t=10350syou can follow every step he makes he has about 10 streams about how he makes that model
bros, I had a perfect idea for a blender addon.Basically, you import a grease pencil mesh or a grid topology, and then you project it into 4 ortho silloethes.It's like an UV operation, but what you input in reality is just 4 svg that are projected into ortho views and 2 diagonals.Then a spherical grid of vertex is projected using the reference views points.
>>1028341What's the use case?
>>1028341You are either a genius or a shizo. Which one is it? Elaborate what exactly the addon is supposed to do.
vibe code it with ai
>>1028341Gay shit, that already exists.you can make your topology in 2D then project it onto your mesh using the Shrinkwrap modifier already.If you try to project from several perspective then you will get conflicts, overlaps, tangents
>>1028354Doesn't sound revolutionary if AI can code it.