Sketchup and Blender

michaliszissiou · 18 Dec 2013, 13:43

Christmas coming.
A nice blender tutorial from Andrew Price
I found it interesting, a good presentation of Sapling Tree blender editor.
Some particles system
Color indexing and some PPros (compositor)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yd7ad08e54

pilou · 18 Dec 2013, 15:51

Happy new year!
This guy is very good in Blender and speeching!
A real entertainer!

michaliszissiou · 21 Dec 2013, 20:43

Bisect tool in blender
http://www.blendernation.com/2013/11/28/quick-tip-creating-stones-with-the-bisect-tool-part-1/

michaliszissiou · 29 Dec 2013, 11:10

A wonderful Blender presentation.
Have fun, it is a 2:20 hours video.

Rich O Brien · 2 Jan 2014, 21:54

Happy 20th Birthday to Blender.

I had version 1.6 at one point but wasn't until 2.4 that I started to get my head around it.

pilou · 6 Jan 2014, 09:31

Active Morphing by François Grassard aka CoyHot with Blender!

Morphing result:

Screencast :

PS
in the past was existing WinMorph by Debugmode in 2D! (free)

pilou · 7 Jan 2014, 18:24

Not yet the same than Sketchup but...that is the beginning!
ArchiMesh

michaliszissiou · 7 Jan 2014, 19:14

Many ways to skin a cat Pilou.
I would try a different and simpler way for the job.

I wonder, what we could do for a cornice on the ceiling.
Extrude following a path somehow?
It can be done.
But not quite creative.
What about using the inset tool of blender?

What I'm trying to say. Different apps, different workarounds.

gilles · 7 Jan 2014, 19:54

Blender UI

pilou · 8 Jan 2014, 15:26

Yes : for old people, you stop one week, impossible to remember what make what!

Except of this that is an incredible prog for make anything!

10 best commercials made with blender in 2013

Rich O Brien · 8 Jan 2014, 15:53

Plus Blender Open Movie Project Caminandes is now on the Disney Homepage....

Access Denied

(disney.com)

If you have seen the short movie then I recommend watching it...

pilou · 9 Jan 2014, 15:44

gilles · 9 Jan 2014, 19:09

Concorde.

michaliszissiou · 9 Jan 2014, 22:53

Ça suffit gilles
N'oublie pas que Blender est très amical pour les OSX users.

michaliszissiou · 9 Jan 2014, 22:56

Thanks Pilou, I'll have a look on this.

@gilles
LOL
Right you are.
I'm interested on baking normal maps
I did some search, you obviously are aware what normal maps are standing for.
I found some nice maya tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z0mf4sqvlk
and with a little help of zbrush, here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaGMq1YJwio
and much more.

Your grabbed picture from a cockpit is very nice indeed.

gilles · 9 Jan 2014, 23:35

OK, last time i tried I have not been able to draw a square in an hour.

It's me for sure.

michaliszissiou · 9 Jan 2014, 23:43

Add a square plane,
TAB for edit mode (or select edit mode from the window bottom menu)
Edit it. Or simply select all vertices by A, delete them and start drawing by click, holding ctrl.
Too complicated? Well, you may find it handy, when you will select a bounce of vertices, or edges, or faces, and by pressing the ctrl+click you will extrude them as you wish.
A different application, different and very effective UI. Extremely logical, if you ask me.

gilles · 9 Jan 2014, 23:54

I know you're right, it's me.
Hazardous neurones ahead.

pbacot · 10 Jan 2014, 03:04

Last few examples...what an incredible (free) software! Is there any smooth route to understanding though? Not sure I really need this for the square houses I draw, but then all the material and rendering control could be worthwhile.

pilou · 10 Jan 2014, 09:29

@unknownuser said:

OK, last time i tried I have not been able to draw a square in an hour.

Yes: it's the sort of program that you can't use without before view tones of videos or tutorials!
My favorite tutorial video in French!