Blender Bob 🔶

@gleb_alexandrov The problem for me is that the guy adds a table but it doesn’t cast shadows because the light is baked into the splats. So it’s kind of useless in production. Cool though.

Have you seen it? What do you guys think? 👀

@Z4yxor From what I understand Blender develop mostly according to the needs of the Blender Studio but I could be wrong. Don’t quote me on this.

@robertrioux That’s interesting, I’m also checking the 5.2 notes once awhile for Eevee Next Improvement since i mainly do NPR, lots of changes coming for that in which i am a bit of curious and worry since Blender has tendency to ignore problems until years later, kinda wish prioritize better

I follow what’s going on in dev forums for Blender #b3d and it’s absolutely mind blowing the improvement that the software got since I started using it with 2.8. At the time, it could barely be used in production for VFX because too many things were missing. But now, with texture caching coming in 5.2, my wish list is almost completed. There are many missing features I can compensate by making extensions as needed but there are other things I just can’t do myself because they are part of the core of the software. And way too complex for me anyways. The devs are doing an incredible job!

@mattworkman Yeah but the guy places a table and it doesn’t cast shadows as the shadows are baked in the splats.

THIS IS INSANE WHAT?

@sonyxperia Hey Sony, you know there's a button to delete posts when you screw up big like that?

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@gleb_alexandrov I’m using it to develop game right now

Go go godot!

@CosmoMidias I don’t know the math behind your pretty cool addon but in VFX we use something called pRef where you have one object that is used as a reference for the deforming one.

(sound on 🔊) UV unwrapping should be optional! I decided to work on PolyPlanar (Advanced & Deformable Triplanar Texturing Addon for #b3d). Here a test of 2D texture projection without UV unwrapping while enabling deformations even on parametric and procedural workflows:

@IRCSS Undo?

The auto shift thing blender nodes have is a crime against humanity. I thought I turned it off, but here we are, you accidently droped a node on a line 5 minutes ago, and blender shifted 400 nodes in eachother. Absolute chaos, will take 30 minutes to clean up!

@ashlee3dee Well, you could use my BB UV addons that offers cubic, spherical, cylindrical and planar projections with a nice GUI to perfectly orient them but… youtu.be/SAJFXVUuOtw

why are various forms of triplanar mapping in blender popping off? i thought we solved this like 40 years ago

@0xCarnival You got me. Actually I got a lot of restoration videos on my feed and i decide to give it a try. It was fun for one object but I won’t change career. But it’s very satisfying to see the result.

@robertrioux you asked Claude how to un-rust so Claude did it, not you… lol 🤪

I spent the last three days restoring an old rusty vice. Now that’s its done, I can fix my paper clip.

@romboutv Semester is over! Back in fall

@robertrioux Did you got kicked out of college or something ;)

@adri_flex Would be interesting to model though

@robertrioux Was this rendered with Cycles? 😁

@gleb_alexandrov I think they contribute with code, not money.

Is Apple still part of the Blender Development Fund?

@msteevie3d I deleted the post. I quite Blender and restarted it and it worked. A bug in the matrix

@robertrioux I'd like to know the answer to that, too.

@DustinRolstad I’m not. :-/

@robertrioux Are you using the compositor? Usually when I see a problem like this, it ends up being a mismatch between the settings in the render panel and the settings in the output node in the compositor. I'm just guessing, though.

@BarbieMatthieu @andrewpprice @anselemnkoro Oh! That’s interesting! You are modifying cycles?

Who's the boss !!! Deep EXR in Cycles is almost here! CPU nearly done, GPU (CUDA & Optix) next. Wanted this for years, built it in 3 days with Claude. @robertrioux @andrewpprice @anselemnkoro >> testers needed soon, interested ?

@TylerTSeaman @IsThisA3DModel The people who donate already have all the answers. There are private conversations that we have that you are not aware of and that are none of your business or anyone else. Just mind your own business please.

@robertrioux @IsThisA3DModel Wow Blender Bob, you're a fucking dickhead. He was trying to get answers FOR the people who donated, and you respond like that? I'm glad your movie production failed, you don't deserve a successful launch acting like this.

Wow! The last 3 days have been insane! 247k views for 3 posts, and that's not including all the responses. My notification page is going crazy. I can't follow all the conversations anymore. I got more than 20 while writing this post! I would like to address something that I keep repeating in my comments. Many said I'm just lazy, I should 'just' learn programming. Education would be good for me. I should do the CG myself instead of using AI, I'm not a real artist, I have no talent. Obviously, those of you who know me know better. But many new faces here. So here we go. I've studied graphic design, professional photography, directing, producing and screenwriting. I am presently doing a bachelor degree in game development, and I'm 56. I start working every day at about 7:30 and finish late at night. On top of that I do freelance jobs because I need money. I'm anything but lazy. I just know where to put my energy. I've been working as a CG artists since 1995. I've worked on over 70 movies, many TV series, commercials and videoclips. I won a few awards during my career. I will certainly NOT learn advanced math and programming because I need an addon once in a while. Making addons are not my job. I make them to fill a gap, do something that Blender can't or doesn't do properly. I do them using AI because I have no other options. By the way, with the hundreds of comments I got, not a single one of you proposed to make my addons, so I wouldn't have to use AI. Some people don't seem to understand the difference between generative ai for images and video and coding. I did experiment with image and video generations. I'm well aware of the possibilities and how it can and will affect the VFX industry. It will kill many jobs. What required weeks or months can now be done with a prompt. That's one of the reasons I'm switching to gaming while there's still manual jobs to be done. But it will hurt that industry too. I know very well that it can't be stopped too. When Midjourney came out, I have to admit I found it very exciting. It's such a powerful tool. And now seadance and nano banana... Then my daughter wanted to study illustration and I had to tell her that she should find another field of study as this field will slowly die because of AI. AI killed her dream job before she even started it. I'm against using generative AI in general but I don't have an issue with me, personally, using Claude to make my addons as it will NOT AFFECT anyone's job. I can't afford to hire devs to make them. And I give them all for free to the community. I'm against generative music too. But coding is not based on stolen art. You can't say write a code in the style of this programmer. I have no issues using generative AI to create zDepth passes or other technical fields that can't be done by humans. About the environmental impact of AI, it's huge. My 45 addons didn't make a scratch compared to the 5 BILLION facebook users who spend most of their time flipping cat videos. What do you think Google, YouTube, X, Instagram and all the other do for the environment? Yet some people scream at me because I'm using Claude once in a while. Finally, about job loss, I was there when the industry switched from 2D animation to 3D. Thousands of 2D artists lost their jobs. We, CG people, where hated of stealing their jobs. We were not real artists as the computer would to the animation. We, CG people, are responsible for the loss of thousands of jobs. Maybe you are too young to realize that. 2D artists had to either adapt to the new reality, learn 3D or change field of work. Think about it. Another comment that came often: You didn't create anything. Claude did. If you punch a hole in a wall, the hammer did the hole, not you. Well, no. I made the hole using a tool. You can't personalize a tool. Nobody will say: which hammer did a hole in the wall? Your honor, I didn't kill that person. The bullet did. Claude doesn't create addons by itself. It starts with an idea and you need to guide Claude to do it. It's not like you just write one prompt and you are done. Some of my addons took me weeks for fighting with Claude or ChatGPT. I'm a CG artist. I do my modeling, I do my textures, I do my VFX. Claude just help be being more efficient. And that's all I have to say about that.

@Rahll @IsThisA3DModel Do you have any ideas how kickstarter works?

@robertrioux @IsThisA3DModel Lol, "It's not TECHNICALLY a ponzi scheme," is not the win you think it is. You're still fucking around with people's money.

@YokuboByodo @IsThisA3DModel You've made your point. Move on now

@robertrioux @IsThisA3DModel No, you use AI to produce addons in order to produce the CG which you profit from. There is always a worse person. Anyone giving them legitimacy and paying for their services supports their spread. Your nonchalance about the legitimacy you help give them is my issue.