Blender 3D: tutorials, articles, tips, notes
Materials which owners granted access to them for all other BIS users are placed in the “Open storage” section.
How to share material for all BIS users
Attention! The shared material becomes available to all BIS users. Sharing your materials you agree to their distribution under a Creative Commons license.
The “Personal storage” section of the BIS is used for saving users own materials. Stored in the personal storage materials are accessible only to there owner and no one else.
Saving materials to the BIS:
Welcome to “BIS” (Blender Interplanety Storage) – a service for downloading, storing, management and sharing materials for the Blender 3D suite.
Introducing to BIS:
Open the BIS website https://bis.interplanety.org/ in your favorite browser:
Press the “Sign up” button.
Fill in the “Login” and “Password” fields. Please specify an active email address. On the checkbox that confirms your acceptance of the User Agreement.
Blender add-on BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) update to v.1.3.0.
Any material stored in the BIS storage is enabled to share by the owner for other BIS users. Shared materials can be used by all BIS users.
“Beyond the Code Quest” has published Blender 2.8 pre-release dates:
In general, the “loop” is usually a sequential selection of several points, edges or polygons of a mesh.
However, there is an element in the mesh structure, which is also called a “loop”. It is a combination of one vertex with one edge of the mesh. Let’s try to learn what these “loops” are for.
Blender add-on BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) update to v.1.2.0.
There were some issues with the add-on functionality during the reorganization of the server “BIS” storage engine. Now the add-on is fully functional.
Blender add-on BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) update to v.1.1.1.
Blender add-on “ColorMatching” v.1.1 update.
Steampunk Suzanne by Juan Carlos Montes.
Blender add-on for searching and matching the closest colors by color fans.
The add-on is open source. If you want to donate – you can buy the add-on for a convenient price, or set the price to 0 and download it for free.
When starting Blender from the console it processes all parameters passed through the command line. However, some scripts and add-ons for proper work may require specifying their unique command line arguments. If you specify such additional parameters in the command line, Blender will also try to process them, which is likely to result in an error. Blender provides a special way to exclude such arguments from own processing.
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Suzanne by Juan Carlos Montes
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Even if Blender was downloaded as a zip-file and started from the unpacked archive instead of the installation, the files with its settings are stored separately in the user’s directory. The history, the start scene, and user-installed add-ons are also stored there. So if you transfer Blender to another computer, all these preferences will be lost.
However, at startup, Blender first looks for a config directory in its own folder and only if it does not find it there, it accesses the folder in the user’s directory.
In order to make Blender completely portable, it is enough to copy config folders “config” and “scripts” from the user’s directory into Blender’s own directory into the folder with the version number. This will transfer the settings and installed add-ons to the Blender directory, and now all the changes will be made already here, not in the user directory. Blender becomes portable and can be copied to another computer or removable device.
The single object visualization most often is performed on a clear white background. It is difficult to achieve this through the common configuring the scene – increasing the illumination of the scene “lights up” the object, decreasing – the background becomes gray instead of white. If the object itself can be simply rendered on a transparent background and then imposed on white, but what about its reflections?
Let’s consider the way how we can render the object and its reflection on a white background.
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2.79 release update to version “a” on blender.org.
Blender add-on with some extended functionality for working with Meshes.
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The add-on is open source. If you want to donate – you can buy the add-on for a convenient price, or set the price to 0 to download it for free.
State switches so-called “radio buttons” are used in the case to limit the choice by one value from several available ones. There are a lot of such buttons in the Blender interface, for example, switching between RGB and BW rendering modes or setting the texture mapping mode. Such buttons can be created in the Blender add-ons interface too.
Let’s create our own radio button switcher.
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