To see the render time remaining just move the cursor over the render progress bar.
Blender add-on “B-Presets” v. 1.1.0.
Electron microscope organic surface shader for Blender Eevee render engine
Creating an organic shader to emulate an electron microscope look for Blender EEVEE render engine tutorials.
By Vitaly Sokol
“White 8” theme for Blender 2.82
The “White 8” theme for Blender 2.82 added to themes collection:
By Michail Soluyanov
Setting operator parameters features
When you make a button in a custom UI to call the operator with passing the necessary parameters to it, pay attention that only the parameters specified explicitly will be sent to the operator. Other operator parameters will remain with default values.
For example, we need to execute the “transform_apply” operator – applying object transformations with applying just the scale.
If we call the operator as follows:
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class TESTPANEL_PT_panel(Panel): bl_idname = 'TESTPANEL_PT_panel' bl_label = 'Testpanel' bl_space_type = 'VIEW_3D' bl_region_type = 'UI' bl_category = 'Testpanel' def draw(self, context): self.layout.operator('context.object.transform_apply', text='Apply Scale').scale = True |
But all transformation (scale, rotation, and position) will still be applied to the object.
Render from console only on the specified GPU devices
Sometimes, to effectively distribute the hardware load it is necessary to make a render from Blender only on certain video cards of several of them.
To do this we can use a simple script in which specify the numbers of devices to be used for rendering.
Continue reading “Render from console only on the specified GPU devices”
FLIP Fluids add-on overview
Overview of the Blender “FLIP Fluids” add-on for simulating fluids version 1.0.8a.
by Pavel Blend
Blender 2.82a official release
The Blender 2.82a release is enabled for downloading on the official Blender site.
Blender add-on: Specification Sheet
Blender add-on “Accurate Region Border” v. 1.1.0.
Blender add-on “Accurate Region Border” updated to v. 1.1.0.
- Translate border parameters to all scenes option added.
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Blender add-on “M-Cleaner” v. 1.3.0.
Blender add-on “M-Cleaner” updated to v. 1.3.0.
- Added “Node groups as nodes” option. If the option is enabled, only the first level of the material is analyzed without analyzing the internal structure of the node groups.
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Blender 3.0, 4.0 and LTS
Ton Rosendaal published a proposal in the Blender Developers Blog about Blender’s long-term development plans for 2020–2025.
LTS
Starting with version 2.83 the LTS (Long Term Support) Blender versions are expected. Marking the release with the “LTS” abbreviation means its much longer technical support and its suitability for use in studio production cycles (pipelines). The LTS version marks Blender as the industry standard.
It is planned to release the LTS version once a year, providing its support for two years. During this period, bug fixes and updates for the new hardware are guaranteed and full version compatibility is provided (updations will not break the projects developed in the same Blender version).
Neoner with meshes
Making neon from the mesh with the Neoner add-on
Blender add-on “M-Cleaner” v. 1.2.1.
Blender add-on “M-Cleaner” updated to v. 1.2.1.
- Fixed bug with linked objects, materials without node_trees comparison, CuveMapping type between 2.81 and 2.81
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Blender add-on: Accurate Region Border
Blender Add-On Template generator v.1.2.0.
That’s how it happens
Node Font – font shader by nodes
Procedural shader with Latin font made with Blender nodes.
By Sam (Worldsday) Brubaker
Available in the BIS library.
Blender add-on: Parent Plus
Blender 2.82 official release
The Blender 2.82 release is enabled for downloading on the official Blender site.
Blender 2020 – Development Plans
The Blender Developers Blog has published plans and milestones for Blender’s development for 2020.
Library Overrides
The system should completely replace the “proxies” system used by animators to connect sets of objects from different scenes to each other. Library Overrides will simplify the work of animators in exposing character poses, filling scenes with objects of the same type, applying clothing to characters, and speeding up animation caching.
Blender 2.82 splash screen
Blender announced the splash-screen for the upcoming 2.82 version.
By the official Blender blog.
Blender add-on: B-Presets
Blender add-on for saving render and viewport settings to presets and quickly switching between them.
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Blender add-on: BIS v. 1.8.3.
BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) updated to v.1.8.3.
- Updated some nodes structure
- Added saving the “blend mode” property from material settings
How to check the direction of a Bezier curve
The direction of a Bezier curve, visually indicated by its normals slope, can be checked by the indices of its points.
The Bezier curve points indices always ascending in the curve direction.
So, having two points on the curve we can get the direction through their indices:
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bezier_spline = bpy.context.object.data.splines[0] p0 = bezier_spline.bezier_points[0] p1 = bezier_spline.bezier_points[1] p0_index = next(iter([point[0] for point in bezier_spline.bezier_points.items() if point[1] == p0]), None) p1_index = next(iter([point[0] for point in bezier_spline.bezier_points.items() if point[1] == p1]), None) direction = 'p0 to p1' if p0_index < p1_index else 'p1 to p0' print(direction) # p0 to p1 |