Still 2-3 weeks before the Blender 2.8 Beta release
As Blender developer reports in the “Blender Developers Blog” there is 2 -3 weeks left until the Blender 2.8 Beta will be released.
All the main stable Blender 2.8 features will be enabled.
Blender add-on: BIS v. 1.3.5.
Blender add-on BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) update to v.1.3.5.
- Fixed some issues with nodes from future Blender versions.
DownloadBIS – tiling the procedural texture with random rotation along a z-axis
Example of tiling the procedural texture with random z-axis rotation with procedural nodes.
All used nodes are available in the Blender material library BIS.
Blender add-on: BIS v. 1.3.4.
Blender add-on BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) update to v.1.3.4.
- Checked all compositing nodes, provided proper work with compositing node trees.
How to snap to the center of the edge or polygon
In order to align an object to the middle of the edge:
- enable snapping: press “shift+tab”, or click the icon with the magnet,
- start moving by pressing “g”,
- move the cursor to the first vertex of the desired edge,
- make an anchor by pressing the “a” key,
- move the cursor to the second vertex of the desired edge,
- fix the position of the object between two points (anchor and current) by pressing “enter”.
Tiling procedural textures in Blender
Creating separate elements of procedural textures in Blender is quite simply – find the desired formula, rebuilt it using mathematical nodes, and as a result, get the desired shape. However, textures created this way have one feature – no tiling. Tiling – a cyclic texture duplication, most time is considered harmful, and professional 3D artists try to avoid texture tiling. But sometimes tiling is necessary, for example, when creating patterns or ornaments.
The procedural texture element is always created in a single instance. This is because all the mathematics that forms the actual procedural image is based on the initial data – coordinates that start from 0, spread out to infinity and not repeat. However, the same mathematics helps us to solve this problem.
Creating procedural textures in Blender
All procedural textures in Blender are based on math. Even such irregular structures as “Voronoi” and “Noise” are actually generated according to the mathematical formulas. An exact mathematical algorithm is sewed up into each base material node to obtain the desired image as a result.
We can not specify such algorithms in Blender in the usual mathematical format. However, among other nodes, Blender provides us the “Math” nodes – the wrap over simple mathematical operations. Using these nodes we can build complex mathematical algorithms yourself, generating interesting textures.
Blender 2.80 Alpha 2 released
Blender 2.80 alpha 2 released now.
This version available for download from the official developer Blender site builder.blender.org/download
Next releases dates:
- The end of the October 2018 – completed Blender 2.80 Beta.
- Tthe early 2019 – official Blender 2.80 stable.
- 2019 – Additional features in Blender 2.81, 2.82, and so on.