Blender add-on: Neoner
Blender 3D add-on for easy creation of various neon signs, lamps, pointers, and lights.
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Drag and drop files to Blender
Blender supports opening projects by drag and drop. You can hold the *.blend file with the mouse, drag it to the Blender window and choose: open the entire file (replacing the currently open project), add or link objects from the dragged file to the current project.
How to make the panel with system disks expanded by default in Blender 2.80 File Browser window
The panel with system disks list is collapsed in the “File Browser” window by default. But some times it is not convenient.
Not to expand it manually every time we can make a simple modification:
Blender x64
Blender developers announced that the recently released 2.80 version was the last with x32 architecture support. Blender 2.81 and latest will be developed only for x64-bit systems.
Get Specular reflections from IOR
The official Blender documentation provides a method to get the “Specular” value for the PBR-material reflections if the “IOR” value is known. To get the “Specular” value from the “IOR” value, we can use the following equation:
It is not difficult to create it with nodes:
Blender add-on: BIS v. 1.8.1.
BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) updated to v.1.8.1.
- If you get material from the “3D Viewport” window it sets to all selected objects, not only to active.
- New sub-panel “Tools” was added to the BIS panel in the “3D Viewport” window. Added new tools button “Active to Selected” to copy material from active object to all selected objects.
EEVEE Shadow Catcher
There is a convenient opportunity in the Cycles render engine to render an object with shadows on a transparent background using material with the “shadow catcher” option. There is no such material in EEVEE render engine, however, in EEVEE we can make our own “shadow catcher” based only on nodes.
Completed “EEVEE Shadow Catcher” material you can get from the BIS library.
Blender add-on: BIS v. 1.8.0.
BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) updated to v.1.8.0.
- Added two modes to the BIS panel in the 3D_VIEW window: Materials and Meshes. “Meshes” works as previously for saving/loading objects. “Materials” – for simply adding materials to the active object.
- Fixed critical bug from the previous version which breaks saving/load materials with nested groups.