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Tag: Blender
Circles pattern from the BIS material library
Sample of using circles pattern from the BIS material library:
Creating a 3D mouse in Blender
Full timelapse of making a mouse character in Blender.
By Michael Soluyanov
Cheese Suzanne
How to return the familiar selection mode from Blender 2.7 in Blender 2.8
In Blender 2.8 the selection mode has been changed. The “select all” command is still mapped to pressing the “a” key, but the “deselect all” command in Blender 2.8 is now mapped to a double-click of the “a” key or to the “alt + a” key combination. However, it is easy to return the familiar selection mode from Blender 2.7 – selecting and deselecting all by pressing one “a” key.
To do this, in the “Preferences” window in the “Keymap” section type “object.select” in the search field. In the search results in the “Object mode” section in the line with “a” key snapping set the “Toggle” value to the “Action” parameter.
This will return the familiar selection in object mode.
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Protective tape
Pretty Suzanne
How to install custom color theme to Blender
Blender color themes can be configured manually, but it is much convenient to install already prepared custom theme.
To install a new color theme to Blender you need:
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Themes for Blender 2.8
Don’t smoke, Suzanne!
How to resize panels in Blender UI
In order to resize the T- or N-panel of the Blender UI, you just need to hold the edge of the panel with the mouse and drag it left or right. However, in this case, you can only change the size of the panel itself, but not the interface elements on it.
To change elements size and the font size of the panel, you need:
- hover cursor on the panel
- hold together the “ctrl” keyboard button and the middle mouse button (scroll wheel)
- move the mouse up or down
This works not only for the side panels but also for all the “Properties” window.
Familiar coordinate axes in Blender 2.8
The coordinate axes widget in the viewport window can be switched to a simple and familiar look, like in Blender 2.7.
To do that:
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IF/ELSE node group example
Color mask by scene materials
To quickly create a color mask by materials, assigned to the scene objects, for post-processing
you can use the following script:
Blender 2.80 release is scheduled for July
Blender 2.80 development plans from Blender Developers Blog:
- The middle of May – the completion of the remaining features and finishing the user interface
- The beginning of June – user documentation update
- The middle of June – fixing of all critical errors
- July – Blender 2.80 release
- Blender 2.81 – 3 months after the release (patches and functional additions)
Advanced Water shader
OpenGl – DirectX norma map converter node group in Blender
Normal maps are usually saved in one of the two most common formats: OpenGL or DirectX. Blender uses OpenGL specification. Trying to use normal maps saved in another format will result in the wrong visual effect. To convert normal maps to the desired format the “OpenGL – DirectX Normal Map Converter” node group from the BIS material library can be used.
The samples of use:
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Blender add-on: Environment Brute Force
Environment Brute Force – an add-on for searching the best lighting for the scene by iterating through the number of environment images.
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“Spring” – movie premiere
“Spring” – animation movie by Blender Animation Studio.
All movie content is open and available on Blender Cloud.
Blender icons
More three Blender logos in different colors for desktop shortcuts in addition to this.
Icons are made in the SVG format.
By Yuriy Tudgin.
IF ELSE statement by nodes
Changes in add-ons registration through the API in Blender 2.8
Add-on registration and removing were made with the “Window manager” (wm) in Blender 2.7 Python API:
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bpy.ops.wm.addon_install(filepath='_path_to_addon', overwrite=True) bpy.ops.wm.addon_enable(module='addon_name') bpy.ops.wm.addon_remove(module='addon_name') |
In Blender 2.8 API add-on operators moved to the “preferences”:
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bpy.ops.preferences.addon_install(filepath='_path_to_addon', overwrite=True) bpy.ops.preferences.addon_enable(module='addon_name') bpy.ops.preferences.addon_remove(module='addon_name') |
3D Cursor location in Blender 2.8 Python API
3D-cursor location property
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context.scene.cursor_location |
in Blender 2.8 API moved to “cursor” object
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When trying to get the cursor location through the “context.scene.cursor_location” Blender throws an error:
‘Scene’ object has no attribute ‘cursor_location’
Add-on preferences panel
When developing add-ons it is often necessary to give an ability to set a number of parameters that affect the whole add-on work to the user. For example, the user can specify a directory for saving/loading files, set some default variables or switch between add-on modes. Of course, the interface for setting such parameters can be placed in the add-on panel, but it is better to place it in a separate add-on preferences panel, which is located in the “Preferences” window under the add-on installation panel.
The main advantage of the add-on preferences is that they don’t reset when Blender restarts. The user does not need to configure the add-on preferences each time, it’s enough to set the necessary parameters once, personalizing the add-on for convenient work.
Let’s create an add-on and define a parameter, placing it in the add-on preferences panel.