Blender add-on: Carousel
Blender 3D add-on for quick and easy creation of turntable (spin 360) animations.
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Blender add-on: Area Switcher v. 1.0.1
Blender add-on “Area Switcher” updated to v. 1.0.1.
- Added the shortcode for switching with keyŃodes: Ctrl + shift + d
- Fixed error when switching to the ‘UV Editor’ in Blender 2.91
Buy on MechanicaPalmyra Bel temple reconstruction
Today we, Atayants Architects, want to present the results of our Temple of Bel reconstruction.
This remarkable date this year marks a memorable event – the opening in the State Hermitage Museum of an exhibition dedicated to the reconstruction of the UNESCO heritage site of the Bela Temple in Palmyra (Roman Empire, 32 AD), which was completely destroyed in 2015.
The digital reconstruction was done entirely by hand in Blender 3D based on numerous references, drawings, satellite imagery, and photogrammetry of objects captured at the scene of the tragedy in the paramilitary zone, and it took several years to process and put everything together.
This project is powered by the fascinating ability of Blender to handle complex modeling workflows, such as
- Multiref modeling, provided by tools such as Layers (reconstructed as a QCD system, as part of the Collection Manager addon, and used as an industry-unique flexible reference management system)
- Stripe modeling workflow, which integrates retopology and organic modeling into a single workflow.
Details are available in the video (Russian only).
Contents:
- Satellite Photogrammetry model (45:00)
- The reconstructed model, printed on a 3d printer, 2 meters long (53:00)
- Blender footage (59:30)
- The templeās current state in the application, powered by Unreal (1:03:20)
Announced by Paul Kotelevets (1D_Inc)
How to create a Vertex Group and add vertices to it with the Blender Python API
We can access vertex groups for the active mesh through its “vertex_groups” structure.
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bpy.context.active_object.vertex_groups |
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How to create a new mesh UV with the Blender Python API
To make a new UV with the Python API and set coordinates to its points, we need:
First – create a new UV with the desired name:
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Next, to specify the coordinates of its points, we need to cycle through all the “loops” of the mesh:
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Blender 2.91 official release
The Blender 2.91 release is enabled for downloading on the official Blender site.
How to get a list of UV coordinates
You may need to get a list of coordinates of the mesh’s UV, for example, when exporting a mesh from Blender’s internal format to any external formats.
A list of the mesh UV-s can be got by accessing the “uv_layers” structure:
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bpy.context.object.data.uv_layers[:] # [bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].uv_layers["UVMap"], bpy.data.meshes['Cube'].uv_layers["UVMap.001"]] |
Creating a clock in Blender with nodes
Making a clock in Blender with nodes tutorial. The result is a procedural real-time clock shader.
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Blender add-on: UV Plus
Blender add-on with additionals tools for working with meshes UV-s in UV Editor.
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