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- NBQ000
Is there a better way to render scenes in blender?
I always seem to get issues or Blender crashing.
I had a sequence of 360 frames to render and it crashed after like 200. Am aware this can happen but I'm on a good M2 Pro Mac.
And how do you usually render passes for AE? Seems the best way is to render EXR files wit the selected channels you want. However the combined result looks very strange.
Any ideas?
- You can render in batches for complex scenes. I use a plugin for blender > AE so it brings all your scene data insausages
- M2s are good machines but I haven't been blown away by their performance in blender. PC with RTX card slays them.sausages
- What engine are you using? Eevee or Cycles? If in cycles turn the samples down a lot lower.PhanLo
- MultilayerEXR is the best way to do passes. There’s a compositor tutorial on the first page of this thread showing the procedure.monNom
- Looking ‘strange’ may be a result of AE not applying the same colour processing as blender does natively. You might need to bake it in and save passes as PNG.monNom
- As for crashes, that’s often a memory issue. Are you using adaptive subdivision? Bigger textures than required? GPU rending big scenes without lots of VRAM?monNom
- NBQ000
As much as I love Blender it's crazy how far ahead Softimage (XSI) was in terms of non-destructive modelling, texturing and all the animation rendering workflow.
Really miss it sometimes and it's still sad that Autodesk killed Softimage.
Even now after 8 years since the final Softimage version, Blender still doesn't have the tools out of the box but can probably be achieved with addons.
- That said, of course Blender has many things that Softimage didn't have. But now that I'm doing modeling & UV editing I see some limitations in Blender.NBQ00
- I thought Blender was great at non-destructive modeling with all of their modifiers and nodesmonospaced
- In Softimage anything you do (even just moving a polygon or point or edge or whatever) can be traced and activated/ disabled. In Blender it's more limitedNBQ00
- Would you be better using CAD software to get cleaner meshes? I'm always scared I mess up topology at the start and once I'm happy its a complete mess n BlenderPhanLo
- This was what I was thinking of https://twitter.com/…PhanLo
- PhanLo0
- He used totally the wrong type of bus for London!shapesalad
- PhanLo0
- those are cool, posterize the time to like 3frame jumps could look cool!where_am_i
- Ah cheers! I'll defo re-visit themPhanLo
- imbecile1
- Really want to get into that. Love his stuffPhanLo
- thought you might like this given some of your other postsimbecile
- I was looking at the array function in Grease pencil, think it has some potential almost generative looking results as well as the decorative.PhanLo
- Love this one https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- the techniques uses are aceimbecile
- *usedimbecile
- Defo! It's great it looks so like an illustration but can also be viewed from many anglesPhanLo
- when he was drawing the procedural flowers and roses, i was definitely intriguedimbecile
- that stuff reminds me of generative flash, really makes me want to learn it now. Next couple of weeks I'll get on it. :-)PhanLo
- PhanLo1
Also has the blend file in a dropbox
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- PhanLo0
- Can't believe Graf learned Blender in a week, things are clicking now, but it took a while. Next I'll try and model a building.PhanLo
- Just get Blenderkit.shapesalad
- ^ Some amazing stuff in that, I really wanted to get some understanding of how it works, but I'll defo get that at some pointPhanLo
- Just installed Blenderkit, so much good stuff, will save some time on a projectPhanLo
- PhanLo0
- One thing that annoys me about Blender is the copying/duplicating of materials/objects etc is not using common UI/UX principles. Otherwise, it's good.shapesalad
- Once I got my head a bit more around the menu system it started to make some sense, but it's just watching tutorials. Wouldn't know where to start otherwisePhanLo
- uan0
I was asked if Substance 3D Painter from Adobe is any good.
Has somebody any infos on this software?
Q is from a kid who would like to do 3D stuff, don't know where he heard about that piece of software.And what is the best way to learn about materials and render engines in blender? I bet blender has something similar or better.
In my understanding it's how you set up the materials and which render engine you use, I bet blender has some really good features nowadays and there must be some really good tutorial about materials around.
Thanks for any hints :-)
- Tried to use it back when it was in beta or something, part of the Adobe CC suite, now they have an entire 3D suite and it's separate payment.grafician
- Better learn Blender and be done with itgrafician
- Take a look over at https://www.blenderk…grafician
- looks good, nice link:) thanks graf!uan
- install this for free https://www.blenderk… great starting point for assetsshapesalad
- ah already posted by graficianshapesalad
- substance is great for setting up pbr materials for real-time engines. Here is a good intro https://substance3d.…robotinc
- blenderkit materials above are also pbr basedrobotinc
- Substance is a good stand-alone texturing product. Creative use of blender nodes can give you more flexibility and capabilities, but with added complexity.monNom
- You can do multi-material masking in blender easily with painted UV masks or masking by vertex-colors (separate RGB then drive mix shaders).monNom
- direct texture painting has existed for a long time in blender and is robust. You can also configure materials to respond to edges (pointiness) and creases (AO)monNom
- Then there are add-ons that will get you even further: https://blendermarke…monNom
- Geometry nodes can be used to drive materials, so you can get things like distance from another object influencing your materials...monNom
- Oh and you can simply apply materials per face as well. It is much more powerful to do it all in Blender. There's a learning curve, but it's worth it.monNom
- thanks robotinc and monNom, your detailed in-depth information gave me valuable insights. Respect!uan