Small Blender Things Planet Blender News Home | YafaRay Material World | Great 3D materials for blender 3D Primer – page 1 | SGFX 3D Primer page 1 | page 2 | page 3 | page 4 | page 5 1.01 Why write the 3D primer? I have wanted to write this article for several years and for several reasons. Firstly, when I started modeling finding answers to my questions was extremely difficult. I could always get an answer but it took time to find a tutorial that helped me or an artist that could explain the issue at the level I needed to hear it. Generally speaking artists/modelers are happy to help out someone new. You do need practice but it helps to understand how to achieve something by having it explained to you or even better seeing it done. I have used a lot of reference from Wikipedia as I find it invaluable as a source of information. Littered throughout these webpages are incidental information paragraphs like this one. 1.02 How to use the 3D Primer As a new modeler it can be very daunting to ask even a simple question. This Primer and any accompanying videos are laid out so that you can:
Setting Up A Render Farm What and Why? A render farm is simply a collection of networked computers that work together to render a sequence in less time. By dividing your sequence between multiple machines your total render time becomes a fraction of what it is on a single computer. Most production studios will fill huge rooms with server rack upon server rack, full of thousands of rendering computers (or render nodes as you’ll hear them called). But they’re also useful (as well as financially viable) for smaller teams or even individuals. A render farm can be a custom built cluster for a few thousand dollars or it can be a collection of arbitrary computers, a computer lab with networked stations, or you can invite all your friends over with their laptops. Blender makes it easy to take advantage of network rendering. I will be walking you through 3 stages. In the third stage I’ll show you how to take advantage of Blender’s included addon “Network Render”. Prefer to watch instead? 1. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
Surface Knowledge | mínima expresión Procedural Stippled Finish August 5, 2013 in Surface Knowledge by Juan José Torres You might have noticed the stippled finish in the background wall I used for my last scene. Stippled finish paint was very popular back in the eighties, so I created this material to get an old fashioned feel that would fit the vintage hardware portrayed in the scene. Read the rest of this entry → Procedural orange skin October 25, 2012 in Surface Knowledge by Juan José Torres Just as I announced in my previous post, here is a new entry in the Surface Knowledge series available for download. Procedural wood May 8, 2012 in Surface Knowledge by Juan José Torres The next entry in this series is a much improved version of my procedural wood. Procedural rust May 7, 2012 in Surface Knowledge by Juan José Torres The first entry in this Surface Knowledge series will be the now fully procedural metal rust material. Surface Knowledge May 6, 2012 in Surface Knowledge by Juan José Torres
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Spectral Studio - Home - Spectral Studio Cycles & OSL « A bit of everything This shader is the OSL implementation of a technique described here by Joost van Dongen. It uses raycasting to render false interiors on a simple mesh (I used a scaled cube in the example). I don’t know if this could be actually useful (rendering is really slow, it took 1 min 28.22 sec to render 50 samples), but surely it saves time when you don’t need detailed interiors and you want to improve a city scene or an architectural render without wasting time to model all rooms. The shader uses a texture atlas to texture all rooms differently and randomly changes wall order when using the same room in the atlas. Rooms are rendered perspectively correct, thus allowing animated renders; the number of rooms does not influence rendering time. Lights in the building can dynamically be turned on and off. The rooms are also covered by window glasses: you can see sky reflections on dark rooms. This is the shader node network: A red outline surrounds the interior mapping node. The black dots are gone!
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