Blender AddOns, Materials & Tutorials.

[Alexandermb]

This count as usable for 0 AD Baking ? @stanislas69

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https://www.blendernation.com/2017/10/20/procedural-cc-0-pbr-wood-shader/#jp-carousel-74456

 

[Stan`]

It's CC0 so if we trust the guy then yes. We can credit him.

[Alexandermb]

Good then, his wood procedural is good for trees and shields.

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[nani]

On 8/7/2018 at 7:53 PM, stanislas69 said:

I hope I'll get in touch with Andrew price someday. That guy is really a legend for me.

Yes! I also watched all his videos when he was starting in YouTube 10 years ago. Made me progress a lot and was fun listening his anecdotes and line of thought. He even reviewed one of my renders in one of his focused reviews in vimeo XD, so funny.

[thankforpie]

Blender is great free tool for static models like trees and stones but making character walking animation in it is more than tough

 

I at some point got fed up with blender cuz animating the armature resulted in deformed mesh between bones and it was deal breaker for me, i also couldnt fix it. That seems to be problem with interaction of skin modifier with either armature or another modifier

Edited October 25, 2018 by thankforpie

[Alexandermb]

26 minutes ago, thankforpie said:

Blender is great free tool for static models like trees and stones but making character walking animation in it is more than tough

 

I at some point got fed up with blender cuz animating the armature resulted in deformed mesh between bones and it was deal breaker for me, i also couldnt fix it. That seems to be problem with interaction of skin modifier with either armature or another modifier

You need to know how to properly assign vertex weight to bones, and make custom IK bones,, sometimes its actually easy to animate with blender while other things aren't that easy for ex Horse took around 7 months to be almost fully committed. 

[Stan`]

7 hours ago, nani said:

Yes! I also watched all his videos when he was starting in YouTube 10 years ago. Made me progress a lot and was fun listening his anecdotes and line of thought. He even reviewed one of my renders in one of his focused reviews in vimeo XD, so funny.

Really ? What did he say ? :p

6 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

You need to know how to properly assign vertex weight to bones, and make custom IK bones,, sometimes its actually easy to animate with blender while other things aren't that easy for ex Horse took around 7 months to be almost fully committed. 

Any time to make more animations ?

[Silier]

6 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

You need to know how to properly assign vertex weight to bones, and make custom IK bones,, sometimes its actually easy to animate with blender while other things aren't that easy for ex Horse took around 7 months to be almost fully committed. 

 

7 hours ago, thankforpie said:

Blender is great free tool for static models like trees and stones but making character walking animation in it is more than tough

 

I at some point got fed up with blender cuz animating the armature resulted in deformed mesh between bones and it was deal breaker for me, i also couldnt fix it. That seems to be problem with interaction of skin modifier with either armature or another modifier

Iam a not profesional in animation but I tried some myself in blender and worked prety good. 

if your animated model is turned upside down you can use non weight bones and assign vertexes to the groups named exactly as your bones and tweak it slowly. 

Yes weight bones are fast if you know how to properly set them, I used them as start and then removed or added vertexes from or into vertex group where was needed.Sometimes I had to split some areas to more for better animation result. 

[Alexandermb]

19 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

Really ? What did he say ? :p

Any time to make more animations ?

Sure, at work i have some time free, (not always) btw going to upload this here for download later in work. 

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shield_oval_base.blend

Content has the previously mentioned material.

[Lion.Kanzen]

 

2 minutes ago, Alexandermb said:

Sure, at work i have some time free, (not always) btw going to upload this here for download later in work. 

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shield_oval_base.blend

Content has the previously mentioned material.

I miss doing mechanics for mods with simple animations.

[nani]

On 10/25/2018 at 8:57 AM, stanislas69 said:

Really ? What did he say ? :p

"If you wanna make it loo more realistic, push the scene over the edge, again, go for an external renderer" xd

[Alexandermb]

List of usefull addons for blender 2.80

Simple Asset Manager: Usefull for save your 0.A.D Enviroment like barrels, shields, flora, fauna etc when making structures with props or any other project.

https://www.blendernation.com/2018/11/19/add-on-simple-asset-manager/

Procedural Clout Generator: Volumetric cloud generator usefull for rendering escenes like Skyboxes.

https://www.blendernation.com/2018/11/06/free-procedural-cloud-system-for-eevee-real-time/

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https://www.blendernation.com/2018/11/06/free-procedural-cloud-system-for-eevee-real-time/42da07fd078a935fd234cbfff7e06e963f436611/

 

[Alexandermb]

https://www.blenderkit.com @stanislas69 can you see if this is allowed to be used by Creative Commons license? this is a blender wide range list of materials to use freely when baking.

Preview in blender:

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[Stan`]

We need prior consent and agreement from them and likely the artists uploading stuff there. I could contact them with @Itms's permission to see if they'd want to do some sort of partnership with us

[Itms]

You don't need my permission Indeed their license is not compatible with CC, so they would need to release some of the assets under that (apparently that's what they want to do with their "Open source package" (that is not very clear)). Contacting them would be the best way to know what we can do.

[Stan`]

I'll contact them then

[Stan`]

I got an answer.

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Hi Stanislas69, 

our textures are so far marked as 'royalty free' , and as far as I understand it (and yes I did the licensing stuff - Anything baked is your creation, free to relicense the way you want it. We'll be happy to be part of your project! 

Kind regards,

Vilem Duha

BlenderKit admin

So should be good  We will add them to the credits.

[Alexandermb]

5 hours ago, stanislas69 said:

I got an answer.

So should be good  We will add them to the credits.

Fear no more! Use it on your projects, start the revolution, leave behind the uv restrictions, Bake your materials!

@Sundiata  @Trinketos

[Trinketos]

2 hours ago, Alexandermb said:

Fear no more! Use it on your projects, start the revolution, leave behind the uv restrictions, Bake your materials!

@Sundiata  @Trinketos

A pero blender 2.80

 

[Alexandermb]

9 minutes ago, Trinketos said:

A pero blender 2.80

El viewport se ve asi debido a que Blender 2.80 no reconoco graficos intel aun. Sin embargo el Blender Kit Addon esta disponible para 2.79 tambien.

[Alexandermb]

Found some gold:

Animations video of Total War Games (Rome 2 - Warhammer - Shogun 2) for those who want a reference when animating
 

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https://vimeo.com/80281293

 

 

[Trinketos]

1 hour ago, Alexandermb said:

El viewport se ve asi debido a que Blender 2.80 no reconoco graficos intel aun. Sin embargo el Blender Kit Addon esta disponible para 2.79 tambien.

ya se me hacia raro porque si cumplo los requisitos para ejecutar blender 2.80

[Alexandermb]

Some of the advantages of using Blender 2.80:
Better objects organization.
A good enviroment setup for basic things.

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[Alexandermb]

Usefull group node for stop using pointiness and ramp color in blender for object edges baking:

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File in case the drive links goes down:Edge Detect Node.blend

[Alexandermb]

Procedural Scratches node for materials:

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https://www.blendernation.com/2019/03/19/how-to-make-100-procedural-scratches/

Procedural Bark for trees materials.

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https://www.blendernation.com/2019/03/14/download-procedural-pine-bark-shader/