• pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 hours ago

    Just fyi you can add a cylinder mesh to start off with instead of a cube, you can even change how many sides the cylinder has in the little menu that pops up when you do it. I believe the add mesh hotkey is shift + a

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    Years of game development education and not once did anyone show me this grid texture template.

    I feel actually stupid for not realising i could do this.

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      Hehe yeah blender has that and a grid one built into the uv editor

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        Yeah they only tought us 3dsmax for some (corporate) reason.

        Don’t recall seeing a single line or even mention of open source code. But a big scary 2 hour propaganda class on how awful the life of independent indie devs that didn’t get a tripple A slave contract was. That was really important.

        I still think learned a lot but damn was that an awfully good example of what i did not want to get trapped in.

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          I’m more and less self taught. I went to school for computer science.

          I took 3D art classes in high school but we used Bryce3d and poser 3d.

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    Thank you for creating canned content!

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          Renders take so long i am not sure why anyone would bother. Just take a screenshot of your viewer, much faster.

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            There is ways to make it faster but you lose some prettyness.

            Blender has two render systems. Cycles = raytraced based rendering. Pros realistic lighting cons very slow rendering Eevee = game engine style render. Pro fast rendering. Con no realistic lighting and few others.

            For few renders I posted, I been using cycles and average time to render the scene was about hour time.

            The no saving post I used eevee and the render time was pretty fast like 5 mintues or something like that.

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              I was joking about renders but idk blender so i still learned something.