That’s right! The next version of Mirage if finally out in the wild. It’s been a little while since 2.1. Ok, it’s been well over a year, but it was worth it! Version 3.0 piles on a lot of new features, including improvements to object distribution, rock generation, heightmaps, and more. Object Layers The Tree Distribution panel is old news …
Meshes with Python & Blender : Circles and Cylinders
In the last part of this series we’ll look at making circles and cylinders. They are a lot trickier than it seems! We’ll be building on everything from the previous parts, as well as doing some Bmesh to fix normals.
Bottles Mockup updated!
Blender 2.79 was released last week, and we can finally enjoy filmic, the principled shader, denoiser and more. I’ve updated Bottles mockup pack for Bender 2.79 with all the cool new features.
Meshes with Python & Blender: Rounded Cubes
Unlike the previous part, this tutorial will be lighter on math and focus more on the “Blender stuff”. We will look at adding and applying modifiers, reading a mesh from a file and managing complexity.
EXP 002 // Bacteria
Time for another animation experiment in Blender. This time inspired by the ending sequence of the first episodes of Ergo Proxy (though I ended up doing something totally different!).
Meshes with Python & Blender: Icospheres
In the third part of the series we get into making icosahedra, subdividing and refining them to spheres. To top it off, we’ll also look at two ways of setting a mesh’s shading to smooth.
New IOR Reference addon
Googling for IOR values can be dangerous! There’s all kinds of funny videos, facts and troll comments just waiting to steal your time.
Meshes with Python & Blender: Cubes and Matrices
Welcome to the second part in this series. It’s time to get into some math and learn how to control the position, rotation and scale of the mesh.
Catch those keymaps
Are you an addon developer? I have something to show you.
EXP 001 // Dynamic Paint Liquid
I’ve always seen Dynamic Paint as one of those exotic things in Blender that could only be useful for one or two odd things. Oh, how wrong I was