Hey everyone, as many of you know, GREEZYBEAR and I have been hard at work lately on this new displacement generator to take the place of J-Placement. Once I found out that guy wouldn't allow his generated maps to be used in any commercial way, I knew I had to create my own. And man, is it cool!<...
2022-01-27 09:58:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, these are all geometry. And they render *much* faster than displacement! Not to mention you can edit them if you like as well.
Hey folks, here's a short preview of what we've been working on. There's more about it over at the Discord SIMPLE SCIFI channel: http://cw1.me/discord
Andrew (Greezybear) and I have been working hard and we hope to have this fini...
2022-01-21 05:16:51 +0000 UTC View Post
So if you look at these renderings you may not recognize anything of great interest. Then, look closely at the wires and you'll see the hex patterns are fairly cleanly modeled faces in Blender. Included in these images is a tilable hex PNG that I created and used as a displacement map in order to...
2022-01-13 14:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Just thought I would catch you up on the latest goings on. I've been working to create a Geometry Nodes Displacement Generator. It's coming along nicely and it currently has two different models. One is very similar to the existing JS placement displacement generator. The oth...
2021 was unfortunately a year of ups and downs for my family. That said, I could always count on and enjoy the camaraderie and fellowship of all you in the Blender community. Thanks very much for your support. I hope we all have a great 2022!
I'll see you all online,
Chipp
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Part 5 of the Virtualized Displacement mini-course
This segment talks about the 8 post effect traits of Cinematic rendering and how to achieve them in Compositor. The Cinematic Render Kit files are below along with the final blender scene file.
This segment goes over adding KIT OPS INSERT hero elements to your scene. You can get the KPACK with the elements at:
https://filedn.com/lLMW4jXsJqxXkRYjd1UCoKL/3d/VirtDisp.zip
Install F...
2021-12-29 19:38:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This segment goes over adding even more details including pipes and rails. Some interesting tips on surface materials as well.
2021-12-29 14:29:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
This is a shorter segment that goes over some issues you may be having as well as a cool set of tips to allow you to add even more detail on the sides of your meshes.
2021-12-29 11:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks,
I'm hosting a new IDEATION CREATION mini-course over on my Discord where I go over how to create and then render and apply someone cool post effects in the compositor. When we get to the detail section, I'll be providing a number of KIT OPS INSERTS you can use to add more d...
2021-12-28 06:06:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Another quick video showing how to fix smoothing issues when using KIT OPS
2021-12-16 21:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Helped out a user on my Discord recently: This works with any Boolean modifier.
2021-12-16 21:29:53 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys been working on this for a while and I'm pretty happy with the way it's turning out.
Wood has always been a big issue as it's almost impossible to create good title photographic wood. You can do it with procedurals but I am not as big a fan of them as I am of photos.
And now,...
2021-12-14 06:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
I've been thinking about doing a video like this for quite some time. Years ago, I was a huge Keyshot user. I even gave a talk at the very first Keyshot conference. And when I started using Blender, when the first things I tried to do was see if I could render the s...
2021-12-11 00:21:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Another set of questions asked about why I recommend using either 1 or 8 (or greater) on a bevel modifier. It has to do with normal smoothing and possible artifacts. Hopefully, this video explains it ok. And, on larger bevels, nothing wrong with going over 8, but I like to stay even because if yo...
2021-12-04 09:12:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I had a few folks ask about why the weld modifier in the last candle video so here's a better explanation.
2021-12-04 09:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
I had a question today over on my Discord about how to render glass with liquid. And in explaining it, I thought it would give me a great chance to show how simple it is to create a holiday candle. And I used Blender 3.0 and some new rendering tricks, including using the shado...
2021-12-03 04:31:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
Back from my trip and trying to get things ready for Black Friday. And we have some very good news to announce: There's a major update to KIT OPS FREE and PRO. You can now create INSERTS in FREE with one-click-- and you can also save materials as well. You don't have the full rang...
2021-11-24 23:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Sorry I've been missing in action lately, I'm currently on a rather long vacation but will be back early next week right before Thanksgiving.
Until then, I'll share with you the latest version of simple sketch beta. You can download it at:
2021-11-20 22:12:55 +0000 UTC
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Been working more on Gravity Sketch. The Collab feature is really nice as it's fun to hangout with folks like Greezybear and masterxeon1001 while learning the software.
What I'm after are things that can be difficult to do in Blender but are much easier to do in VR. For instance, consider t...
2021-11-08 04:37:52 +0000 UTC View Post
(Model by Jama Jurabaev)
Hey guys, so I finally got around to getting back into the VR space which is something I've been wanting to do for a while. A friend of mine shared with me some Gravity Sketch videos and that got me wondering about it.
So, I ordered a Quest 2 and set it up a...
I was really impressed with this video and I thought I'd share it.
At first, I thought I was watching a really nicely rendered EEVEE walkthrough. And it looked like the GI was baked as it typically is in UE or Unity-- so Wow!
Then, as I looked more closely, I saw a bit of lag and some...
2021-10-31 08:42:42 +0000 UTC View PostNot sure if everyone knows about this, but thought I'd share it. Something I take for granted, but saw where some others were wondering about it. HTH.
Click on the above link (no thumbnail) or use this:
A Discord user wanted to know how to create the perf grill you see above in the boom box, and I created a couple of tiny videos of how I would do it to help him out:
2021-10-12 03:04:13 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone,
Most of you know I've been working hard lately at putting together a neat workflow for creating your own PARALLAX 3D room objects. The addon is complete and now for sale, and there's an INTRO discount for both it and KIT OPS 2 PRO (if you don't already have it). 2021-10-09 00:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It's pretty straightforward and easy to create your own 1-plane wonders using this new addon. It will be substantially less to purchase this than the current wParallax offering, which I did not have control over.
If like me, you study wParallax's design of the "cross maps" (seen above...
2021-10-01 04:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Finally, these are ready to ship! They took awhile to make sure we had the correct shaders and then marketing demanded we ship them in aluminum ZERO briefcases.
Then marketing wanted to price these things in the couple hundreds of dollars per-- because of the aluminum br...
2021-10-01 00:08:11 +0000 UTC View PostEver want to create a simple webpage? Or create an easily updatable and editable documentation website? Well, as most of you know, I use Google Docs for all my documentation-- because it's really good at that and I can easily get others to help me. The problem is, it all looks like Google Docs......
2021-09-23 22:54:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, here's a few materials which may be fun to play around with.
As usual, they are KIT OPS KPACKS, so stick them in any KIT OPS Masterfolder and they will work.
Holler at me if you have any questions.
2021-09-22 22:17:07 +0000 UTC View Post