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toiletbrush posted:Impossible Paths extremely sick
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Extraterrestrial Relic complete! Pyramid Nodes:  Eye Nodes:  For this one, I got the 3.4 beta and used the "Distribute Points in Volume". My computer did not enjoy the experience. I wanted to put some little obelisks and such around, but my machine was already chugging pretty bad. Bluemillion fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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For my "microcosmic forest" render I came up with a hack to spawn points inside a volume in Blender 3.3. Take a cube, transform it so it is really wide and short, then add instances on points from a mesh line to stack them vertically. Then apply a mesh boolean modifier to get a bunch of horizontal planes inside the mesh, and then spawn points randomly on those surfaces.  
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rad relic, bluemillion! The way those cubes sort of diffuse out is really cool.fart simpson posted:the texturing and colors on this are on point btw. are the decals on the boxes a bump map or actual geometry? In hindsight the columns the stairs sit on look a bit weird and like they're part of the 'trick' when there's nothing sly going on with them at all. The problem is I have to use ortho projection to get the 'gapped' stairs to line up, which make things look off or unpleasant if there's too many obvious vertical lines, like you'd get if they were sat on a plain wall. toiletbrush fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Nov 25, 2022 |
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Nov 25, 2022 11:35
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Ominous Skies It's not looking great but I'm trying to keep to the schedule and ive run out of time (and enthusiasm tbh) I wanted to have the saucer as more of a shadow behind the clouds, perhaps peeping through, but couldn't get it to work
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Bluemillion posted:Extraterrestrial Relic complete! This is where one of those other doors in the Control motel leads
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Bluemillion posted:Extraterrestrial Relic complete! i really like this one. the effect of the cubes fading in is really cool
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Komojo posted:For my "microcosmic forest" render I came up with a hack to spawn points inside a volume in Blender 3.3. thats cool but too bad you wont need in in 3.4 because they just added a node to do it directly
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toiletbrush posted:Ominous Skies the trick to that sort of peeping through thing is volumetrics with very low density but very large distances involved
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ive been too busy to keep up but i got some time today to finish what i was working on. forgotten robots! 
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Nov 28, 2022 10:10
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blend file here in case anyone wants to look https://mega.nz/file/EABRFbDB#B1saCVm2syRjbGFpaB47R2Ua53s_KvN9pRLPEVFMZZU
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fart simpson posted:ive been too busy to keep up but i got some time today to finish what i was working on. forgotten robots! Holy fuckin' poo poo. Hopefully by next year I'll have a better skills and a new computer and I'll be able to do something as cool as this.
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Nov 28, 2022 14:55
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fart simpson posted:ive been too busy to keep up but i got some time today to finish what i was working on. forgotten robots! your poor gpu
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toiletbrush posted:that's incredible work man funny thing about that. this one frame took me 52 minutes to render, and about 51 minutes into it i realized i forgot to re-enable depth of field on the camera settings lol. so i said screw it and spent 10 minutes playing around with gradient textures and the bokeh blur node in the compositor to fake it
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and i think this one will be my "impossible pathway". i wanted to get more stuff going on in the scene but i think this looks cool enough as is blend file here: https://mega.nz/file/NA5VFTCa#h8uwFdy67Jmmz2cXj0oUuLT6vncQ3U_hPnmUlh4LB-U a few months ago in the blender thread i mentioned that i found a paper about optical simulations of black holes using nested refractive glass spheres. well, i revisited that and redid it and basically cleaned it up a bit to make this
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the impossible pathway part is coming back out of it
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Bluemillion posted:Holy fuckin' poo poo. step 1: turn on gpu rendering instead of cpu rendering
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no seriously, i think that kind of thing is doable for anyone itt. it just took me a lot of practice and looking at other peoples work to learn how they did stuff. that’s why i post most of my blend files here, because i think seeing how someone else accomplished something can both teach you and give you inspiration. that’s why i like to ask people how they did things itt too, im learning from that stuff
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i think working from reference and trying to understand some basic photography can go a long way towards making stuff in certain styles too. and some basic project planning. if you block out a scene and try to get the lighting most of the way there just with basic shapes, then it can inform you in what details you need to focus on and which things won’t really have a significant impact on the final result. like this forgotten robots scene i blocked out with just some cubes and planes and set up the sky texture and basic lighting before i did any detail work at all. the walls and roof are incredibly simple, both in terms of geometry and also the shaders, because i know any detail work i put in there won’t show up. basically just a plane with alpha mask cutouts for the windows as in, i literally started with this, and just added detail to the little stone dividing walls and then the robots. and then did some compositing and color correction  fart simpson fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Nov 28, 2022 |
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toiletbrush posted:Ominous Skies This looks really nice! How did you do the clouds and the lighting behind them?
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Thanks! It's just a thin cube with voronoi texture deforming just the bottom, and a sheet light right above it for that orange shine throughfart simpson posted:the trick to that sort of peeping through thing is volumetrics with very low density but very large distances involved
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in addition to samples you sometimes need to increase your light bounces and or turn off indirect light clamping
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fart simpson posted:step 1: turn on gpu rendering instead of cpu rendering I'm willing to bear the shame of this as a living PSA. You have to choose your video card in the settings.
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Asteroid Village
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toiletbrush posted:Asteroid Village Extremely nice greebles.
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toiletbrush posted:Asteroid Village 
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toiletbrush posted:Asteroid Village this is excellent. you do something like the layered noise i mentioned on the terrain?
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ominous skies. im not sure if the colors are what i really want but i cant seem to change them to be any better
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or does this one look better after some color correction? im not sure e: i think this ones better 
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blend file: https://mega.nz/file/ZdRHWDBR#g3MJDvWdA-HjnVkylw6tZDDhIOHfQLL0kgcxP5tOK-Y this one took a trillion hours to render because its in cycles and all those clouds are done in a single 100,000 x 100,000 x 3,000 meter cube. its just all two layers of noise texture at different detail levels going into a principled volume shader's density. 128 volume light paths, turned off indirect light clamping, and 4096 samples so it takes forever. the ground is just a giant plane with some musgrave noise into a bump map and roughness
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extremely excellent
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toiletbrush posted:Asteroid Village btw i forgot to say it but congrats on finishing nodevember! great work op
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fart simpson posted:ominous skies. im not sure if the colors are what i really want but i cant seem to change them to be any better I had also considered a MIRV. Dang that looks awesome.
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FalseNegative posted:I had also considered a MIRV. Dang that looks awesome. yeah it was the only thing i could think of doing
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btw!!!! novemeber is over, but nodevember continues as long as people keep doing it! there are 2 prompts left for me and my motivation is very low but i also want to finish them for pure completionism., so im still going wip for digital ruins. not totally sure where im going with it 
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great job everyone! bummed I couldn’t participate but all the cool images you created made up for it
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fart simpson posted:btw!!!! novemeber is over, but nodevember continues as long as people keep doing it! its december 1st, mods close thread asap
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This nodevember has been a treat! I'm glad my skills improved enough over last year that I could participate with the incredibly talented artists in this thread. I'm gonna take everything I've learned from all of you, and with the help of a new computer, really push it over the top next year!
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Bluemillion posted:This nodevember has been a treat! I'm glad my skills improved enough over last year that I could participate with the incredibly talented artists in this thread. agreed op you managed to do some cool stuff this year. even more cool than a spiky ball
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