[ENDED] BC1-1808 – August 2018 Class Homepage – Getting Started with 3D Modeling & Blender 2.8

[Jake Korosi]

@theluthier Thanks, that makes me a lot less conflicted about the situation.  Back to being just excited for this class!

 I’ve had a little trouble trying to port 2.7 projects to 2.8; they open, but for instance when I try to change the viewport from solid to a shaded or rendered view, 2.8 crashes.  I’m working right now to finish up my current project so that I have nothing left going on in 2.7 by the time the class starts.  I believe 2.8 will be hitting beta state about halfway through the month, so unless it is  crashy or buggy I think I might shift permanently to 2.8 after the class ends. 

[Matthew Ullrey]

@williamatics Hello William, if you haven’t found the link already, just scroll down on the down load page (https://www.blender.org/download/) and select the “latest experimental builds” button and that should take you where you want to go.

[William Miller]

@ullreym I already figured it out, thanks!

[Katerina Novakova]

@theluthier Thank you very much for clarifying. I also wasn’t sure whether I should participate or not, and I thought it would be better to sit this one out. But since you are going to use Blender 2.8 and I’ve been waiting to sink my teeth into it for a while now, I’m really looking forward to joining the class. I think my take on this will be to push simple techniques to their limits (to show beginner users what they’ll be able to do in no time, and maybe, hopefully, to also inspire them) and to try and be more active in the thread.

[William Miller]

Could somebody please explain what light probes are?  I have no idea what they do.

[Jake Korosi]

@williamatics My understanding is simplistic and maybe incomplete, but here’s what I know:

A light probe is like a 360-degree image that describes the lighting in a scene.  Think of an HDRi – an HDRi contains two kinds of information, an actual photo image (which is what you see in the background and in the reflections of the objects in the scene) and lighting information, so that the 3D objects in the scene are lit (ostensibly) the same way as things in the photo image.  The part of the HDRi that contains the lighting information is a “light probe”.  

I think you can make or import or otherwise  use a light probe in Blender without an entire HDRi image, but I don’t know how the particulars on how do that.  I think light probes independent of HDRi are more often used for game environments like in Unity, rather than Blender still images or animations.  But I could be wrong about that. 

[Zsolt Cseh]

Reading through the so far posts and seeing the familiar avatars from June I would like just repeat again, that BC3-1806 class was really special.. You guys are amazing with keeping the spirit of the classes and willing to help others so much.

This idea with introducing Blender 2.8 is quite inspiring, personally would like to join again of course, anyway simply the reason is because only a CG Cookie class is able to keep me opening Blender everyday. That does not matter whether being beginner or on any level, the point is like the Nike slogan – Just Do It.

As Katerina mentioned I would like to be also more active in the thread, for example from the report card we will see the absolutely new members in classes and could provide a kind of hypercare for them, with the target of keeping both the motivation and technical ability to post homeworks on all the 4 weeks. Because let’s admit Blender is hard, especially at the beginning

[yukino hatake]

what does this mean.  remember to RSVP  . and this: ask me anything (AMA) style. what is ama style?

[William Miller]

@yukinoh1989 I’m pretty sure AMA stands for Ask Me Anything.  I don’t really see what RSVPing does; you can still attend without RSVPing.

[Katerina Novakova]

@yukinoh1989 RSVP is from French and stands for Répondez s’il vous plaît. In English it means “please reply” and is sometimes used in formal business communication. 

I think Kent is trying to turn the classes into high-profile events. 🙂

[yukino hatake]

hey both thanx for the explenation (my english isnt not so good yet so if i make mistakes like writing etc pls correct me i would love to improve my english too this way 🙂 )
also i wonder what happens if i become a citizen now by upgrading for one month. can i still apply for the first classes or am i not allowed since i wont be able to complete them all ?
if i am allowed to enter (even if its for 1 or 2 sessions where do i sign up and what happens if i cant follow class due to my diffrent working hours that constantly change ?  can i still review it or isnt that possible ?

[William Miller]

@yukinoh1989 You don’t have to sign up for the classes.  You just have to be there (and be a citizen) to attend the class.  The same is true for the other live streams.  About your english:  You can start by capitalizing all your sentences.

[yukino hatake]

Thanx william.
I will keep that in mind .
As for the class if i cannot attend to it can i still see and question later, or isnt that possible ?

[William Miller]

@yukinoh1989 Yes, you may watch previous streams by clicking on the “Past Events” button on the events page.  Then it will show the previous streams instead of the upcoming ones.

[Jake Korosi]

I’ve been playing with 2.8 builds for a couple of days.  While we wait for the class, would this thread be appropriate for talking about things we learn about it, or about 2.8 in general, that may be more of interest to more experienced users of Blender?  Or would it be best not to clutter the thread with too many potentially advanced things that might confuse beginners, and better to start a different thread instead?

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