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

[silentheart00]

@yukinoh1989 Launch 2.8, then go to File->Open, and you should be able to load a 2.7x file into 2.8.

[Pavel Mazanik]

@theluthier I have a question. What is my proccess if I want to put textures on multiresolution sculpt? Do I need to bake normal maps, or it’s okay to unwrap a, for example, 10kk quads multires mesh? What is the best approach?

[Jake Korosi]

@nekronavt 

I believe that when you unwrap a multires sculpt, your UV map comes from the base/simplest level, no matter how many times you’ve subdivided it for sculpting.  I could be wrong – but it appears to be the case when I look at for example the UV map of the multires pancake from the pancake hobo course.  

I don’t think you really need to bake a normal map unless you plan to export the model to a game engine for example.  

[Pavel Mazanik]

@jakeblended oh yeah, forgot to mention if I should apply multires before hitting unwrap. Yeah, if I unwrap unapplied multires, UV comes from basic mesh. And I should apply it anyway if I want to put it into Substance Painter.

[smurfmier1985]

@theluthier Hi Kent, I think you couldn’t find the nature course yesterday because you’ve accidentally overwritten the course pictures with pictures from new events you recently added.. 😅

Happened with the ‘game character modeling’ and ‘creating plants’ course..

[Kent Trammell]

@smurfmier1985 What in the world….what a strange bug 🤔 I’ll report this to our dev. Thanks for figuring this out, Miranda!

[silentheart00]

@theluthier Aaaand I forgot add-ons are disabled in 2.8.  I’d love to extract from a mask right now.

[Grady Pruitt]

@silentheart00 Same 😀

[Grady Pruitt]

Though I didn’t follow along the class the whole month (though I wish I had), I just want to give two pieces of advice for those who are new to working in 3D modeling. 

First, don’t be afraid of a “big, complex” scene. Because when you get down to it, all a big complex scene is is a bunch of little projects all pulled together into one “big” one. The highly detailed architectural visualization piece is really nothing more than taking a bunch of individual models.. a room, a chair, a sculpture, etc…. and putting them together into a scene. Whatever big project you undertake, just take it one piece at a time.

Second, avoid my biggest mistake for much of my 3D modeling “career” — especially the first half of it. Don’t wait 3-4 months between projects. Pick something new to work on, and go for it.  There’s nothing like daily effort to boost not only your skills but also your confidence in using those skills. And if you take a long time frequently between projects, you might find you’re having to “relearn” some of the things on each project as you try to remember how you did something months ago instead of having to remember something you learned just last week.

I’ve seen a lot of great stuff out of this class and look forward to seeing what you all have to share in the future!

[yukino hatake]

@gradyp thanks for the tips. i surely will use these tips. i still am slow but i am sure i gonna become faster if i keep this up. and like you said each time a small project will give you the big project you wanted to archieve. my eevee for example is for a big project. that is why i choose her . and she was harder then i tought. 

[silentheart00]

@gradyp Good advice!  I second this.

[Katerina Novakova]

A reel update: I just sent the final version to Kent. But I know that some of you are still working on their submissions. If you can upload them tomorrow at least an hour before the stream, I’ll do my best to create an updated version. After all, the idea behind the reel is to show everyone’s hard work. If you managed to get this far, it would be a shame not to show it. 🙂

[smurfmier1985]

@shiennar awesome! You’re the best Kate! Getting on with my work right away!

[Zsolt Cseh]

After posting the Week 4 final homework, it is the first day since around 1,5 month, when did not do anything in Blender. Strange feeling a little bit, a kind of emptiness.

Anyway only today managed to watch the recorded version of the live last stream, @theluthier Kent you have some amazing skills to sketchup so fast with Clay Strips brush.

Also there was an interesting question at 1:03 about the goals with Blender, whether being determined to be a professional, so just thought on this empty day would summarize the results of that 😀 (if someone added a some kind of middle answer but mentioned 1, then it was counted as 1, also added a 2 from my side as I am learning Blender from love)

[silentheart00]

Urrrgh, the collision body falls into infinity in 2.8.  Trying to simulate the lower portion of the dress and it’s not going well lol.  Might have to jump back to 2.7.

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