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

[William Miller]

@thecabbagedetective I use Pasteall.

[Aaron Rudderham]

@silentheart00 Cheers for the suggestions guys, I’ll be sure to keep them in mind.

[William Miller]

Wow, I’m big.

[Zsolt Cseh]

@williamatics your avatar looks great seeing the details, is that some procedural created something? 

[William Miller]

@csehz It’s from a tutorial.

[Pavel Mazanik]

Wow, you guys should do some optimization with your website) Putting 600×600 image into 20×20 avatar is not very cool thing for loading speed 😀

[smurfmier1985]

@nekronavt Yeah, but on the plus side William’s fur does look awesome up close 😎

[Wilco Wilbrink]

Here’s my homework/exercise submission for the first week. It’s a birdhouse. I did it in Blender 2.8. I edited a version for Sketchfab, because the file would glitch out in Sketchfab. I could not upload the blender 2.8 file directly to to Sketchfab. I exported the file to Alembic (*.abc). Also I had to edit the blend file several times, and replace a few cubes, because it wouldn’t export correctly to Sketchfab.

Here’s a few pictures:

Here’s my Sketchfab file:

Here’s the blendfile. It’s for Blender 2.8. Let me now if the link works. It’s the first time I shared a link from my NAS. I’m not sure this link will work.

[silentheart00]

@carrotnl I’m curious what kind of specific details prevented the model from loading correctly in sketchfab.  Could you talk about the problems and how you solved them?

[Wilco Wilbrink]

@silentheart00 When I tried to import the Blender 2.8 file in Sketchfab it gave an error when interpreting the file. I then tried the only two exporters available in blender 2.8;  Collada (*.dae) and Alembic (*.abc).

The first one did import, but only a part of the model was visible. When I activated wireframe I saw only the edges where there but more than half of the faces where gone.

When I imported the Alembic file, it worked, but some of the faces where glitching out a lot. I later found out that some of the objects (the tops of the middle and the right part of the house) in my scene had errors in them (not visible). When I replaced them with new objects it worked a lot better. Then I still had to edit the parts I used the bools on so they only contained quads.  Then the model displayed correctly.

I canceled the bool modifiers in the walls behind the plates with the holes to keep the mesh simpler, else I had to remodel a lot of stuff in edit mode to let the model be watchable in Sketchfab.

Earlier on I had some crashes when turning on the Eevee rendered view ( because earlier I used OpenGL mode). I suspect the errors in the data where generated arround that time, or maybe where the cause of the crashes.

[silentheart00]

@carrotnl Good to know, thanks!

[Morten Fjellheim]

I am trying to upload my homework submision for week one to sketchfab. I know its early but i wont link it in the thread until the class starts.

Anyways, i have modelled it in blender 2.8 but i dont know where to find the sketchfab uploader in this version. So i tried to upload the blend file instead, but aparaently the file is invalid. Then i tried to open the file in 2.79 but while loading blender closes down.  Can i upload a screenshot or a render instead, or maybe someone can tell me how to find the sketchfab uploader in 2.8.

PS.:This is ui related, the sketchfab addon is activated in 2.8.

[smurfmier1985]

My guess is that Blender 2.8 won’t be supported untill the official release. Maybe it would be better to stick to screenshots and EEVEE renders for this class (and uploading your blend files), since there are so many issues with uploading to Sketchfab…

[Morten Fjellheim]

@smurfmier1985 I imported the modells into a new blend file in 2.79. I uploaded it a few minutes ago. But to answer your question, it seems like the sketchfab addon in 2.8 needs an upgrade to work. 

[smurfmier1985]

@arev Smart solution, that sounds like a relative easy work-around. Thanks for sharing 😊

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