"The Unifier"- Making Stuff Dusty/Consistent
Added 2024-11-30 21:36:38 +0000 UTCA few folks have asked about how to get image textures to gel a bit better, and these are a few simple tricks I've been using a lot lately (a bit brute force, but effective! And seems to go a long way towards avoiding that sterile CG feeling)
I'll be out for a couple weeks (unless if I can figure out how to post from my laptop??? Going to give it a shot! Maybe it could be a series where we do stuff without a big honkin' GPU)- but then I'm back!
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Is it available from Blender Market?
William Cousert
2025-02-04 09:58:18 +0000 UTCthanks i checked texture.ninja out it was cool
Matt W.
2025-01-10 02:54:06 +0000 UTCI think Ian has a massive library from Textures.com. Their stuff used to be free but now it's all subscription. Texture.ninja has some decent free stuff, so that's one of my first stops these days
Caden
2025-01-06 21:55:09 +0000 UTCThanks for the advice. I appreciate it; i actually found something that works well for me. I basically use separate render layers, then composite them in ae. I also lower the threshold so that optix denosing focuses on the most noisy areas, and increase sample count, its actually a really good approach for me (render times were 6-9 minutes per frame for complex scenes but had a lot of noise , now it only takes 3 minutes per frame with barely any noise. After that I just throw a noise effect in post to make it look normal.
james 77
2025-01-03 05:40:29 +0000 UTCI usually increase the sampling and optical pathlength, although this increases the rendering time
y -ccc
2025-01-02 13:21:18 +0000 UTCHOLY CRAP secret paint is an incredible add-on. Thank you thank you thank you wooooo
Howie M
2025-01-02 11:06:53 +0000 UTCYeah, I struggled with flickering in animation a lot. You need a temporal denoiser - if you're staying in Blender, Turbo Tools addon has one included; if not, Davinci Resolve also has a pretty good one.
Andrew Redwood
2024-12-30 15:25:22 +0000 UTCFlashing like noise？
y -ccc
2024-12-29 10:15:01 +0000 UTCanyone have good render settings for blender ? i keep getting flickering , i followed everything on ians tutorial to reduce it , i turned down emission and replaced it with area lights, changed settings , used optix , (i render on a 4080 gpu) if anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated :)
james 77
2024-12-20 21:49:51 +0000 UTCthe addon secret paint has a button that adds a node group to the color... so instead of doing manually you can select all the objects and its gonna add the dust to everything
Jorge Alejandro Castellanos Paz
2024-12-13 12:48:00 +0000 UTCAs others have pointed out in your yt comment section, there seems to be a way to keep the AO static even with moving objects in the scene without baking textures. Was really hoping you'd touch on that, since that is often the dealbreaker for me when using it scene-wide. Love the video, though!
Morris
2024-12-11 11:11:50 +0000 UTCwhere do you get your image textures?
Matt W.
2024-12-09 06:42:39 +0000 UTCHe did us dirty!
Frank Frohnhoefer
2024-12-07 20:42:13 +0000 UTCDo you have something for beginner?
Anh Phan
2024-12-06 14:36:51 +0000 UTCJust when I thought there was nothing new to learn! Thank you so much, Ian!
Killian Tell Strassheim
2024-12-06 13:14:54 +0000 UTCVery helpful! Thanks Ian, keep it up boss!
Noah Christian
2024-12-05 23:00:16 +0000 UTCCool. But there is so much more that we can do with this kind of methode. Like using normals or geometry data to avoid the use of ambiant occlusion. Even use geometry nodes to create and fill attributes values.
Simon Salord
2024-12-02 10:46:07 +0000 UTCOne thing I'm going to try is adding a layer of dust based on normals, so that horizontal faces have more grime. Looks amazing!
Ossi Honkanen
2024-12-02 08:08:30 +0000 UTCWhen you say "Now we get to the good stuff" (5:27), I'm not sure if you realise how much some of us are just fascinated by the way you quickly build stuff out of practically nothing! If you ever feel stuck for content, just put up fifteen minutes of 'Ian improvising a wacky doodad" and I'd be well happy.
Destrier
2024-12-02 06:48:36 +0000 UTCHi Ian, here's a fix for your color picking 'value' issue. Starting with your color-picked RGB node, you can connect a 'Separate Color' node set to HSV instead of RGB, then connect the Hue And Saturation to a 'Combine Color' node (also set to HSV), setting the Value property to '1'. Then connect into your Divide node for easy white balancing :) Love these vids, as always!
Jeremy Hanna
2024-12-01 20:53:57 +0000 UTCawesome vid!
Shaddy Safadi
2024-12-01 16:03:04 +0000 UTCHey Ian so I have always had this stupid question in my mind and I have always wondered..... How do you photoscan your roads??? cause I have tried but its not that great...
Phani Kumar Kotaprolu
2024-12-01 14:36:01 +0000 UTC돌아왔구나 형
정현 김
2024-12-01 04:13:39 +0000 UTCsorry for the little mistake, the blend operation should be set to Value, not Color https://ibb.co/85zF3zV
Maxime Gérardin
2024-12-01 02:17:36 +0000 UTCHi Ian! thank you for that amazing video like always, just to answer the question at 21:04, you could create a little node group this way : https://ibb.co/726SdG7 and that's a little video demo : https://gyazo.com/64c3ffc67d101ba45e47d51c4b4980ae hope this helps!!
Maxime Gérardin
2024-12-01 02:15:37 +0000 UTCMakes me always think how humans in real life try their best to clean stuff, while 3d artists try their best to make stuff dirty for achieving realism. Great stuff!
Raffo VFX
2024-12-01 01:03:48 +0000 UTC//dope boy
alex
2024-11-30 23:39:48 +0000 UTCi was thinking about when the next vid would drop. stokeddddd
alex
2024-11-30 23:39:36 +0000 UTCUsing ambient occlusion when making materials is super powerful in general. If you wanna avoid the AO moving around when things are animating or avoid other weirdness you can bake an AO map and use that as the input. It's a little cumbersome to do many times in blender right now but I think there's addons to accelerate it. I haven't tried them yet though. Baking the AO will also have the benefit of saving performance and letting you see the results in material view, for those with less powerful hardware.
Tardsmat
2024-11-30 23:13:39 +0000 UTCThank you master! From now on everything will become more unified* 😈
Stormdavinci
2024-11-30 22:56:46 +0000 UTCNiiiice! Superb way to glue everything together!
SwaMusic
2024-11-30 22:07:44 +0000 UTCi was looking exactly this info. thank you so much, I was hired to work on a animated pilot and everything looks so cg....
Patricio Cassone
2024-11-30 21:52:13 +0000 UTCWoohoo, finaly a new post!
Ahmed Ali
2024-11-30 21:41:43 +0000 UTCwould love a laptop-loper series!
Chris Keller
2024-11-30 21:40:17 +0000 UTC
