Interesting forum topics
A list of interesting topics on the GameDev Blender forum. Maybe they help you on your journey or inspire you.
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Tips
- Noob for noobs - general tips for better renders
- Where are the viewport developer overlays?
- Volume sun streaks
- Hair, Tip. Triangulate mesh for more even distribution.
- Hair Help - Good hair advice, including Eevee use.
- Bevel shader node - Create a normal map with bevel info.
- For those adding meshes together: be careful - Dynotopo
- Help! I´m in way over my head... (Rigging problems) - Rigging a Pixar type of lamp - My Mini Luxo Lamp Project
- Question about Ogre remesh for Blender Character Creator course - #7 by Mark_Jackson - Retopology
- Blender Cheatsheet and Notes - Old blender, but still usefull.
- Baking from MultiRes: A feature, not a bug - Baking from multires.
- Shadows png alphas and glass
Problem solving
- Sand Sculpture material in Blender 3.6 - A fix
- Grease Pencil Not Working: No Available Frame for creating Stroke - Grease pencil problem when starting on frame 0.
- Show IK constraints Display gizmo
- Loop Cut not working - ALT-key problems - Loop selection doesn’t work with the default Alt-key.
- Frustrating bald patches on your animal model? Use Triangles! - Working with hair.
- Normal Map creation not going right - Baking maps
- Remesh Issues - Causing little holes in the mesh
- Any one having problem with blender Edit mode? - Editing single/multiple objects in edit mode
- Question about Ogre remesh for Blender Character Creator course - #5 by Mark_Jackson - Sculpting mirror X-ax problems.
- Lamp Lower Arm Mirror Modifier - Bone, rigging, armature problems when using mirror modifier.
- Trying to Rig Humanoid - IK bones
- Grease Pencil Not Working: No Available Frame for creating Stroke - Grease pencil in Blender 2.93.1
Problems when baking
- My diffuse map for cavity looks strange - See NP5 problem solving steps - NP5(2)
- Changes in Blender 3.x - cage, ray distance
- Baking multires - Normal, and displacement map.
- Getting a weird normal bake - Baking maps
- Normal map color ranges - Baking normal maps
- Normals got weird after baking cavities - Baking cavities
- Black spots when baking - Black spots when baking
- Baking AO White dots White dots on AO bake.
- retiredjoe40: For those like myself, who always miss a minute detail…make sure to apply the high poly texture to each piece of high poly armor and clothes before baking. I could not for the life of me figure out why all my stuff was black.
Forum
- Udemy vs GameDev accounts - Can’t play video’s 4xx HTTP errors.
- Issue with posting - #3 by cwill – Can’t post images
- Video can'be played in udemy archive course - #4 by Melodi - Udemy - GameDev
Blender hardware
- Alt R and Alt Z not working in blender - AMD & nvidea
- Rendering problem with cycels - #5 by Besha - nvidea
- ALT + R not working - nvidea
- Cycles with AMD Adrenaline installed - AMD
Blender and Game engines - Unity / Unreal
- Exporting FBX for Unity
- Created Asset is not the same in Unity - UVmap, baking
- Importing model to unity gives odd shape - None color data vs sRGB
- Exporting to Unreal.
- Blender to Unreal Lightmaps
- Broken animations when exporting - #15 by Abraham_Perez
Discussions
- A Guide for Artists on How to Ask, Receive and Give Quality Feedback - Really helpful.
- Taking your skills to the next level - or, Planning for a future in 3D
- Mid Section Challenge - Japanese Torii - #3 by enricodegan - composition
- Wood textures in 512x512 - #2 by NP5 - map sizes, baking, normal maps
Exceptional and very inspirational work
Many students work on beautiful projects. Using a high level of Blender knowledge. Worked for days on the subject. But some of those projects are exceptional and rarely noticed. So we want to give them an extra push.
- Stylised Female Character Female face
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My sabertooth dragon - Detailed dragon head sculpt
Bob (actually an orc) - #23 by GeoffW - Car - Enfield Revolver - Enfield revolver
- My First Blender animation - Movie using Grant’s character.
- Back to the course - Orc in high modeling detail
- Dark Fantasy Chess Scene With Animated Short Film - Nicely crafted chess set and exciting animation.
- 2022 Collab: Week 38 "Clothing, shoes, accessories, etc." - VOTE CLOSED - #13 by Raiju - Dance video clip (Clothing collab)
- Orc Sculpt - Beautifully Orc lady Sculpt, very nice details and pose.
- WoW Style Orc With Alphas - Amazing Orc sculpt, part2
- Low Poly Skeleton Dungeon [Increased Brightness and Contrast] - Lots of rigging and modeling information
- Chess Scene - Low and High Poly Chess Set - Great atmosphere.
- My biggest project so far, the Saxophone Project - Detailed saxophone model.
- Chess Knight - Low poly rendered as high poly model.
- Chess set completed - Chess set
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/mr-mctaggard-and-his-invention/163816?u=fedpete - Low poly extravaganza
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/trying-a-new-sculpt/161591?u=fedpete - Cell shaded warrior
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/the-monkey-king-new-character/157440/51?u=fedpete
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/collab-2021w07-the-last-stand/160096?u=fedpete - Video
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/a-well-cycles-eevee-and-eevee-with-baked-indirect-light/111034?u=fedpete
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/final-render/103527?u=fedpete - Rabit at the lake
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/my-first-human-character-project/70287?u=fedpete - Character animation
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/tavern-with-secret-dungeon/174005?u=fedpete - Dungeon / Tavern
Collaboration
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/2021-collab-week-09-retro-game/161614?u=fedpete
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/new-team-project/136926?u=fedpete - Edward Hopper’s Western Motel
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/team-project-rebirth/160553?u=fedpete - new team project discussion
Just funny outcomes
Other
- This is the home page of the book 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development. You can now read the entire book for free!
Other WIKI's
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/wiki-where-has-that-blender-button-moved-to-or-renamed-to-in-the-update/162681
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/free-blender-related-tools-and-addons/161718
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/wiki-free-blender-resources/156522
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/wiki-interesting-forum-topics/162621
- https://community.gamedev.tv/t/wiki-eevee/163860?u=fedpete - Common problems and solution