Development – BlenderNation

Light Painter 1.2 adds live previewing, sky painting and more

SpencerM — Sat, 16 Dec 2023 12:45:36 +0000

Spencer Magnusson's free Light Painter lets you interactively paint the surfaces you want lit and then places the light for you. The new 1.2 release adds the following features: Live preview for all tools (ie see the final position and shape of lights as you paint) new keyboard shortcuts while using tools, allowing parameters to [...]

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Stylized Trees And Plants Library - Flora Paint 1.0 [$]

casey sheep — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:50:16 +0000

Flora Paint, a stylized plant and tree library with over 500 assets in 10+ categories, enhances anime, cartoon, and conceptual art with detailed vegetation. Ideal for vibrant, stylized aesthetics. Supports Blender 3.4 and above, including the latest Blender 4.0 Key Features Quickly enrich your scenes with vegetation using the Scatter tool Highly customizable assets for [...]

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Geometry Nodes Based, Interactive Tree Growing with Easy Tree Generator [$]

wcarige — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 14:50:39 +0000

Washington Filho presents a new interactive tree generator for Blender that's fully geometry nodes based. After a while trying different ways of creating trees and plants, I figured I should create a definitive way of doing this using Blender Geometry Nodes. My goal was deliver a system that could give to me all flexibility to [...]

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Demo of using Blender for authoring BIM models for architects, engineers, and construction professionals

Dion Moult — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 12:45:13 +0000

Dion Moult writes: Did you know that Blender is used in part of the construction process of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in the UK? The BlenderBIM Add-on was presented last month at a conference by buildingSMART UK + Ireland. A short 20 minute live demonstration was provided that shows how Blender can [...]

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Learnings from creating a Blender Add-on

Dirk Krause — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 06:30:42 +0000

Dirk Krause shares some of the pitfalls that he ran into while creating a simple add-on. This video shows some learnings from creating a Blender Add-on. The Add-on directly saves a glTF/glb file to a defined folder without any dialogs via shortcut. Huge timesaver if you want quick turnarounds for game prototypes. Works with 3.5x [...]

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Blender 4.0.2 Released

Mario Hawat — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:35:25 +0000

The massive Blender 4.0 release has been out for 3 short weeks, and the Blender developers have already graced us with two corrective releases, this latest one bringing the total number of bug fixes since the initial release to 52! This is a corrective release. It is highly recommended to upgrade as it only contains [...]

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Did Blender Just Change Animation Forever?

Bart — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:45:52 +0000

Smeaf takes a look at what the Blender Animation 2025 project has brought us so far: what's available in Blender 4.0, what's still on the drawing board, and how will it affect your animation projects? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca0zQvAuhDIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Did Blender Just Change Animation Forever? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca0zQvAuhDI)

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Accelerate your rigging workflow with the Quick Add add-on [$]

LuckyChris — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 08:00:35 +0000

Blender.Fun writes: Welcome Blender users, I just created the new QUICK-ADD add-on, with which you can accelerate your workflow. No more shift-ctrl-s → cursor to selected → select something → shift-ctrl-s → selection to cursor. Instead, just select and press the shortcut → Bone will be positioned. And as bonus: you can even add empties [...]

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Bends objects onto 4 cornered quad surfaces with Flowify for Blender [$]

markkingsnorth — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 14:50:25 +0000

Flowify is a new Blender add-on for 3D modelers that bends objects onto 4 cornered quad surfaces, enabling the creation of interesting objects that could be challenging to model otherwise. Features: Change the Source Object and the result will be automatically updated. Change the Target Surface and the result will automatically update as well. Materials [...]

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Render Rob - Simple Rendering

Pred — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 10:40:12 +0000

Peter Baintner writes: Render Rob is a standalone Render Manager built with the goal to make rendering multiple Blender files as easy as possible. No need for command line fiddling anymore! Why should I use it? Save time managing your render jobs! Who is it for? Individuals and small teams, who don't want to render [...]

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