Blender Posts – Hack Club Scrapbook

Rendered a little animation I made in Blender for college. It’s only a 2D render for now, but I’ll eventually make a render for a planetarium. I spent way too long trying to get the seeds to behave, I really don’t want to spend more time on it 😭

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15 minute capybara in Blender. Learning more about modifiers and keyboard shortcuts.... Still horrible at UV map textures 😂

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give it up for day 6!!! @jeijii-U04GRS3T9J8 was struggling to understand my text description of a scene (shot 4 on this storyboard hes working on) i had in mind, highlighting a fault in the fact that my words are not always very good at describing visuals. so to solve this i threw together a scene in blender and animated a bit by hand to make this reference animation for a jet flying by and causing windows to shatter. bc i couldnt get the fisheye to behave the way i wanted it to, i animated the entire scene upside down :P ignore how bad the sound design is i just re-used sounds from a previous animation

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day 3 of #10-days-in-public IM DYING BUT IGNORING THAT I DID ROAD AND ALSOOOOOO DID MY SCREW BOX HELP ME I STRUGGLE WITH COMMITMENT WHEN THERE IS NOBODY ELSE INVOLVED

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Day 2 of #10-days-in-public im changing again but for reals this time. started stitching together textures for an apartment building / condominium

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spent a little time modeling tdy, gonna try and do texturing tomorrow

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more blender; crunch time for the frc safety animation award

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tuning live paint filter in blender to be closer to what i want- now that I better understand the parameters, ive been able to preserve sharp edges and smaller details, while also removing a lot of noise caused by randomization of the brush color value. I don't think this is it just yet though- the light still looks pretty 3d rendered. This will come down to just placing lights better, and improving the shaders I'm using (maybe i should try to introduce blended banding/posterization?) regardless, this scene is still extremely barren. messing with textures is fun, but I need to improve the scene more. need to watch some the first episode of Mobile Suit Gundam and take notes, plus figure out more sources of reference for this particular problem. maybe some 80s SoL? Urusei Yatsura and Sailor Moon may both be valuable in this case. and Bubblegum Crisis! (been needing an excuse to watch that) #100-days oh yeah this is for my animated short project lol

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spent a bunch of today remastering/remaking a bunch of backgrounds from chapter 2 of my webcomic. a short story: we made chapter 2 in 2020, having shifted from paint tool sai to medibang, and were very much still figuring out what the fuck we were doing. I was still dumb and barely understood print media, but this was around the time i decided I needed to get it. Halftoning was a concept we explored in chapter 1, but didn't use super extensively past two pages because we decided to do chapter 1 in full color (among a lot of other issues with the original chapter 1, but thats a story for another time). This time, I wanted to get it right. I tried a couple different processes, mainly on creating halftoned shaders in blender. the problem, however, was that I just wasn't good at using the EEVEE renderer, and halftone shaders don't work in cycles. I then looked for a post production solution, and found an amazing paint.NET plugin which served wonderfully. There was one issue though: backgrounds were resized. I rendered every background at a standard resolution of 3840x2160, and @jeijii-U04GRS3T9J8 would resize/crop these to fit the panels. when a halftoned monochrome image gets resized, and you use bilinear scaling, it gets really ugly. we didn't realize how bad it was until we switched to clip studio paint for chapter 3 and used it's built in halftoning feature. chapter 2 was left neglected, as we pressed forward with the rest of volume 1. UNTIL NOW! As we get ready for a print release of volume 1, we're going back and fixing/tweaking every chapter. this includes redoing chapter 1 in it's entirety, and remastering much of chapter 2!

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just tried 3d printing my blender donut. it didn’t come out the best since it was so small but i might try reprint it a bit bigger another time

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yesterday i made a coookie in blender. 🍪

yesterday i thought i'd actually learn some blender, instead of just winging it, so I made my first donut. here's the result: any feedback would be much appreciated. :)

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just spent the past few hours trying to figure out blender and managed to make these for my golf game. i've still got some work to do with the colours and textures but for now, this will do.

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not much today aside from work on some blender art

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Learning Low Poly modelling in Blender

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Making a 3D scene in Blender for importing in ThreeJS

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Did some more Blender-ing! :blender: Hopefully the GIF hasn't destroyed the quality.

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got sprig running locally (with a lot of help from kognise) and have started working on adding a whitenoise waveform, also started process of converting the 16x16 sections of a blender render into strings which I can put into sprig thanks to The456gamer's plugin

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experimented with turning blender renders into sprig-compatible ones! Used scenes I'd already made, I could probably get better results by composing scenes with sprig's colors in mind. I will likely try that soon

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Blender meets UE4 simple fps map

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Practising my Blender skills! Replicated an IKEA BERGENES. It looks quite nice except for the grain directions which are messed up as I can't find proper textures.

Using blender for the first time

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So my coding journey about shaders :macintosh-stcicker: helped me to learn more about how 3D Pixel Art 🎨 works! Here's an example of a 3D Render scene with a shader effect that I saw on tutorial, which can be made with Blender :blender: , Unity 3D Game Engine :unity: or with code using Three.js! :javascript: Here's also an image of "A Short Hike" a very cool :cooll-dino: indie game that uses this same effect that I will be playing soon! And speaking about games, today I did another basic design while using Gamelab! :gamelab: I think I'm understanding it better! :quad_parrot: Lastly for today, I had my Biology 🦠 exam today and I'm going to be working on Hack Club's :hack-club: guide-to-web-dev repository :merge: I plan to make more commits soon and explain everyone here what is it for! 👀

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Today I learned about a very cool Blender :blender: Halftone Shader :macintosh-stcicker: thanks to @msw! This is going to be useful for my 3D model experiments and for 2D as well! :quad_parrot: Today I also studied for my Biology 🦠 🔬 test that I'll have tomorrow and finished yesterday's PR :pr: that got merged! :merge: Also I'm working with @jessicard on a new project for Hack Club :hack-club: that I'll give more details soon! 👀

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Tomorrow I will have my last midterm exam 📝 before the start of my High School spring break :spring-of-making: next week! :quad_parrot: In addition to this, today I worked a bit with Blender :blender: on 3D models like this Icosahedron :icosahedron: and tried using Krita :krita: again for Digital Art!

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Today I had an exam, coded a bit, formatted a USB to exfat :tw_floppy_disk: at school to help on my Biology class, where I download some amazing 🌱 🦠 presentations for this semester that will also be useful at college, also I tried to make something on Blender :blender: but that didn't work so well, and lastly I learned more about HTML Canvas!!! :quad_parrot:

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Today I had my Organic Chemistry 🧪 test and tomorrow I have an English one! Also I will be downloading some Biology 🦠 presentations for my class to study, and I'm planning to somehow host them on a website to be able to share and view them online, so I have to find ways on how to do that! 💻 Today I couldn't work on my personal website, also I'll try to get back at Blender soon! There's a new version with cool features, and 3D Modeling is awesome so I'll make my best to keep learning 3D Art! :blender:

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It's finally Friday! Another week of school is over so I look forward for the weekend to build things, rest a bit and study! I still have some internet problems so I'm going to be working with Blender and making 3D Models! :blender:

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the C port is coming along nicely :) :c: 🌳 🌳 🌳 it can render the same forest, but with much better fps than the Rust version because of a handful of graphics programming tricks I've picked up since then. similarly to @AakankshaRangdal-U02F16CHZA4's post, also made mostly with circles! (okay, nonagons, but still hehe) actually, on that note, I've attached a picture of the original version I made in Rust: do you prefer its circles to the nonagons? let me know by reacting with 🟢 or :stop-green: (technically an octogon, but close enough) repo here: :githubparrot: github.com/cedric-h/rpgc if anyone has a second and would like to try to build and test the native executable on windows, shoot me a DM. I suspect I might have some depth sorting issues on DirectX but want to make sure. 🚧 :blender: I've also attached a picture of what the map looks like in Blender, as well as a tiny glimpse of the script I wrote to export it. if you've played the Rust version then maybe you can guess what each line, diamond, square and circle means 😁

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as I port a game I wrote a while ago in Rust to C to try and see how much smaller I can get the WASM bundle size, I've found that what has the biggest impact is the "culture" of the languages. for example, the maps in the game I made are laid out in blender, and then exported to JSON with a custom python script I wrote using blender's API. it's easy to add a Rust dependency to parse the JSON for you, but that bites you in the ass later; serde can inflate your compile times AND your WASM bundle size. in C, however, package management looks different; there are single header libraries that are pretty easy to include, but using libraries isn't very C-like, and unlike Rust, C has a stable ABI. that means that if I change my python script to dump a bunch of floats into the file as binary, I can fread those directly into a bunch of C structs. (I do have to handle endianness for integers, though) in Rust, even if I used #[repr(C)] to force a stable ABI for those structs, I'd still have to jump through a bunch more hoops (unsafe) or pull in a dependency like bincode (which would in turn pull in serde ...). anyway, so I quickly wrote a python metaprogram to generate a C header that can fread (or just memcpy) in all of the binary data into the fields in the game map object that the first python script pulls out of blender

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i made, er, a cell

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My path of learning to code has taken me quite a long way, and I'm very happy with the progress made so far, because I've been re-learning HTML and CSS, and I'm almost ready to publish my website project, but also, I'm going to start learning properly into something I wanted to do after I learned Blender, and it is Game Development! So I will be starting to learn how to work with the Unity Game-Engine and also I will document my progress here among my regular coding posts.

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How quickly time passes, today is the first week since I joined Hack Club and it has been an incredible experience, I have been learning a lot of things and also meeting incredible people. Although, today there are no advances in the workshop either, just a blender doughnut that did not turn out well ...

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I also did some 3D work on Blender; the doughnut is starting to look great! Hoping to get it finish soon!

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Made a 3D Model of an 80s arcade room today in blender!

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Made this in blender 3d

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Pretty blender render

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LEARNING BLENDER DAY #3 Phewwww finally finished the big ben!! Took me hours and hours of work but at least I learnt a lot! Very proud of it 😄 Oh and btw.... this is just a small piece of a cyberpunk city model i am making

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LEARNING BLENDER DAY #2 Not much of a progress today but still did something UwU The new floor thing took me 3 hours + cuz i messed up a single step. Had to redo it more than 15 times lmao

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Learning Blender :blender: DAY #1 Following a tutorial made for intermediate people and the guy expected the viewer to know all the keybinds XD Learnt A LOT tho 😛 hella excited for more

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I rendered something for the very first time- It's a concept starship launch tower!

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Day 3 of :blender: | Project Torus 🍩 • Colorized Donut. • Added Subsurface Scattering. • Created More Realistic Icing. • Doubled Render Sample Count (from 128 to 256 samples). • Denoised Render Using :intel: Open Image Denoise.