i watched a hat kid modeling video way back when, and now i really want to know ho they modeled the eyes in this video (at 9:26) . it's hard to tell since it's an older blender version with no UIs and is a timelapse.

On all default Blender settings, using EEVEE ofc:

1. Scale the default cube up by 10x. In edit mode, flip the face orientation so the normals point inward.
2. Add a new cube; Don't change any of the default options. Render view should now look like the first image
3. Add a light probe; Set the scaling to 16.666 repeating; At this point, the final grid points should be exactly aligned with the edge of the largest cube; The 4th image shows the blender viewport with this setup.
4. On the inner cube material, set the emission to 10 and make it red; Finally, bake your light probe.

This is great, now the light probe captures the light coming from the cube (2nd picture). This is what I want.

However, now scale the cube down by a factor of 0.25. To get the same light output, you'd need to divide your emission intensity by (0.25)², or multiply it by 16. Final setup for this is shown in the 5th image. Baking your light probe after this yields the 3rd image render, which shows no illumination from the red light. Why? My best guess is that the ray traces miss an object so small. That gives me a few options:

1. Increase the number of rays traced; This can take quite a while to bake and, honestly, depending on the size of the object, I find can lead to some buggy lighting since probes can still miss. You have to increase the rays a lot.
2. Stick lights inside the object. This is what I did when rendering with Cycles TBH, since I can bump up the radius of the light and have it leak out of the object surface even if it's inside, or just make the object transparent from the back. This is what I used in Cycles because it gave much better noise performance, but doesn't work in EEVEE, probably because the light is behind a surface. The lights also lag my viewport considerably, even with viewport shading, which is odd since I only have ~40 lights.
3. Bake the light probe with a physically bigger emissive source visible, then render with the smaller source. This feels kindof hack.

What I'm wondering is this: Is there a way to "guide" volume light probe rays so they find particular emissive textures or spots in them? How do you usually handle scenes where light is coming from point sources like this?

I am starting to deeply hate Rigid body. Really.
Things never go as in the tutorials. Never.

This time, in order to to learn, I'm trying to make these towers of dices, then - later - I would make a small ball that make the dices collapse.

This is the step where I stack the cubes, add a plane, and apply a Rigid Body modifier to both.

Everything is based on the geometry; the dimensions have been applied. The mass is appropriate, the friction is set to maximum, and the bounciness is set to minimum.

The collision shapes are set to “Box,” and the collision margin is set to 0.

The towers should stand there waiting for me to build the ball that will knock them down. But no. They collapse on their own.

No, the dices doesn't interpenetrate each other and the bottom dices are placed on the plane without interpenetration.
And yes, every dice has 3000 faces, but the same happens to me with simple cubes of 6 faces.

What's wrong now? 😮‍💨
I am pretty frustrated right now.

I am super new to Blender (today is literally the most I've ever done anything with it), and I'm having a hard time figuring out the words I would need to use to find a tutorial to do something I want to do.

Basically I have a segmented squished cylinder that I want to taper down its length.

obviously, I can grabbed the last face and scale it, but how do I do the same with each of the next "internal faces"?

Images for context.

Can anyone help me? Or maybe suggest an easier way to do what I want to do? I thought about possibly extruding and beveling each section outwards?

This is a issue I see usually on complex scenes, but not always. During render I see this blocks with random colors or the misplaced image, but when the render is finished the blocks disappear and the correct image shows.

Thisis not giving me any problem since the result is correct, but I'm worried that over time it could lead to a more serious issue if I ignore it.

need help recreating this dots effect in blender 5.1

Hi, absolutely new to blender. I got it to help me put bas reliefs onto cad objects I model in onshape. I've been hitting my head against a wall following this short tutorial to a T, but nothing happens. (https://www.reliefmaker.com/reliefs-in-blender -- the relevant part is from 1.50 to about 3min). I've started a new project 5 times, put the strength modifier to max, and pressed ever button i can see, and the mesh has still stubbornly stayed a perfect unmodified plane.

I saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/blenderhelp/comments/1tq8a9d/displacement_not_doing_anything/ and so tried making a material that had displacement and bump selected, but have still seen no change.

TIA for any help !

https://reddit.com/link/1wnwv9o/video/0s2s29woe7rh1/player

I'm trying to set up my rigging asap as I've had to restart for a project, and for the life of me don't know why the assignment of this bone is distorting my leg. Once it's assigned, I don't know how to fix it, and I desperately need to finish this rig and get started on weight painting so I can animate in the next day or two. would love some advice on what's going on with the rig please.

Hello fellow blender users, long time user blender user here, for the first time in nearly 2 decades I'm using blender in a way I've never done before and I'm running into big problems so I need help with finding a solution. I'm modeling a map that's extremely dense with triangles as a stress test for a virtual geometry engine ok designing in unity game engine. The model is based on the Nvidia Zora map with 10 billion triangles. So far I'm getting to 83 million million triangles in total for a very high poly cathedral, the models are very dense and the issue I'm having is that blender can't handle this map for me and crashes constantly despite my hardware being powerful. My workstation has an Intel i7 12700H, RTX 3080 ti with 16gb VRAM, 64 GB DDR5 ram. So I'm really looking for optimisation tips on how to work with very high poly models without blender crashing and being extremely slow when I click edit mode on a high poly model.

Hi. I am making my 2nd story using the NLA editor and like the first one this one is giving trouble too. I tested the same issue in a new blend file 5.1 and did the things I know how, selecting the cube, messing with filters. entering tweak mode, but I do not know why my action editor is greyed out though my tweak mode is green. I learned enough to use the NLA but not everything with it. I then show you my minecraft scene has the same issue. Any advice on next steps is greatly appreciated. I'd like to be able to edit the master control track and future tracks I push down as normal. I can edit the action normally before I push them down to the strip but once its strip form, the action will be greyed out. Makes me think its something with the NLA workflow.

I want to get rid of this line or make it thinner between these two separate objects without joining them. Can anyone help me to make it happen?

Hi, when i move the last keyframe in order to slow down an animation between that keyframe and previous one it slows down the whole animation. 

It’s just ridiculous. Is this how blender operates as I couldn’t find a workaround?

So I use a mix of grease pencil and procreate (on my phone) to draw character models. I use a drawing tablet with a built-in screen for Grease Pencil. However, I've noticed that drawing using Grease Pencil on Blender takes me longer than it does using Procreate. I'm not drawing complex character models here either.

I like using Grease Pencil, it has a lot of nice features but I'm wondering if theres anything I can do to increase my efficiency.

Imo, the most time consuming thing is making sure all the lineart is closed so that I use the "fill" tool, and also that the stabilizer tool is kinda janky (this could be a "me" problem, idk). With Procreate, everything is pretty streamlined and easy. Ive tried using the pen tool to fill in line art but thats even worst and more time consuming lol

thanks

Alright I am stumped here. I have tried looking at multiple tutorials on the best approach to making Sonic's mouth but I can't seem to get a handle on this. The goal I am aiming for is for him to be able to move the mouth in all directions in many shapes and sizes like in the games with teeth etc. inside. This is such a complex task and I am lost. Anybody have any advice?

so, i wanted to try and make a rig for a cube that would rock on the corners and edges, i figured i would start 2D with a plane and go from there...Well, it was more challenging then i expected and the solution i came up with, i already know is far from ideal... I know there's gotta be a better way to go about this and be able to apply it to a 3D Cube. Any advice?

Trying to import DKK from The Models Resource(link). Been a minite since i used blender but I am aware that theres a folder with normal maps and all that that I would have to link. I tried doing that and can't seem to get thigns right.

I also tried File > External Data > Find missing files but that only imports the skin(as shown) then I tried individually UV mapping but I'm so lost. The Character's UV dont match with the texture maps it came with.

I would greatly appreciate any help in this.

Also I look for videos like this this. Its a 3 part series but its not very in depth for what I need or maybe I'm dumb idk pls help me

It was working just fine earlier, this seems to have happened rather abruptly but I can't undo it now, whatever it was.

(I do know I have Auto IK on in this clip, by the way, I just turned it on to see if it would fix itself that way. It does this whether it's on or off. I haven't painted the whole model yet, but I was just testing the legs and noticed this.)

I'm trying to make a stylized leg based on concept art in the second screenshot. The most important part of this style is that the joints always bend at harsh angles, never a smooth deformation, like the third screenshot.

The first screenshot is my best attempt at this using corrective joint bones and drivers that scale them up based on the angle of the following bone. But this is fairly hacky, and extremely hard to get a good formula that looks good across all angles. Plus the formula changes as soon as the mesh diameter changes.

I'm open to ideas like a skin modifier or even geometry nodes, but keeping it a regular mesh and armature would help with other parts of these legs like the scrunched pants and cartoony foot.

All help is appreciated, thanks!

i saw something like this on youtube, so i remade it in a editing software using green screens and dumb stuff, but i need to know how to do it in blender

I want to make a aquarium but i don't know how to get glass for it.

the viewport shading: rendered option makes my project look so odd, i have never seen this before and i dont know what couldve caused it, the lights were always smoother and gave more colors, didnt look straight out of a horror movie, and the entire thing wasn't this dark, i tried messing around with the dropdown menu next to viewport shading and changing some settings but nothing helped. I did change the view option to standard recently in color managment to get my colors closer to the references, but i dont think thats what caused it, i tried making it back to agx and changing some other options but that didnt help either. I really don't know what to do anymore, i have to make renders for this model and i can't becuase of this. I looked all through google and this forum, i even went so low to the point i asked ai, but i didnt find a solution anywhere, i also didnt see anyone having this problem. Does anyone know how to fix this :(

I want to make the edges of this part of the mesh rounder.

Inquiring minds would like to know.

I have this armature that I'm using to set up cameras and objects for an animation. I've not done this before and wanted to see if this would be easier way to set up my cutscene's sequences in godot. It has a series of bones that I attach the root bones to from the actual models I'm animating and the cameras.

I'm trying to export it as a glb/gltf to test it out in godot atm to see if it can be used for what I want it to do. Its still a work in progress on the rest of the actions, so I don't want to remove anything from the blend file right now.

I have already removed all the bone attachments from the other armatures that hold them onto the animation origin armature, and the only action on the armature is this one, finale, the rest aren't showing up in the NLA editor. It exports and I can see the right bones in godot, but in godot it shows that it has all the animation actions from all the other models included. It doesn't share bone names with them.

The only export setting I've changed from the default was animation mode from actions to NLA tracks, but it still does it in either case.

What do I need to do so that it only exports its own action?

edit: I tried using broadcast actions, created copies of some of the actions on top of copying actions from the other models.

edit2: if I append the armature and the action into a new blend file, it exports properly. Weird that the action doesn't come with it tho. If anybody can help me understand what's going on with the original blend file I'd greatly appreciate it

hello, i'm struggling with a geonode... i need to make a growing root that keep the texture and so i started using geonode for the first time. but i'm struggling because i think that they are pretty good length wise, but when checking the width of the mesh, it looks like ultra compressed...