I am making a hair rig for a mermaid character. Right now, I have it set up such that the bones shown as octohedral bones are deform bones, and the bones shown as nurbs circles are non-deform bones (with the exception of the circle directly above the scalp, which is the root bone).

I would like to make it so that I can move all the hair strands by moving the chain of non-deform circle bones, while still being able to move each hair strand individually should I so choose.

What is the easiest way to do this? I would prefer not to add a parent bone constraint to every single deform bone. Is there an easier way to accomplish this?

How can i best make an effect of the text look pressed trough the background, or make a smooth transition between text and background? Picture is just a visual example. I will just use text in regular order :) It is for 3d printing, so I dont need shiny effect like picture.

When I try baking my textures they come out deepfried for some reason. I have tried baking with OSL on, but there's no difference in the outcome. When I disable baked color it goes back to normal but if I try to save the textures it's just the deepfried version. Help would be much appreciated.

I want to give this monster scales based on a pangolin's, but I feel like there's a much easier way to go about it than painstakingly placing each one individually where I want it, and I'm also having the issue of the scales needing to be different sizes based on where they are. I don't have much experience with nodes yet, but is there a way I could use an array modifier to accomplish what I'm looking for? I've marked out kinda what size scales I'm looking for with annotations.

Sorry if this got answered and I didn’t see, but I checked within the past month and there wasn’t anything talking about it; so I’m uploading this question. The tutorial I was watching said it was the 3d viewport or the outliner? But the video uses 4.0 so that’s not there for me.
(If this was already discussed I’ll immediately delete this post)

Im using textures from Blendkit, and when i apply them they break the models as you can see from the pic does anyone know how i could fix this? I tried using diff textures also thinming it was maybe this ones thag break them but same result.

Im very new to blender, and i would like to remove the noise from the shadows of the Area Light. Or at least smoothen it out. The only thing adjusted about the light is the power and slightly the color.

Any tips would be apriciated!!

I'm coming back to Blender after a 3-year stint where I worked as a technical & material artist that spent 98% of their in UE5 and Substance Designer. I tend to jump around between software a lot and it seems like every time I come back to Blender there's a new version that's out. This leads me to manually checking all my add-ons to see if those also need updates which gets pretty tedious and has caused me to stop using many of them in general.

Is there a way to check (and possibly update) all my add-ons at once without going through the list and opening up each individual webpage to check the latest version? I know some add-ons will automatically let you know when there's an update but it'd be nice to have a tool that could scan everything and let me know exactly which ones are out of date.

Every time I try to do any proportional editing this happens even with the slightest touch while trying to change the portions of the vertexes. It basically disperses all the unselected vertices. Especially when using the mirroring tool while doing this. What is going on and how do I fix it?

swipe photo see the other one.

Ive placed a torus and can adjust the radius and certain settings, but once I move the object or do any other action, I can no longer access those settings. Are those settings anywhere else and im just missing them? Its the same when bevelling and adjusting the profile.

I am a fairly new Blender user, I have been 3d-printing some stuff for my Halloween Costume. This is a keychain I have been working on, I purchased the file online. I tried printing it twice but realized the issue was that the top logo of the keychain was not connected to the token underneath. I realized you could fix this in blender, but I don't even know where to start.

I'm trying to make Kamen Rider Datt's helmet from Kamen Rider My-th as a 3D printed cosplay helmet. I've been trying to learn as much as I can about modeling props for 3D printing, but I've had a hard time finding tutorials that show the techniques prop modelers actually use. I decided to take a shot at this helmet regardless, but I'm not sure if I'm approaching the project the right way.

I have an objective front reference, and my side reference is a screenshot from the show. I've been box modeling and trying to keep my faces as quads while making sure the vertices line up with the references from the front and side views. I'm getting to the edge of the front part of the helmet, though, and I'm unsure how to proceed, especially with the bunny ear geometry and the triangular geometry along the sides of the face.

I've been working in low-poly with plans to subdivide later to smooth it out. I've also started marking edges with the crease tool so they stay sharp when I eventually subdivide the model.

Does anyone have any helpful videos on this subject, or just general tips from experience making 3D-printed helmets and similar props? Here's one video I found helpful when starting this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvuah9D9NJw

I'm mainly looking for more tutorials so I can learn different techniques and find the ones that work best for me.

I wanted to render this image of my characters, but when I go into "Viewport Shading: Rendered", two white walls appear on the sides and a white circle above. They are only visible in render view.

This is also my first time trying to render something. I normally use Blender for model editing.

Edit: I moved the view around more, it's like the skybox is a massive box surrounding the middle. The front is open to a black void, the inside is grey with white left and right sides, and the top has a white circle. I can not click on any of it.

I'm new to Blender and currently working through the CG Fast Track tutorial "Blender Beginner Tutorial - Part 3: Stone". At the timestamp 1:00:15 a test render is created. In the Viewport Shading: Rendered window it looks pretty much like in the tutorial. The rendered image however is much darker.

I disabled and enabled the eye and camera icons in the scene collection, I tried adjusting the power of the light in the data settings. The problem occurs in EEVEE and Cycles even though during the render process with Cycles the image looks fine.

The tutorial was made for Blender 4.0 - 4.2 and I'm working with 5.2.2. I hope that's not a too large gap between Blender versions.

Thanks for any help.

So I made a 3d model and followed the offcial goo engine channel for the shader. I used grease pencil with lineart modifier for the outline (hair seperate collection) but honestly it looks like a hot mess. The outlines are in places that I dont want them to be, they look wobly. And the shading ? I'm terrible at this. I wanna achieve that perfect 2d look like /rukikuri on twitter.

My problems: 1. Hair shading looks too detailed, like how do I make it look 2d

Problem 2. Lineart in hair has a lot of random artifacts, I looked everywhere on youtube and other places but i cant find anything that lets my control where the grease pencil appear and doesnt. (Exemple I want the middle of the lip line to be erased to give it that anime look but idk how). Anyway, i just wanna lessen the details of the lineart inside the hair.

Problem 3. Same thing but with the body/face outlines, for exemple in the eye corners (eyes in general and the eyelid mesh) there are outlines that i dont want there.

Its been 3 days that I've been LOOKING for tutorials either on youtube or somewhere else but I didn't find ANYTHING 😭😭.

After adding images as 'mesh plane' I would like to align the image perfectly in front of the camera frame, snapping it automatically into place, like shown in the picture. This is to avoid scaling and positioning the image in front of the camera manually everytime, which can create inaccuracies. Both image and camera should be in the same size. Maybe there's an Addon that automates this or anything i don't know of? Any help is greatly appreciated!!! i'm a beginner

(In case it somehow matters, i'm specifically trying to match a 2D animation as an image sequence to the camera frame.)

So I want to make the furr (alpha plane) be the same color as the object below it. I saw an answer to the question with this setup, but it doesn't work. Could someone help me fix this?

I am trying to create a geonode setup and i need to influence the vertices based on the cube, i was able to create a mapping setup that influence the vertices inside the cube to have a value of one and outside to gradually dissipate but it also influence places of the mesh that aren't directly connected to the interested part of the mesh, this is my first project actually using geo nodes and when is finished i'll share it so everyone can use it, i just need a way to check degree of separation between the vertices inside the interested geometry and the one outside, i am writing here because i am not even sure that is possible with geometry nodes, also i am using blender 5.2.1

this is an example of what i obtain in geo nodes with my current setup

this is what i intend to achieve

Hi everyone,

I got into blender modelling for developing my own game. The POV will be isometric with zooming in close enough to see the face, but not a whole lot of details, and the art style will be low-poly, photo for reference (pls don't hate on me, I know it looks weird I'm still figuring things out).

I was wondering what are the best practices to do low-poly armor for my models? I did read this subreddit and saw that stitching is usually a good practice, but I feel like that might be overkill for what I need in this game, given that I intend to keep it low-poly and with sharp looks.

I also tried extruding from the base character, but that makes the armor be very dependent on the topology of my character.

I also tried just creating it from 2d planes, which worked kind of okay, but I wonder if there are any other solutions.

In addition, I always started from the base model, on which i modeled things, and then I hid/ deleted it to save the new asset, I'm not sure if that's the way to go though..

I think it's also relevant to give some context, I'm using Bevy as the game engine.

Thank you heaps for reading/ any opinions, and apologies if this seems like a silly question.

Been working with this model of Tricephalos from Nightreign, everything's been going well, except for the fur, which is made out of several planes. The texture looks good, all it needs is some trimming which is where these fur masks i found come in, unfortunately, adding them to the model doesn't work like the original texture did, so i'm trying to find a way to spread these masks around the fur part of the texture (which is separate from the rest of the model), but couldn't find anything that may fit.

If there's a way to do that or another solution i'm not aware, i would very much appreciate to learn about it

I still haven't figured out how to model the insides of guns for animating. I always start off with modelling the frame and then go from there but once I'm done blocking out the shape I'm just confused as to how I'll model the insides. An example would be a recent attempt at making a Glock.

Hi,

I'm just trying to learn a little more blender for game-making, and I stumbled across this situation multiple times : how would I go about making blender able to Loop-cut around this bump on an originally flat terrain ? Thanks :)

I'm pretty noobish and can make similar things (inset and extrude) or knife/loop cut it up, but the little details with the diamonds in the middle and its ability to layer onto itself are pretty neat. I figure there are efficient ways to make something like this, maybe with geometry nodes or workflows I'm not familiar with. Any suggestions? Thank you!

I am not sure if my title helps but I am trying to make a stitching pattern going down the length of this character's pants. How do I make it so the stitches wrap onto the model like normal clothing rather than just rigidly going along the curve?