Brain storming here on the items I would like to include on the addon I want to create this year, at least one addon. I want to include items I use most of the time cutting down on the multiple finger short cuts to remember. I’m sure this will be an addon very close to what Jonathan Williamson created but I will not re-engineer his to create mine. I want to do this on my own.
1) Cursor movements: Center, Selected
2) Subsurf Modifier (with level select)
3) Shade Smooth
4) Frequently used loop tools
5) Mini version of the node wrangler tools in the node editor window
6) Like to have live versions of some of the mesh lint indicators
This is the start of my new project, an aircraft I have been wanting to replicate in Blender for quite some time. I just purchased the reference images/models from The-Blueprints.com and received all sorts of files (dxf, pdf, svg, dwg). Below is an image of the imported .dxf file which shows what type of work you can get from The-Blueprints.com.
List of items to complete by 2016 (Two year last as I have to make room for work), some may be easy and some may be more difficult.
1) Pilot – Organic modeling, only major hurdle is the head (Difficult)
2) Christmas competition – Started too late this year (Relatively easy to complete)
3) Unity for Absolute Beginners – 60% complete, just some final touch-ups (Easy)
4) Create an Addon – Never done before, similar to Jonathan Williamson’s but for my workflow (Medium)
5) Architecture Academy 1.5 – (Easy)
6) Personal project – I have wanted to model a Me262 for a long time. (Medium to Difficult)
7) Unity Game Assets – I have Air Conditioners, Flat Televisions, Three different models of computers and Kitchen (Easy thru Difficult)
I think that really good for a start and all are achievable this year (crossing fingers).
With the Christmas tree complete I will move on to the rest of the pieces of furniture. A couch, computer desk, amour, television and air conditioner. I’m sure the air conditioner will be the most complex to model. I am going to hit each of these items, one per week including all other activities I have planned. This year is going to be a great one!
I revised how the lights were added in this render. You can barely see them here with the lighting but I think you can get the idea. I need to make them a little bigger, randomize the quantities of color, with those changes I think this method will work out great.
I am not going to be able to finish this project before the competition ends so I can use the extra time to do some experiments. These two renders are exactly the same when you consider the samples in each render layer. The first render was complete in one hour and 48 minutes, four render layers then composited together. The second render was complete in a total or 24 minutes again using four render layers and composited together. The difference was splitting up the render into two different scenes and rendering each separately. Can you see any difference? I will discuss in greater detail in a future post.
I used the dresser from the Unity game I am creating based on this hotel so the modeling was just about complete. After adding it to the scene my graphics card wanted to crap out on the render so I created separate render layers and then composited them into this image.
I have started creating the ornaments for the Christmas tree. It was mentioned in the tutorial about complimentary colors etc for the baubles (as Andrew called them, I’ll just call them ornaments) but those colors don’t seem correct for Christmas. I’ll stick with Red, Green and Silver. This first go does not have all the ornaments situated correctly yet but it is a start and the silver has been left out so far.
New site covering miscellaneous activities including my favorite activity: Blender
