Notes on ongoing projects — builds, experiments, and things I'm learning.
Pointclouds are the native output of various 3D capture devices including LIDAR scanners, and structured light depth cameras. I have a need to process an animation of pointclouds, eventually getting them into Unreal Engine.
There are a ton of different file formats for pointclouds....
A simple task for today, make an animating text logo where the letters individually rotate. There's not a way to control this in Blender so I had been using Fusion which makes it real easy. Then I stumbled upon Animation Nodes! This is one of those Blender plugins that opens up a completely new ar...
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?343637
I’m really in to simulations, and the new version of Blender Fracture Modifier is looking pretty good. The metal deformation stuff looks like it could be very useful. Definitely hope that this can be incorporate in to next version of Blender dir...
I’m working on some architectural type renders for my VR project. I have been constantly frustrated by Blender’s lack of CAD type tools. Ever since taking a 2D CAD class in college, typing in exact measurements for objects is how I naturally work. I had resorted to using Sketchup, then importing Col...