Blender

I’m currently working on modelling the whole interior of the house my wife and I are buying. I’m one room in so far but I’ll cover that in detail in another post soon. I hit a snag when I was trying to model the curtains for the windows though. How on earth do you make a net curtain material? I tried using the translucent material, then I tried using it mixed with the transparent material but nothing seemed quite right. I had a brief chat with Alex Saplacan on the UK & Ireland Blender Users Slack group and he suggested using Wave Texture nodes to generate the lines in the fabric. After some fiddling about I came up with this which I think works pretty well. ...

I’ve been having an on and off love affair with Blender for three years now. While it’s true that the interface is bordering on user-hostile once you begin to understand the Blender way of doing things it is an incredibly capable piece of software. Recently I stumbled upon Mineways, a free open-source program which allows you to export sections of your Minecraft worlds for rendering or 3D printing. Being quite a fan of Minecraft (my wife and I had our Minecraft avatars on our wedding cake) I thought I’d have a play with it and see what I could make. ...