https://idw.xyz/tags/blender/ Recent content in Blender on idw.xyz Hugo en-us Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://idw.xyz/posts/material-net-curtain/ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://idw.xyz/posts/material-net-curtain/ <p>I&rsquo;m currently working on modelling the whole interior of the house my wife and I are buying. I&rsquo;m one room in so far but I&rsquo;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.</p> <p>How on earth do you make a net curtain material?</p> <p>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 &amp; 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.</p> https://idw.xyz/posts/rendering-minecraft-in-blender/ Sat, 23 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 https://idw.xyz/posts/rendering-minecraft-in-blender/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been having an on and off love affair with <a href="https://www.blender.org/">Blender</a> for three years now. While it&rsquo;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.</p> <p>Recently I stumbled upon <a href="http://www.realtimerendering.com/erich/minecraft/public/mineways/">Mineways</a>, a free open-source program which allows you to export sections of your <a href="https://minecraft.net/">Minecraft</a> 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&rsquo;d have a play with it and see what I could make.</p>