Today was mostly about going through previous Blendoodles, asset-ing… assetizing? … assetificating? making assets out of things previously done that might be useful, or I want to tweak some more. This is from the 500ish line python script I wrote for #35, with some of the 96 parameters changed. While I did set the colors of the materials, the remainder of the material settings are also set by the script… I will need to add some bump/normal variations at some point now.
Better late than never. Revisiting my spiral geonode, as the geonodes I was working on yesterday were not complete … need to tackle those in parts rather than as a whole.
by artifacts, do you mean the edges of the glass? the camera is pretty close and straight on, so you’re seeing the right hand side of the left glass, and left hand side of the right glass.
Please take a look at the upper left, and see the black areas, those are geometry causing the artifacts…there is a couple in the center also, but I am not sure about those could be edges…
It is more than likely because those areas are triangulated and stretched…you can really see them in the solid view…Probably just needs a bit of topology tweaking…
derp… i need new eyeballs. thanks for pointing that out! the bevel modifier was overacting… i really need to figure out a GN setup to do bevels the way i envision them done to avoid this in the future.
Nope…Just the THICK Vertical LInes from the edges that I don’t care for…not sure what you could do bus light them but that would break the rest…maybe best just to get them out of the camera view…maybe pushing them back or bringing forward would help…but remember this is just my personal opinion…hopefully others will add their own opinions…
All in all I like what you are doing here…of course I have an affinity with Art-Decco anyway
hmm… i could reorient each pane to face the camera directly, which would reduce the thicker lines down to more what we see for the central panes. or tackle the glass material with the fresnel node and figure out how to reduce that fresnel effect, though that would move the glass further from “real” … this gives me food for thought for future renders. thank you very much!
Not super happy with the borders of free floating volumes (the black stuff, in this case), but that is a challenge for later. Spent all day yesterday fighting with ‘nearest point’ nodes, without solution so far. Really would like to see an “exclude-self” from nearest checkbox (for backwards compat) … imo should be that way by default, not sure what the thought process was there.
Using simulation (for the first time!) to apply boolean to each GN ‘building.’ Still a subtle bug biting me in this, but I’m giving up for the evening.
Today was all about seeing how many renders I could do figuring out how Blender deals with lights through transmissive surfaces, mainly glass and coloured gels. I think I finally came sorta close with the settings to get them to react as I expect them to, though still some splotchiness to solve. renders were done with 16k samples. Two different renders: the first has 2 spheres with random red, blue, green, clear, and missing frames (only a couple missing); the second with 5 spheres with random red, blue, green, (opaque) black, and missing panes.
Light/Glass study. There is subtle distortion in the glass (most noticable on the sphere, but they’re all equally treated). I had volumetrics in a render, but it creates a weird artifact at the top of the image, probably something in my settings, or a GPU driver issue (gtx3080), so those are removed for this render. It could use more samples, so I’ll attempt another render while I sleep.
Lol… had to give up on the “mo samples” render… it lied to me saying it’d only take 4 hrs. 7hrs later, it was 1/3 done, and i need the laptop for work.
Not enough time left today to make real adjustments to my pattern geometry node setup, but dug it out anyway to make a daily render. 10k samples. Now past time for some shuteye.
Today’s render was directly inspired by a post on IG ( @kenny.vaden : https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuiju6QtFWu/ ). Also, today marks my 2mo anniversary of starting with Blender! I’d like to thank GQBD on reddit for (unknowingly) inspiring me to begin this journey of daily renders.
Also thank you all here on BA for being a welcoming community!
