Challenge #920 "Fantastic machine or vehicle" (05/02/21) Entries CLOSED

[Helge]

@SHADOWSTORM

hopefully the cycles version will get ready before the contest ends.

Technically, it closed about an hour ago.
Do you think Cycles will make it within the next ~30 minutes?

[SHADOWSTORM]

not quite. more like a hour to 2. probably wise to let this entry like this, for voting purposes. I’ll still post the final version, tho.

[Helge]

All right, I’ll I shovel in some coal and bring the voting engine up to speed.

Looking forward to the Cycles version, anyways.

[SHADOWSTORM]

So here is what I’ve come up with for the final version (separated it into another post to avoid confusion):

How to survive your first interdimensional Vacation

[FINAL] originally an entry to the Weekend Challenge. After running out of time and scrambled together an eevee render 15 minutes late, and getting amazed by how awesome the eevee version of this project looked, I decided to merge it with the Cycles render on the compositor. Then I took it to Gimp for some final touches. cycles raw (denoised): [cycles denoised] eevee raw: [eevee raw]

[ARandomHowdy]

Oh wow. I really like the cycles version! the evee version was really good too!

[KickAir_8P]

@Helge

. . . That snow can be a pain…
I’m pretty sure our parrot didn’t expect this . . .

That’s a chilly birdy!

I was working on a laptop that didn’t have enough power to finish, I couldn’t even get one of the earlier renders off of it until we got power back. But thanks!

@Helge

. . . Blenderkit is a little special. The Add-on comes with Blender, but in the end it is just an interface for downloading resources from an external service. So, these are still pre-made models (either by yourself of from someone else) and I think it would be fair to treat them just like that when thinking about the pure/open categorization . . .

Huh! I didn’t realize the BlenderKit addon came with Blender. Agreeing that these are clearly pre-made models, but wondering what that means for other included addons: I’ve been treating anything from Blender’s included addons like Extra Objects, Boltfactory, Archimesh, and of course Suzanne, as essentially Blender primitives therefor pure, not pre-made models which would be open. Am I wrong?

[Helge]

@KickAir_8P

Huh! I didn’t realize the BlenderKit addon came with Blender.

It does come with Blender - however, it is provided/maintained by the community. So it still isn’t part of the ‘official’ Add-ons.

@KickAir_8P

I’ve been treating anything from Blender’s included addons like Extra Objects, Boltfactory, Archimesh, and of course Suzanne, as essentially Blender primitives therefor pure, not pre-made models which would be open. Am I wrong?

I see it the same way. I don’t think these rather simple procedural generator add-ons should interfere with an entry being pure. There is a difference between libraries and generators. Of course, it isn’t always that clear and you could definitely create an add-on, which messes up this rationale.
Luckyly, I’m not a lawyer (nor a cat) so I will not have sleepless nights because of this.

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