Now Im having fun

[MealeaYing]

This looks so cool! How long did this take you to put together? How long did it take you to draw her on Zbrush? Did you import a picture or actually start her from scratch on Zbrush? Nice job! I'm just getting started so the pre-made characters with fuzzy hair by me and fuzzy things are coming really natural right now! My brothers and I are working on a text based / 3d game that's called Dynasty Raiders. We started yesterday and I'm going to school for Web Design, they already graduated. I want to do the images and graphics so I'm learning 3d. It's so fun but so hard. Any advice? Thanks! That person is from a project I was doing right when my old computer died so I'm not sure how long it took but it didn't take all that long, I was making other things at the same time sort of, basically working on making a base mesh to work from using ZSpheres and then branching off each bit of progress into different subtools, this is one of the early ones, hence it hasn't got hands yet. I never use reference images, I dont know why but they are a distraction to me for some reason, but I think that I am an exception in this, most people find them useful. I learned to sculpt ears for example by sticking my finger in my own ear while sculpting with my wacom tablet in ZBrush and Sculptris. The only advice I can give you is to learn everything you can and try to make things as fun as possible, if it gets boring you will enjoy it less. There is an old expression: "If you love your job you will never have to work a day in your life". This is the base mesh I was making: Hmmm. start learning. You need to learn a lot. Most importantly, you need to learn how to learn. You're right on this point however. In the blender case, you need to learn how to learn how to learn. I know I have a lot to learn, and that in the case of Blender a lot of it is going to be tedious. I forget things in Blender almost as often as I learn them. Cycles is kind of neat but it's way too slow and the node editor kills it, I don't have enough space on my monitor for that monstrosity. I have it set to do 500 samples and everything still looks like its been sandblasted. I have a very simple question for you about Blender and I can't find anywhere else to ask: you know how you can divide up the workspace into lots of viewports? how do you GET RID OF THEM?????? Its making me crazy! If I could make them AND get rid of them I could use the stupid node editor full screen and then switch back to the main view and look at what the bloody thing did.... Who makes these things anyway? They must have a monitor the size of the Alps. I'm going to shove a mango, two or three bananas, a bunch of strawberries and a couple of oranges into Blender with a couple of quarts of rum and see what that does to it. EDIT: Nevermind, I found out you don't close them, you have to merge them with other windows or whatever they are and that they have to be the same size in order to do this..... BLAH. ANOTHER EDIT: I found out about Control and arrow keys, this is VERY helpful!

[MealeaYing]

For those of you who love MaCrea I had some trouble with either Windows 8 or perhaps my new graaphics card causing it to not work at all, here is what fixed it: http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthr...l=1#post722506 Taron, if you happen to see this, I adore you for making that program, THANK YOU.

[michalis]

I have a very simple question for you about Blender and I can't find anywhere else to ask: you know how you can divide up the workspace into lots of viewports? how do you GET RID OF THEM??????
Its making me crazy!
If I could make them AND get rid of them I could use the stupid node editor full screen and then switch back to the main view and look at what the bloody thing did....
Who makes these things anyway? They must have a monitor the size of the Alps.

Please be more specific.
Are you talking about the basics on navigating in the blender UI?
Did I sugest you to get familiar before involving more on this? Did your answer was "you know me"? Do you think you are so clever to start rad against blender?
So clever then. I can accept it. You are.
So many tutorials on this. I wonder...
But, you are a member of BA forum too. Why don't you put your question there? Why here? Mentioning my name?
Enough with this nonsense.

[MealeaYing]

Please be more specific. Are you talking about the basics on navigating in the blender UI? Did I sugest you to get familiar before involving more on this? Did your answer was "you know me"? Do you think you are so clever to start rad against blender? So clever then. I can accept it. You are. So many tutorials on this. I wonder... But, you are a member of BA forum too. Why don't you put your question there? Why here? Mentioning my name? Enough with this nonsense. I figured it out, look at the bottom of that post, I had to use a post from 2008 in some other forum, a Maya forum if I remember correctly. I had forgotten that Blender hasn't got windows and that in order to close what it does have the things that aren't windows need to be the same size as the one its being shoved into. I would love to meet the person who thought that up. As for clever I suppose not, you obviously missed the fact that almost that entire post was humor, perhaps it a language problem. In English a Blender is a thing that destroys things, usually food by turning them into powder or mush. A Blender can be used to make anything from frozen drinks to dead frogs, it can be used to thresh fingers into gristle and yet you can use it to make a nice fruit smoothie after you wash out the frog and finger bits. I mentioned your name because the quote thing in ZBC works like that, I didn't make it, gripe at thee webmaster if you don't like it. I guess now that I am at the bottom of the secret Blender society I will need to learn the secret hand shakes and code words. Perhaps I should get a fez. I talk about Blender on ZBC for two reasons, one is that I intend to use it to rig, animate and maybe render things I make in Sculptris and ZBrush. The other reason is that forums like BlenderArtists are a little too specialized for my taste, that and its hard to find anything in it. I have found a few (very few) useful tutorials for Blender, most however are out of date, or in the case of one guy so boring you can feel your eyeballs dry out as he lulls you into a coma with dry uninspiring information. The ones I have found that do work, or are at least interesting are VERY complex, perhaps because Blender is user hostile. The main thing is that they work, and while I may not learn as fast as you would like I am making progress and frankly have a few ideas about how some of the UI might be improved, I think I would start with making things work the way they do everywhere since the Macintosh 128k, even Microsoft got that one. I agree with "Enough with this nonsense." try to relax, in fact have a smoothie, I promise I washed it the last time it was used. Warning: parts of this post are meant in humor.

[MealeaYing]

More cycles stuff, very low sample level, like 5 I think and using 2.5D textures from ZBrush.

[MealeaYing]

Another one, more samples (500) this time and with very simple lighting and no effects or textures... but also more grainy for some reason.




Same thing but with black background and zoomed out a bit....

[michalis]

#1310
Is your best render so far, by any aspect.
About "fireflies" (noise), many ways to get rid of them.
Post and ask for help on the appropriate forum.