#blender help

[otterloreart]

How to make hair holes for 3D models

Hi, I make pony figures like this ^ and nowadays I like to include an option that has built-in hair holes, so hair can be pushed in similar to how an actual pony is rooted.

Not all printers are going to be able to make this option "cleanly" and some people prefer to drill their own holes or glue on hair. Also, because 3D printers usually use solid materials, the fibers need to be glued in securely on the opposite side. The holes will also be much bigger than the holes on vinyl ponies, but there will be less of them.

First I add a default cylinder to blender and go to edit mode

First I make my cylinder really small using S (size) and then tall by using S and Z (vertical sizing)

Then I make a curve -> path, which is like a little line. In edit mode, I move that line so it curves with the neck.

back to the cylinders, I went to Modifier -> added an Array so now we have a bunch of cylinders. I also offset them a little in space.

Then I added a curve modifier under the array, with the path, named Nurbspart, as the Curve Object. Now all my cylinders automatically line up down the path!

All I have to do is add a boolean to the head and then select the cylinder(s). Once I hide the cylinders (h) you can see the holes I've now made down the back.

By moving the curve path and sizing the cylinder, plus playing with the "array" settings, I can adjust how big the holes are. If I duplicate the cylinder in edit mode, I can make a two-line array (or more if I want.

Again, some printers might have issues with these little details. Resin needs to be rinsed out of the holes. And the hair will need to be glued in carefully so it doesnt fall out. But it is doable!

[salemssimblr]

Hi, how are you? How do you make your renders so smooth and glowing? It's okay if you don't want to answer ❤️

hey! I'm doing well and I hope you are too! & don't worry, I don't mind answering at all :)

the smoothness usually comes from my editing process, which is long and changes depending on the raw render's lighting/color/etc. I use and edit photoshop actions to suit my needs.

that said, SOME of it does happen in blender!

My computer is pretty powerful, so my settings are quite high, but here's my default render settings:

the most important parts are the samples, noise threshold, denoising and the transparent light paths! (but keep in mind that the higher you set your samples the more power your computer needs!)

as for the glow, I'm a magpie and if it's not shiny and glowy I don't want it! the glow is achieved through the compositor!

these are my default compositor settings:

the glow comes from the glare node, and some of the smoothness comes from the soften node

I know it seems redundant to use both a soften and a sharpen node but I find that using one or the other, even on lower settings is too harsh, and that using both lends to a smooth sharpness, if that makes any sense

[goldenrosesims]

*sigh*, I feel like I come on here every business day to ask for help but making cc is complicated. I made this frankenmesh and the arms are now randomly out like that, even though none of the meshes had that orginally.

I also have this issue in the back even though those glitches didn't appear in blender or s4studio. (istg everytime i make something other then hair, something goes wrong)

[zombiethethinker]

Half question half teaser can anybody who also knows blender, can anybody tell me why my model is doing that and like disappearing weirdly

[olde-scratch]

me: ah yeah, i've used blender before but it's been a bit and i wanna make my own assets for this game i wanna make. let's see, i just opened it and i haven't touched anything, let me just try to move the camera-

blender, about to, for some reason, make the view both fisheye and simultaneously teleport to a void:lender help

[moonfloat]

GUYS HELPPP so i made the image texture too big and i want to crop it but when i do the uvs get all weird

is there a way to crop the big empty space on the side :')

[simandy]

Ok im tired and i need help from the big blender guys. In sequence: my mesh, the failed baked texture, my nodes and my baking config:

The failed part is: those black accents SHOULDN'T BE THERE in the baked image. And it's ruining something that was supposed to be a small and fast project. I don't know how to get rid of it, I've tried recalculating normals, checked for overlapping meshes and unwrapping my uv map in other ways, but nothing fixes it. Someone please! Help!

Adding: I'm trying to bake a metallic texture. I've tried the metallic slider and the specular method, nothing works but the specular is a bit better.

[finchfin]

I've been slowly teaching myself how to use blender over the last few months and it's frying my brain. How the hell do I add a new image texture for a diffuse map. All the tutorials I've watched are using some different tab of blender that I don't know about I know I'm supposed to add an image texture somehow but where's the option????