Blender {Tools}

Blender Workshop IMAL August 2017

• Basis of the interface for modelling
• Modifiers
• More Modifiers and Scripting
• 3D Printing, Rendering and more

Working prototypes

• WebVR publishing using glTF & AFrame
  • https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/896013359702835200
• bounded space 360 renderings for in VR replay based on pose position
  • https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/896012889613627392
  • potential tweaking
    • preloading neighbouring spots
    • compression based on motion estimation (as used in video compression)

To prototype

• ?

AR

• camera tracking cf https://twitter.com/utopiah/status/1161920343424024576
  • CGMatter Blender 2.8 Camera tracking tutorial part 1 and part 2

With VR

• Viewport HMD integration using OpenHMD https://developer.blender.org/D2133
  • OpenHMD support http://builder.openhmd.net/blender-hmd-viewport-temp/editors/3dview/hmdsupport.html
    • http://openhmd.net meet during FOSDEM this year
• Blender HMD Support https://developer.blender.org/T47899
• https://github.com/dfelinto/virtual_reality_viewport
• related
  • Python binding to OpenVR https://github.com/cmbruns/pyopenvr

On scripting

• own work http://vatelier.net/MyDemo/TestingTriangulation/ (glTF)
  • https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.4/Manual/Extensions/Python/Example
  • https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/advanced/scripting/introduction.html
  • https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/34537/how-to-batch-convert-between-file-formats

From personal use

• BBUGAugust2017
• right click on lines of the top tab allows for selection and copying commands
• 360 rendering
  • https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/30924/how-to-make-360-renders-for-virtual-reality-devices-ie-oculus-etc-using-blen
  • https://github.com/dfelinto/ibltoolkit/blob/master/ibltoolkit/render.py#L36
• via WebVR
  • http://unboring.net/workflows/animation.html
  • A-Frame : How to import Mixamo animations
    • armature, animation, Dope sheet, Pose,
    • ThreeJSON exporter with Bones, Skinning, Type: Geometry, Face materials, Skeleton animation: Pose, Keyframe animation, Textures, Enabled precision
    • http://vatelier.net/MyDemo/json-animation/
• triangulate to save obj/mtl from Google Blocks
• Ctrl+e : using seam to create UV maps
  • cf https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/UV_Map_Basics
• Collada / .dae import unavailable in 2.72 (Debian)
• bb : square visual vertices selection
• click+shift-click : selecting one vertex and the next
  • useful to merge them and close a gap
• shift+a : add
• Delete-Enter : delete selection

More generic resources

• https://bbug-asbl.slack.com
• https://wiki.blender.org
• https://blender.stackexchange.com/

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.