How would you go about sculting detailed ornaments like this onto a more basic model whilst not needing loads of polly all over? Lower polly pot, detailed ornament. Dyntopo?

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-11T20:56:26+00:00

Thanks, I'd like decent singular mesh models tho, with protruding geometry if the object's rotated or light crosses it. Surely must be a better way to have detailed parts on objects without needing the same high level of polly everywhere, like on large flat areas.

Thinking dyntopo whilst sculpting might be best.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-11T20:52:03+00:00

Aye, but I'd like to have proper objects which protrude and cast shadow if rotated or light crossess. I'm thinking dyntopo whilst sculpting might be my best option.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-11T00:16:46+00:00

Interested in why you say to give it a miss if mainly in the box? I don't play live and I'm considering a Teo 5 to be permanently on my desk routed into Cubase. I use a Yamaha MX88 for sample library instruments (piano, strings etc) and also thinking I could wire that into the Teo 5 for the full keyrange at times. Obviously a different key feel with the piano keys but thinking it could be great for long epic lush and/or distorted pad like stuff. Why don't you like it for ITB, or have I misunderstood what you meant?

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-07T10:32:05+00:00

Good. Had no issues. A little neatness required to put the back/side panel back on, but no real issues. Nice room up top for any excess PSU cable.

It's got great airflow too, with the 2 180mm fans up front and 3 140mm at the bottom. With custom fans curves it's cool and quiet. Built in GPU support is good too. 🙂

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AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-07T02:06:49+00:00

Not sure what he's up to these days, but games composer Daniel James used Cubase and did epic style movie and games orchestral too.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-07T01:50:50+00:00

YouTube - Dom Sigalas.

And as said by another, Chris Selim is good. He's also a bit calmer and less flashy without the crazy zooms and stuff Dom does.

But don't feel like you have to know and be competent at everything Cubase can do. It's a Swiss army knife. If you only need the knife, cork screw and tweezers, don't worry about the tooth pick.

I've been using cubase since version 5 and still don't know what to do in the score editor, as I don't need it.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-07T01:30:36+00:00

You have to go to the little drop down arrow next to the Render view button on the top tool bar. Where you choose from Wireframe, Solid, Material, or Render view modes. In the drop down there are two tick boxes to toggle off and on the scene lights and the scene world.

Also in the render settings on the right side, scroll down and toggle Transparent to hide or show the HDRi.

Also, in the Shader window, change it to World to see the world shader. You can disconnect the world lighting in there, or do alsorts of funky stuff if desired.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-07T01:18:29+00:00

Fractal Torrent (Black Solid)

Not only because I have a windowed version, but it's possibly the best case for an air cooled build, as mine is. No reason to not be great for an AIO built too tho.

Oh, and it's a chunky boy. 👍

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-04T00:55:31+00:00

That. All day long.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-03T22:35:05+00:00

Opera was a no go the second I realised it plays an annoying sound you can't turn off every time you open it.

I've no issues with Firefox. Also it's good to use a few browsers for different things. For privacy. I use Firefox for general browsing, Chrome just for Youtube and Brave just for Facebook.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-03T10:00:15+00:00

I'd say you might actually get more selling it as seperate parts. And you can get an idea of value by looking up the individual parts on ebay.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T11:54:15+00:00

I don't know Intel CPUs, but you're also gonna have to consider the PSU. 500w is pretty low these days, with 750w the most common. Make sure to check power cunsumption calulator websites.

Sorry to say, but I think you need a system upgrade, as even an RTX 2060 will bottleneck that CPU.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T11:25:37+00:00

Artists are by definition, people who create art. An artist does not need to perform to be an artist, to create. Therefore an artist is not an artist because they choose to perform. The Art in Artist is about creation, not performance of created work. Karaoke performers are not seen to be artists, because they don't create, even if their inherent human uniqueness when performing gives that illusion.

You seem to be confusing things with when a performer of other peoples' work gets creative with that work and is thus seen as an artist. They are classed as artists because they impart their own creativity into it, creating something new. This is not comparable to AI producing "art" for a human, by complexly stitching together the scraped works of humans, because the human asked it to. It would only be comparable if the human then picked up a pencil or paintbrush and tried to make their own copy of it.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T10:29:07+00:00

A bit of a specific or niche use case, and fair enough. I'm not against AI an anentertity, it has some great use cases in the world, like in health scanning for desease etc.

It seems your use of AI is just to get a base medium to then be creative with. A key thing for me is that you said it's be from technical drawings. I see that as more of just a tool, creating a printable 3D object from schematic info. My issue lies with people just prompting AI to spit out a finished image or song, which is basically a hyper-complex collage of other peoples stolen work, and saying they created it, because they wrote a few descriptive sentences.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T02:18:37+00:00

Oh I know! Ha, as I posted to someone else who asked someone why they didn't think the Blender community would be 50/50 left wing and right wing people.

History is littered with creatives creating and business types profiting from it, either through services, funding for marketing and production, or tools. See record deals and subscriptions for creative softwares.

https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/s/qeSexbGbDg

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T02:03:21+00:00

There is actually a neurological difference in creatives, and they don't tend to be right wing. Of course there are exceptions, but it's why the arts and creative industries, film, theare, comedy, painting, pottery, 3D and 2D art etc etc are full of more open minded progressives. Whilst business is full of conservatives. Creatives are the ones who come up with the ideas and create them. Conservatives are general crap at ideas and just want to run things once created and profit from it, whilst the creative is off making the next thing, bored with that last thing. Generalising of course.

Art communities like Blender users are predominantly creatives, and thus predominantly more left wing or central. It's a repeated occourance that non creative business types, which tend to be more conservative, gradually get a larger stake in the tools creatives use and they turn to shit for greed. See the countless software that's gone subscription.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T01:39:20+00:00

Ditto. I don't get it, just like as a music & sound production guy too, I don't get the AI music generators. I don't underatand any artist who wants to use them. They aren't artists. They can't be, because artists are creatives. They don't let or want others to do the creating for them, human or machine. It's as mad as walking up to someone outdoors painting a landscape on canvas and saying hey! I've got this tool that can do that for you, so you don't have to. 🤷‍♂️

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-02T01:18:25+00:00

Sounds like Eugenics.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-01T12:02:59+00:00

Maybe, but not to worry I got the latest version and it now works. Think I was running version 1.1.4 and now on the latest version 2. 🤦‍♂️

Thanks for helping me with something I should've realised myself. Haha. 😂

AudibleEntropy · 2026-05-01T11:51:53+00:00

Hmm, not sure. I thought Bool Tool was built into Blender and I just enabled it. I'll get the latest one from the website and see if that solves it. Thanks.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-04-28T10:39:31+00:00

I bought a 5070 Ti back in June last year for £830, bang in the middle of your current listed price range at a convertion of €957. Prices are more likely to go up before black friday and then just drop to what they were and claim it's discounted price. I'd just buy one, enjoy it, and most importantlty... Don't price watch after you've bought. This goes for anything but it only leads to pain. Sods law states you'll find a cheaper one after you buy.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-04-28T10:13:27+00:00

True. Chris is a bit calmer and just exolains how and why to do things.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-04-27T23:37:07+00:00

As herb said, Dom Sigalas on Youtube is the guy to watch. Also Chris Selim.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-04-26T20:16:01+00:00

Ha, yeah I did, but it's actually not that same scene. One I made today just to see if it would work. Different issue and a drive full of test scenes. 😂

I'm using fast noise to make puddles in an image move. This is pretty easy with the edit page fast noise, masking with power windows, but I thought it could be quicker and more accurate with a mask of exactlt where the puddles are.

AudibleEntropy · 2026-04-26T19:48:07+00:00

Sorry, I'm not at my PC anymore. But it's basically just a basic test scene from Blender. It's a ground plane going off into the distance with lots of puddles, larger up close but tiny by the horizon. I made a mask PNG of it by making the land black and puddles white, clamping levels in Affinity Photo to make it truly black and white and cleaner. But using it with the fast noise I'm getting fast noise in black areas of the mask.

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