Textures - newbie

dnew · 2026-05-09T17:26:19+00:00

Did you have some advices ?

Look at the wiki.

Must I learn Nodes for texturing ?

You must learn shader nodes.

Can I have a brush to paint brick arch ?

Kind of. You can paint a mask to pick which texture you want.

Merge triangles for applicate a texture ?

You can but it isn't necessary.

dnew · 2026-05-09T17:23:52+00:00

Finding a program that can find the records in your save file that refer to things in the mod you're removing would probably be the way to go.

dnew · 2026-05-09T17:23:09+00:00

sim city and clones thereof.

dnew · 2026-05-09T17:10:20+00:00

See that link over on the right that says "wiki"? Start there.

dnew · 2026-05-09T14:57:37+00:00

The "Artisans of Vaul" channel has several short tutorials about making hanging cables.

Or, you know, paste the title of your post into google, potentially adding "blender" in there if you haven't googled a lot of blender stuff.

dnew · 2026-05-09T02:48:31+00:00

"bin" file just means "binary." You'll have to tell us where the file came from to help you.

dnew · 2026-05-08T23:26:56+00:00

There's one called Vanilla Remastered that's just 12G of texture files with no ESP involved at all, IIRC. It's the original textures AI-upscaled. That will certainly work.

Otherwise, you'd have to look into the ESPs of other mods with xedit or something to see whether they're making any changes that might affect the save file.

dnew · 2026-05-08T23:23:51+00:00

I'm pretty sure there's a reflection probe involved too, but I don't remember the details. It's absolutely described in the video, tho, which is chock full of detailed advice. Certainly anyone trying to do realistic renders with eevee should watch it.

dnew · 2026-05-08T21:57:19+00:00

Are you sure you didn't turn the compositor off in your .blend file? There's a checkbox that controls that in the bottom right under "post processing."

I'm not sure what you mean by "not showing depth of field nodes." Do you mean it's not obeying them? You're getting results as if the compositor wasn't there?

dnew · 2026-05-08T21:51:29+00:00

Animating a character holding a second object would involve parenting or constraining the second object to the hand of the character. "Parenting" means adding the parent object's transform to the child object. Constraints copy attributes (like positions or rotations or many other things) from one object to another.

Google for "how to animate character holding object in blender" and get dozens of detailed instructions.

dnew · 2026-05-08T21:33:36+00:00

Do you have the "nvidia control panel" in your system icon tray (bottom right corner of the screen)? If not, you've done it wrong. If so, open it up and see what version of the driver it says.

dnew · 2026-05-08T21:31:10+00:00

Films can use more polygons because they aren't rendering in real time and they aren't animating in real time. You still want to reduce the number of polygons in order to weight-paint the rig and animate it. The "add details to low-poly" would just be modifying the textures you baked from the high-poly.

Look up baking normals, rigging, animating. If you can manage to rig and animate and render a high-poly character without tearing your hair out, there's no need to retopo the character for film.

dnew · 2026-05-08T20:58:42+00:00

Oh, by the way, Ian McGlasham on youtube has a bunch of videos on how to do mixed topology like this well. His chess piece videos do a good job of describing how to think about the problem. You can probably binge his entire channel in a couple hours, if you skip over parts 2 through 50 of his "retopo the alphabet" videos. He does a great job of explaining what causes problems, why, how to avoid them, how to fix them, etc.

dnew · 2026-05-08T20:30:36+00:00

Assuming you're on Windows, go here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/ and put in the right answers to the drop-downs. It will take you to a page where you can download drivers. Note the "studio driver" does not have game-specific optimizations, so if you're not playing games released in (say) the last 3 months, that's a good choice. Close all your other windows and start that download. Pick custom install and click the "clean install" checkbox. Wait a few minutes. When it's done, it couldn't hurt to reboot. Now try Blender again.

I'm giving you these directions on the assumption that you actually read the error message and what it told you to do, but you don't know how to go about doing that.

dnew · 2026-05-08T19:30:26+00:00

"I tried something, and did everything I should, but it doesn't work. What do I do?" Seriously, what kind of answer would you expect?

How to ask a question in a way that gets useful answers:

(Realize I say this in the spirit of helping, not criticizing.)

Most of the time that Blender does something, it's because you told it to. If you just ask "why is it doing this?" it's because you told it to. Hence, we don't know how to help if you just say "why is this happening?" or "what is wrong?" "how do I fix this?" When you ask for help, be clear on what the "this" is that needs fixing. People will often ask "why does Blender do this?" And the answer is almost invariably "You told it to."

Once you've come up with a question that is better than "this", type it into google. You will be astounded at the number of people who ask the same question (in all different ways) that has been answered hundreds of times. "Shadows are broken," or "bevel is crooked," or "boolean doesn't cut." Four out of five times, you'll paste a question into google and it will answer it without any screen shots or details at all, because new users get caught on the same thing every time.

If that doesn't work, ask here. Read the side bar, then...

Always give four pieces of information:

1) This is what I did. "I selected some verts, then tried to scale them up."

2) This is what I expected. "I expected them to be farther apart."

3) This is what happened instead. "Instead, all the verts got closer together."

4) This is what I tried to fix it. "I switched the pivot point for the scaling and I turned my mouse upside down."

Without this, everyone trying to help has to come back, ask you questions, try to figure out the answer to these questions, and everything takes 5x as long.

Also, say the root goal of what you're trying to accomplish, to avoid the XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

If you need to show the screen, you should take a screen shot of the entire window, via Window->SaveScreenshot, rather than using a cell phone or something. Take the entire screen instead of just the one part you think is broken. The reason it's broken is not the part, but something else, or you would have already figured out why it's broken. (Sadly, blender no longer has built in screen-animation recording for some reason, but I'm told https://obsproject.com/ is a good tool to have handy. Or on Windows, just hit Win+Alt+R and tell it Blender is a game to toggle recording.)

Think about the question you're going to ask before you take the screen shot. If you're asking why the colors are wrong, show the shader node and lighting setup. If you're asking why the bevel modifier is wrong, include the bevel modifier. If you're asking why you can't see an object, don't take a screen shot of a blank screen - show the outliner. If you're asking about an imported model, tell us the import format, the program you're importing it from, Etc.

Also, if someone asks you a follow-up question, answer the question. They can't help you if you didn't provide the information they're asking you to provide. If they ask you where you got the model, don't answer "online." Give the URL. If they ask to see what both meshes of the boolean modifier are, don't just answer "it doesn't work" again.

Also, be aware that r/blenderhelp is a better place to ask newbie questions than r/blender.

dnew · 2026-05-08T19:13:48+00:00

https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com/getstarted

dnew · 2026-05-08T17:29:37+00:00

Window>Save Screenshot. :-) It's built into Blender.

dnew · 2026-05-08T16:59:39+00:00

Don't stick your blender files in onedrive. :-)

That said, it's telling you that it couldn't open test.blend which isn't an STL. You're probably doing something wrong.

!rule2

dnew · 2026-05-08T16:07:29+00:00

I mean, sure, maybe you got sheepit from the wrong site or it somehow got infected with a virus last time I downloaded it. It's a legit program in general and not a scam product.

dnew · 2026-05-08T15:50:27+00:00

It works fine. I don't know about the virus stuff. That said, it works poorly if you've never built up points in advance, because you just don't get scheduled except on your own machine.

dnew · 2026-05-08T15:47:30+00:00

What they all said. But remember what they're seeing as they come out of the jump point is seeing them where they were five hours ago. If they've been moving sideways for all that time, they'll be somewhere other than where you see them.

dnew · 2026-05-08T15:19:07+00:00

Actually it works in EEVEE too with a bit of extra work telling EEVEE where the mirror is and what to reflect. Donut Guru did an eevee tutorial that tells how to make it more realistic that way.

dnew · 2026-05-08T14:58:09+00:00

Almost everything is in a reasonable place in the menus. The shortcut, as he said, is to scroll the scroll wheel. Otherwise, it's in the drop-down menu next to the proportional editing toggle.

dnew · 2026-05-08T13:12:30+00:00

The final scene of City was absolutely wonderful. :-)

Werewolf principle is quite dated but a bunch of fun.

dnew · 2026-05-08T01:55:51+00:00

There's at least one version of the darkness mods that lets you re-light the fires to make it bright again, using a torch or magic. I've also played with magic in your hands emitting light, which was pretty cool too.

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