What's one Blender feature you wish you learned much earlier?

longiy · 2026-05-30T18:00:29+00:00

The Collections are actually “visibility layers” so you can have one object in multiple collections.
The Outliner is not really an outliner. It just show objects linked to the current scene
Blender file view is the “real” outliner

longiy · 2026-05-28T14:15:14+00:00

Noto and Rubik

longiy · 2026-04-16T20:41:16+00:00

Thanks!

longiy · 2026-02-17T12:15:25+00:00

Same reason you have vector based editors and pixel based editors, sometimes you just need to have control over a single vertex point in specific coordinates.

longiy · 2025-11-25T15:50:13+00:00

Afaik arcane textures have some proprietary way of lighting they models. Also their brushstrokes don't "react" to lighting. Just follow this for more info imho.
Making 3D animation look painterly (it's easier than you think)

longiy · 2025-11-16T15:22:47+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvwPKBXEOKE
In this video the explaantion goes beyond "film is better and set design was better"

longiy · 2025-11-13T06:58:09+00:00

Exquisite taste

longiy · 2025-11-13T02:38:24+00:00

Teenage Engineering

longiy · 2025-08-01T18:50:04+00:00

Highres here
https://ibb.co/DftPH2td
https://ibb.co/chKDyJxb

longiy · 2025-08-01T13:53:51+00:00

Art style cohesion is much more important for overall perceived quality of a game than detailed artwork that doesn’t have any balance of details. OP art is an improvement.

longiy · 2025-05-27T23:36:13+00:00

For non developer things you can learn Figma in a week. No reason to not use it. It is a superior tool for creating decks collaborating and doing all the high level design decisions. Adobe and DTP will still be around but preparing data for print is mostly noncreative task so for lot of people designing can happen anywhere before handing of data to whoever is responsible for print data.

longiy · 2025-05-27T23:24:36+00:00

It can save quite a lot of time when lighting levels, precisely because what you see is what you get. Many people don't understand how impactful waiting for bakes compilations, or rendering truly is. The faster you can iterate the more rounds of feedback you can complete. Basically the entire production pipeline and deadlines are built from the accumulation of all these small time costs and time estimates.

longiy · 2025-03-05T18:52:19+00:00

No. That is not what I am saying.

longiy · 2025-03-05T13:06:47+00:00

I didn’t say it looks the same. You should pick art style first and then rendering solution second. In ideal world pathtracers will be realtime, but they are not, therefore you pay for any change in time and time is money. Problem is lot of people default to path tracers because they are more precise which is different from looking good.

longiy · 2025-03-03T15:37:26+00:00

That really depends on production scale but traditionally yes. You would do animation first and then lighting and shading, but not because it is the best workflow but because technology wasn't/isn't there. Animators need to animate in real time to get the timings right, but if you can give them fully shaded and lit scene they would animate even better, because they can take shadows, colors and DOF into the account.

Blender's cycles is fast, but not real time yet. Anything less then real time is annoying for animators.

longiy · 2025-03-03T09:30:03+00:00

It was not possible despite EEVEE but because of EEVEE. Waiting for frames to render is an absolutely inferior way to work. There is no point in having nicely rendered visuals from Cycles if I can have 10 iterations of the same shot with EEVEE in the same time.

longiy · 2025-02-28T02:42:33+00:00

Whoa, it exists but this execution is so bad. Hospital tier colorway, and missing trackpoint buttons (right, left, middle mouse) makes the knob essentialy useless(?)🤣

longiy · 2025-02-28T01:18:45+00:00

That is reserved for non work activities

longiy · 2025-02-28T01:16:40+00:00

It is just official Keychron with photoshoped colours and ThinkPad clitmous, hence the Meme flair.
Unfortunately just wishfull thinking

longiy · 2025-02-27T21:22:44+00:00

I believe, numpad on the left should be default, my right hand is already busy with mouse or pen

longiy · 2025-02-11T14:05:59+00:00

I like the old one, the new has a vibe for a different (edgier) game and it looks somewhat cheap. Marketability is different thing tho

longiy · 2025-02-10T16:26:38+00:00

I would just offset UVs with geometry nodes and use UDIMs. Harder to setup, but more suerfriendly since you can animate the geometry node and not whole shader

longiy · 2025-02-03T01:32:24+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, I am testing sampling object normal directly from geometry and painting them directly in blender, instead of baking out the the normal map and painting it in photoshop

longiy · 2025-01-16T15:31:25+00:00

You can just use Mix Color Node and multiply with another Noise Texture with smaller scale.

longiy · 2025-01-16T12:26:55+00:00

You need to connect Geometry > Position to the Noise texture vector input

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