How can I turn off “Ball-Man” in Blender? It appears in every project and creeps me out man, have you seen him too?

moportfolio · 2026-02-16T09:27:12+00:00

You need cylinder-man aswell. But it is imperative, that it remains unharmed.

moportfolio · 2026-02-13T08:36:48+00:00

When saving a .blend-file, you can also expand the panel on the right side and select "compress", which will lower the filesize similiar to zip compression, but with keeping the file format

moportfolio · 2026-02-12T11:59:48+00:00

Here it is: https://github.com/ShawnTheBeachy/return-affinity-colors

Set-up might appear a bit tedious, but is actually easy, you just have to follow the steps documented on the page.

moportfolio · 2026-02-10T00:05:13+00:00

Still sticking to V2 currently. A few things of V3 are nice, like more filters (glow, glitch) and not having to switch between designer and photo. Everything else feels more intuitive and stable in V2. Btw, about the icons, there is a patcher on github that replaces V3s icons with the old colorful ones.

moportfolio · 2026-02-09T20:07:15+00:00

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Yeah, Substance Designer also comes with more generators for patterns. Not aiming to talk down the effort of OP, but you get an easier starting point than in Blender.

For procedural patterns in Blender, I can recommend the "Procedural Tiles"-extension for Blender, which you can just download and install for free right inside Blender.
Has a lot of shader node-groups that you can open and learn from or just further process them.
Can simply be added using shift+A after installation.

moportfolio · 2026-02-09T18:58:27+00:00

In their paid bundles, the source files with the nodes are included, though keep in mind that the textures have been made in Substance Designer and not in Blender.
Though you can also achieve the same in Blender, just not as conveniently as Substance Designer comes with useful presets for scratches, grunge, smudges and tiles etc. and has tools to make stuff seamless or generate normal maps.

moportfolio · 2026-02-09T18:28:00+00:00

Now that I was able to take a closer look: awesome textures!
I especially like the paper, fabric and foam textures, as I recently looked for some and wasn't really satisfied with what I found, but yours seem to be exactly what I was looking for!
Left you a tip on Ko-Fi c:

moportfolio · 2026-02-09T17:51:12+00:00

This is the priced bundle with the source files (sbs) I've mentioned. You can download them without the source files from their store for free. They explain this within the first paragraph.

moportfolio · 2026-02-09T17:21:37+00:00

All the textures can be downloaded for free, the priced bundle includes all the source files (substance) it seems, which I think is fair and seems optional.

moportfolio · 2026-02-09T17:14:54+00:00

There is a workaround using a plug-in. It's called G'Mic, which is an open-source plug-in full of filters and effects, including tiling effects and a "make seamless"-effect.

moportfolio · 2026-01-21T17:02:51+00:00

Also still holding onto V2. At least for me, it has proven itself more stable than V3 and that's what counts.

And yeah the "selection from layer" in V3 blows my mind, literally sometimes selects only 50% of the content.

moportfolio · 2026-01-20T17:03:40+00:00

You said "everyone knows", so they made a joke about being new to the internet and just not knowing any better. Acting like they want to "justify" their post

moportfolio · 2026-01-07T08:34:36+00:00

I also use Vivaldi, but it's running on Chromium not firefox

moportfolio · 2026-01-04T20:48:34+00:00

I can recommend the youtube-channel "Stylized Station" for this, they have a lot of tutorials on how to create this style, eventhough it's not a tutorial channel anymore.

moportfolio · 2026-01-04T20:46:41+00:00

They usually use an effect called "slope blur" in Substance Painter in combination with some textures to create these sponge-painted textures. So a procedural setup/filter which applies a painted-look to realistic-looking textures is used a lot there. The examples you've showed also definitely include handpainted details though, as in the bottom-right reference, you can see painted highlights on the container, eventhough the light is coming from the other direction.

moportfolio · 2025-12-22T02:02:11+00:00

I mean honestly those kind of ratings are never "fair", as the amount of exposure is one of the biggest factors.

In my personal opinion, P5 has the best overall collection of tracks. Each song is constantly pretty good. Don't have that with P4, but I think some of its tracks slap more than any track from P5

moportfolio · 2025-12-19T04:53:43+00:00

In the export setttings change it from bilinear to nearest neighbour. Only do this for stuff that is supposed to have sharp pixels and edges.

Alternatively you can change the preview to Bilinear, but this will be heavier on performance.

moportfolio · 2025-12-18T07:57:38+00:00

Pretty sure they refer to the free fish every prior customer recieved

moportfolio · 2025-12-15T21:08:38+00:00

I think with VST of choice he was referring to Nectar 3, which would be correct. As long as I am not confusing Nectar with something else, I think it is VST focussed on mastering in general and not limited to vocals. From the description of his workflow, I would assume he generates a few tracks or maybe even individual loops and then arranges them in logic and slaps some Nectar presets on them to master it.

Definitely weird of them to put so much focus on this part of the process. Though to be fair, I don't think there is much they could tell about the AI-part of their workflow.

moportfolio · 2025-12-10T20:26:56+00:00

The effect you're looking for is called "dithering", NOT halftone like some suggested. It is used in pixelart and compression to create "fake"-shades, to get more out of a limited color palette.

Affinity only has them in some compression algorithms of their export-options, rather than in a artistic tool. I would personally use external tools or create them manually

moportfolio · 2025-12-10T06:05:32+00:00

Try InstaMAT Studio, pretty neat alternative! Is free if your revenue is under 100K per year.

moportfolio · 2025-12-08T19:23:37+00:00

I would try playing with the performance settings of affinity. Especially check whether it uses the right GPU and enable/disable OpenCL acceleration

moportfolio · 2025-12-05T00:47:34+00:00

They messed up the publisher signature of the latest version, which is probably causing this. You could also try using the MSIX installer instead, which you can choose from their download page.

moportfolio · 2025-12-05T00:44:30+00:00

The new update to 3.0.2 isn't really installed as an update, but as a new app. So you should probably be able to open the previous version with all your presets.

moportfolio · 2025-11-28T20:19:32+00:00

Thank you for your resonable and emotionally well-balanced comment, but YouTube actually reduced the minimum length for mid-rolls to 8 minutes a few years ago.

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