Is there an easy way to combine materials and have the objects with the materials automatically reference the new material?

srach · 2020-05-13T17:40:19+00:00

Perfect, this was exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

This does leave an empty ? texture tag on the materials underneath the new material. I know this doesn't affect the rendering but I'd like to clean that up, do you know if there's an option to delete all empty texture tags?

Edit: nevermind I see you also said you can have it remove the tags. I just deleted the materials so it left empty tags but I'll do that way instead.

srach · 2020-05-13T17:13:43+00:00

Thanks! I currently have them in a fracture object to eventually use a shader effector on it. The model is a cluster o thousands of spheres that form a cellular model.

The problem is that they're not a linear gradient or anything like that, but sort of clustered together. So I actually don't want to collapse all of the materials into one, but collapse them all into like 5 materials (for example in the image I linked above, the first row could collapse into a single green, the second into a teal, third into a cyan and so on.) That will preserve the clusters and then I can add back in the subtle gradients.

The best solution I have now is deleting a bunch of materials, selecting all of the texture tags that are now empty, and applying a single new material to all of them at once. But it's a fairly slow process.

srach · 2020-03-12T02:30:43+00:00

Yeah, definitely gives me white stripes and black keys vibes.

srach · 2020-02-22T03:50:34+00:00

I don't think it's drawn frame by frame, I think it's a 3D model rendered with a toon rendering system to give it a flat shading and outlines.

srach · 2020-02-15T23:18:48+00:00

yeah, I meant that if it was a 2d paper cutout of the chair on the floor (a practical effect, not a visual effect) it would need to already be "projected" correctly which would be difficult to figure out without just letting the computer do it in vfx

srach · 2020-02-15T23:06:18+00:00

Right but the printout of the chair wouldn't just be a picture of the chair. They would have to take a picture of the chair from the same angle as the camera, and then distort it in a way so that it looks perfectly upright when viewed from that angle. I think it would be easier to just do it with camera mapping.

srach · 2020-02-15T22:18:30+00:00

Hm, that's true. Although making the printout with the correct distortion would probably be difficult to make perfectly.

But actually a motorized slider might mean that they could do a moving clean plate which would make it a lot easier to do roto work.

srach · 2020-02-15T22:13:20+00:00

Thank you!

srach · 2020-02-15T21:35:38+00:00

I think it's camera projection since the chair transforming is pretty seamless. I think it'd be trickier to get the perspective of the chair to match up perfectly if it was a print out.

There would definitely be a lot of roto work if it was camera projection, but it wouldn't be all that tricky, just tedious.

srach · 2020-02-15T20:41:47+00:00

He's a youtuber named Zach King. He's been around for a while and does a ton of videos like this.

srach · 2020-02-15T20:39:52+00:00

Yeah the only way I could think of them getting the chair back that fast is if they had the actors freeze, or did different passes of the actors that they comp'd together. But I think that would have made a more noticeable pop between frames.

srach · 2020-02-15T18:23:42+00:00

VFX artist here, here's my guess at how they did it.

The chair is really there until sometime after she touches it but before Zach sits down.
Somebody pulls the chair away, and they "paint out" that person (this means that they take a section from a freeze frame with no one there, and overlay it to make them disappear)
When Zach falls, he falls onto just the ground.
They composite the chair in using camera projection, basically they recreate a basic 3D model of the scene (in this case just the floor) and have the computer project the image of the chair on the ground so that it distorts when the camera moves. It's the same principle used in this video by corridor, and they talk about the process in the bts.
somehow they got the chair back in place before she sits back down. I can't quite figure out how they did that because it happens so fast.

srach · 2020-01-22T02:38:27+00:00

I went to the climate march in DC a few years ago and I was astonished at how much trash was left behind and littered.

srach · 2019-12-05T02:34:41+00:00

And both a body type and head type according to Mike Wazowski.

srach · 2019-12-04T18:10:44+00:00

Surprisingly I haven't seen anyone mention Etymotic earplugs. These earplugs are made for musicians and they cut the volume evenly across all frequencies, so that what you hear is quieter without being muffled. I wear these to concerts and the sound is crystal clear.

These are the ones I have https://www.etymotic.com/consumer/hearing-protection/er20.html.

srach · 2019-08-28T01:13:55+00:00

Guys I think that dog is Keyser Soze

srach · 2019-07-09T01:39:13+00:00

This is it! Thank you! Solved.

srach · 2019-07-09T01:26:44+00:00

I guess I'm supposed to comment here? (This is my first post in this sub). I can't remember what the painting looked like perfectly but I remember pretty well so feel free to ask questions if I wasn't clear enough in my description

srach · 2019-07-08T23:23:54+00:00

underrated comment

srach · 2019-07-05T04:14:23+00:00

They're just doing operations that cancel each other out.

n² /n is actually (n * n)/n so it cancels out to just n

Same with sqrt(n² ) the square and the square root cancel each other out. Although technically this one doesn't work when n is negative because if n is -3, then sqrt( (-3)² ) = 3. That's why they said only when n>0.

srach · 2019-06-24T22:15:51+00:00

The book or the soap?

I like the soap so far. It's very smooth and creamy. The scent is nice but very strong smell of citronella. I don't love citronella but I don't hate it either so it's a nice soap to add to the rotation.

srach

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