How to Make a Neon Sign in Blender 2.8 - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- Blender tutorial showing you how to make a striking neon sign using Blender 2.8.
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As a trained neon light glass blower journeyman, I can attest that using the skinned or bevelled curves is fully adequate if you know how the glass tubes are bent and connected to create signs. Write a text in whatever font you want and create the curves on top of it to match.
Also, it is possible to create fairly sharp angles, not perfectly straight, there will always be some roundness, but a lot straighter than cheap signs have.
Also, you will never want a single tube system be more than 2 meters in total length, in order to have even luminescence. Longer signs will need to be broken down into several systems.
How to add a text to a curve like a cup ?
Question: How does one become a neon glass blower and are these requirements different from regular glass blowing (dont wanna be one just curious)
One of my favorite UA-cam comments of all time
Hey hey, nice to have you back doing tutorials!!!😃👍
Thank you. Feels good to be back.
@@alterego157 No problem.
@@alterego157 Ok nerd
🎅🏿
In case anyone gets stuck at the part when typing whatever kind of text you want your sign to have, press tab! If you do that you will enter somekind of edit mode where you can type!
Bless your soul
You beautiful bastard - I'd been wondering how to do that for ages
@@romarudarkeyes why thank you im glad I helped you out lol
I knew I cant count on the comments section hahaha thank you!!
thank you so much i was stuck there for only a few minutes thanks to you :) bless you
My day always gets put on hold when I see a new video from Andrew Price! Thanks so much
hi!
SO TRUE
For fonts to appear automatically just set up your fonts directory in preferences - file paths.. top one, fonts, navigate to your fonts directory. Save
Ahhh Change Text and Delete "Text" by entering Edit Mode took me like 5 minutes just figuring out how to do the first thing... egh
yep, same.
Not enough likes, man.. I was so confused.
same same
Thanks to your comment, 1 Min.
Without you I wouldn't have figured out how to edit the text thanks so much
As you could probably tell I had been waiting for this tutorial for months! :-)
This is your moment
@@blenderguru Thank you! :-)
Really nice to have these types of tutorials back
So refreshing to see you post a full-length tutorial, showing step-by-step. I really appreaciate it, and hope to see both full and short tutorials from you in the near future :)
Can you add captions for each key pressed?..i would really appreciate it...It makes things a lot easier
I agree
@Pasi Laakkonen doesn't work well for a phone:)
he pressed ctrl z a lot that's all you need to know
@@dahuday okay 🤦♂️😂
i started blender a few months ago and yup i agree sometimes andrew does stuff and i just dont get it so andrew if you see this i love your tutorials but do like if your audience is really dumb and that should help.
Me: I'm not gonna use blender 2.8 until the final release.
Andrew: hanging around that 2.79 nonsense anymore.
Me: deletes 2.79 and starts downloading 2.8.
Me: dowload blender 2.8
Blender: openGl 3.3 not supported
Me: crashes the laptop
Don't Delete 2.79 because 2.80 is not completely Perfect!😨
2.8 is brilliant, but there are a lot of creases to be ironed out. A lot of addons are still not updated and are buggy as hell.
I’m constantly fighting with myself over deciding which to use when I’m about to start a new project, but if it’s a serious one, then I’ll go to 2.79.
@@nord4296 lol
@@director_unknown9 I know I'm just kidding still waiting for the release. :)
I am very proud to have done the donut tutorial about 1 and a half year ago, my passion for 3d has kinda exploded sinds then, Thank you and the rest of the blender community.
The Hershey text plug in for Inkscape (located under the render tab) makes a nice single line svg script font which can be imported into Blender.
For anyone doing this today on blender 3.5, what the video doesn't tell you is the object is already a curve before he 'converts' it to a curve. To get past this step Right Click on your text and in the box choose convert to curve, then do the duplicate and hide. Then press F3 type convert and convert to curve from mesh/text. Only difference will be when you go to edit mode no points will be selected so hit A on the keyboard and your screen will look like his.
This was exactly my issue, thanks so much!
Interviews vs tutorials... In the long run, watching someone who is skillfully and diligently sharing his techniques the results of which are really pleasing to the eye always, always wins over watching someone famous telling inspirational and/or instructive success stories. Why? Cause, well, inspiration gets you to the point where you begin to want to get your hands dirty, and that's about it... Thanks for the tutorials, Andrew!
yes Andrew please bring back these kind of tutorials
instant like !!
Andrew: what does vector do? Oh it does that
Me: oh ok it looks pretty neat
Andrew: I hate that one I hate vector
Me: vector is disgusting
After finishing the donut tutorials, I thought using Blender became a piece of cake to me; after finishing this video, the reality slammed me in the face.
12:26 “But, i think the D is *fiiiineee* ..
im sure someone will find a way to..make that sentence sexual..
{breath in} *DONUTS!*”
why.
Every day, we stray further from god.
lmao were in the quote"
Initial D is a fine anime
I found a pretty good shortcut for finding the midline. I rendered the text in a very high resolution bitmap, then used Inkscapes "Trace Bitmap" tool in "Centerline tracing" mode to extract a pretty good curve
This is pretty late but for anyone else who's just encountering this problem, I found in the documentation (copy-pasted below) that extruding actually duplicates the selected points and then it lets you move the center control point and the handle you extruded from but it doesn't move the other handle end. This makes it look like you're extruding from that end instead. So just position the first two points first then move the other handle.
Reference
Mode: Edit Mode
Menu: Curve ‣ Extrude Curve and Move
Hotkey: E
Extrudes points by duplicating the selected points, which then can be moved, and connecting those points back to the original curve creating a continuous curve.
so you said manually
The hero we don't deserve.
Every time I'm looking for a tutorial I check Blender Guru first. Sure, it's cool to "learn" how to make something in 1-5 min, but he teaches you how to use the actual tools so you don't need to rely on tutorials forever ;)
Hey Andrew, when you're selecting a font, you can navigate to Windows/Fonts/ to select fonts you have installed :)
I miss the visual keystrokes indicator from 2.79 :( I'm lost on some of the shortcuts
You could have used Curve Offset before converting your text to make sure the curve is in the middle of th don’t character. Avoids having to do it all manually.
That creates really messy geometry though, unfortunately.
This is the best gift of 2019.
Best way I found doing an "S" or "O". Any letters that can be created symmetrically, is to work on half of it, delete the other half, duplicate it, flip and rotate, then just connect the missing vertices back together.
Always love learning something new in Blender! Thanks! I also agree that you should go back to showing the key presses.
Ive been having so much fun following along the tutorial! I'm also surprised how easy it is to adapt to 2.8 after working in 2.79 for a while!! I really appreciate these tutorials, I'm just learning soo much.
I also started dying when the Poligon ad break came up while Andrew was quickly fixing the edges and curves XD
Thank you so much for all your tutorials. If it wasn't for you, I would have never started my venture into Blender. You are fun and detailed in all your videos, it's really easy and fun to watch.
Thanks mate! ❤️
Actually loved the ad at @17:30 here. Really great placement/presentation -- nice work as always.
this is a very good tutorial, but I'm unable to extrude the edges as simple as you are doing please tell me how you do that.
Thanks a lot Andrew for this ♥ was awesome
but i have a big problem with ( BOOLEAN )
sometimes i want to do some holes in models and it look so bad in the smooth shading
Yousif TUT there are some payd add-ons solving this ancient problem in blender, like Meshmachine or HardOps. They're a bit advanced but worth the price if you model a lot.
There are some tutorials by Penfinity on his youtube channel you could try to follow, even if they're quite technical and, I've to say, sometimes a bit boring or even irritating.
try turning on autosmooth (upside down triangle > normals > autosmooth). this might help fix that problem
have you tried google
If anyone is having issues finding the installed font: I was unable to see the font in C: Windows\Fonts\ on the blender font dropdown. I fixed this by opening the fonts folder in windows and dragging the font file into Blender's font list selection.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I was going insane trying to figure out what was going wrong. I guess technically I still don't know but regardless you've fixed this issue for me. Cheers!
I'm a visual designer and yes I was screaming. Oh you might want to research overshoot and such on typography. Letters like the O and U overshoot because of their shape.
Hey Andrew, im glad you’re uploading tutorials again. Learned a few things in blender, thanks to you. You’re a very good teacher 🙂👍🏻
As someone who is very proficient in Adobe Illustrator and loves the pen tool, learning to edit curves in Blender gave me great joy :D
a suggestion for those who have problems with rotating and changing the angle of objects and such in 2.8, use the properties meny and look for the X: Y: Z:, next to it usualy you have the roation sliders where you can input the degrees to flip it instantly.
4:30 mins ....Right click to bring up "Obj. context window" which includes "Convert to mesh"...
thxxx a lot, it helps!
I LOVE YOU OMG THANK U SO MUCH💘💘💘
Hi Andrew, You can convert text to mesh by right clicking on it in Object Mode and selecting Convert to Mesh
True. Exit edit mode
Finally! A new Blender Guru tutorial!
Trying to extrude letters back (13:50) and I am getting weird curved extrusions instead of straight flat tube. Even tried extrude on Y axis
If you find a solution let me know. Thx
I ended up deleting the text and redoing it. It worked after that, no connected handles during extrusion. I know thats not much of a help. Also, this time instead of taking the text straight to 3D I forgot and tried to extrude in 2D, swapped to 3D and extruded fine (doubt that uas anything to do with it.) After watching the video over a dozen times, I didn't miss any steps and checked all of the frames to make sure same icons and buttons were pushed. Not sure why deleting text and retyping worked.
@100,000 subscribers without a video challenge how ?
check the scale of the handles. If they're too big, when you extrude, it will go nuts. Scale it down before you extrude.
@@robertschwarzmeier1358 check the scale of the handles. If they're too big, when you extrude, it will go nuts. Scale it down before you extrude.
Surprising that you haven't noticed too many neon lights. I seem to remember you living in Korea for a whil and this place is flashing signs and neon lights galore!
All this changes in blender started with you, thx man
ive been waiting for this for like 4 years thank you legend
I already had my text ready and just needed help with shaders, but this guy is just interesting so I watched the whole thing!
I'm always amazed what displacement maps can do for you
For anyone having issues with 8:31 where clicking S increases or decreases the thickness instead, you can click on transform (on the left there is a option) and then click S to scale the letter and not thickness
Why there is no key view? :(
Anyone else learn what they needed in the first minute of the video?? Lol this guy is amazing!!
I'm here in 2024, listening to you talk about blender 2.8 being the future while I've got blender 4.2 open thinking: "Wow, this guy is do a backflip in 5 years"
Dude finally a new video from you
Just the right amount of content and jokes in one tutorial. There were good explanations and helpful tips in every video I watches so far. Thank you! 📣CONVERT 😂
I spewed coffee everywhere when it came to the sped up Andrew only to be surprised by ANOTHER Andrew. ROFL awesome edit!
I don’t even use blender but these videos are cool to watch while drawing
Thanks for doing on on Neon lighting. You are always enjoyable and fun to watch! I learn a ton every time I watch one of your tutorials.
Not even 40 seconds and i already got what i want!
Thanks blender guru 😁
Thanks for this tutorail, Andrew. I'm a bit lost with 2.8 at present, so your videos helped. Also, the part with the curves editing is welcome, as rarely use curves for my project.
Now I got one question that I often ask. Do you plan to do a tuorial on an underwater scene. I'd loooove to learn that. I don't see much videos about it, sadly.
That said, thanks for your videos !
Would be interesting to see his approach on this topic, I'm also working on a underwater scene (not using Blender) and I've been reading a lot about how light works within water.
I learned a lot but I'm still modeling the submarine vehicle.
35 seconds in and you've explained what I needed to know haha! HERO
if you are wondering at 4:52 why not working use curve not curves or mesh when you are converting btw im using blender 3.1
Blender is FREE ,thank you GOD :)
A Blender tutorial is not complete without donuts of some kind.
QB Mac *_SAMPLE TEXT DONUTS_*
hey I started loving 2.8 ....
Thanks Andrew for sharing great knowledge with us...
Genau die richtige Zeit für ein Blender Video. just the right time for a blender video ^^
Woohoo! I am coming 1 year late to the party... but finished my Neon Signs.
AND, I found a way how to add sound and make them flicker.... (Draco Socard for example asked how to do this). Well: I cheated a bit: during the Blender animation, I created a duplicate neon sign, one lit, one dark, and "moved them" through the brick wall back and forth. If you change the Blender animation to a "hard" move instead of slow accerlation, you can switch both neon signs in/out and create a on-off effect. Add a crackling/buzzing neon sound and it's pretty convincing. Not sure if our BlenderGuru would approve but it worked for me :)
Let me know. you like the vid/example as a link.
Cheers, Lutz
So cool ! Thanks !
Nice to have you back boss!!! Missed your tuts!
I definitely enjoy this kind of tutorial
sometime i think you are not human, you are just too awesome in delivery
Love Poliigons new look
12:24 I was literally laughing because of this before the knowing look to the camera. LOL.
Really love to watch your tutorial! Always FANTASTIC!!
He is back
Really enjoyed this one! Will post some outputs on discord! Thanks for the great tutorial!
When I extrude it makes a weird curve from also another linked point. Its not straight. Help .....
oh finally another tut ,keep these coming 😚😚😚
I can't make segments why and when i extrude it makes a weird curve from another point not the point i want
This is pretty late but this is how I did it for anyone else who's just encountering this problem. I found in the documentation (copy-pasted below) that extruding actually duplicates the selected points and then it lets you move the center control point and the handle you extruded from but it doesn't move the other handle end. This makes it look like you're extruding from that end instead. So just position the first two points first then move the other handle.
Reference
Mode: Edit Mode
Menu: Curve ‣ Extrude Curve and Move
Hotkey: E
Extrudes points by duplicating the selected points, which then can be moved, and connecting those points back to the original curve creating a continuous curve.
@@johncarlocagas i don't understand
@@frozvial237 There are three points, right? One center control point and two handles. When you extrude, it duplicates all three points and let's you move all three of them. But sometimes, and I still don't know why this happens, it only let's you move two points (the center control point and one of the handles) instead of all three. It doesn't move the other handle. That's why it looks like you're extruding from the other point you didn't want to extrude from. You actually extruded it just fine. It just didn't move the other point that was there after it duplicated it.
@@johncarlocagas this is what they are talking about gyazo.com/6ed0cc76db31911b0ba8c81ea251ee9f and it's driving me insane. Because some times it does it and some times it doesn't and I have no idea what makes it do that and what makes it extrude normally
@@johncarlocagas luv you man you solved my problem
Andrew is at it again! Yay, you my friend are an institution! I love watching your tutorials.
have an assignment deadline... Guru uploads....
Me: Ah f*k it I am gonna make this cool sign first.
Exactly!!
Thanks for the tutorial !
We Missed Youu
id been waiting for a tutorial for so longgg. this is perfect for my car renders hell YEA
Hy @Blender Guru,
Why dont show us also how to make this camera movement?
You "only" showed us how to make the neon sign but didnt showed us how to make this dope movement of the camera?
in my opinion this is one of the crucial things your channel lacks.. animation of camera movements.
BTW i love your tutorials!!
You found a tutorial for that?
3:10 nope, also weird for Linux, any other program just reeds what you have installed. But what is cool about blender, it can embed fonts in your source file, unlike photoshop or something.
The Guru's back baby!
Hey! thanks Andrew. Great to see you back in action
4:33 If you don't see the 'Convert to' option in the search results, you probably don't have the text selected (like me).
Select the text and search again! :)
Might be silly, but given the fact that I started learning Blender 20 days ago, I still am mind-blowingly clueless a lot of the time xD
Btw, great tutorial, Andrew.
I might attempt the teddy bear soon!
Bro can you tell me what did he do at 8:24 ? I don't know which buttons he clicked but his edit mode's select option got changed and he's stretching objects with that. Please help
Omg youre a lightsaber
How did you animate the flicker of the light
thanks for making videos blender guru
Heyy, you are the man who started my career, thanks for the donuts Andrew.
The step by step tutorial is back yaay
The main man himself, he back
Straight to the point, great video!
Andrew Complaining about Blender curves makes me laugh... If you come from maya, blender curves are a Godsend!!!! gald I made the transition. I can't believe I went so long without all of blender utilites and tools.
you can even hold the center of your mouse and ctrl and move your mouse up and down to zoom
Oh, look who's back witha new tutorial
Future is now, old man!
Great tutorial! Now I've gotta go spend like a month actually getting competent with manipulating bezier curves.... my "N" is ROUGH. Lot harder than it looks to get that smooth curve.
Best tutorial guide EVER!
I should learn not only Blender but also making tutorials from you !