for ramblings and that bonus tip: 💖 → www.cgmatter.c... stuff is also available on patreon of course but i'm trying to pivot to the website, anyhow that is: / cg_matter
hey gang - for real, if you have any suggestions for things to free-ify drop them below. of course not ridiculous things like remaking all of hardops - moreso one-offs! you can learn more and we talk about face fulling for this depth thing here: www.cgmatter.com/member/autodepth (also on patreon but i am trying to pivot from that)
I do feel like selling an open source model in a blender plugin which does kind of not much, and making it paid (emphasis on this), is just kind of taking advantage of others
like i don't know for sure - maybe they made their own - but regardless couldn't hurt to just link the github at the bottom - 99.9% of people won't bother to look into it anyhow
@@DefaultCube unfortunately it's not required for models with Apache 2.0 licenses. Making your own AI depth estimator would require so much work though. It's possible but at the same time you've got better ai models that you can use for $0 in your commercial product.
You could probably say that about many open source (or freely-available) libraries, models, APIs, or tools used to create a paid plugin. The plugin might still have some utility to people if it provides a good integration with Blender-- but I do think creators should note which key models, libraries, or APIs are used in their products. Just like if someone were to create a GIS data plugin, it would mention whether it's using OpenStreetMaps or Google Maps, etc. All that being said -- it looks like the AutoDepth AI plugin ships off your image data to a remote server to do the processing and people seem to report it's pretty slow, and it requires you to run Blender with administrative privileges... which shouldn't be necessary. It looks like the creator is paying for (or using some CPU free tier) cloud compute capacity according to his YT comments, so as soon as they stop doing that, the plugin will likely cease to function. Their plugin panel UI looks decent at least...
Well i don't blame the creator for anything there was demand and he just supply and make some bucks and people only realizing this because he made a good amount of money which can be done for free!!! and probably the people are new in the blender using this addon!
I actually want a tutorial on making blender plugins. I know there’s some simple ones out there, but I wouldn’t even know where to start with something more advanced like integrating an AI model, even if someone else already built it.
Ai render addon is pretty cool to mess around with. It's not paid and I wish it was just so you could make a video about it lol. It just feels like it could be done another way especially animation. Even more especially is running stable diffusion locally because it was super complex. I would urge you to test it out
Very nice video idea indeed :) Love the intro, blasting away them money earners. I guess this would have been harder to do in older versions of Blender.
You can also do a way better version of this using the Depth extension for SD A1111 which can easily generate an inpainted mesh with deformation based outward from the camera POV rather than just being a flat extrusion, you should really check it out, it's pretty cool how much better it is for most things though it does tend to get a bit messy of a mesh
This one in particular seems to be a perfect pair for that video you did on parallax mapping a few months ago, since we could very much parallax this per pixel instead of true vertex dispalcement to get better quality (And presumably better performance, since we will literaly only have four vertex)
Is it possible to do this and not have it try to connect the closer items to the further away ones? Or would someone doing this then need to edit the mesh to cut those connections so it's not streaking on the sides?
I think this is a good idea for a series, but I would advise to be less confrontational, because the addons value is in the time savings not about technical fidelity. Whether $8 is a fair price will vary customer to customer. Would love to see more free alternatives, and free workflows.
Exactly, that's the only thing I felt weird about in this video. There's probably a reason that addon is sold a quite bunch. I had a client who wanted this exact kind of plugin to make parallax videos out of still images from AI. And btw this is exactly how i'm planning to go forward in the future; showing how to make a particular texture/model/effect on UA-cam and selling it in case someone wants to save time and buy it instead. Everyone's happy!
It reminds me of the relight effect in the paid version of Resolve/Fusion. With that you can add lighting and shadows to video. I suppose you could do the same with this - but frame by frame.
not 100% sure but im thinking the product exists where its at, tons of curve 'brushes' for like 30$ - 99% should remain compatible with future versions of blender going forward - but i may give it a refresh eventually
I guess marigold produces affine-invariant depth (like most depth estimation models), while it looks detailed, the quality is actually bad in terms of accuracy.
the goat himslef is exposing people 😂 I remember when a guy was mad just because he teach us how to do seomthing he was selling with geometry nodes I bet guy wasn't even using the same node tree
While I know this is an AI model to create a depth map, a lot of phones that also use LiDAR and save the depth map of the shot which in some cases can be extracted which is super nice, I know some tutorials exist to extract them.
hey gang - for real, if you have any suggestions for things to free-ify drop them below. of course not ridiculous things like remaking all of hardops - moreso one-offs!
you can learn more and we talk about face fulling for this depth thing here: www.cgmatter.com/member/autodepth (also on patreon but i am trying to pivot from that)
"free-ify" being "I give you my free time for free!"...
It's good and all, but keep your free time balanced! 🫡
Always wondered about One Click Damage, and similar addons. How hard could it honestly be?
@@Grefins999 already have ocd in the scopes ;)
@@CGMatter blud didn't you already make your own product similar to that. free-ifying your own products is crazy
thank you and this is a great idea for a series!
I do feel like selling an open source model in a blender plugin which does kind of not much, and making it paid (emphasis on this), is just kind of taking advantage of others
like i don't know for sure - maybe they made their own - but regardless couldn't hurt to just link the github at the bottom - 99.9% of people won't bother to look into it anyhow
@@DefaultCube unfortunately it's not required for models with Apache 2.0 licenses. Making your own AI depth estimator would require so much work though. It's possible but at the same time you've got better ai models that you can use for $0 in your commercial product.
You could probably say that about many open source (or freely-available) libraries, models, APIs, or tools used to create a paid plugin. The plugin might still have some utility to people if it provides a good integration with Blender-- but I do think creators should note which key models, libraries, or APIs are used in their products. Just like if someone were to create a GIS data plugin, it would mention whether it's using OpenStreetMaps or Google Maps, etc.
All that being said -- it looks like the AutoDepth AI plugin ships off your image data to a remote server to do the processing and people seem to report it's pretty slow, and it requires you to run Blender with administrative privileges... which shouldn't be necessary. It looks like the creator is paying for (or using some CPU free tier) cloud compute capacity according to his YT comments, so as soon as they stop doing that, the plugin will likely cease to function. Their plugin panel UI looks decent at least...
thank you mister blender person
That's my kind of series! Love it!
How do you make a blender plugin that runs a depth estimation program like this? Can you include other python libraries in a plugin?
The hero we don't deserve.
This series is the way. You hit the nail on the head for sustainable, unique, and helpful content. Please keep them coming!
Well i don't blame the creator for anything there was demand and he just supply and make some bucks and people only realizing this because he made a good amount of money which can be done for free!!! and probably the people are new in the blender using this addon!
❤ did anyone told you I love you
For what you are doing on this UA-cam channel, Because I did
This might be my new favorite series
Mine too, I love it 🇵🇸🇵🇸
Now he has released the plugin "Auto Painter Ai", it would be nice if you could make a tutorial to do something similar but for free 😌
I took this addon but it doesn't work. It is a fraud and never take this addon.
OK, this is the content i subscribed for.
Questionably moral blender work.
Im so down
More more now do the auto tracker free version
Loool i got in while it was on sale and noooooow this ._.
where is walKING dude i bought like 50 shirts im STILL WAITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IM WALKING
Ouch! Tha pain you will create with this series will be unbearable! 🔥
*starts sweating*... New series sounds great! We chill? 👀
😁
Great addons!
I actually want a tutorial on making blender plugins. I know there’s some simple ones out there, but I wouldn’t even know where to start with something more advanced like integrating an AI model, even if someone else already built it.
Almost positive Davinci Resolve has this in its free version as well
I would LOVVVVE to learn how to do some of director chris cunninghams techniques from the 90s!!
“Don’t buy the addon, give me money”. Good one dude!! Still appreciate the vid. Keep them coming and relive me from the addon-porn.
Realy XD I thought his AI corrects a little bit, at least makes the objects whole and not just a blunt
extrusion))) Thank you
Ai render addon is pretty cool to mess around with. It's not paid and I wish it was just so you could make a video about it lol. It just feels like it could be done another way especially animation. Even more especially is running stable diffusion locally because it was super complex. I would urge you to test it out
In one way you killing work of other persons, but another hand you forcing them to improve quality. :D
may i ask whats the hate against patreon? i am just interested in the reasonkng without any critique. i just don't know why or what's the issue.
Very nice video idea indeed :) Love the intro, blasting away them money earners. I guess this would have been harder to do in older versions of Blender.
That's sick! Hey if you do it with the modifier you could use this as like a speed hack for modelling maybe
This idea must be good because I don't even use Blender and it was suggested to me. Plus, I watched the whole thing.
Thank you! Do Facebuilder next :-)
Please share with us reactions from your Victims… 😅😎
You can also do a way better version of this using the Depth extension for SD A1111 which can easily generate an inpainted mesh with deformation based outward from the camera POV rather than just being a flat extrusion, you should really check it out, it's pretty cool how much better it is for most things though it does tend to get a bit messy of a mesh
Who will spend $790 just for depth map
Nice, thank you!!
This one in particular seems to be a perfect pair for that video you did on parallax mapping a few months ago, since we could very much parallax this per pixel instead of true vertex dispalcement to get better quality (And presumably better performance, since we will literaly only have four vertex)
blender procedural is like 🤬🤬🤬 watching this 😂
Please do a do it for free episode for the ragdoll physics, i need it, WE NEED IT
this is neat
good for lazy VFX work tho :)
You cant rely on hugging face everytime, we need local solution instead of online
Have you tried depth anything? I feel its better than marigold but im not sure
Would be good to buy the addon and compare results.
For this series, you just got my Sub ! Keep them coming!
THIS IS AWESOME! Such a cool idea because some of these addon creators are taking the mickey! keeping us free of scammers!
Now seriously.. WTF is your name sir 😅 ..
Is it possible to do this and not have it try to connect the closer items to the further away ones? Or would someone doing this then need to edit the mesh to cut those connections so it's not streaking on the sides?
I think this is a good idea for a series, but I would advise to be less confrontational, because the addons value is in the time savings not about technical fidelity. Whether $8 is a fair price will vary customer to customer.
Would love to see more free alternatives, and free workflows.
Exactly, that's the only thing I felt weird about in this video. There's probably a reason that addon is sold a quite bunch. I had a client who wanted this exact kind of plugin to make parallax videos out of still images from AI.
And btw this is exactly how i'm planning to go forward in the future; showing how to make a particular texture/model/effect on UA-cam and selling it in case someone wants to save time and buy it instead. Everyone's happy!
Commenting for the algo , this is good stuff.
lol, cgmatter - combating capitalism; one video at a time.
i have been using midas . thats cool thanks
Cool, now without AI please.
Do you make tutorials on how to code your own blender addons?
I’m here for the Robin Hood vibes
I got to work on some serious shit because years ago I took the step to learn blender from your channel. Thankyou good sir
what mouse are you using with mac?
It reminds me of the relight effect in the paid version of Resolve/Fusion. With that you can add lighting and shadows to video. I suppose you could do the same with this - but frame by frame.
But what about the heat vision depth map? What does it do?
i love this. keep it coming cube
We want to see more videos like this
Perfect! Was looking for this exactly! Hope to see more in the series!
Can you find an alternative for Softwrap? Love that addon but the author of it hasn't updated it in a while and it doesn't work on 4.0+
yeah this is a tutorial the world needs! the maker said they created it by accident when experimenting with cloth sims
this is why I subscribe
insightful
how much do i owe you?
haha I love your attitude
Thank you very much
Now do a ragdoll plugin!!
As this could gain Default Cube a ton of enemies.
It is important to mention he is not suicidal. Although most of the stuff he does is batshit crazy.
So its a scam
I love this series!
thats whats up! hell yea
Better to update ur curvify addon please, or there will be no updates?
not 100% sure but im thinking the product exists where its at, tons of curve 'brushes' for like 30$ - 99% should remain compatible with future versions of blender going forward - but i may give it a refresh eventually
I guess marigold produces affine-invariant depth (like most depth estimation models), while it looks detailed, the quality is actually bad in terms of accuracy.
Woah thanks.
this is fire
Stable diffusion has great depth control net filter, very verry gud (maybe next video idea on how to implement it with 3d?)))👀
thank you
Great idea!
nice video
Useful…❤
Thanks!
Nice!
i like the idea
Thank you! Just what I was looking for 🙏
Now to find a way for this to use multiple sources that’s temporarily stable 😅 this would be great to project footage back on to geometry
Y I K E S
🎯
Amazing!
💯❤️🔥
this is such a fire series idea
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Depth-Anything is a newer and better model, and I'm pretty sure there was something even newer.
Amazing series!!!
Thank you so much for the amazing tutorial!~ Let's keep Blender free and avaliable for everyone~
your upload is always amazing. you really help me learning blender. i know this sentence won't worth much but still thank you sir
I also found, that using depth map with displace modifier then Quad remesher sub serf and repeat worked really well with a car engine
this is a GREAT idea for a series! you'll have to fend off the blendermarket sent assassins tho lol. may heaven protect you.
the goat himslef is exposing people 😂 I remember when a guy was mad just because he teach us how to do seomthing he was selling with geometry nodes I bet guy wasn't even using the same node tree
While I know this is an AI model to create a depth map, a lot of phones that also use LiDAR and save the depth map of the shot which in some cases can be extracted which is super nice, I know some tutorials exist to extract them.
This is a bold move! hope you can handle the suggestions in the future! this is pure gold content, problem solving and saving money in the same video!
thanks man! i was wondering how to do this a few months back
The intro tho 😅