The END of Blender!?
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@@PonteRyuurui so if i understand this right:
i can have a 30 Day "feel in" for "free" of a software, doing Things, blender (2.79 not 2.8+) doing for me perfectly.
After this, i should pay 100 $ for the same, Blender doing for me for free.
And you can believe: This is just the Beginning. Let growth them, they will want to have more Money.
and this all, instet i can use blender, i using since years - for free -
Why ?
What is it good for `?
also one Thing:
i do use blender 2.79, it fit s perfect to my needs, and i cdo not have the time, to learn everything from Scratch again, and again, in blender highter than 2.79. If you like me, using this tools hours per week, you will just be stopped, if only 1 key will change.
It s hard, to change to a newer blender (and no need here)
but this program there
- cost money
- you need to learn ALL from scratch again
And after this, you payed them, and you have the same than blender ?
no sence to me.
Im getting convinced Blender makes a huge error by not being able to develop some sort of CAD like solution and thereby seriously support 3d modeling for 3Dprinting. They seem totally stuck in ONLY visual effects. New generations demand cad abilities and Blender is a pure joke at that right now.
@@eddiexx Oh Gee! This completely free 3d polygonal based software doesn't have all the Industrial quality surface based CAD tools I need without me having to spend some money! Whatever will I do?
Blender is still distinguished in several respects, especially since it is open source, which is a feature specific to Blender only. Let us thank the programmers and work teams who provided us with this program.
I don't think anyone actually believes a dedicated modelling software like Plasticity is actually the Blender killer. They both serve very different purposes even if they share some functionality.
Well I use MOI and plasticity and still have to use blender for rendering/texturing
really agree, ton roosendal decision to make it free open source at first while everyone developer pricing at every program is beyond amazing idea
Blender is outdated and a turnoff for alot of people.
Can Plasiticity be used to make game assets?
Blender is Open Source and this is why its staying around. As a user of Blender and been for last 20 years I have no worries that Blender is going anywhere.
Why is everybody comparing blender to plasticity? Plasticity is a CAD programm 😭 its designed for something completely different.
AND it isn't free or open source.
Luckily for Blender, most of the artists are poor and can't buy softwares.
And most professional artists actually buy a couple blender plugins.. for 10-20 bux each.. while the indie plasticity version is 99 and there's a 30 day trial..
And the majority worldwide have Photoshop, which isn't cheap.. installed on their pcs.. artists or not.. for some misterious reason that no one can explain to me.. I wonder how.. yarr..
We can pirate 🤣🤣
This just isn't true though. 3d artists are some of the highest paid in the industry next to Autodesk Flame VFX artists.
@@ed61730 I think that "most of the artists" for him is "the people who are attempting but weren't sucessful in their careers on that segment".. part of the archetype that "most people fail on starting a career in arts so don't try that". a sure way to discourage people to start a career in this segment... whatever the point of that is.
So he isn't talking about the majority of professionals.. he is including young people who are still learning as "artists".
If there was one like the one on Apple for Android I'd buy it
I've been using this on one monitor with Blender on the other monitor together for like 30 hours the past few days. The models import so perfectly this is just a really nice Blender addon to me now. I don't know why some people are complaining about having to clean up the models after exporting. They are probably not using the software properly.
How did you retopology the model imported from plasticity?
I haven't had to. I just did a little animation project with dozens of models made in plasticity. Everything UV unwrapped and textured properly. Use "delete redundant topology" tool then export as Ngon density 1.
I think that these are really great to raise awareness for more powerful CAD/nurbs modeling software that is cheaper than solidworks and Fusion 360. On the other hand, Blender is aimed towards creating with mesh/quad/subsurface topology(aka you can control the topology of your mesh). These are usually more useful in arch viz, film and games whereas CAD and parametric modeling are aimed towards manufacturing and design, and usually produce triangulated meshes which are hard to work with outside of the tool they were created in. Quad topology workflows have been defined for decades in the film and modeling/rendering outside of manufacturing because you can make changes and adjust models in a different way than CAD. So it really just depends on your industry, but both are viable and useful in their own realms. And blending those realms isn’t a crime either.
The free version of Fusion 360 is restricted in function but nearly all of the missing features have easy workarounds. In my opinion it is by far the best free proper CAD/nurbs solution. As a long time Inventor user I find myself using Fusion 360 Free more and more. If Plasticity matures to include a history tree which allows early design decisions to be edited and propagated downstream then I think it'll be the one to watch. In the meantime, anyone coming from mesh wanting a more parametric workflow - maybe you are following a technical drawing - might be better off using Fusion or OnShape in order to 'Learn The Ways Of The Force'.
Fusion 360 is free for personal use or for businesses with less than $100K revenue. I use Fusion for modeling and Blender for the rendering. Golden combo!
@@user-rg2dz2nu6l fusion 360 is not free, it comes with limited features and a web app ball-and-chain. Friend of mine got bitten badly by it when its policies changed. I warned him they would close the mousetrap eventually and they did. Tiny violin.
Blender on the other hand is **actually** free.
@@user-rg2dz2nu6l "FREE"? thata's yesterdays' news, after they got popularity, they charge.
CAD for CNC 3D modelling for... well modelling, magical how that works isn't it, use the tool right or fuck off. as you can agree.
I don’t think plasticity is blenders biggest rival because if I’m correct plasticity is only used for hard surface modeling, while blender is much more than that. Plasticity is only blenders rival in hard-surface modeling. Not in just an all-around 3D tool.
Exactly.
All blender needs is a nerbs based modeling option in one of the future updates.
And it will happen.......
Howard T. & Henrick D. the blender devs could not do it...blender need a open source libary with the proper allgo s...but this libary doesnt exist...
A own libary is way to much for the devs and Blender time & money budget ...
never happen....
Some Blender Nurbs tools are very very old and code parts are even from the chief..Tom R. as he coded...( 15 years)
Blender is technically not the same thing, its a freedom software, which means it can only be killed by another freedom software. Commercial 3d software have a very bad reputation, they can be easily be killed by not making enough money or making too much money and being bought by another company which then terminates them. Two of my favorite 3d software , Truespace and Softimage were killed like that and I made a promise to myself to never buy another commercial 3d software ever again. The first was killed by Microsoft after it bought it and then latter of course by Autodesk. Freedom software (which both open source and with very freedome orientated terms on code usage and modification) are super hard to kill which guarantees their longlivity also they excel at bug fixing which is a big deal for many of us. Plasticity looks great commercial software but in the end is a commercial software, the problem is not that we have to pay for it the problem is that its future is debatable to say the least and 3d software market has been a savage place for new software for decades now. Especially nowdays moving to new software has become more difficult than ever. Mostly a huge wast of time.
Well said! Can't kill a phenomenal piece of software like Blender unless it's by another open-source software that out-competes it. Given the current level of development of Blender (currently just released version 4.0), I can't imagine such a thing would ever happen unless it's done by next-generation A.I. software development.
Plasticity is as like an addon for Blender. Tasks that would give you a headache in Blender are solved easily in Plasticity and exported as an OBJ with that amazing NGON settings Plasticity has so that you can keep on working with that model in Blender without any problems. Both are amazing and I already have implemented this workflow in my everyday work. The best part is that I don't have any issues anymore importing STEP files into Blender. I use Plasticity as a converter with those NGON settings I mentioned above. I am looking forward to see some Plasticity content from Blenderbros :)
Plugins for Blender are specific for those feature sets and use case and you get the features you pay extra for. As stated below, plasticity is just the new kid on the block but it comes with a price tag before you even get started for most features that are already standard in Blender and available for free.
in addition, the blender is often updated, and it is sponsored by a huge bunch of companies
Nonsense. Where are the surface tools in Blender?
disagree.Blender's parametric modeling is non existent
Blender is free but the developer spend time making it, so is it really free?
@@MetalGearMk3 It is free to use. Yea they spending their time, but no one canceled donations, you know.
Plasticity is just the new kid on the block. Designers such as myself that have been using cad programs generally use programs like Fusion or Solidworks. Plasticity seems to have some cool features but I dont think it compares when it comes to the full production pipeline. You can get the Maker version of Solidworks for $99 a year. Steeper learning curve but is a more valuable asset.
The only thing ive used Plasticity for is to get a semi-clean mesh for a model i made in Solidworks, the Ngon export is pretty good but still not perfect, required a lot of cleanup in blender
+1 to that. Not being one myself but having worked with industrial designers, Solidworks seems like the way to go for engineering/fabrication/any real world application of 3D design. For VFX/games etc. in the end it will come down to polygons so Blender/Maya etc. will be used.
I suppose Plasticity falls into the "Z brush" kind of category, where aside from just concepts, in any pipeline it is an intermediary step before retopology. Judging from the amount of praise it is getting from artists, maybe it is filling a void for artist-centered CAD modeling with a purpose leaning towards retopo for games/film etc., where there isn't a need for the precision and control Solidworks provides.
Plasticity is not meant for engineering or practical applications. Its motto, "CAD for artists," clearly indicates its purpose. It is pointless to compare its ability to design parts for practical use with software like Solidworks. Both Plasticity and Solidworks have distinct goals and purposes. While Plasticity is for artists, Solidworks is for designers and engineers. They are two different softwares for two different industries.
$99 for plasticity is an indefinite license, $99 for solidworks maker is a yearly sub.
Quadremesher licencing also has a Blender plus CAD option for Fusion360 or Solidworks.
I'd be very interested to see how it can be used as a bridge between the two, and for an almost comparative price of $159 vs $99 for plasticity
I never thought I would see you use something other than blender but its cool your putting a focus on plasticity. I see it the same way that its a tool in your arsenal and so far could be worth putting the time into. Since it can be setup so similar to blender the learning curve isn't as bad. Personally I want to use it as a quick way to ideate my designs which would typically be too time consuming to do in Solidworks.
Hi, it's not the death of Blender but the death of Boxcutter, Hard Ops, MechMachine, Kit Ops Bevel, Machin3tools ... ect ;-)
I love Plasticity. Use various CAD apps in the past but my goto was always MOI3D. Problem is if I don’t use it for a few months, I feel like I have to relearn it again as I have so many useful scripts / shortcuts. With Plasticity I can just jump in and off I go, with the occasional glance at my notes. Also prefer how it handles fillets. Definitely the artist friendly CAD app.
I found a way around the topology issue from Plasticity to Blender which involves using a 3rd program 3D coat to retopo the model. The AUTO TOPO in 3D coat does an outstanding job, yes I know I am creating a totally new geometry doing this. But once I convert it to FBX in 3D coat the model is very usable in Blender.
interesting, will have a look, cheers for the tip mate
YOU ARE NOOB IN BLENDER BECAUSE YOU CAN'T HANDLE TOPOLOGY ISSUS THATS WAY YOU SAY BLENDER IS NOT OK
Do you mind sharing more on how you go about this? Maybe a video. Thank you.
Plasticity is great for those like me who uses Blender + Fusion 360 cad workflow, but even so you need to understand how to mix both polygonal and nurb modeling workflows together, otherwise you either do one thing or another, once you can mix both of them properly it really start to speed up tons of things, none the less.... it'll be always the case (for game assets) to use the softwares requires by the studio you work on, so in the end it may just be cool for personal projects, except specific places.
Fusion is also free and it's underrated.
The software is irrelevant where you created the mesh, uvs or textures.
For that exact reason we have interchange formats like obj/fbx or abc and bmp/targ/tiff for textures.
Most studios dont even create most assets themselves, they will only create hero assets.
Everything else will be outsourced.
Cyberpunks city was pretty much entirely outsourced.
DICE outsources nearly every weapon models.
@@sakbiulalom5849 Fusion? Like Fusion 360?
You might be on a student trial, that costs 72 a month, 500 a year, its 5 times more expensive than HoudiniFX Indie
Combination of both plasticity and blender with decal machine as the final touch.
Ok, people use Blender not for modeling stuff, but for texturing, sculpting, animating,compositing, video editing, motion tracking, stabilizing, vfx-ing (or whatever it is), and rendering (sometimes make games), and that P thing can just model
If you want to model, just use that thing, and we will keep using this amazing free software with a healthy and funny community
Oh, and geometry nodesing, simulating, educating, advertising, making art, comedieng
(I hate English)
For anyone that doesn't know anything about 3d modelling. NURBS and Polygon are two different types of 3d modelling, non-of the techniques are transferrable. They have both been around for a long time. There is no reason why all of a sudden a NURBS software would put an end to any Polygon software. It would be like saying apples are going put an end to oranges. Makes no sense.
I use plasticity for main design now and blender for essentially everything else including organic form. Was surprisingly easy to integrate plasticity thanks to ngon export!
Don't punk us with headlines like "The END of Blender!?" It's insulting and deceptive. You have offered great info up until now. Don't be tempted to hype when it's not necessary.
Can we expect any Blender Bros courses on Plasticity in the near future?
Been using hard ops, box cutter and mesh machine for a couple years. Spent a week in Plasticity and I'm really liking it!
Plasticity sẽ tuyệt hơn nếu như thời hạn dùng thử nhiều hơn 30 ngày
blender :all combination animation Tool
plasticity : just modeling tool
that s all
2:50 yes, when you buy addons they technically add up over time, but at least they're not telling me to pay up every damn month.
If you are not 3d printing out the model, the bevel shader node baking trick is good enough for a lot of cases (for eevee), no baking is even needed for cycles.
First of all Mr.Ryuurui a big thanks for your intro into and opinion about Plasticity, because they always have a big value for me.
Your Blender tutorials are outstanding and providing a big learning curve in a short time. Plasticity provides because of it's simple UI an time saving workflow special for creating 3D printing meshes and files. I wish you could dig deeper into it and provide more of this Plasticity tutorials/videos.
I just saw some videos about this but This tutorial was the most perfect one that covered all my questions and problems in action. I appreciate it !
Great impartial overview. As someone who does both 3D Engineering design but also more Freeform visualisation and rendering I can wholeheartedly agree with your comments. Different horses for difference courses.
Interesting software. I always wanted to get better at nurbs modeling in Blender, but it seemed a little cumbersome. Like vector art, nurbs seem to be more logical for shape building. This seems to make nurbs more intuitive. I might have to buy it eventually.
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Plasticity: a 3D modeling program like no other.
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With Plasticity, you can create wonders, unlock your creativity, and be a digital artist extraordinaire!
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Love your tutorials. So happy I found your channel. Thanks for what you do!
cheers bruv!
You don't have to F around with topology, edge loops, subdivisions, vertices, Boolean operations, Etc to create a solid 3D form instantly. That's the beauty of Plasticity! I can't wait to see when they add other helpful hard surface modeling tools in their upcoming updates. Like the Lattice modifier for deforming 3D models needs to be added in.
What do you mean? You know what unwrapping is?
Excellent introduction Ponte. It's like an inbetween Blender and Sketchup, and I just love the simplicity.
You have to give it for plastisity advertising team lol, they decided to pretend that blender is their competition haha, while its all CAD softwares like Rhino 3D and Solidworks. Not a ''polygon'' software like blender or Max and Maya.
finally we see the face of the legend
Note that centering an object when you start to create the shell has been changed from TAB to "C" in the latest version.
ya i was using earlier version
Good stuff! Combining plasticity with blender has so much potential
ya definitely unlocks new possibilities
Wow, tough crowd. Blender is amazing and I don't believe you dissed it. I appreciate you looking further into this software. I bought it a few months ago and love it. I use both and they both have there uses., but for modeling I have found the ease of use and speed of using Plasticity is a no brainer. Learned a few shortcut speedups watching you model as well. Thanks.
if a program is not free and open source it can change the terms of use and price like Unity , or be purchased by one of the large subscribe based companies like Adobe and autodesk
No. Blender is superior.
But Blender can do procedural modeling, non-destructive modeling (modifiers), sculpting, cloth/fluid simulation, material nodes, lighting, rigging, animation, composite, and so much more. Plasticity can only offer tiny fraction of what Blender can offer.
I've been watching Plasticity fairly closely since there were early beta releases & I'm really glad you're coving it.
You said it's be suitable for producing meshes just for rendering or 3D printing, rather than game-assets. I'm guessing to use meshes Plasticity generates as game-assets you'd want to export as a high density mesh & then do a whole load of clean-up to reduce the poly-count where possible.
Does that sound like a good work-flow ?
Also, I reckon a video in that direction would probably be really interesting to people.
you can export a low poly mesh and do the editing on that, then use the data transfer modifier to transfer the high res export vertex normal data to the new low res edited version.
@@MetalGearMk3 it'd be great if someone did a hard surface tutorial showing the workflow from something modeled in Plasticity to meshes for game assets. I know you'd probably want to optimize the poly count for in-game use versus concept renders.
loved to see more advanced plasticity tutorial ❤❤❤
as mentioned.. plasticity is not a blendr competitor. but instead.. is a Harp Ops and BoxCutter competition.. yes they work inside blender but to say is blenders competition.. nahhh....
cant wait to have a bridge from plasticity to blender...
cheers markko...
It’s good to see you on camera! As always great insights.
As someone interested in product design.. resin 3d printing for jewelry and figurines.. I'm on zbrush and blender.. but I'm not much interested in Rhino. But I'm also interested in cnc metal machined products.. which many use Fusion 360. Plasticity seems like the "adobe illustrator of 3d" from what I've heard so I'm considering it, but are the things made on it format compatible to cnc machining? Since it's cad based nurbs I'm inclined to say yes but can you import files from it to another cad software without converting the file into a mesh?
Awesome little demo. I already have Plasticity and love it. But I love Blender too. They work nice together for certain things.
I stopped using f360 cause they make you have to submit your models for "evaluation" before you can do anything with it. Does this program do that?
Having just spent a couple of days learning some hard surface modeling in blender
by making a car top luggage case from scratch,
watching this sort of thing done in nearly as much time
as it takes to bake and deliver a pizza?
I can see why this is so fun. 🙂
The best thing about Blender is it's 'FREE OF CHARGE' with that it has a lot of professional tools and addons.
Blender, hands down.
came to watch after few weeks and i have to say that the quality of video is just woow!!
wonderful!! Keep going!!!
How about Rhino3D? It’s a good pickup if you can get student pricing- a professional tool. The quad remesher is pretty robust too.
IMO, Rhino is on a different league.
Ok, i must admit the title is a bit too much and yes Blender is free and yes Plasticity isn't (btw 99$ with no subscription and it's yours) but, guys have you ever bought some addons? Or even made a donation to the Blender Foundation? I've got some addons and even gave some money to support Blender. As soon as you give money for whatever good purposes : it's not free in a certain way of course. Nothing is really free in our world.
Lots of Blender users have other softwares in their kit that suit their needs and most of them could be done in Blender. So what, they are bad persons, they betray Blender? No of course, we are sometime used to softwares with specific tools to be efficient. Ponte never said he will leave Blender for Plasticity but just it's a perfect tool for hard surface modeling combined with Blender.
18:30 in Rhino I do stuff like select the trigger then assign the gun as the cutting object. Delete excess. Then use the new trigger to cut holes into the gun. Join the two.
Hello thank you, I wanted to try the "FREE" jumpstart but it doesn't seem to work. It says error processing and the top shows 97$ ? What to do or is the offer cancelled? Thank you
You probbaly removed the coupon. We have hundreds of people joining daily and you're the only one with the issue. Try again.
I have a friend that worked for NASA creating space habitats. She uses Rhino. I sat over her shoulder the other week looking at her using the more CAD-based workflow and it’s truly something special. At least with the work she does, it’s practically half coding.
I’ve been using Blender for five years now. think Blender has loose ends to tie up across many of its features. Softwares dedicated to hard-surface and precision are surely more sophisticated in the area, just as programs like Cinema4D have better industry-standard tools for animation, design iteration and rendering.
But ultimately Blender is SO unique in its passionate community and vast application. The plugins are wild and I think in many ways it truly is the best 3D modeling software ever created. Best of all, I feel it will continue to be, because it’s always growing and expanding as times change. So while I definitely tip my hat to Plasticity which I’ve seen making the rounds the past few months, I surely don’t see it replacing Blender by any means (and obviously it won’t, the title is surely clickbait-but hey, got my click).
My ideal workflow with this tool would be creating the models in Plasticity and then just retopo in Blender or Maya, then treat the model as normal.
Being able to simply focus on the shape without having to worry about topology let's my peanut brain come up with way higher quality models so much faster
Designspark mechanical knows the same tricks as Plasticity ( bevels, lofts booleans etc.) for free. I've been using it for a couple of years, and really like it
What about FreeCAD with the Curves add-on ? Or geometry nodes in Blender. Can you use geometry nodes in Blender to create similar functions that work based on curves ?
Plasticity is a Monster tool with a proper remeshing tool....its like Lego for the mind..
For near 90 % of hardsurface we use it now in the company... no Zbrush no Maya.. anymore with the bridge to blender...
For games from concept to game ready model...and we are twice as fast as with Maya or blender or Z brush..
...in six month we save near 1 month of working as last year with two workers less and much more output...
p.s.the cool no problem altering edit procedural non destruction workflow helps so much.
no problems with edits big changes of f.e. bevels chamfers of models ..or modfiers who Blender crashes ...
my go to tool even privat.
..PP.S. your tuts and tips are amazing...
@19:17 I'm trying to create the cylinder as a separate solid, but for some reason it automatically creates a union with the gun itself. I've tried locking the gun solid but that doesn't help. What am I doing wrong?
You not using blender
Awesome tut. Should do more tuts!
For the people arguing in the comments that blender is better, you just don't get it.
the comparison isn't even valid, since these two things are not even in the same category.
I love you ponte, but the title, thumbnail and part of the presentation of the video are misleading, comparing the constellation of tools that blender is, and it's thousand different niches, work flows and use cases to a parametric surface modeler doesn't even make sens.
Plasticity is incredible, and it's a pretty useful tool to just quickly cook some pain in the ass mesh that would need advanced polygonal modeling wizardry, and just import it into your scene and call it a day.
hard surface models won't even be deformed in animation so who cares about topology and ngons, as long as they look clean.
Honestly i really hope that someday the blender foundation introduces a surface modeler inside blender with its own interface like sculpt mode, that would be the day.
as someone who comes from parametric software (PTC Creo, used to design for manufacturing) this seem more like what I'm used to. The monetization is interesting though, I just started blender and I'll see how that goes before I try plasticity.
Thanks for sharing this comparison! Very useful info and I discovered a new program I can use.
Blender isn't just about Modelling so I don't think Plasticity is close to what Blender could actually do and since it's open source, people could actually create plug ins and such.
I am wondering if it will be useful to bring models from blender to Plasticity just for making high poly models since the bevels are way less complicated inplasticity then used the high poly model for baking. in other words, plasticity to replace Zbrush in some people s workflow
may I ask : why do you have multiple instances of blender in your task bar ? can yoyu have different start up files ? if yes, how please !
you can, and i need multiple versions for my work, sometimes i record vanilla content, another time addon content, i am testing various features, new blender versions etc.
I am not sure what to think about Plasticity. It seems to be amazing, but still early stage. People say that they have export-problems, they say it doesnt look clean in Blender. Spending hours of modelling for something that doesnt look clean in Blender or Unreal would be horrible.
I've seen these comments too, its bs try the 90 day trial. Thee ppl commenting about bad topology must be using incorrect export settings. Im getting perfectly clean mesh.
The bridge between those two software will be the ultimate solution becuase both software have something unique and irreplacable.
How to UV unwrap such?
hmm... so while the bevel might work fine in this software would it mess up the shaders if exporting to UE?
Well the issue could be triangulation, you need to pre traingulate the mesh to avoid possible shading issues is SP, marmoset, UE etc. You do not want your mesh to be auto traingulated upon import.
Here's a fairly unrelated question:
3DS Max(afaik) has a modifier that lets you edit the resulting mesh from the previous modifiers in the stack. I've looked around now & again looking for a Bender add-on that'd add a similar modifier. Does anyone know if something like this exists ?
The most close to this I've found is "Sculpting layers" - a very very good addon!
Ponte, you looks like a professor you cannot disapoint.
finally we see his face lol
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thank you Ponte for this great rundown. It looks like, you could also export with a lower density, which means. It would also qualify using it for low-poly game assets? Or would that not work? Thx for sharing, appreciate it!
try it, shading may break but you never know, they also have a bridge to blender now
So that's the face behind the dark lords voice! (I like it! Surprisingly friendly :D ) - For Game Art? We could simply do retopo the result from Plasticity and bake it down? I don't really see how this would differ. Except not being able to work on high and low simultaneously? We could even bring it to ZBrush and Zremesh it, trying to keep hard angles intact? (v.2021+) I think Quad Remesher in Blender would be the equivalent.
Curious: Why is the beginner lesson using blender 3.2.0? I have blender 3.3.0. Will I still be able to follow along?
version doesnt matter
BOTH! Plasticity is fantastic for HSM. Can't wait for the bridge to Blender to render out the goods.
I wish Plasticity were released in public domain the same way as Blender.
so ... what about Houdini, have you tried it?
alt+x + (xyz) in placticity, unless its in a newer version hops requires you to click on the axis.
You look and sound like the first form of the last boss in a Final Fantasy game, you know, the human form... before transforming into a 7 winged creature from another dimension that bends time and space.
Great video by the way! I'm going to give Plasticity a try!
I love both Blender and Plasticity. Thanks for featuring it!
It is a great tool for hard surface modelling that does not have an interface from another decade (fusion) or that is over complicated where it looks like you need a degree in mathematics to understand.
Blender is still my workhorse for most things but this may replace my workflow for hard surface stuff.
Excellent demo. Thank you!
Plastisity is my new favorite hardsurface modeling software. I discovered it yesterday and played around with the hole day. It is fantastic!
welcome to nurbs? this has been normal cad flow forever. Rhino, Autocad, Moi etc. Maya, Softimage etc started out as Nurbs only. poly modelling was added in after!
More plasticity content please, the bridge to blender in real-time is madness.
Thanks for the info.
When mirror, press Q, it will merge the objects without the need of clicking on the menu.
oh good one, cheers
I've tried plasticity, and I cannot use it for anything else than to convert cad models to polygon models, as export is quite good. But for cad software for me personally it lacks of lot's of features I am used to. So if i need CAD i use solidworks. For me it's the most convenient CAD I've tried. For polygonal modeling - blender.
There is another 3D modeling software that is fast called Silo 2023 from Nevercenter. Once you learn it, you can create models much faster than in blender and other 3D software. Nevercenter were notorious for not updating Silo for years, but recently have been updating it. I think because they are working with unreal engine company? Anyway, The price is $159, but they do have sales on holidays etc. I bought PixelMash from them too.
Can you model using real unit dimensions?
I havent played with 3D in years, do they still make Rhinoceros, or Rhino 3D? It did curves so well.
Looks useful for modeling watches and their complex compound curves 😍
A quick question, I am kinda new to modelling so I would like to know between Blender and Plasticity which is best for creating 3D game assets?
You will need Blender no matter what, plasticity doesnt produce game ready mesh.
Thanks a lot. Your hard surface tutorials are motivating to say the least
I have several of your courses and this is the first time I have seen your face. Man, your voice is unreal.
cheers mate, hope you're enjoying the courses!