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No, this effect is not something you can bake, but I do have another tool specifically for painting normal maps that will be coming soon! That will be exportable to other softwares.

No, this effect is not something you can bake, but I do have another tool specifically for painting normal maps that will be coming soon! That will be exportable to other softwares.

Hey so this is actually more heavily CPU bound then GPU since it has to compute the mesh information for every single frame. One thing that can definitely improve things in the most recent 4.2 version of blender is using a bake node at the very end of the node tree in the geometry nodes panel and then baking out the animation sequence before the render. This will definitely ease up the processing, but be aware that if you make any changes, you will need to delete and re-bake the cache.

It should update as the scene changes since it is taking all the mesh data live, all you need to do is animate your scene for it to follow.

Im using eevee by the way!

Hey, that is definitely strange with the lighting, sometimes for shaders you do need to have very bright lights for things to react properly, but my main guess is that the geometry nodes part is no longer working in updated versions of blender and it is messing with the shader. I plan on updating this hopefully soon in the summer. I have some new ideas I want to implement but it might be awhile till I can get that working properly. As for the stroke node, it is pretty deep inside the node tree of the shader editor, do you plan on altering it?

@@Tradigital omg you're so fast to answer and I really appreciate that hahah I see, yea that might be the issue but no problem I'll try to mess with it until it works. As for the paint stroke node, I was just trying to append it like you did at 40:15 but I couldn't find it. I did some digging and I found out that it is indeed there but it's under another name, it's under "Blender Illustration Shader" so that was solved hahaha. I'll def look for the new update, I appreciate your hard work and can't wait to see what you come up with!! I wish you a great summer brother. (PS: I'm doing a short simple skull render to dip my toes in the water XD , I'll tag you when i post the video)

@Cansyrian oh I forgot I changed the name, glad you found it. I will be revising it for this to all be easier in the coming months hopefully, this is very out of date, especially in Geometry Nodes tree. Definitely keep me up to date and I can try to answer anymore questions you have. Message me on Instagram or Twitter with images and it can normally be easier to answer any concerns.

This is actually something that can be improved in the current 4.2 version of blender. If you add a Bake node to the very end of the node tree and bake the animation sequence, you can render much quicker and less likely to crash since it has the computation saved as a cache!

@@Tradigital oh thanks for your quick response! 🙏🏻 I will definitely try that !

Hey, when I say baking, I am talking more about cache baking that will help speed up animation workflows. What you’re proposing is actually already possible. You will just want to disable your scene collection and enable transparent backgrounds. That should give you what you are looking for!

Hey, I changed the input process. It is now treated as an asset that you just drag into your viewport from the asset manager. Just add the downloaded file to your asset location and it should work!

@@Tradigital aah okay, does the rendering takes time like 7 minutes? is that normal?

That really depends on the settings you are using and your system. Eevee doesn’t need a lot of samples to make this work, what typically takes time is the computing of each frame. Resolution and system performance is probably going to be the biggest factors to render time.

It currently does not support orthographic. I do plan on implementing a change in the future with it though.

Hey, I had to remove it temporarily because of people misusing it. I will have an update soon though that will have cycles support.

Hey! I actually explain in basics how to do it in this video Turning 3D Models into Masterpieces: A Blender Tutorial th-cam.com/video/6uaJ0L4E390/w-d-xo.html

The overall process is identical. As long as you are using geometry and have your collection setup, it should look clear. The only significant change is swapping the detail level out for min and max stroke scale that give you more freedom over the final results. I would need more information on “blurry” to understand what is happening. This could refraction issues or flow issues depending on how you setup and which step you might have missed.

Hey! Sorry to hear that? Could you explain the process you used to import more? I did change it so you can use the asset browser since I had a lot of requests for that. If you add the file to your asset location, you can just drag it into the scene and it should look correct without any settings blown out. Give that a try and get back with me if it is still messed up.

@@Tradigital sorry for responding late, been kinda busy thats all lol, ill try this and see if it works!

@@Tradigital how i imported stuff? i basically followed all the steps in your tutorial, including checking out all the checkboxes and whatnot, for what i imported it was mostly basic models and whatnot, nothing too complex. im a bit new to 3D modelling though

So yes, the method has been updated like I said, the old method will import the previous scene which is not necessary. I would try the asset browser like I said above and see if that works

@@Tradigital put it in my asset folder and it does appear once opening the asset browser, at least for me it works more like a shortcut for the asset rather then how you described, still had to apply the same settings, slightly less crude looking this time around! still not quite oil like yet but i feel like ive made some progress!

I suppose you could if you wanted. You would just need to replace the plane instance with an actual geometric brush stroke. Only issue is that the refraction would probably not work properly anymore.

Are the paint blobs geometry or normals? They look 3D, and a depth map of that is exactly what I’d be looking for.

@JulianKingman they are just a bump map, so normals. They’re not actually modifying the topology.

Depending on the settings you enable, it can be a little better or a lot worse then the grease pencil modifier. Keep in mind this is something you use at the end of a project and you won’t want it enabled while you work on modeling or animation.

i have the same problem :,v

What version of Blender are you using?

@@Tradigital hi, thank you for answering. I really appreciate you took the time. I am on 4.02

Hmm this is definitely strange. It should be working fine. You might need to email me your file to solve the issue. My email is “tradigital3d@gmail.com”

I think you dropped a response here for me. I cannot see it again. I tried but the objects in my scene were not entirely visible was it because my objects didn't have lighting at an angle that cast a shadow as in the case of this tutorial? Also, how do I make use of the painterly borders? Is there a tutorial for that here?

@kaykred1668 no idea what happened to my previous response. I can’t quite tell what your issue is. What do you mean the objects are not entirely visible? Are they too abstract because of the filter, or is it a lighting issue like you mentioned? Just a bit confused. Keep in mind, this effect is meant to give an almost impressionistic painterly effect to your scenes. What separates something from the realistic to the impressionistic side of painting is the simplicity of the shapes. If you try to show every single tiny detail you have in your scene, you will lose the painterly effect and it will probably end up just looking pixelated almost. Sorry if that doesn’t make sense but I’ve had to have this conversation with some people before when they assumed details would still show up in the final effect. The point of this filter is almost to eliminate detail and simplify down the scene into brushstrokes.

@@Tradigital oh. okay. I get it now. how do I make use of the painterly borders? Is there a tutorial for that here?

So I don’t have a tutorial on that. It is just a shader effect that you can throw into your scene materials. You will place it at then end of your shader node tree. The settings are similar to the illustration shader. Hope that helps!

Lower the minimum and maximum stroke scale. This should increase the details of your render.

@@Tradigital I will try that.

My technical background is actually in fine art with a BFA and MFA but focused a lot on digital 3D. I was never actually taught geometry or shader nodes. It was more just something that I picked up as I continued to learn 3D. A group that drastically helped me was Erindale’s discord. He is a geometry nodes TH-camr. His tutorials and help on projects was huge. Especially when I was first starting. I couldn’t have done this without his help.

It is most likely due to some of the settings you have enabled. Many of the lines that are generated come from the model itself, like the contour and crease lines. Then there are other lines that require very heavy computation to generate where they will appear because they do not already exist. That could be things like cast shadow, shadow infill, and mesh intersection. To get these to work, I have to many times give more information to your model so that I can extract where the lines will be. If you are having performance issues, I would recommend turning those off until you are in the rendering stage. I would also not recommend using the line art at all when working on animations. Disabling it in the outliner should give you your performance back.

​@@Tradigital I have a model with 5000 triangles and when I put the line have 3 Million. I don't have anything strange activated I think, I'll check it and tell you

@iria777 what is the overall scale of your object. I believe this might be a resample by length issue.

@@Iria17 sorry, I mean the scale as in how many meters is it in size? The resample happens by length so if your model is oversized then it will generate more geometry then needed.

Hey, it should resample it but by screen space instead of world space. That may be a glitch on my part. I’ll look into that!

Oh shoot, that might be a mistake on my end. I tend to forget to re-add features back in when I update something. I’ll have that fixed in the next update! Thank you for the info!

It’s hard to know what is happening here. I don’t have any settings that can change what will happen to the line art between viewport and render, but it might be a simulation error. Could you send me the file at “tradigital3d@gmail.com”?

Hey, I removed the detail monitor and focused it more on the scale. If you set the min scale pretty low, you will get the details you are after.

Sorry, I don’t claim to be an animator so I leave that to others with far more experience. You can check out a few examples on the tagged section of my Instagram though.

@@Tradigital doesn’t need to be beautiful animation, just something to prove the technique is applicable to moving objects and changing perspectives

have a great day

and is it working on grease pencil too ?

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Hey, not sure what is happening with the blur. I would need to see an example to understand better. You can email me at tradigital3d@gmail.com with some images of what you’re encountering. As for grease pencil, no, it is not supported. Eevee currently does not recognize grease pencil through refraction. So you will have to convert it to mesh before it will show through the filter.

Could you explain what you mean by “render out of frame”? If you have a separate camera then you will need to assign it to the modifier for an animation.

@@Tradigital Wow, thank you for the quick response. I only have one camera. When I render the view of this camera as an image (simply by pressing F12), I don't see any effect from the filter, only my scene without the Filter.

Through the camera, I can see the effect. However, it's not visible in the rendered image.

Oh, my bad, I misread your comment. That probably means you have either the object or modifier render off. If you go to the outliner, you should see a render icon next to each object. Make sure that is enabled for the paint filter. Also check the modifier stack as well for the same icon. If it is disabled then it will not render.

@@TradigitalOh God, you're right! I remember turning off the modifier... how dumb of me. :D ... but thanks for your quick help. You've earned a subscription! :)

I will look into it. Thank you for letting me know. If you could send your project files to “tradigital3d@gmail.com” then I can hopefully find the issue quicker.

You would have to bake every single frames lighting to make cycles work for animation. I would recommend using eevee for this use case. The results will look better anyway.