Oh my gosh. First, I never knew Kitbash gave a scene with the file. Then watching this, when he talks about instancing, I slapped my forehead in disbelief that I never thought of that. For years I've been using Kitbash models without instancing and it's been super slow to render. Dang. I am so happy you made this video, thank you so much. I hope you do more Blender tutorials with your kits as it's always fantastic to watch how pros work.
As a very beginner, this video answered 90% of the questions I had about using blender, and 100% about whether Kitbash3D was right for me. Fantastic! I can’t thank you enough for this.
Learning about the terrain was worth so much! My computer can't handle the entire Minerva blend file, but I'm having a great time trying to tweak the buildings to do what I need. The chairs in the community centre should have been instanced. I think they're all the same object!
This is absolutely wonderful to see, but my STRONGEST suggestion is that you make a longer full fledged tutorial for specifically using Blender with Kitbash3D kits. I've been doing one-on-one training with two artists teaching me how to use Blender with the Kitbash3D kits and I have to believe there is a market for this type of learning.
Man, I was so happy while watching this tutorial that my eyes got teary. This has definitely brought me clarity and now I know where and how to start with kitbash. I hope to be able to show my work soon. A huge hug. God bless you for sharing this knowledge!
Very well explained and done, Great job. Having a Free Space Scifi theme kit is amazing enough so doing the challenge will make it so much more fun and enjoying
@@KitBash3D haha! I meant it in a good way. :) some of your featured artists helped me out via DMs back than actually. But this is great. Next do more Geometry Nodes!
Would really love to see more tutotials in the future, even if i had to pay for a course it would really help. im just getting started into blender/ the 3d space in general thank you for this
Simply amazing. Exactly what I needed to know and beautifully presented and paced. William Bang is the sh*t. Liked, subbed and off to look for more of his tutorials!
12:12: Easier said then done. Blender recently dropped support for OpenCL and now won't support my GPU anymore, not without a newer motherboard that supports PCI-E atomics at least (which would be extremely expensive as I would also have to switch out my CPUs and very large amount of RAM)... So I am stuck with CPU rendering for the time being. Really wish they would have chosen a more well-supported standard than HIP. That said, it is really surprising just how fast live ray tracing can actually get a pretty understandable image on my 2011 Xeon CPUs and even my older 2009 Xeon CPUs before then. It may be noisy, but it can certainly give a good idea of how the scene looks especially at a lower viewport preview resolution or by zooming in. It also has the benefit of not being limited by VRAM, which has particularly been a problem for me with some KitBash3D kits that will go over my GPUs 8GB and cause textured view to slow to a crawl, while meanwhile, the Cycles CPU rendering works just fine as long as I have a huge amount of RAM to go with it, which I do, as I was tired of always running out and my old server motherboard supports a LOT.
There's no shame in using an older version of Blender. I've seen guys like Ian Hubert still using many different older versions all at once depending on their updates.
This looks awesome will definitely keep in mind for kit bashing! I’m learning more of the right way on all the fundamentals and basics first before I start creating too much however, I don’t want to get into advanced stuff and not know what I’m doing and give up lol. I did know the majority of what you were talking about though which is awesome from some courses I did just take!
Thanks for this challenge and opportunity for new and old artists! Wanted to ask tho. My PC meets the minimum requirements of specs that written in "read me" file. But when I open the .blend file it's lugging like there's no tomorrow. And makes it impossible to work. Can I actually do something about it!? Thanks in advance 🙏
Hey there, we put this article together with some ideas on how to optimize for performance in Blender: help.kitbash3d.com/en/articles/6637865-how-to-best-optimize-kitbash3d-kits-for-blender
Why do you make instances in a different scene? Why not keep everything one scene and have the original components in a collection which is not visible? Is there an advantage? I guess it keeps the working scene cleaner.
Great question! This really comes down to your preference, but William created the instances in a separate scene to avoid unintentionally including them in the render and, like you said, it makes for a cleaner scene. There are many ways to go about this process so definitely experiment and find what works best for you!
This is a great tutorial but I wish the kits for Blender were provided as collections already or even better as asset libraries. There may be some technical limitation, I don't know, but It's pretty tedious having to do this setup for every kit. Also, it's good to know the info in the HDRI part but everyone should just go get HDRI Wizard. It's awesome and free. Not affiliated, just appreciate it.
I would love to do this project... however the kit is killing my machine... I have 24gig RAM... do you have any advice to make this kit usable for us mere mortals? Thank you for the kit though it looks amazing.
This is what KitBash3D should've done years ago, namely published tutorial videos to get us hooked on this artful crack! Next, you guys need to publish your kits to be easily added to Blender's "asset browser".
Scale Soft Selection...what do you mean by middle mouse + scroll? After selecting the point and attempting to scroll with the middle mouse button is just zooms in/out...
amazing kit and super cool you made it free! only thing is its very heavy for my pc, and it crashes if i load in all the files at once. i think it could have used with some heavy texture optimization
Thanks for the feedback! Here are a few things you can try if you haven't already: help.kitbash3d.com/en/articles/6637865-how-to-best-optimize-kitbash3d-kits-for-blender
the instance to scene method is great but why is this better than just copying the collection does anyone know please? The face count is still the same so why would performance be better? I have found no difference!
What type of computer are you using?? I bought the Mac studio ultra with 64-core and 128G Memory. When I copy the buildings like you described in the video my whole computer gets slow and laggy! This is the fastest computer apple Carry. Should I be doing this workflow on a pc?
Hey there! We just published an article that outlines some steps you can take to optimize the Kit in Blender if it's not running well on your machine: intercom.help/kitbash3d/en/articles/6637865-how-to-best-optimize-kitbash3d-kits-for-blender
This is exactly what I need but I could get past adding the displacement to the terrain. Its not loaded also the scene collection is not in folders like Big, Detail, Small etc. I have Blender 3.3.1
I've opened the Minerva kit in Blender as instructed in this video. But, when I render a still, the textures do not appear on the model. How do I assign the textures from the kit to the models in Blender?
I don't understand why this kit is very laggy on my computer, does any one else have the same issue or solution to fix it ? Got 32gb of ram and a 2080...
I'm not able opening that blender file whenever i try to open it, blender keep getting crash and then I'll get a black screen then i have to restart my PC after that my specs is RTX 3060(6gb Vram) 16GB ram and i7 11800H
Hey there, you can use other assets in addition to the Minerva assets and you are free to manipulate the Minerva assets as well! Excited to see what you create! 🙂
First time really trying to do something with blender could never understand how it worked! Love the tutorial. some of the textures in the kit though seem to be purple still. Any Help?
When I start working with third party material, I have the same feeling, but I keep adding things and transforming them until I feel like I own it. Same issues with houses: can't feel home until I take a wall down.
When I instance a collection to the scene, it creates the instance, but the instance's location is back at 0,0 instead of at the base of the object. That makes it really difficult to work with and place where I want it. Is there a good way to solve this that doesn't involve having to move each item to 0,0 before instancing the collection?
Hey there! We recommend checking out our Discord community for advice and tips. We have a Blender channel there where you can try posting this question. 🙂discord.gg/kitbash3d
What is the license to use this Being a free kit, and how much does that license cost, on the website “freelance” looks right but I’d prefer it be a bit more explicitly fleshed out I”m trying to get into freelance 3D as a side hustle..I just wanna be clear on using assets(free)
Hey there! You can find more on licensing for Mission to Minerva here: help.kitbash3d.com/en/articles/6614024-mission-to-minerva-challenge-faqs#h_4686463c0b
I've only linked one object to my scene and Blender is going so slowly, to the point it's unusable. It's really frustrating. What set up do I need to run Blender smoothly? Current setup: Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, 8-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine, 16GB unified memory
I’m having the same problem, I bought the Mac studio 64 core, 8Tb Hd, 128 gig ram and this blender/kit ash combo is running soooo slow I can’t even complete the first part of the project. I feel like my 15k set up is useless. Don’t know if everyone else’s is using pc or Mac. I have the best apple computer out right now and it can’t hang!!!! I don’t know what to do! So frustrating!
I feel ya! It’s surprising your system is still struggling. I would get a PC but it seems like you need to be an engineer to build one! I wish somebody would just tell me what to buy to get Blender working smoothly.
I was following the tutorial and I had an issue with the displacement, don't know exactly why but whenever I change from the modeling view to preview in cycles all the displaced terrain looks different. Any idea why this happens? I was just thinking that it might be because following the tutorial I used just the simple subdiv and just put 6 in the viewport instead of in the render?? But he does the same thing and it looks fine, don't know exactly what it's going on
when I downloaded the kit it only downloaded the textures but without the objects, so does anyone know how to get the objects or if I did anything wrong?
The 3D Files and Textures come in two separate zip files. Check your browser settings to see if you need to enable multiple downloads to get both. If you're still having trouble send us a chat message at help.kitbash3d.com. Thanks!
If you're asking about the Mission to Minerva challenge, yes you can absolutely include other assets! We just require you use at least one Minerva asset and stick with the theme of the challenge. 😄
Hi. Can You write your PC spec. I try several time and Blender crashes all the time. i have AMD1950X 16/32, 64GB ram and GTX 1060 6GB. Where is the problem? :/
in case anyone is having issues getting cargo working with Blender 3.6 LTS or maybe future versions I made a video showing how I was able to get it working. th-cam.com/video/XeSwKXqfAIs/w-d-xo.html
A free kit with a space theme? I feel like I’ve already won. Can’t wait to see what the community comes up with!
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One of the tightest 'intro to Blender' courses I've ever seen. Well done!
Love to hear it - thanks Andrew!
"And the Minerva Challenge winner is.....KB3D." ;) Great tutorial to get new Blender users up and running.
One of the best intro. This video give me the best short key idea within 15 min and this is the best courses I've ever seen. Well done!
Oh my gosh. First, I never knew Kitbash gave a scene with the file. Then watching this, when he talks about instancing, I slapped my forehead in disbelief that I never thought of that. For years I've been using Kitbash models without instancing and it's been super slow to render. Dang. I am so happy you made this video, thank you so much. I hope you do more Blender tutorials with your kits as it's always fantastic to watch how pros work.
Thanks Bennie! So glad this was helpful!
Ha ha. Yeah that is such a brilliant tip.
As a very beginner, this video answered 90% of the questions I had about using blender, and 100% about whether Kitbash3D was right for me.
Fantastic!
I can’t thank you enough for this.
William! Hey! I didn't expect to see you here! I love your stuff!
finally a tutorial on how to use the kitbash3d models !!
This video is everything I've ever dreamed of
Same here!
The best tutorial from Start to Finish for Blender, Kitbash, Post-production, All in One. This is a Gem! 👏🏻
Wow, free kit + free training, this is awesome! Let's now create my own world inside my head! 🦾
Can't wait to see what you create!
Please do more blender tutorials!🙌🙌
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New to Blender and this has been a fantastic tutorial. Thank you so much! I definitely hope you guys make more of these videos!
So glad you found it helpful! 😄
Learning about the terrain was worth so much! My computer can't handle the entire Minerva blend file, but I'm having a great time trying to tweak the buildings to do what I need. The chairs in the community centre should have been instanced. I think they're all the same object!
This is absolutely wonderful to see, but my STRONGEST suggestion is that you make a longer full fledged tutorial for specifically using Blender with Kitbash3D kits. I've been doing one-on-one training with two artists teaching me how to use Blender with the Kitbash3D kits and I have to believe there is a market for this type of learning.
So glad you liked it! Appreciate your feedback - we do plan on working on additional tutorials in the future. 🙂
Where did you find your tutors. I am interested in hiring someone to get me up to speed.
I always had performance problem with large scenes in Blender, thank you for the tip, now I know how to optimize my large scenes~
This basic Blender intro tutorial is brilliant
Glad you like it!
Thank u Kitbash .. this is Amazing
We're glad you like it!
Man, I was so happy while watching this tutorial that my eyes got teary. This has definitely brought me clarity and now I know where and how to start with kitbash. I hope to be able to show my work soon. A huge hug.
God bless you for sharing this knowledge!
Thanks!!! Always wanted to know you use these kits for environments.
Very well explained and done, Great job. Having a Free Space Scifi theme kit is amazing enough so doing the challenge will make it so much more fun and enjoying
We're glad you like it! Excited to see what you create!
Hey! Thanks so much for this video!
You are so welcome!
At least! A great tutorial for Kitbash3D for Blender! Thank you!
Great stuff - more Blender Kitbashery please (:
Wow! Wish I had this video 3 years ago when I started learning to use Kitbash with Blender!
Better late than never right? :)
@@KitBash3D haha! I meant it in a good way. :) some of your featured artists helped me out via DMs back than actually. But this is great. Next do more Geometry Nodes!
Would really love to see more tutotials in the future, even if i had to pay for a course it would really help. im just getting started into blender/ the 3d space in general thank you for this
Glad you found it helpful!
This is so cool, a great opportunity to experiment in blender!
Glad you like it!
Awesome Blender course!! it was very helpful especially coming from a 3ds max background.
Glad to hear it! 🚀
Simply amazing. Exactly what I needed to know and beautifully presented and paced. William Bang is the sh*t. Liked, subbed and off to look for more of his tutorials!
Thanks! This was a great tutorial.
Glad it was helpful! 🚀
12:12: Easier said then done. Blender recently dropped support for OpenCL and now won't support my GPU anymore, not without a newer motherboard that supports PCI-E atomics at least (which would be extremely expensive as I would also have to switch out my CPUs and very large amount of RAM)... So I am stuck with CPU rendering for the time being. Really wish they would have chosen a more well-supported standard than HIP.
That said, it is really surprising just how fast live ray tracing can actually get a pretty understandable image on my 2011 Xeon CPUs and even my older 2009 Xeon CPUs before then. It may be noisy, but it can certainly give a good idea of how the scene looks especially at a lower viewport preview resolution or by zooming in. It also has the benefit of not being limited by VRAM, which has particularly been a problem for me with some KitBash3D kits that will go over my GPUs 8GB and cause textured view to slow to a crawl, while meanwhile, the Cycles CPU rendering works just fine as long as I have a huge amount of RAM to go with it, which I do, as I was tired of always running out and my old server motherboard supports a LOT.
There's no shame in using an older version of Blender. I've seen guys like Ian Hubert still using many different older versions all at once depending on their updates.
can't go wrong here. loving this stuff. 🥰
Awesome helpful 👍👍
Excellent!! Really great tutorial!!
We're so glad you liked it!
respect!
Great, now I don't have to figure it out for myself!
Awesome stuff... I wanna make Star Wars worlds
Do it! Would love to see what you create.
This is a great tutorial, answered all my basic questions about getting started with a KitBash kit in Blender. Awesome!
Glad you like it!! 🚀
Please make more tutorials on how to use kits from KitBash3D.
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Thank you for explaining this thoroughly!
Thank you so much, this is GREAT 😎
You're very welcome! 🧑🚀
This looks awesome will definitely keep in mind for kit bashing! I’m learning more of the right way on all the fundamentals and basics first before I start creating too much however, I don’t want to get into advanced stuff and not know what I’m doing and give up lol. I did know the majority of what you were talking about though which is awesome from some courses I did just take!
The legend!!
Thanks for this challenge and opportunity for new and old artists! Wanted to ask tho. My PC meets the minimum requirements of specs that written in "read me" file. But when I open the .blend file it's lugging like there's no tomorrow. And makes it impossible to work. Can I actually do something about it!? Thanks in advance 🙏
Hey there, we put this article together with some ideas on how to optimize for performance in Blender: help.kitbash3d.com/en/articles/6637865-how-to-best-optimize-kitbash3d-kits-for-blender
Why do you make instances in a different scene? Why not keep everything one scene and have the original components in a collection which is not visible? Is there an advantage? I guess it keeps the working scene cleaner.
Great question! This really comes down to your preference, but William created the instances in a separate scene to avoid unintentionally including them in the render and, like you said, it makes for a cleaner scene. There are many ways to go about this process so definitely experiment and find what works best for you!
This is a great tutorial but I wish the kits for Blender were provided as collections already or even better as asset libraries. There may be some technical limitation, I don't know, but It's pretty tedious having to do this setup for every kit. Also, it's good to know the info in the HDRI part but everyone should just go get HDRI Wizard. It's awesome and free. Not affiliated, just appreciate it.
I can't wait to start world building.
Let's go! 🏗️🔨
Excelente tutorial!
My god this scene is so heavy, cant even do a eevee render
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Thank you! 👍👍👍
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all workеd
I would love to do this project... however the kit is killing my machine... I have 24gig RAM... do you have any advice to make this kit usable for us mere mortals? Thank you for the kit though it looks amazing.
I down-scaled all the textures to 1024 and it only uses 2.1 gb vram instead of 12 ish.
Nice 😍 do you have any tips to improve the performance with the high amounts of polys the Models come with?
He suggested using instances which speeds it up a lot.
I found appending buildings into a new Blender file one at a time helps for low end potato computers.
@@RickHenderson savage
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This is what KitBash3D should've done years ago, namely published tutorial videos to get us hooked on this artful crack! Next, you guys need to publish your kits to be easily added to Blender's "asset browser".
Scale Soft Selection...what do you mean by middle mouse + scroll? After selecting the point and attempting to scroll with the middle mouse button is just zooms in/out...
I had the same problem. Somebody plz help.
amazing kit and super cool you made it free! only thing is its very heavy for my pc, and it crashes if i load in all the files at once. i think it could have used with some heavy texture optimization
Thanks for the feedback! Here are a few things you can try if you haven't already: help.kitbash3d.com/en/articles/6637865-how-to-best-optimize-kitbash3d-kits-for-blender
Why does this remind me of Mass Effect Andromeda?
the instance to scene method is great but why is this better than just copying the collection does anyone know please? The face count is still the same so why would performance be better? I have found no difference!
Is there updated video on how to use with Cargo please?
What type of computer are you using?? I bought the Mac studio ultra with 64-core and 128G Memory. When I copy the buildings like you described in the video my whole computer gets slow and laggy! This is the fastest computer apple Carry. Should I be doing this workflow on a pc?
I really want to do vfx but my computer is very very slow in rendering animation. Can anyone help me how to fast up the rendering time?
Hey there! We just published an article that outlines some steps you can take to optimize the Kit in Blender if it's not running well on your machine: intercom.help/kitbash3d/en/articles/6637865-how-to-best-optimize-kitbash3d-kits-for-blender
This is exactly what I need but I could get past adding the displacement to the terrain. Its not loaded also the scene collection is not in folders like Big, Detail, Small etc. I have Blender 3.3.1
any decent tutorials how to do kitbashing in blender from scratch?
I've opened the Minerva kit in Blender as instructed in this video. But, when I render a still, the textures do not appear on the model. How do I assign the textures from the kit to the models in Blender?
I'd like to have them in my asset browser, but you providing it with null objects and it is super inconvinient
Bääm i barely managed to open the kit. Took over an hour to seperate everything in different collections and deactivating everything. >37M polys....
I don't understand why this kit is very laggy on my computer, does any one else have the same issue or solution to fix it ?
Got 32gb of ram and a 2080...
Can I import the kit into Blender with textures already applied?
My compyter is algging so badly anyway to reduce the lagi haev 16 gb and how to colour cordinate each object?
I'm not able opening that blender file whenever i try to open it, blender keep getting crash and then I'll get a black screen then i have to restart my PC after that my specs is RTX 3060(6gb Vram) 16GB ram and i7 11800H
why can't i download it anymore even though i have account is it because i didn't download cargo
You duplicated the plane and changed material, but I didn't see you set to unique? Or did you just do it super quickly?
shit + d duplicates without linking data
When making a scene for the competition do we have to use only assets from the kit? Or can we add stuff too? Or even manipulate the assets?
Hey there, you can use other assets in addition to the Minerva assets and you are free to manipulate the Minerva assets as well! Excited to see what you create! 🙂
Can you please provide a tutorial that shows how to import assets from kitbash 3d into Reallusion?
First time really trying to do something with blender could never understand how it worked! Love the tutorial. some of the textures in the kit though seem to be purple still. Any Help?
Bro I feel like if I don’t make everything from scratch then I can’t really be happy with what I’ve created. Is this only me?
When I start working with third party material, I have the same feeling, but I keep adding things and transforming them until I feel like I own it.
Same issues with houses: can't feel home until I take a wall down.
I can not seem to find the texture file?
When I instance a collection to the scene, it creates the instance, but the instance's location is back at 0,0 instead of at the base of the object. That makes it really difficult to work with and place where I want it. Is there a good way to solve this that doesn't involve having to move each item to 0,0 before instancing the collection?
Good question! The smart folks in our Discord community may be able to help: discord.gg/kitbash3d
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whenever i do the g or s and try to move it, it wont do it, i have to manually do it with the arrows, anyway i can change this??
Hey there! We recommend checking out our Discord community for advice and tips. We have a Blender channel there where you can try posting this question. 🙂discord.gg/kitbash3d
What is the license to use this
Being a free kit, and how much does that license cost, on the website “freelance” looks right but I’d prefer it be a bit more explicitly fleshed out
I”m trying to get into freelance 3D as a side hustle..I just wanna be clear on using assets(free)
Hey there! You can find more on licensing for Mission to Minerva here: help.kitbash3d.com/en/articles/6614024-mission-to-minerva-challenge-faqs#h_4686463c0b
9:29 how do you get into this color full mode or what it is?
I've only linked one object to my scene and Blender is going so slowly, to the point it's unusable. It's really frustrating. What set up do I need to run Blender smoothly?
Current setup:
Apple M1 chip with 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, 8-core GPU, and 16-core Neural Engine, 16GB unified memory
I’m having the same problem, I bought the Mac studio 64 core, 8Tb Hd, 128 gig ram and this blender/kit ash combo is running soooo slow I can’t even complete the first part of the project. I feel like my 15k set up is useless. Don’t know if everyone else’s is using pc or Mac. I have the best apple computer out right now and it can’t hang!!!! I don’t know what to do! So frustrating!
I feel ya! It’s surprising your system is still struggling. I would get a PC but it seems like you need to be an engineer to build one! I wish somebody would just tell me what to buy to get Blender working smoothly.
I was following the tutorial and I had an issue with the displacement, don't know exactly why but whenever I change from the modeling view to preview in cycles all the displaced terrain looks different. Any idea why this happens? I was just thinking that it might be because following the tutorial I used just the simple subdiv and just put 6 in the viewport instead of in the render?? But he does the same thing and it looks fine, don't know exactly what it's going on
when I downloaded the kit it only downloaded the textures but without the objects, so does anyone know how to get the objects or if I did anything wrong?
The 3D Files and Textures come in two separate zip files. Check your browser settings to see if you need to enable multiple downloads to get both. If you're still having trouble send us a chat message at help.kitbash3d.com. Thanks!
Plz do a unity video
Yes
i had downloaded them but how to import them to blender can any one help
quick question, would it be ok to use other Addons for terrain or textures as well as maybe models of our own ?
If you're asking about the Mission to Minerva challenge, yes you can absolutely include other assets! We just require you use at least one Minerva asset and stick with the theme of the challenge. 😄
Hi. Can You write your PC spec. I try several time and Blender crashes all the time. i have AMD1950X 16/32, 64GB ram and GTX 1060 6GB. Where is the problem? :/
Hey there! Our friends in the Blender channel may be able to help you out! discord.gg/kitbash3d
I down-scaled all the textures to 1024 and it only uses 2.1 gb vram instead of 12 ish. it made it much more manageable.
I m unable to install kitbash in blender
How do you get the green, yellow blue colors while placing the buildings?
Viewport shading set colour to random
How can I remove unreal engine doors?
what is the profit???
in case anyone is having issues getting cargo working with Blender 3.6 LTS or maybe future versions I made a video showing how I was able to get it working.
th-cam.com/video/XeSwKXqfAIs/w-d-xo.html
its not letting import the materials
My computer can't even open the default project. TwT