Blender on a Raspberry Pi... Possible?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2020
- After my graphics card died I wondered what options there were for people that needed to replace their computer during these difficult times. This led me to consider whether or not I would be able to use 3D modelling software on the Raspberry Pi 4. So I set out to see if I could use Blender on a Raspbery Pi! Want to know whether to not I was successful? Watch to the end to find out!
I'll also do a giveaway of a Raspberry Pi 4 if this video does well :)
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The fact that Blender just sits there in Raspbian repository just blows my mind! It's inspiring!
Wait, no extra download of the web?
Wow I actually didn't expect it to actually work.
I thought it *might* work but I didn't think it would be so straightforward. It really was a nice surprise.
@@GameDevAcademy yeah, but can it run crysis?
welcome to the power of GNU/Linux that Mac and Windows cannot provide because they are closed source and GNU/Linux is open source which is objectively superior
I love Raspberry Pi's! This is just another awesome example of how versatile they are and how accessible they are for those of us with not a lot of money to spend.
I'm a fan too. I've never had a Raspberry Pi before I started this project and had never used Linux either. I found everything really straightforward though and the low price removes (or lowers) another barrier.
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blender is probably the only 3D software you can get away with doing this with.
It’s just shit that they are arm devices instead of x86 I spent like 100 dollars to get the 8gb model and I can’t play oxygen not included. Guess I need to learn to decompile and recompile
Blender 2.8 should have been called Blender 3.0 because it;s a massive upgrade. There are some amazing Blender YT channels out there. Give it a go. You might be EVEN MORE surprised. The interface is much better than 2.79 and before.
Blender is also highly scriptable in Python. Running it on a rpi might be useful for embedding some sort of 3D computing on a drone or something. You never know. Cirtainly won't render with the rpi tho ;)
Good video. Well done.
I agree that it should have been 3.0. It was a pretty big change. I do hope to have time to come back to Blender. I really like that it's free & so comprehensive. It really should put companies like Autodesk out of businesses
@@GameDevAcademy yeah it really is a dreadful company. I used autocad in the 1990s and it was aweful. It took until version 14 before you could draw a rectangle without having to manually draw 4 lines. Can you imagine. They just destroyed the competition by buying them out and discontinuing them. The industry just used DWG and autocad because the industry used DWG and Autocad. Circular logic. People just wanted to get projects done, they never looked around to see what was out there. I used it for industrial design and structural steel. Nobody cared what CAD software you used, as long as it was Autocad. So frustrating. It was $5,000 per seat to licence.
Dreadful company. No way I'll use their stuff.
This guy's channel is Brilliant. He did a "why do people hate Autodesk" special just two weeks ago :)
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Excellent work.
graphics driver for embedded system are difficult to program. Blender 2.8 requires OpenGL 3.3, but raspberry pi 4 only hardware supports OpenGL 2 and Vulkan, which is superior features to OpenGL but software needs to be rewritten to support Vulkan and Blender only is written for OpenGL. In the future of Blender, maybe Vulkan backend for it will enable it to run on Raspberry pi 4 GPU. For now, it is possible to use but *only software renderer* . so you can try using Blender on Raspberry pi 4 with software renderer and it does work, but the performance is extremely slow even more extremely slow than you would expect the raspberry pi to be, unles you can rewrite source code of Blender to use Vulkan instead of OpenGL which is extremely hard if you are not a graphics programmer
I think it could render if it was rendering with the Eevee render engine. Certainly not cycles though.
I do remember when it took a $35,000 workstation to do things like fast cad graphics.
It's crazy how far technology has come
Tom's hardware recommended ur video Shane
I saw ur unreal engine tutorials before I saw the post and I thought why not giving u a heads up u deserve it
Thanks dude. I noticed the article on Tom's Hardware last night. Really nice of them to give me a little exposure.
Apenas se de la existencia de la raspberry y me parece impresionante y lo primero que me paso por la mente fue si blender podía correr en ella, gracias por aclarar mi duda. Un buen video.
You could try to extend it with a Cluster HAT to slave 4x Raspberry Pi Zeros - this would add an extra 4GHz and 2GB RAM from the four boards attached, which might improve render times.
I love this vid… VERY helpful… 👍👍👍👍
I just got my artist 13.3 pro and connected to my raspberry pi 400 I used blender and gimp2 hooked it all up and worked out of the box the free programs worked flawlessly and I can work the raspberry pi as a regular computer as well, the raspberry pi 400 is a keyboard computer the artist and pen work very well. I am new to a drawling tablet, a lot different then pencil and paper. with the raspberry pi 400 it makes it extra portable
the wide end of the HDMI adapter can be a bit clumpy I prefer to get a short cable instead of this plug to convert from a full size HDMI to Micro HDMI
File > User Preference > Input ; you can change the interface to Maya style from Blender style to make it easier for someone coming from Maya.
Hey sir, when you use Cycles renderer it has gpu option is it possible to do gpu rendering on it?
In UE 4 , version 4.25, I can't find my mode panel. Usually mode panel had over the place actor but there was no mode panel above the place actors. Pls help me .
there was a whole lot of extra, yet at the end it helped me achieve what i was looking for
Yeah, this was more of a project video for me than a how to. Something to occupy me during lockdown.
THX : )
hi im billy im just getting started with my pi 4 b and i wanna use it for low poly 3d modeling for my printers.
I sell some of my prints to a business in town and i needed a pc to specifically load and save models, my gaming pc is a little full, so was wondering is there anyway to download and run microsoft 3d builder on the pi as im comfortable with that software and its a relatively simple compared to blender.
Initially i considered using wine to spoof microsoft buider and this is my only thought as i still find using the pi command terminal tedious and confusing. In the past ive worked with or had classes on c#, C++ ,python, java,html, and html5 but i had friends and teachers to assist me.
Being on my own has been incredibly difficult as i have a rough idea of what i want to learn and do but no outlet to directly obtain that knowledge efficiently and work is piling up the longer im in this preverbial rut any help you could and or would offer would be immensely appreciated as im not the smartest but i love printing and the computer work that has to go into the pi. thank you for your time.
great :V, thanks!
I got the 8GB but I got a kit for $144 USD Came with keyboard mouse SD card on off switch a fan aluminum case And other accessories that I need
hi shane, i downloaded blender today and you can simply set the controls to "industry standard" and then it works just ike in maya ;)
I don't think that was an option in the version I used for this video but I will have to give that a try
On the newer version of the inside you can press shift ctrl x and then you can turn on ssh and wifi
Bro couldn't expect that 100k. Keep it real einstein.
wish i had seen this sooner. my windows xp computer broke down in around 2014 and i was just getting into 3D and video game development stuff. i was still a teenager and we couldn't afford a brand new computer. it was only 4 years after that my parents were able to get me a laptop. well, if only i knew to get a raspberry pi, i wouldn't have spent 4 years without my newfound hobbies
Any chance chitubox software runs on the pi4?
nice video, thanks. what about pi zero?
Hi. i have bullseye, the repository of this version of Pi it is 2.8 which doesn´t work. any idea how can i install 2.79?
Hey @Game Dev Academy, I just stumbled across your "Unreal Engine 4 Tutorial for Beginners" and I am having an absolute blast! Thank you for the tutorial and time spent. I have a question, totally unrealted to this video. I hope you or someone can point me to one of your videos that will explain this. I am making the Landscape, but would like some background with mountains and places that the player can't reach, just to make the illusion of a much bigger world. Is this possible in a way that is easy on the GPU and such? Best regards, Mathias
In the unreal market place there are some free assets. Download and take a look at the infinity blade grasslands pack. In there they have a level where they have done distant mountains. That should be a good example of how it is done for you to look at.
@@GameDevAcademy Awesome! That was exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for everything you do, a gem for us beginners!
For some reason it isn’t working for me I have a raspberry pi 3 B+ and I clicked apply but nothing happened can you help me with this? Thank you
I remember rendering frames for 24 hours on my 486 with 4MB RAM using Lightwave.
That is bananas.
Here is a thought. Raspberry pi setups with screen and other additions are more less the same price of a good tablet with strong processor. So, with that thought, we can use drawing and photosho psoftwares with blender, and make it all portable with juust a good powerbang.
Grab a screen, a keyboard, and a pen for the screen, and we are good to go. You can also make or arrange a good tablet carrying bag to carry your setup. So it will be a small, portable bag allowing you to draw and model on the fly.
Didn't think it was actually possible. Amazing.
The comment at 8:57 caught me off guard
Nice Vid!
Thanks. Nice comment!
Sadly it doesn't work anymore beacause now the only version proposed in Rasbian Repository is 2.83... Which only works with openGL 3.3 lol
At 8:49 that was a very jarring comment from. What I was expecting.
On autodesk's site they are requiring an upload of your student ID to get Maya. is there any way around this? I have a code already but I need an installer so is there any way just to get the installer for free?
Just use Blender. If you are not an animator, there is little reason to use Maya over Blender, even more so if you can't afford the expensive Maya price tag.
The Pi4 has quite a nice bit of grunt in it, and with proper cooling can get OCed quite nicely to 2Ghz further improving the performance. Not bad for a little board that costs about as much as dinner at a decent restaurant.
It'll be even better when the graphics drivers are finished!
@@GameDevAcademy true, but even so It's pretty solid now. I think its mainly web based stuff thats suffering the most.
@@RedMageGaming I don't know.... I only tried modelling. I think that if I was to try textures and lighting it might struggle without the drivers atm
@@GameDevAcademyIt will take a little time and you might run into memory limitations on the 2gb model but I think it would handle it ok on the 4gb or 8gb model. But I jave never managed to get even remotely comfortable in blender lol the only 3d modeling software I know how to use is Metasequoia.
Fun fact, if you do you temp throttling, over volt, and clock speed correctly, you get the cpu to happily sit at 2ghz at 65-70c° without heatsink or fan. (Not sure how healthy it is for the little pi but it makes a difference).
This is great. Will a Pi render farm work with Eevee?
I'm not sure. I think it will but I haven't tried it myself.
@@GameDevAcademy I often use PBR materials and that might cause a slow down on single Pi 4, it even slows down my i7!
I suspect you're right about that
Was it an no lag almost and good experience or did it struggle and lag and take forever
General user experience was fine. No issues that I noticed. The only time I really noticed I was using a very underpowered platform was when I rendered.
@@GameDevAcademy could it be possible to create a character smooth and have an fun experience
@@ianrothmann620 I'm not sure. The model I created was quite low poly. I'm not sure what would happen with denser meshes.
A request please Will you make a Video about how to add collision to a land mesh make the mesh in blender and the collision then Export it to UE4
I believe it to be extremely easy. AFAIK! you can just make your 3D model and then create the mesh for it's collision. Then I think the only thing you have to do is name them the same, but add the prefix "UCX_" for the collision mesh (preferably or even out of necessity, add the prefix "SM_" to your mesh (sm = static mesh). So the mesh is "SM_albert" and then the collision should be named "UCX_albert". Export them together as FBX and import in Unreal. Maybe check the import settings, not sure if there's something about it in there, I haven't yet imported a collision actually but read about how to do it. Btw I use the following addon for export out of blender AND IMPORT into unreal via script (very nice!) which works excellent so far for static meshes as well as armatures and animations (not tested it any other way yet): www.blendernation.com/2019/06/22/add-on-blender-2-8-for-unreal-engine/
maybe this addon handles that automatically as well, it's quite a nice addon ;)
PsY thank you
I'd get a good fan for that too.
Good advice :)
8:50
what?
It is truly upsetting that this video has not made it to 100k 😡🤬😡
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@@GameDevAcademy we’re you ever successful at building a raspberry pie render farm?
man try blender 2.9x with vulkan and zink (opengl 3.x wrapper)
On the Pi?
You should be able to get 2.8 now providing you use a desktop oriented OS, instead of raspberry OS.
Which os would you recommend?
Still waiting for 100,000 views. 🙈
Not looking likely is it?
@@GameDevAcademy Bro! This video deserves much more love than that!
You could also make 3d. Turn off..carry onto 3d printer, turn on and print. Them turn off.. carry to your table and model more....
Cool idea. I'd love to try some 3d printing with this
I wonder what it's like at rendering?
Slow. But it gets there.
I want gift this to my sister for her birthday.
Sucks that blender 2.8 isn't available for it yet
I'm sure it'll be released for the Pi 4 soon. I read that it's a software issue. The Pi doesn't support a high enough version of OpenGL. There's a community of very talented people that love Raspberry Pi though so I'm sure they'll find a way to make it work :)
How will the 8gb ram version do
I assume it would do a little better, but at $75 you can get a used PC that will really outperform the Pi so not really good for my little experiment here.
Was it a smooth experience
And what rating out of 20 would you give the experience
my pi automatically installed blender like it want me to do it 😀
When I would use Blender on a Pi, it will explode....
Even my Ryzen9 5950X struggles sometimes 🙈
Now lets use the Pi for a Pihole😅
It was what 8:50 👀
I don't know what you mean 😇
@@GameDevAcademy hahahah
8:51 muck like what..?
Now you have to see if you can you do 3D modeling on a calculator haha
I bet its possible. I've seen calculators running Doom!
@@GameDevAcademy When you 3D model on a Galaxy watch then I'll be impressed. :-P
@@aravr_project 😂
Why 2.79? Was it because 32 bit....
Yes
I compressed this video into 2 minutes..
I mean, i don't need a tutorial on how to buy something online. I want to see blender, running on a raspberry.
This was more of a lockdown project for me than a quick tutorial video. The video is more about my journey of getting Blender up and running so I apologise if it's not the content you were looking for.
@@GameDevAcademy you don't have to apologise.
It's your content.
And I totally get this is something a large amount of people would like to watch
Dude where are your ears? 😂😂, just kidding nice video
I want to gift my brother on his birthday
Sorry, youtube videos are good for only about a week - this don't work as of raspbian bullsys 3/22 because Blender v 2.83 (doesn't work on RPi4)
yes 2.79 is abit outdated ......... shame you didn try to render the image to see the speeds
I did render. It took ages
Nice
Thanks :)
Maya was originally on irix and Linux.
I did not know that.
@@GameDevAcademy I have an install disk from 2002, no key though.
I want to get raspberry pi to learn IoT and hacking programming
I ha e some. # broken # pi. Can u help me make them into a blender farm to save them from the trash.
2 pi zero
4 pi zero w
2 pi 2
Must auto boot load blender and be a slave all headless on being plugged in. Pls help i have discord if u reply ill list it
If this gets scene please pin this comment as Blender will no longer work on the PI 3. the current version uses open gl which will not run on the pie and as much as I checked forums there is no way to install a prior version of blender to the pi. even a post about a legacy version of the os with prepackaged software is now no longer able to run it.
My brother brags about a raspberry but we can’t get it because we’re in Ethiopia😪😪😢😢
Disappointed you didnt model a slice of pie on the pi.
Maybe next time...
I'm surprised blender can run