@@crazyguy7585 Why? he is already crediting to the article who already originated about this blender plugin who give credits to the creators. So he is mostly a redirect link or shortcut.
Thank you Mike. I am really happy to see such overwhelming response to our work 😍. Thanks everyone for such beautiful comments. ❤️ Please share your feedback to improve the add-on further.
Possibility to add custom windows, objects and doors etc. Doesn't need to have all the customization of the current system but a quick way for someone to build a door they would like, select as an object and add it into the system for them to use. In the future it could be a mini-asset system but I think a quick way to just add custom objects would be ideal for this.
The more these tools keep coming the easier it's going to be for lone developers to create good looking games. I highly endorse such tools. Developers such as these really are fantastic people.
@@LuckyKadam94 Assuming you're the creator and this will reach you: People like you are fucking awesome and make ambitious lone creators like me feel possible. Thank you for your hard work.
@@admiralamel9563 There's a bit of a learning curve but I think grease pencil can be great for that sort of thing. If you want to make full animations you can animate basic 3D models and then you only have to retrace it with your art style.
Great stuff, I actually used this tool a bit before, it's amazingly powerful. Just a little hint, at 8:28 instead of selecting all those faces one by one, you could select all walls via the face maps menu, go to top orthographic, turn xray on, CTRL+SHIFT+Click to select only the faces you want selected and deselect the bottom face with CTRL+Click, that way you will have the exact same selection with way less steps. Really helped me when I was modelling a 30-story building for a background.
This+the BYGEN Addon and a little bit of effort = your making awesome conseptual stuff in minutes, big thanks to the community for making blender "thee" space to Create.
Your tutorial on it is boss! thanks for sharing with us your techniques of quick house and building developments. I love this add-on and gave it a try this morning. Fun stuff bro!
I have tried a lot of 3D modeling tools on my iPad Pro, many of which cost money, and I’m starting to learn the hard way that the convenience of being able to boot up my iPad much more quickly than my laptop does not outweigh the cons that many of my apps feel like Lightwave circa 1997 and that it takes hours or days to do boring stuff like UV Mapping when the same process can be done automatically in Blender once you understand how it works. Blender and it’s addons have come a long way. Forger (iOS) has superior remeshing tools than Instamesh and Blender Sculpt, though, and does save me a significant amount of time in the retopology phase.
I went looking for a good iOS 3D modelling app a while back and was shocked to find nothing. Autodesk had a couple that I think they discontinued, but otherwise it was mostly CAD stuff and a few really amateur apps. Seems bizarre, as its a great on the go content creation platform.
Holy Moly ! I've been looking for this years long..! sometimes I messed up with Houdini as well, now the pain is over here comes the Belnder add-on, I feel like a super hero...>
Good stuff, Mike, it looks really useful and simple to use. Challenge for you. Is there a simple character generator add in for Blender? Something akin to the likes of Adobe Fuse or Poser? Something that worked like Building Tools but for characters would be incredible. I know apps exist to do this, but something built to work directly within the Blender workflow would be really useful.
Now all I need is a good kit bashing plugin with surface snapping and I am all set. A lot of these features should also be adaptable for making other things such as tables, lights, couches, counters and cabinets, book cases the options are endless.
at 8:23 where you hand selected all the faces it would have been easier to just select one of then and press Shift G and select coplanar, much more efficient
My gosh, nice tool... i was about to take a blender course, but it got cancelled for obvious reasons... i tried it in self -study, but i just can´t, i need people around me :)
That is a singularly unique application I hate to say. There are a few apps out there for doing clothing, but nothing for designing them as far as I know.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm new to Blender and still learning. Being from Michigan, I'm stuck on Roof vs Ruf, but I digress. Does this allow you to add separate textures to the inside and outside walls?
You can do that by yourself easily, just create a new material, select all of your interior walls, then with them selected go back to your materials tab, click the interior wall material, then click assign. From there you can unwrap however you want
Isn't it the second time I see this video? It sounds the same but it is different... And the other I saw last week this one is from some minutes ago...
Man, it's alpha, there's no way it works flawlessly. It's quite awesome for what it is right now, but it's prone crashing Blender, some of the controls don't quite work as advertised yet (Y offset for doors actually does the same as the Y dimension for example), it crashes 2.83 as soon as you try to it, etc. But the potential is quite frankly incredible. I hope it gets at least to beta. I wish some of the reviewers actually tried to use it a little bit seriously.
I had the same problem. When I downloaded the building_tools.zip, it automatically unzipped it. If this happens, you need to zip it (back again). Addons will recognize the zipped file (not the unzipped folder) I hope this helps.
hey, i wonder why my building color cannot set as you did. for example, I already set material1 for window, but when I swicth to render mode, the whole building will get the material
Crap, the server it was on got moved a while back and the DNS entries didn't get properly updated. GRRRR. Thankfully it should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up
A few heads up: The link has been broken. Not sure how long its been that way but it has links where it takes you to the Github page. However... B) The zip file I downloaded was missing a Module. It says Alpha (go figure). C) You have to look up the github page via search engine. The file should say building tools master.zip.
Does it have different variety of styles or building types? ie Industrial, urban or residential? I wanna also ask about vert count but I guess that depends on the building itself.
But you don't usually want to have many materials on a single house. You want one material with all the different textures for a house and proper UV mapping to keep draw calls low. Can this tool help with this?
I find this useful for non-architects, but is out there any serious open source alternative to Revit tools? I know about FreeCAD, but actually I find it very unpleasant to use and so easy to crash and I haven’t seen any Blender addon that let’s you make your own parametric objects with many references as Revit allows.
Great tool, but I've came across a bug. When selecting more faces to add windows and then press the Add Windows button, the engine crashes and closes. Anyone has noticed it?
Using the face materials, I didn't have to do any additional unwrapping. Using the material directly in properties, I did. So that face material setting must be doing some of the magic.
Gamefromscratch thanks for the reply, so this means that I could just generate a building and throw it straight into substance painter for texturing, correct?
Link:
www.gamefromscratch.com/post/2020/05/25/Building-Tools-Blender-Add-On-Released.aspx
you should Give Credit to Developers Created by ranjian0 and luckykadam.
@@crazyguy7585 Why? he is already crediting to the article who already originated about this blender plugin who give credits to the creators. So he is mostly a redirect link or shortcut.
@@emascheg Or trying to bring traffic to his own website. This is the only video I've ever seen where this was done.
Hello Sir i could not download the addon
@@emascheg ioiiiiiîoooooo
Thank you Mike. I am really happy to see such overwhelming response to our work 😍.
Thanks everyone for such beautiful comments. ❤️ Please share your feedback to improve the add-on further.
Possibility to add custom windows, objects and doors etc. Doesn't need to have all the customization of the current system but a quick way for someone to build a door they would like, select as an object and add it into the system for them to use. In the future it could be a mini-asset system but I think a quick way to just add custom objects would be ideal for this.
@@DarkerCry Currently this is not supported. You can create a feature request at: github.com/ranjian0/building_tool/issues/new
Cheers 🍻
That's a great plugin, I was planning to do something similar but with procedural generation.
Thank you for this amazing add-on.
I wonder, is it possible to create a custom floor shape (model it to a plan for example)?
@@obkf-too Yes, this is our latest feature. Now Building Tools works on any mesh. Checkout the demo: th-cam.com/video/Pb4mkrTWQs4/w-d-xo.html
The more these tools keep coming the easier it's going to be for lone developers to create good looking games. I highly endorse such tools. Developers such as these really are fantastic people.
Thanks for the kind words :)
@@LuckyKadam94 Assuming you're the creator and this will reach you: People like you are fucking awesome and make ambitious lone creators like me feel possible. Thank you for your hard work.
I'm normally a 2D enthusiast, but this changes things - thanks for the vid recommending it!
me too, i can easily making scene with blender and paint over it on CSP, also having a 3D blueprint for 2D also mean more consistency for animation.
@@admiralamel9563 There's a bit of a learning curve but I think grease pencil can be great for that sort of thing. If you want to make full animations you can animate basic 3D models and then you only have to retrace it with your art style.
I really appreciate all of the blender/creative tools reviews! I'm constantly looking for design aids for prototyping and these are excellent.
This is the content i subbed for. I dont need more unusable game engines.
Good work Mike!!!
Agreed
would be nice if blender would make more things for architecure yes
This is a really great addon, I'm sure I'll make use of it a lot when prototyping as well as making actual models of buildings.
Great stuff, I actually used this tool a bit before, it's amazingly powerful.
Just a little hint, at 8:28 instead of selecting all those faces one by one, you could select all walls via the face maps menu, go to top orthographic, turn xray on, CTRL+SHIFT+Click to select only the faces you want selected and deselect the bottom face with CTRL+Click, that way you will have the exact same selection with way less steps.
Really helped me when I was modelling a 30-story building for a background.
How nice if the maker can make a similar tool but now for interior, so we have a seamless inside and outside design.Nice addon BTW
My goto-channel for everything Gamedev related!
It amazes me that addons that are this good are free.
I actually clicked ctrl+z when you extruded that roof
manueltripero Musle memory for you!
@@jellohunter7981 For me is already Ctrl + S when used 2.79 haha. need to learn the shortcut in 2.8
Glad to know I ain't alone.
Just press esc to cancel the operaation...
@@jellohunter7981 hello can u help me plz coz i cant install the buliding tool on my blender
This+the BYGEN Addon and a little bit of effort = your making awesome conseptual stuff in minutes, big thanks to the community for making blender "thee" space to Create.
U JUST MADE MY GRADUATION PROJECT 15X EASIER!!!! Thanks! s2
I’m from Michigan, that roof joke made me lol
SAME LOL
Yeah I saw this on asknk's channel a 3 days and I thought it was really cool. Very useful.
Your tutorial on it is boss! thanks for sharing with us your techniques of quick house and building developments. I love this add-on and gave it a try this morning. Fun stuff bro!
I have tried a lot of 3D modeling tools on my iPad Pro, many of which cost money, and I’m starting to learn the hard way that the convenience of being able to boot up my iPad much more quickly than my laptop does not outweigh the cons that many of my apps feel like Lightwave circa 1997 and that it takes hours or days to do boring stuff like UV Mapping when the same process can be done automatically in Blender once you understand how it works. Blender and it’s addons have come a long way. Forger (iOS) has superior remeshing tools than Instamesh and Blender Sculpt, though, and does save me a significant amount of time in the retopology phase.
I went looking for a good iOS 3D modelling app a while back and was shocked to find nothing. Autodesk had a couple that I think they discontinued, but otherwise it was mostly CAD stuff and a few really amateur apps. Seems bizarre, as its a great on the go content creation platform.
Holy Moly ! I've been looking for this years long..! sometimes I messed up with Houdini as well, now the pain is over here comes the Belnder add-on, I feel like a super hero...>
First godot concept graph and now this! This will be very useful!
Wow. This is incredible. Exactly what I'm going to be looking for when I build my second VR game...assuming that I EVER get my first one finished lol
You can do it! Get something on the screen to not lose hope and sight of the goal!
Liked for deleting the default cube. I too am a fan of the ritual
I have requested for MacOS version, nearly all Blender addon's have MacOS versions. This is great, we Mac users missing out for now.
this is a crazy addon. I’m so lucky i saw this video. thanks!
Dude thank you!!!!!! This is awesome. I'm just getting into learning how to model houses. This is a life saver. Wow!!! Bless!
Good stuff, Mike, it looks really useful and simple to use. Challenge for you. Is there a simple character generator add in for Blender? Something akin to the likes of Adobe Fuse or Poser? Something that worked like Building Tools but for characters would be incredible. I know apps exist to do this, but something built to work directly within the Blender workflow would be really useful.
mb-lab-community.github.io/MB-Lab.github.io/
This addon+archimesh+pbr addon... hell yeah
wow. This would be nice archimesh addon. Nice vid.
This is the reason I'm subbed to your channel. You've saved my ass so many times with these videos. XD
That intro is getting faster and faster every video lmao
Now all I need is a good kit bashing plugin with surface snapping and I am all set.
A lot of these features should also be adaptable for making other things such as tables, lights, couches, counters and cabinets, book cases the options are endless.
Impressive addon tool...
Awesome vid! When you make an action, is it destructive? Thanks.
oh jes - i have long search for this - best work i love it
Great stuff, thank you for sharing. keep up with all the goodies. thanks again.
This is great for level design. I will certainly try this.
Rigify is another Blender add-on that I would like to see your perspective on.
Thanks bro you are amazing!
This is truly amazing.
pretty awesome, would be so good if you could select faces you created without the addon and add stuff
at 8:23 where you hand selected all the faces it would have been easier to just select one of then and press Shift G and select coplanar, much more efficient
Dude right on for this.
oh wow. This is actually so frekin good for my comic style city (a couple hundreds buildings) Im about to create.
My gosh, nice tool... i was about to take a blender course, but it got cancelled for obvious reasons...
i tried it in self -study, but i just can´t, i need people around me :)
nice videos. can you cover FREE alternatives to Marvelous Designer, standalone apps and or blender plugins
That is a singularly unique application I hate to say. There are a few apps out there for doing clothing, but nothing for designing them as far as I know.
Thank you for sharing this! I'm new to Blender and still learning. Being from Michigan, I'm stuck on Roof vs Ruf, but I digress. Does this allow you to add separate textures to the inside and outside walls?
You can do that by yourself easily, just create a new material, select all of your interior walls, then with them selected go back to your materials tab, click the interior wall material, then click assign. From there you can unwrap however you want
@@vmpere2637 thank you!
Insane add on thx alot for developers
Awesome thanks!
KEWL! But I need interiors for my game.
Thank you for the useful tips.
Isn't it the second time I see this video? It sounds the same but it is different...
And the other I saw last week this one is from some minutes ago...
thanks! that's awsome!!
The window bugging out is actually so real.
Amazing tool.
this is incredible
Whoohoo! This is great! Thanks for sharing!
a great and easy to use tool
Love the video!
This is awesome man
Man, it's alpha, there's no way it works flawlessly. It's quite awesome for what it is right now, but it's prone crashing Blender, some of the controls don't quite work as advertised yet (Y offset for doors actually does the same as the Y dimension for example), it crashes 2.83 as soon as you try to it, etc. But the potential is quite frankly incredible. I hope it gets at least to beta.
I wish some of the reviewers actually tried to use it a little bit seriously.
ok i give up. i've tried everything and it doesn't install. thoughts?
I had the same problem. When I downloaded the building_tools.zip, it automatically unzipped it. If this happens, you need to zip it (back again). Addons will recognize the zipped file (not the unzipped folder) I hope this helps.
Can I use it for commercial use?
Hey there I was wondering if you could also make medieval building with this addon as well
It tends to immediately crash Blender if you some variables are changed too quickly.
hey, i wonder why my building color cannot set as you did. for example, I already set material1 for window, but when I swicth to render mode, the whole building will get the material
me: thumbnail looks too good to be true
also me: 👁👄👁
legendary bro!
Unrelated but what going on with the devga me site? It's down as far as I can tell
Crap, the server it was on got moved a while back and the DNS entries didn't get properly updated. GRRRR. Thankfully it should be fixed now. Thanks for the heads up
@@gamefromscratch lol these things happen
@@gamefromscratch Any news of a place to download it please, cant find itb anywhere, thanks for great tutorial
Do anyone know why did my building disappear from the insides although I have used backface culling
Thank you
No lie I literally just started making a building! So far all I got was a cube using mirror modifier 😅
Also Woof 😆
A cube with a door...works for me!!
This is great but I ran into some errors when trying to animate when using cell fracture.
A few heads up: The link has been broken. Not sure how long its been that way but it has links where it takes you to the Github page. However...
B) The zip file I downloaded was missing a Module. It says Alpha (go figure).
C) You have to look up the github page via search engine. The file should say building tools master.zip.
Does it have different variety of styles or building types? ie Industrial, urban or residential? I wanna also ask about vert count but I guess that depends on the building itself.
my add on doesn't work when I install it
Su f'in perb! - Thanks Mike
But you don't usually want to have many materials on a single house. You want one material with all the different textures for a house and proper UV mapping to keep draw calls low. Can this tool help with this?
My god ❤️
3:03 Try pressing F9
Ironically f9 is the hotkey to restart recording on my video capture app... :)
I find this useful for non-architects, but is out there any serious open source alternative to Revit tools? I know about FreeCAD, but actually I find it very unpleasant to use and so easy to crash and I haven’t seen any Blender addon that let’s you make your own parametric objects with many references as Revit allows.
archipack or archimesh?
Muito obrigado!
how do you add bricks or concrete instead of just colour ?
i am new to this but i have bricks etc how do i add them instead of colours ?
can we use this for commercial and youtube video making process..
I like that I took an AutoCAD Course.
Just select all walls and deselect the bottom floor...
A BOOM!))))
I dont see the building tools tab when i install it.
Please cover something that helps in rigging and animation workflows, except rigify? This is good video though!
Can we design interior with it
i dont have add balcony option
How do I add bricks to the building?
Does it do inside walls also?
link seem dead?
does it not support 2.9? i cant install it, or find it in the Add-ons tool menü
Great tool, but I've came across a bug. When selecting more faces to add windows and then press the Add Windows button, the engine crashes and closes. Anyone has noticed it?
They need to add thicken walls to this plugin. They are paper thin..
Link has moved to here: github.com/ranjian0/building_tools/
thank you!
I install it but I don't see the tools thing
Does the material tools actually save proper uvs on the mesh? Or would you still need to unwrap the building?
Using the face materials, I didn't have to do any additional unwrapping. Using the material directly in properties, I did. So that face material setting must be doing some of the magic.
Gamefromscratch thanks for the reply, so this means that I could just generate a building and throw it straight into substance painter for texturing, correct?
Whatever I do, if I click stairs, Blender crashes