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Subject: Metablobbin' Tutorials

Monsoon opened this issue on Dec 28, 2008 · 18 posts
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Monsoon ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 4:46 PM · edited Mon, 27 January 2025 at 8:47 AM

Here's a couple of quick tutorials on making rocks and rock structures with Metablobs.  Made with Jing.

It is a pure and simple joy to use metablobs and displacements without freezing and crashing. I had stopped even trying to use them in V6.  This V7 is feeling very very nice indeed!!

I make a series of custom shaped primitives and save them as .vobs. Long rectangles, flattened cylinders, wide and flat or tall and thin etc. Then just load, duplicate, twirl and blob.
Hope these instructions are found useful.

M

http://screencast.com/t/mSJvTHnG

http://screencast.com/t/K1BtsOKUUA

dlk30341 ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 4:55 PM

Excellent! Thank You :)

gillbrooks ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 5:35 PM

:b_cool:

Gill

       

Gareee ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 5:43 PM

vERY COOL!

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

Peggy_Walters ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 9:06 PM

Cool!  Thank you!

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kenmo ( ) posted Sun, 28 December 2008 at 9:52 PM

Excellent.....thanks for sharing.....

GaryMiller ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 1:59 AM

SUPERB!  So simple and yet it works very well.  Thanks so much for sharing with all of us.

Rutra ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 2:12 AM

Simple and very effective! Thanks!

sirenia ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 6:26 AM

Wow, super cool idea !!
Thank you for sharing this with us :-)

 

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mhossack ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 6:30 AM

Brilliant! Thanks for sharing.


sangelico ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 9:24 AM

Thanks Monsoon! Fun, easy, and very useful!

Indoda ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 10:36 AM

Thanks - great tutorials - very useful

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chrispoole ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 6:26 PM

The new Metablobs look far more efficient and fun to use, especially with displacement applied. Thanks for the great tutorials.

Chris

Gareee ( ) posted Mon, 29 December 2008 at 7:14 PM

Yep, they are.. I never really p0layed with them before, but I had a blast tinkering around with them last night!

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.

thlayli2003 ( ) posted Tue, 30 December 2008 at 12:46 PM

Thanks for the tutes.  They were very helpful.  The 'alt' key will be used often from now on.  :)

chippwalters ( ) posted Thu, 01 January 2009 at 1:44 AM · edited Thu, 01 January 2009 at 1:52 AM

 Nice job Mark!
One of the great things about your tutorials, is watching your workflow. I've never really much used the 'load functions' command, mostly just dive in. I like it!

 

silverblade33 ( ) posted Thu, 01 January 2009 at 3:41 AM

Thought I had replied tho this..damn! Sorry

I never knew the ALT key did that, lol!!
too many apps, too many shortcut keys, too few brain cells... ;)

Thanks for that, Monsoon, especially as Vue default rocks, are, imho, sucky :D

Point though:

Metablobs screw up with transparent and volumetric materials :/

been same with Bryce way back, sigh.

However, in such cases, say you make a special shape with metablobs, BAKE THEM to a solid mesh, and it should be ok, that's how I built the drool in this beholder's mouth, with metablobs :D

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Mazak ( ) posted Thu, 01 January 2009 at 7:39 AM

Thank you for the tutorials 😄

Mazak

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