Hello everyone, I am a 71 years old mix between a photographer and mathematician. Tired of doing things that I did before I decided to go 3D to produce 100% realistic photos of things that don't exist. My aim is low: I want only still images. I am now in the process of building a procedural muscle generator with geometry nodes in blender. I am almost done but to be 100% realistic I need to add some noise around the muscle with a bump map. In order to do this I need to embed script into the GNs. I can give you thousands of textures, including skin textures derived from real photos that gives us a real skin. Also I have 2 body hair generators (one for the outline and one for the "field of the skin) that are to be use as a top layer in Photoshop. I'll be happy to share.

I'm a 3D artist and I work on a game prototype with a couple of other people, and I've also done some commissions in the past. I'm learning Python for Blender with a specific goal in mind: I want to make an addon that helps me rig and animate characters and if possible, also prepares them for export to the game engine. I think the manual rigging workflow in Blender right now is not very efficient, especially for rigs that are a little bit more advanced. And you have to rely on a ton of smaller addons that fill up your N-Panel. 🫠 So, yeah, I know, kind of an ambitious goal with my limited experience. But at this point, I have created a couple of Panels and Operators, so it doesn't seem impossible anymore. Basically, I want this addon to do three things: 1) Help with rigging, it will be able to place bones quickly, add constraints to multiple bones and setup drivers. The goal is to speed up the creation of complex rigs, like the face rig of Storm, by Blender Studio. I've taken the course, where they explain how they created the rig and I basically want to automate the steps involved. 2) Help with animation by supporting temporary rigs and space switching, similar to the ones that Animation Sherpa / Laura Lico uses 3) Bake the animations and export the game rig + animation to the game engine. So, in summary, hello, I know, this reads much more like an accountability post than an introduction. 🙃 Expect more of these rambling posts from me, I spend way to much time writing those. Thanks for reading all of this to the end. And you all have a nice day.

Hi again, I just want to update info on my small script for creating keyframes while animating in Blender. The current version is v0.30. What has changed? I cleaned up the code and added a feature that informs the user when no object is selected. Previously, if no object was selected, the name of the previously selected object was displayed, which was strange. Now, when no object is selected, it’s impossible to add keyframes. It works in B4.1+

Hey team, I have to take care of something tomorrow, and I can't make it to the hangout. 😟☕ I will see you in a week! 💖

Hello everyone. I am excited to be here. I am really looking forward to learn more about Python for Blender.