Hey everyone! 👋 I just created a video showing how to set up free coding AI models in VS Code using OpenRouter. Video can be found here: https://www.skool.com/cgpython/classroom/3eeec317?md=63db098b9fbf42fba6441a24e17e1c99 In the video, I walk through: - Creating an OpenRouter account - Generating an API key - Signing in with GitHub - Connecting OpenRouter models inside VS Code - Selecting and pinning free models This is a great option if you want to experiment with AI-assisted coding in VS Code without paying for premium models right away. There are some daily limits on the free models, but they're still useful for testing, learning, and smaller coding tasks. If you have any questions while setting it up drop them here, and I'll be happy to help!

I tried Claude and Chatgpt for Blender. My aim is to produce 100% photorealistic still images with Blender + Photoshop. In order to do this I asked Chatgpt to give me a script that will work inside the open File-01.blend that will: 1) Add a medium res cylinder C 2) Add new empty GN to C. 3) Plug the “Muscle Generator” GN on the empty GN 4) Add some lights with specifications and constraints. 5) Add reflectors with specifications and constraints. Here I do my things. Then I asked a second script that will: 1) Save File-01 2) Save it again as File-02 3) Clean up all the unused data blocks and so on from the Blender Files tab. 4) Apply all the modifiers 5) Import the material “Skin 2026-06-30” Here I do my things. Then I asked to write a 3rd script that should have: 1) Save File-02 2) Save it as File-03 3) Apply all modifiers and clean up. 4) Import the “Create Body Hair” node 5) Import the collection “Body hair” 6) Create an empty mesh and by some means add the hair so that they are on the object but are separated form the object. 7) Create a hair lamp that will light only the hair. 8) Import an apply the material “Hair Material” on the hair. It is done by the node Create Body Hair. Now you will notice it is something I could do by myself and I did. Chatgpt made an astonishing number of blatant mistakes at almost every step. In the end I got a “Your initial intuition (intuition???) was better”. I must also say I had to come with all the ideas to build the nodes and for the pipeline’s architecture. Then I asked Chatgpt to make a seamless texture out of an already good skin texture. I got a black image. My take on all this is that Chatgpt is good for simple tasks, very good to come up with highbrow bullshit but very poor to implement it. In short, waste of time and not enticing to spending money on it. Claude on the other end is more reliable, doesn’t give me suggestions that it is not able to implement and produced very very good seamless textures from the same images than Chatgpt.

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.

Hey all. Just looking to get into using Python to interface with Blender in a number of ways to display math but also would like to use it as bridge as well for a number of other applications like Plasticity and FreeCAD. I've used the internal scripting tab for some extremely basic stuff but I love using PyCharm for a lot of other projects so I'm pretty comfortable in that UI. One project I've been thinking of doing for a while but luckily didn't get all that far into was I wanted to update the type stub library for the Blender API (now in 5.1) for VS Code and PyCharm. But that will take a while and I have some shorter projects to finish out first.

Here we go. Beginning of a long journey.