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  • T&T Blender for Architecture n°2.5 : Make a forest with the Array Modifier
    Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-01-01 22:20:57

    This is the second part of my Tips and Tricks n°2 about making a roof with the Array Modifier in Blender, and make it less regular.
    I explain here how to move the origin of all the meshes to rotate and scale them around the exact point you want.
    I show this with the modelling of a forest as an example.

    Cast: Viralata

    Tags: Blender, architecture, archiviz and array

  • T&T Blender for architecture n°2: a roof with some randomness
    Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-01-01 22:20:51

    This is my second Tips and Tricks for Archiviz with Blender.
    Here we will see how to make roof tiling that is not perfectly aligned and with some randomness in the color of the tiles.

    You can use this to model a lot of other things that look much better if not aligned.

    At the end of the video, I explain how to link the Object Data to all the tiles, so that they are all Linked Duplicates. One important use for that is to be able to move the origin of all the tiles. Let's say you model a forest with that technic, you will set the origin of the trees on their roots, so that when you scale and rotate them randomly with Individual Centers as pivot, the trees will always be on the ground.

    Cast: Viralata

    Tags: blender, architecture, archiviz, roof and array

  • T&T Blender for Architecture n°1 : roof ridge-tiling with dupliframes
    Vimeo / Blender 3D - 2012-01-01 22:20:27

    I decided to start a "tips and tricks" album of videos. I will put in it some short video tutorials about archiviz, the way they come to my mind. They will cover specific technics about archiviz with Blender.
    This one is about the use of dupliframes to make ridge tiling that are on a curved shape and vary in size, like in some japanese roofs or on the casa Batllo from Gaudi in Barcelona.
    This technique may of course be used for many other things.

    Cast: Viralata

    Tags: blender, architecture, archiviz and dupliframes

  • Happy New Year - Sort of...
    Aligorith's Lair - 2012-01-01 13:29:00

    Well, the clock didn't just tick midnight now.. that was over 24 hours ago now. But, nevertheless, Happy New Year to everyone! Let's hope that 2012 turns out to be a brilliant year (albeit quieter on the seismic front here in Christchurch please, if you will mother earth :)  ...  erm... speak of the devil... a sizeable wobbly jolt struck just moments after I finished typing that last sentence. Drat!


    This morning I was shocked to find that overnight, my watch had developed a great nasty crack across its face. But it had been fine the night before, and I seriously don't remember whacking it into anything hard...

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  • 2011 in review
    Tinker Code - 2012-01-01 00:24:23

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 200,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 9 days for that many people to see [...]
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