{"id":4326,"date":"2015-05-01T16:32:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=4326"},"modified":"2015-05-01T16:58:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T20:58:10","slug":"blender-days-11-12-materials-cycles-l-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/blender-days-11-12-materials-cycles-l-systems","title":{"rendered":"Blender Days 11 & 12 – Materials, Cycles & L-Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Initially setup the materials for Blender’s default renderer and noticed that when I switched to the new Cycles renderer, I lost the materials.\u00a0 A quick Internet searching revealed a handy addon called Convert Materials to Cycles.<\/em><\/p>\n

The materials_cycles_converter.py<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 script created a set of buttons at the bottom of the Properties Editor in the Materials context. You can convert the current material or convert them all.\u00a0 I’m using Blender 2.69 and the script, which is written for 2.71, worked good for me (color and bump came over).<\/p>\n

\"VegGen_lsystem-1024x527\"<\/a><\/p>\n

L-Systems was next up for exploration.<\/p>\n

A question came to mind on whether or not the same beautiful branching could be created in Blender, as I had created previously in Houdini.\u00a0 Searching revealed the VegGen addon<\/a>, which I’m going to give a whirl (after some compositing and rigging tutorials).\u00a0 Looks promising, though doesn’t have the ability to write my own turtle rules.\u00a0 This doesn’t provide much control…\u00a0\u00a0 so probably simplest to just write an L-system engine in Python<\/a> myself…\u00a0 probably using the VegGen script as reference (Yay! Open source!).<\/p>\n

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other links:
\nBlender UI detailed breakdown<\/a>
\n Blender.org forum<\/a>
\n BlenderArtists.org forum<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Initially setup the materials for Blender’s default renderer and noticed that when I switched to the new Cycles renderer, I lost the materials.\u00a0 A quick Internet searching revealed a handy addon called Convert Materials to Cycles. The materials_cycles_converter.py\u00a0 script created a set of buttons at the bottom of the Properties Editor in the Materials context. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,25,771,773,96,483],"class_list":["post-4326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-blender","tag-challenge","tag-l-system","tag-open-source","tag-procedural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4326"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4334,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4326\/revisions\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}