#since using blender

[sunnys-sunflowers]

ENERGON CRYSTALS!!

Modeled and rendered through Blender 4.3 Eevee

Instructions below of how you can make the same (beginner friendly):

First off, I watched this tutorial then made minor tweaks to the shader so it doesn't quite look like the tutorial.

My workflow:

First, make your crystals individually on SEPARATE layers. Do not join them (if accidentally joined, go into edit mode and press 'P' to separate.

I made 7 crystals. Preferably make them of different sizes and heights so your resulting crystal looks nice. I made five pentagon crystals and two hexagon crystals and put each under a collection named "crystals".

Here are my crystals:

Now you are ready to create a crystal generator which you can fiddle around with to make variations of crystal clusters.

Please follow the geometry node instructions to the T.

Create a mesh plane before doing geometry nodes:

Delete "group input" node, and start with making "mesh circle" node first

At the end, make a "group input" node and connect it to the sections that says "seed". There should be three different nodes with it.

REALLY IMPORTANT: do not use "align euler to vector" node because it is deprecated; use "align rotation to vector" node instead

Voila! You've made a crystal generator.

Now, change around the "map range", "align rotation to vector", and "random value" nodes to create different crystals. You can also change around the seed number in your geometry node modifier.

When you get the cluster variation you want, you'll want to apply the modifier. Or, just right click on your crystal and click "convert to mesh". If you don't do this, your crystal will remain white (or have reflections of whatever HDRI you uploaded).

Create crystal shader:

Please check to make sure you are using Eevee render.

Change the colour of the "ambient occlusion" node to change the colour of your crystal.

Here's the changes I made

Didn't bother to make spotlight for crystal

Did not make the background black like he said.

Went into render mode or did something else so I couldn't see the HDRI environmental texture anymore

The four points above isn't really that important tbh.

Most important:

Did not bother creating the "wave texture" or "colour ramp" nodes. Therefore, no need for "mix shader" node. I couldn't get it to affect the crystal texture at the end so I just deleted all of it

I didn't use the "magic texture". This turns your crystal an iridescent colour regardless of what base colour you have selected on your "principle BSDF" node. I didn't like it, so I replaced it with an "ambient inclusion" node.

HOWEVER, you can still get an iridescent crystal through the "magic texture" node AND change the colour by adding a "hue/saturation/value" node in between. I did not do this as seen.

One last thing: I added a neon green light right underneath the centre of the crystal to make the bottom more green-blue tone. Otherwise, the crystal is just energon blue.

I think that's all the changes I made.

What's cool is that you can use the shader on the individual crystals themselves and make each one different colours so your cluster would turn out "multicoloured".

Last thing is to point your camera towards your crystal and click render then save as png, jpeg, whatever you want. Do save the blender file itself too.

I marked my crystal generator and crystal shader as an asset so I can use it on other blender files. I simply go to file on a new blender file and click "append" to whatever you named your crystal gen/shader file, and yeet them onto my new one.

[starstruck-critter]

he is like a spore creature to me

[bigraaga]

Aki & Ezhil

[who-is-riley]

My glorious creation...🐉

[finniigan-fr]

Modelled a little forge for my blacksmith Pearlcatcher, Ember :3

Yes, he has a wooden workbench and a barrel full of coal next to an open flame,, his ass is NOT sornieth osha compliant!

also i may have forgot his pearl and whiskers uhhh just pretend he left the pearl inside and he burnt his whiskers off when he leaned over the fire one time (again... he is not operating a safe business by any means)

plus some wip pics if youre into that sort of thing

and heres what hes gonna look like once i gene him up! still need to save up for a trans scroll and all the genes lol

[zylphiacrowley]

A little snippet of a post-7.0 pre-7.1 scene that I've had in my brain for a while where they're discussing leaving the next morning. They had been planning to travel together anyway, but they ultimately decided to just up and leave one morning leaving only a note behind with the innkeeper to give to the first person that came looking for either of them (X'vahl did in fact get an earful about it, but he doesn't really care).

[random-cockroach]

@keferon OKAY BUT LISTEN YEAH I would loved if it was just fun ehehehe and sassy flirting with the demon no one sees pfffht, literally summoned a demon just to flirt with, and I guess it could have been going for a long time, just little strips with their funny adventures and then plot can go to the fact that he wants to give him a body and Shockwave would agree or that they just stay the way they are and just hang out like this together (Alo I remember that you wanted to put Ratchet (I keep writing Ratched instead of Ratchet buuuh) and Drift in it as another demon and their summoner thing whghweghgwe but I like how you made two separate stories for them that happen at the same time, okay I am actually PRETTY MUCH invested in this story, I like a lot how it goes and gets tangled and how mixes up with idw ideas and other stuff a lot)

BUT NOW that you changed it that way, you made a few more things that reader might be interested a lot in, like that promise he made and you mentioning that he will regret it, how their relationship progressively develops, plus the fact that Blurr was a frivolous slob gifted with dark magic AND how the tables turn upside dow and he get consequences for what he did in the most unpredictable way for him and how he surely changes in his behaviour, getting more and more concerned about his promise and maybe truly loving someone for the first time in his life and wanting to change something. And then figuring out that that same demon actually was a person before, someone he knew, someone respectable, kind, shiny, absolut sun of a person, who died (I am still on my knees waiting to know how exactly he died...) miserably to the point that he absolutely can't stand his life as a demon and NOT EVEN being able to kill himself!!! And Blurr was a pupil in his school, he saw him, he gifted him an ability to make his magic work for him, gave the freedom to live among everyone to all who was poisoned with this dark magic. OH WAITA HGSDHAG the thing that beastformers can't walk among transformers and the fact that dark spellers also could not, and how these events happen at a close times, OKAY so dark spellers got their kind of freedom thanks to Senator Shockwave (OH MY GOD what if Orion can see Shockwave and will recognise him right away COUGH) BUT I am wondering if beastformers will get some kind of an official declaration or some kind of school to be educated in and I wonder if Deadlock/Drift (I think after leaving he will change his name from the last episode...) will volunteer to be a teacher t be something more, or he will just end up with Ratchet wandering around the world, or maybe there will be a whole damn revolution where all monoformers and beastformers leaded by Drift go against the system, and maybe these events happen at the same time as a Senator Shockwave fighting for the rights of gifted... Okay I'm getting carried a little bit ahsghag excuse me... OH I GOT carried away A LOT I wanted to get back to the point that Blurr, now figuring out the past of Shocwave, dealing with all the events, dealing with what he has done and find a way to free them, at the same time STILL having adventures and fun since I'm sure he can be a good mood lifter to moody Shockwave and even see him in a really good mood since he is... well, not just a demon made of hatred but the wonderful kind of person in his previous life... (okay being carried away but what if Orion might declare the freedom to beastformers (AJHGAJHSDJAH OH MY GOD I IMAGINED JAZZ AS A PANDA HAVING A ROMAN WITH PROWL AND PROWL NOT KNOWING ABOUT IT OKAY SORRY) after seeing what it lead to after Senator Shockwave. And maybe Ratchet will be able to get his sign back freely after revolution will be successful or he will be forever blind just to be free and safe with his husband OKAY LISTEN I think it is obvious that I really like the thing you do....

[boobpancakes]

sombrita de reflejo, dame algo tierno me como tu amor y cago el infierno

[raiiny-bay]

attempt no. 2 at making hair

[kaiserouo]

puppies go shopping

idk if that color makes it better or not so im just leaving the normal version here

[applesofdaventry]

I found this application called "Umodel" that lets me view assets (like animations and such) from Unreal Engine games. It's very neat! It's easy to use and I can export files too.

So, it turns out that King's Quest 2015 is an Unreal Engine game. And I found a plugin that lets you import UE files to blender.

So...

I can manipulate Alexander like a puppet! Hehe.

[broken-clover]

Unika's trailer came out and I'm a big fan of her voice, also that intro shot of her riding her bike through a tunnel was lowkey better than most of the animation in dual rulers lol

I really wanna know what the budget was for the anime. I don't even necessarily say that as a disparaging remark, I'm just wondering that, given how a lot of the models and setpieces, at least for the earlier episodes, were all taken from the game itself, so outside of some of the action scenes and those trippy ass visuals from the last episode, I want to know what that sort of thing costs, since I am not familiar with the industry.

So, I tried very hard to avoid the leaks, and in hindsight...why? I'm confused. Virtually nothing in terms of her moveset has anything to do with the anime. Okay, the hair and tail I can buy as some inbuilt genetic fuckery, but where the fuck did she get Thunderseal?? Did they not think that would be the slightest bit important to even imply at some point??

The voice is...fine, I guess. Reminds me a lot of Dizzy's, but I guess this is the one time it's justified. I just wish it had a bit more...I dunno. I've found I tend to have a fondness for the dub version of young female characters in a lot of things, because in Japanese sometimes they can fall into generic cutesiness (Street Fighter being a recent example for me, I hate Lily's Japanese voice but enjoy her English one, and within Guilty Gear itself, I have a similar problem with May) but it feels like this game is ending up having the same problem. I had a similar indifference toward Dizzy's voice, but she was supposed to be sort of calm and placid. Unika has a similar kind of stiffness to Ram, at least in her battle dialogue, which doesn't help distinguish her in my eyes. I'll have to look up her VA, it doesn't sound familiar.

-Her calling Ky 'dad' so casually feels a bit weird, but I do like his insistence that his kids interact

-From what I've seen in terms of intro/outro dialogue, the most emotion and personality she expresses is her teasing Sin, which is cute, though compared to everything else it feels a little jarring. Ram mentioning that she's 'loosened up' also feels weird because I have no idea what gives her that impression.

-Her having a unique line with Giovanna is very unexpected, and regardless of how weird it is for her character at least it's funny- well, for one of them. The 'subdue, not destroy' bit actually gives her some kind of flavor!

-The crucifix necklace in her outro puzzles me, but it's the kind of puzzlement that makes me think through the implications of it. It looks sort of like Sin's, but Ky has also been depicted wearing one in old art. Either way, I feel it gives an implication that it's either future!Sin's from the bad timeline, or, the more likely option since Unika 'never met her birth parents' and thus presumably never met Sin either, it's a keepsake scrounged from the presumably dead-before-we-saw-him future!Ky, and it's giving me plot bunnies, the fun kind

I at least have a different complaint than I typically do about the themes, I actually really like the instrumental almost entirely and I wish it had just been an instrumental. I think the most recent theme I actually like was Johnny's (though thinking about it I don't think I've actually heard Slayer's so I'll need to). The more future-y EDM elements in the intro are actually a really fantastic bit of unspoken characterization, portraying Unika as something sleek and futuristic, but...I'm sorry, I'm beating a dead horse at this point, I just think that a lot of the themes in Strive, especially with the later DLC seasons, sound very samey, in large part because I just don't think Naoki Hashimoto has much range or variation in his singing voice, or at least not when he's singing in English

I still have yet to see the arcade mode, so if there is anything noteworthy there, I have yet to see it, but I will get to it soon

[mayoiayasep]

i do really like how irumafia balances the influences of growing up in the mafia with iruma's core dislike of hurting the people he loves bc in the newest chapter even as he asks azz to "show him resolve that will never dissapear" and azz ends up burning his own face (which. crazy gorgeous scene with those colored pages) if you look closely at iruma's hands in the following panels...

he was clenching his fists hard enough to draw blood

[andr0nap-02]

randomly remembered today that i have planet zoo and could, technically, try and make a recreation of hollvania for drawing reference

[okitanoniisan]

it's taken all day but i have given kiryu one (1) scar LMAO

[north-winds1]

favorite word?

Greeble, I think it's a fun sounding word

From my understanding it's the use of a shape or a bunch of shapes to create a lot of detail or make a model seem more complex than it might actually be underneath all the greebling.