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how to create a UV mapping (?) of a texture onto a product photograph based on a calibration pattern
To my knowledge there's no way to use UV data in Photoshop and I'm not sure it would help with this example because the deformation is quite strong: it'd be a job for vector displacement filter (which ...
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Generate one cubemap PNG from six individual PNGs
This task is simply done using ImageMagick montage function.
Assuming that you have 6 tiles (map_tile01.png, map_tile02.png, ..., map_tile06.png) and an empty image of the same size of the tiles (...
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What is the name of visual technic to draw line showing both velocity and accleration in 3d animation software
I dont think the technique has a name as such. As with most things visual having a name for everything is impossible simply because written language is limited in scope.
However the pulsating points ...
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Remove curvature from 360 images, without editing all files by hand?
If you want to omit the perspective distortion you need to set your blender camera to ortho mode. This should create a parallel projection without the distortion.
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Extracting vertex data of a 3D Model using 3D Modelling software
If you want to do some processing with the mesh data or format it to your taste, you can access it directly in blender through the python API, either using the CLI to run a python script in the ...
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Extracting vertex data of a 3D Model using 3D Modelling software
Yes its possible. That is after all what save does, writes down the positions of each vertex, normal information and connectivuty information to disk. So if we simplify the problem a bit and take a ...
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Which program was used to create this image?
You can do that in any painting program. Photoshop, Gimp, PhotoPaint, Krita, Painter, Paint.net, Paint, etc.
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So what's difference between MAYA and Blender?
what's difference between Maya and Blender?
Hum. Depends... With both of them you can do awesome stuff or lame projects.
As with a lot of applications one defining thing on which application you ...
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Photorealism critique?
The scratches look a bit wide to me, it gives me the sense that it's a very small anvil (more like something one would put on a keychain).
A quick google finds some images with much finer scratches, ...
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How to create a line connecting two spheres in Blender / C4D?
In a polygonal 3D software like Blender or C4D, the core idea is quite simple, you just have to create some vertices and connect some of them. Then just move some around.
I.E. in Blender, from the ...
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Generate one cubemap PNG from six individual PNGs
If you have the individual PNGs already created, you could use Inkscape (free, Open Source, works on Linux, Windows and Mac). It has some nice snapping and alignment features which would make placing ...
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i cant find and blend a background for this render
Find a background image on a stock image website. There many of these online, such as Adobe Stock, Dreamstime, iStock etc. Do a search for "fantasy" illustrations. Alternatively just paint your own ...
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How would I go about fixing this gif?
So for anyone following behind me, I found the solution that worked for me.
The original format of the frames prior to trying to export as a GIF out of Gimp were PNGs that were placed in a tmp folder ...
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3d virtual exhibition stand
When I was tasked with creating a virtual trade show a year or so ago. I found the easiest solution was to create 360° Panoramic Images. I created the full show in Blender and exported using an ...
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Flying cards effect
Here's one simple method in Illustrator.
Simply draw a single curved path which would represent one edge of the "cards". From that point it's all procedural, relying on simple rectangles, ...
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How to draw illustrative 3d physics diagrams like below?
As noted in the other answers, you're going to have a 2D result of your 3D source items, but I suspect that is your objective. Any 3D creating software will allow you to generate the images you've ...
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How to draw illustrative 3d physics diagrams like below?
You can have many types of styles. Some are made of vectors, some are drawn by hand some are 3D mechanical projection, some 3D artistic render, etc.
The specific style you are showing is clearly a 2D ...
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Two Objects Became Linked in Blender - How to Select / Deselect Just One?
You can separate them by loose parts.
With the object selected, go to edit mode (Tab)
Press P and select by "By Loose Parts"
If you want to delete one of the cubes, go into edit mode and ...
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Adobe Illustrator: Extract mesh faces from Blender Freestyle SVG
After simplifying, Select All and then use the Live Paint Bucket Tool to click each face and fill it with a color, any color.
After you've clicked all the faces, expand the Live Paint Object (via the ...
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Convert 3D plane of image into 2D image to be used as texture in blender
I don't think what you propose would work well. Transforming the tiles for perspective will blur the pixels and degrade the image quality. Also you'd need to fix the lighting. Sounds like far too much ...
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How do most graphic designers handle their branding mockups? Templates or DIY?
I can't answer for "most graphic designers", only for myself. Graphic design is a very wide category, and different designers have their preferred workflow, software, and specialisms.
I ...
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Photoshop to render CAD data to photorealistic images?
Blender can do this, and the Cycles renderer is pretty decent, and you can plug in to use Octane or Vray renderers if you want another renderer than Cycles.
For myself I use modo for mass rendering ...
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