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It's all about giving the illusion of detail, without actually, like, going absolutely nuts actually modeling it all. Will we copy? Will we paste?? A hundred times? You betcha. And here's the street-markings tutorial (ALTHOUGH! My memory was incorrect, and I actually used texture painting for this one)  If you're a tier 7 patron, feel free to grab the twinkling harbor video elements!Also, if you haven't watched it before but want to speed up your modeling, this Selection methods tutorial could be handy!

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Tutorial: Modeling Sci-Fi Megastructures in Blender

It's all about giving the illusion of detail, without actually, like, going absolutely nuts actually modeling it all. Will we copy? Will we paste?? A hundred times? You betcha. https://www.patreon.com/posts/texture-paint-in-40076956 And here's the street-markings tutorial (ALTHOUGH! My memory was incorrect, and I actually used texture painting for this one) https://www.patreon.com/posts/asset-night-35647509 If you're a tier 7 patron, feel free to grab the twinkling harbor video elements!

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J D

hello, this is and amazing tutorial!! can you upload your Battleship picture that you have?? Thank you

Lukas Sprehn

Episodes you will never release? :( Still holding out hope that we will see more of OG episodes released!! Especially all that stuff that happens to Gage and Axle, and Sterling. That's what a lot of us are here for, I bet :D

Alex Morellon

Oh yeah !! Can’t wait to watch it !

aRANDOM

Yeeeeeeah!! Thanks for this tut Ian. Always wanted to creat awesome megastructures! Thank you very much!!! Have a great day!

Mike Hay

Ooh! I am looking forward to this one! 🤘🤖🤘

M

I am tickled

Roy

Blessing us with another one

Otari Kokojevs

Word combination "next episode" is like sugar to ears. 😄

Brian Mortensen

I am going through some rough times emotionally. This is godsend and will help in keeping my mind a little busy😅! Thank you so much🙏

Sariminator

Exactly what I wanna see in the morning when I sit down to eat my breakfast. Cheer Ian!

IanHubert

Ahaha, "In less than half a decade" would sound awful good to mine.

David

Hope things get better for you soon!

Volen CK

Hell yeah! Weekend just got better :) Thank you sir!

Paul McBryde

Yeah, selecting the camera is one of my daily annoyances!

Brian Mortensen

Thank you Daniel! I really appreciate it 💪

tommy

this is great! don't stress about the process and the ramblings these are the things we like to see!!

Stijn Windig

The more ramblings the better! Loving these!

Deanoodles

Yea brother. Hang in there :)

TRY Studio

Working on the creative skills has often been a support in my trying times as well. Hang in there, as all emotions are temporarily and the 'calm and happy' can be found yet again Brian!

Jostein Lie Svalheim

Oh my lord ive been waiting for something like this... all my life? no long enough to be like "YAAHS" when i saw thr notification.

Blake Rizzo

I love ramble starfish boat!!!!!!!!

N_COUNTER

The truncated notification came across as 'Modeling Sci-Fi Meg,' and here I was thinking Stewie might be making an appearance as a guest host.

Greg DiGenti

Love the way you work! I’ve been a professional motion designer for 10 years, using primarily AE, and I’ve been trying to learn Blender for about a year now. I’ve gotten good enough that I’m using it in a lot of my professional work, but there’s just so much depth to it, I still have a ton to learn and I find it difficult to instantly remember how various aspects can be combined as I’m working. Watching you work is always so inspiring in that way. But I’m curious, why is this video 480p? I kept trying to read the nodes that you were using, but they’re all a blur and there’s no higher res option available.

Stephan

Amazing! Super happy for the updated building workflow from the quick method a couple years back.

Stephan

Weird, I'm able to watch it in 1080p right now.

Jostein Lie Svalheim

1080p is available for me on this video. Have you tried setting it manually?

Greg DiGenti

I have, but my only options are 144p, 240p, 360p, and 480p. So weird!

Greg DiGenti

Oh wait a minute… I think it’s because I started watching it immediately after it was posted, and YouTube hadn’t finished exporting all the various resolutions yet. I refreshed my cache and tried again and 720p was the highest available, then I refreshed again and 1080p appeared as an option.

IanHubert

Ahhh yeah just one more reason for me to be patient before posting the videos (I always want to post them before I go to bed, but I should just wait till the next morning cause it takes a while to propagate to other servers and generate the subtitles) And yeah! I know what you mean. There are all these tools that also do WAY MORE than you initially think when you learn them. Like beveling- I spent years only using bevel when I needed to break up a 90 degree corner, but now I mostly use it for smoothing and to generate additional geometry in flat areas.

IanHubert

Ah thanks Stephan! And hah! Yeah, wish I'd gone into a bit more detail on that bit, honestly!

IanHubert

Ahahaha I had one that was, "Making automatic procedural assets" and someone shared it'd shortened in their email to "Making Procedural Ass"

IanHubert

Wooo! I hope it was as useful as you hoped!

Stephan

They're all useful in their own way. I think a lot of like..indie film-making you really have to scale your time and resources appropriately. Multiple workflows are necessary in the same project and across projects. So it's really awesome to have a few different ways of doing something from one source. It has a use-case and also expands the scope of the educational reference for people trying to figure out what method they need to use. It's really difficult going across tutorials from different people because you're not quite sure which workflow is for which place and for what scale of project. So..yeah if you keep updating older methods by getting more in-depth, or adding 'quick' versions to older more in-depth ones, that's a great way to build up a consistent and well-rounded educational resource. And it still maintains the nice 'diy / open-source' atmosphere that we all appreciate. I also appreciate your foregrounding your thought process, even when it means cutting in those clips where you had a second thought. When Im working with stuff im not familiar with, it's easy to think you're the only one not sure about what you're doing. Educators don't always show you how their process evolves. So, thanks again! Looking forward to more stuff. This patreon has been more than worth the funds, and it feels great to support the community. I'm getting far more use out of it than that Disney + subscription I used to watch one show and then forgot to cancel...

Al

the flying mode broke my mind

One of Many

Is there a reason you are still using the 2.93.0 beta rather than the current stable version?

Chris Fast

This was really cool Ian! Thanks. I remember you saying in an interview one time that when you were working on a movie (I think Prospect?) you had to teach yourself a bunch of techniques for realistic lighting in space. I was honestly pretty struck when you said you can't see stars in space if you're focusing on an object with direct sunlight because of the exposure. I was wondering if you could do a video on that, realistic lighting for space. Thanks again for everything. You're such a great teacher!

Tom Connell

Amazing tutorial thanks Ian, I've always noticed the large structures in your scenes and the thought of modelling something similar was quite intimidating, they feel just that little bit more accessible now! So many great techniques I'll have to try soon, thanks again.

IanHubert

I could!! I should! I wanted to! Although it's BASICALLY just have a super bright sun light with almost no ambient light. If you want fill/ambient light, you have to have it bounce off of something else (like a planet, or solar panels or a different part of the ship)- that's only for realism, though- lots of folks cheat space-lighting, and it might even look more cinematic if you do? But yeah!! I should go more in depth at some point! I'm glad you enjoyed the video! :D

Doug Brown

Bangarang! I mean... when YOU don't like something Ian my brain says... are you completely mad? That's EPIC! Then you do something else... and brain says... alright, my cortex is aching. Another epic post from the master of space disaster... I could have easily watched another hour or so... :)

Brian Mortensen

Thank you all! I really appreciate it🙏 Things are going to be ok in the end. Until then I'm going to keep myself busy with some creative projects😊

Anonymous

You Added Cranes ! :D

Dan

Did you already make a compositing video Ian? If not, I would love to see one.

Benja Min

You will never know how much of a lifeline these videos are and how much joy they bring me. Even though I am trying to tell you. Many Thanks

Chris Fast

Cool, that makes sense. Thanks!

Joachim Elverhoy

Just what i was waiting for ❤️❤️ love u Ian

Pete Burges

This is a masterclass. It's hard to believe you can get such good results from such low poly, simply textured assets. Makes me wonder why I bother with the high to low poly PBR workflow...

Brian

Wow, just, wow.

Mert Trem

Man, I love this model but you should animate a crash and destroy it for your revenge

Paul Spooner

Nathan Vegdahl has that effect on people.

Brad Fichter

Unless you've already put something out that I've missed, I would love to see a quick video of your folder structures. For your projects, archives, and just assets in general. How you organize everything. Thanks for all you do!

Zander

Triangulate on the wire mod for the scaffold...GENIUS.

Robert Singler Jr

This is my favorite tutorial since you started. I'm so thankful for it. I'm trying to render a scene right now and I can't because apparently the poly count was too high. Or something. Eitherway, trying to build settings for the other models that I've has proven really difficult with respect to the scene size issues, so this was magic.

Manuel Grewer

These tutorials are so good. I am still a total Blender noob, so it takes me hours to recreate what you are doing but I am learning so much fascinating new stuff. It's so fun!

German Bauer

Super appreciating your "iterate as you go" and "what is the shortest path that I can throw away if it doesn't work out" 3am methods - such a good message to not get to precious about things early on!

Pablo Nicolas

Hi Ian! I'm new to your Patreon, but I've been following your YT channel for some time, and I have to say you completely changed the way I approach doing stuff in Blender. Thank you! Still slowly watching all your Patreon stuff and it's really amazing. I have a long way to go, and so much to learn. I have a small improvement to share for your "Wireframe" technique to build quick scaffolds/trusses that is pretty neat: • Add a "Single Vert" object • Extrude vertically (or whatever, just extrude) • Add Skin modifier • In Edit mode, scale the size of the skinned vertices to taste (Ctl+A/drag thingy) • Add triangulate modifier • Add Wireframe modifier. The Skin modifier, subdivides the geometry at regular intervals, resolving the detail automagically :-) so you can quickly sketch trussed thingies at the speed of thought, and wherever you extend/extrude any vertex, the subdivisions and triangles scale accordingly. Just try it, it works out of the box with minimal effort. And you can scale each vertex separately (CTL+A), to make, for example, tapered cable towers. And you can scale the x and y vertex radius independently for more awesomness. It's really fun. Thanks again for all the awesome content!

Pablo Nicolas

I turned the technique I told above into a small addon. I made it for myself, so don't expect bells and whistles (I'm also not a dev so the code may be clumsy). I share it here in case it's useful to someone else. It's 100% free, you can download it from github: https://github.com/g3ntile/gen_ParametricPrimitives Just download the .zip from the green button and install as any addon.

Tolga Katas

great job! i love convert to railing and all the bells and whistles of this add-on thank you

Neo

Hi Ian can you please do a composite tutorial 🙏😭 that would be Awesome!!!