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Quickie: Making Steam Elements Not Clip Through the Camera (Patreon)

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2021-08-22 06:01:48
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2026-06
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What it says on the tin! I'm probably the last person to figure this out, but on the chance I'm not, this makes steam elements SO much more useful to work with, and takes less than a minute to set up.  I've got a couple free steam elements available here. And all the rest are available to the tier 7 folks here. I also talk a bit more about using steam elements here.

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Quickie: Making Steam Elements Not Clip Through the Camera

What it says on the tin! I'm probably the last person to figure this out, but on the chance I'm not, this makes steam elements SO much more useful to work with, and takes less than a minute to set up. I've got a couple free steam elements available here. http://www.robotsoup.com/steam.html And all the rest are available to the tier 7 folks here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/asset-steam-37054986 I also talk a bit more about using steam elements here. https://www.patreon.com/posts/tutorial-working-37050460

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Francisco Munguambe

Hi ian i am new here,not founding the camera shakefy addon for old versions of blender

Bernhard VonZastrow

Good grief man. Get some sleep! 😊 Also: thanks for this.

Chris Ras

Awesome dude. Thanks!

Benjamin Lacey

This is great! I tested out Polycam the other night after seeing it on your Insta, and WOW is this a great tool! I can't do meshroom cuz of Mac, and my iPhone is too old for LiDAR, so Polycam is a big win!

IanHubert

Sweet! That's good to hear! Yeah I haven't done a lot of tests, so maybe lots of apps can do what it does, but so far it's the first one I've tried that actually gives nice results (and quick! Which is cool!)

Wrrn

Thanks for this! Are these the exact same files as the ones from the kit ops steam pack or are they different?

Benjamin Lacey

The day before I was planning a shot that needed a digital double, and was gonna fake it with a generic human model, but no longer!!

IanHubert

You're welcome! And yeah, the same files :)

Zeke Faust

Two videos in one day? We are truly blessed!

Mike L. Taylor

Unrelated… but is there a way to turn captioning on for your videos that are not posted through YouTube?

IanHubert

Oh! Here in the Patreon page?? Dang I’m not sure (doesn’t look like I can on mobile)- but you can always click through to the YouTube page! That said, I’ll make sure I wait long enough for the subs to auto generate before I post (I tend to get impatient and jump the gun)

DankVote

I absolutely love this, looks fantastic! You could put some dripping condensation on the side of the machinery, it will make it look really textural and integrated!

Tom Pleysier (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 This is great, also those photoscan assets you said you might add as an asset. would be sooo helpful, just saying anyways, have a nice one :)
2021-08-22 06:32

Mike L. Taylor

Thanks Ian! I like to be able watch tutorials in bed in the middle of the night without waking up the wife. :)

IanHubert

Cool! I'll definitely upload them! Usually I like having a theme for organization's sake, and these are mostly just "Assets From Around", but maybe I'll snag some more docks/mud and call it "Harbor" :P

Chris Hayes

Totally dig the idea of AI improving photogrammetry results. At the last apple talk thing, they mentioned they're using AI to infer material type for the built-in photogrammetry feature they've developed.

IanHubert

Yeah! My dream is that a program like reality capture or meshroom could see a human, or hands or something, and go "oh yeah, I've seen these before" and use the dataset as a guide so all the fingers aren't friggin' blobs. We've been at the "triangulate the point cloud" stage for ages (that said, I don't totally know what I'm talking about tech-wise :P)

Russ

Polycam only gives you five free scans? I better save them until I *really* need to scan something on my phone.

Stephan

Very cool. This stuff has come a long way since that autodesk app in like..2013 or whenever that was.. I would definitely be up for more scanning tutorials if there's anything else you try out. Nice to see how it was integrated into the scene too. Coool..

Ozzie

Yes, it would be absolutely amazing if we could have access to some of those more micro-detail ground-type scans!

IanHubert

Oooo- that's a good idea. Drips always add a ton.

IanHubert

Absolutely!! I think I'll zip out and snag a few more and clean them up a bit!

Anonymous

Great little video, Ian! And those beautiful ground scans would be pretty awesome to have acess to!

Second Dune

The new Object Capture API for iOS and macOS does an amazing job with photogrammetry. Take a bunch of photos with your phone and process on your Mac. This is the app: https://www.photocatch.app

Anonymous

More of the scanning apps should be coming out with photo support. Apple recently introduced a new API specifically for photogrammetry that makes it super easy (it's like only a few lines of code). It's probably what polycam does. 3D Scanner app is better for Lidar scanning though

Mike L. Taylor

Earbuds cause brain cancer. Jk…. I actually prefer captioning it helps me process the tutorials to see the instructions written out. I tend to tune out the talking.

John Roberts

anyone know if there's an Octane equivalent to this for Camera view distance?

Greg DiGenti

That’s super cool about Polycam now having the photogrammetry option! I too was very disappointed in the LIDAR scanning, as like you said everything came out looking terrible, no matter how much scanning I did. But I tried the new photo option and it looks really good by comparison. Hoping Kevin Moran’s comment above is right, and a lot of other apps start offering this soon, mainly a free option for getting models off the phone. If not, I may just suck it up and pay for Polycam’s subscription.

aptass

Recently Niantic (makes of pokemon Go) bought Scaniverse app which was paid before for pro features. I think this performs better in pure photoscan mode with lidar than polycam etc. I have yet to try the photo mode in Polycom. And thanks for the tip Ian, I really like the camera shake addon

Kevin Martin

This tutorial was certainly helpful for me, if I was trying to achieve that effect I would've started with controlling the transparency mix with a driver and not known there was a node specifically for that!

Chris Alldridge (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 Quick camera question (LOVE this by the way). what did you use to shoot salad mug? I’m torn between shelling out for a black magic camera and all the fancy lenses/gizmos & getting a really great camera for photo scans that also has reasonable video capabilities. These are the dilemmas of crippling impecunity! Thanks :D
2021-08-22 21:10

Ben Robinson

It looks amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Ben Robinson

Hi! I think he uses a Sony A73. I heard him mention it in one of his previous tutorials. I could clearly be very wrong though.

JRugg

This blew my mind. I wish I'd known this months ago too! Thanks for sharing this!

IanHubert
>>66276027

Excellent! I sure hope so. I've probably tried a dozen+ apps over the years, and none of them have ever really given useable results, so I'm excited for the new wave of tech.

IanHubert

Yup! Sony A73. I don't think it's as great cinematically as the black magic stuff (at the very least I doubt it has as much color depth), but I still love the flexibility and the low light abilities (low light is GREAT for photoscanning- close the aperture, shorten the shutter speed, and still get clean images!)

Mack Lawrence

mannnnn. where were you last week when i couldn't solve this haha. so thankful for this one :)

Diginaat

omg yes the good stuff i am happy i got the patreon

Diginaat

what kinda phone do you use? can i do this kinda stuff with my one plus 7t? edit: is there a android app?

Anonymous

I recently did an After Effects composite on a blender scene and when I rendered it out there was like some weird whispery dialogue and I was super confused because I hadnt added any sound. After breaking down the scene I found out the culprit was one of your steam elements that I used. I lol'd but I feel like you gotta check for that kinda thing :).

By Octo

How did you make the translucency water with the rocks, could you make a tutorial about all your rececntly discovery with evee to make look too real and too good ?

Chris Alldridge (edited)

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2026-09-20 10:00 Quick question on compositing! (Sorry for my recent barrage of messages) - I'm looking for really good resources that go into granular detail about scene composition. I saw blender guru's breakdown which was a great foundation, but I'm looking for books, courses or other theory-driven videos to really step up my scene blocking abilities. Thank you all!
2021-08-30 19:43

John Milam

Have you tried Framed Ink (and its sequels) by Marcos Mateu-Mestre? I see it recommended all the time for composition. I think the basis for good composition/scene-blocking is graphic readability - making sure the focal point is the thing your eye directly goes to. It's a pretty complex subject once you get into hierarchy, eye trace, and things like that. The graphic read of an image can usually be created by making contrast - it's all about contrast and there's so many ways to achieve it: color, saturation, blur, abstraction, light/shadow, just to name a few. The artist Edgar Payne is kinda the go-to for outdoor composition, you can find PDFs and lots of images on pinterest. One other thing I would recommend is to watch critiques on youtube. Tyler Edlin is a good one.

hollowgrm

Woah, so great. For the photoscanning on Iphone bit, I don't know if you tried it, but Trnio have greta results for small objects and has the Photo feature too (and its free)!

YI

If I want to scan， how much memory for the ipad is suitable？

Anonymous

Hi, Ian Hubert could you make a video on how to do glow with denoising in cycles

J.P. Cokes

One problem I am running into with the steam textures is the jump cut from end to beginning when it repeats. Is there a way to fix this? May just have to fade it out near end of clip and start a new steam element?

Anonymous

This is awesome, but I have a question. Would there be any benefit to adding the steam elements in compositing after the fact? It would seem (to my inexperienced brain) that this would be more flexible and give you more control, no?

Lorenzo Franzoni

i know that is a 4 month old comment, but i'm running in the same problem, and i don't know how to fix it, i tried to slow motion the steam textures , but that wasn't enough.

RetroRadtacular

Such a good tip, worth sharing. Still going through your patreon incredibly out of order. Its elevating me to new heights, I fear for my life.

Sascha Rossier

same here ... its better than any netflix series ... im eating thru your extremely valuable information with a big smile and growing blender confidence ... and even taking notes! thanx so much, ian!