Also, it would not hurt knowing a bit about Compositing Nodes, since Andrew rushes a bit through that part, although admittedly the Node setup used in this tutorial is very simple. Before doing this tutorial, I think it helps if you know a bit about particle systems in Blender beforehand. What an awesome tutorial it is too! I highly recommend it to all those who would like to add a bit of fire effects in their scene. Hi again, I just finished Andre Price's tutorial on creating fire in Blender. Your imported textures will be available to be used. This is also useful across all the functions in the Blender that use textures. When you go back to Background Images, now the drop-down menu allows you to use any of the image textures you just added (Figure 4). The images get imported, all in a row, like shown in Figure 3. These are the options I used when importing the images as planes. I used the settings shown in Figure 2.įigure 2. Next, in the dialog that shows up, browse to the folder where you have the pictures you want to add. Just type 'import images.' No need to type the whole thing. Once it's activated, call it up by pressing Space and type 'import images' (Figure 1.)įigure 1. To use it, you must have it activated already-Andrew Price explains how to do this in his tutorial. What I did was use the Import Images as Planes addon. Now, imagine having to do that ten, twenty times. To access this feature, just press N (which brings up the Properties panel,) click on Background Images, then on Add Image, expand by clicking on Not Set, and click Open, browse to the desired file, and click Open Image. I decided to activate the Background Images feature in Blender, so I could see these reference images right on my file. I started working again on my subway scene, this time using reference pictures I took. Today I came up with a way to use this feature to save me some time when using images as background. Here's the link to Cheetah3D's download page.Ī few weeks ago, Andrew Price showed how to import multiple images at once using the Import Images as Planes addon in Blender 2.57. If you're a Cheetah3D user, let me know what you think of the new version. I am a firm believer that, more than fancy features, what makes a program successful is a solid UI foundation. It's great to see some of the UI aspects of the program being improved. For instance, you can change the color of the background, or the color of the selected objects.Īdditionally, Collada support has been improved, with the addition of animation support, among others. Now it has been greatly expanded, to the point where you can assign keyboard shortcuts to things like scripts and parametric objects-imagine pressing Control-C to create a cube :)Īlso in the Preferences panel, many of the colors in the application can be customized. In the past, this feature was limited to most (but not all) menu items. I think that the most important one is the possibility to assign a custom keyboard shortcut to all the functions in the program. Out of the beta stage, this release mainly improves some UI features. Today Cheetah3D 5.7 was finally released. This tells the program to turn that color to completely transparent (Figure 3.) Do the same for 3D View Grid (Small Step.) In the Mac-standard Colors dialog that shows up, drag the Opacity slider all the way to 0. Double click on the dark-colored button thingy Double-click on the color button next to "3D View Grid (Big Step)" (Figure 2.)įigure 2. We will modify the color for the "3D View Grid (Big Step)" and "3D View Grid (Small Step)" options. Hit Command-Colon to access the Preferences panel. The way to get rid of the Grid for good is to change its color in the Preferences panel. What's more, one can't really assign a keyboard shortcut to it either-I just double-checked this. Even in the newest Cheetah3D version, this option is not saved in the preferences file. If every time I start a new file I need to go and uncheck that option, pretty soon it's going to get very annoying. This is one of those "features" that can really kill the deal for me. Every time you open up a new document, the Grid option in the Style pop-up menu in the 3D view panel is reset to its default position-on (Figure 1). With the new 5.7 release of Cheetah3D, a long-time wish of mine has become a reality.
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