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Secret passage was just the name of my folder/blender project, you will want to replace that with the name of your blender project and folder location!

I like it a lot more, but that’s just my preference

Deffinitly let me know if you have a way to get shadows working! Currently on the Luma AI plugin documentation they claim “Shadows are not supported in Gaussian Splatting scenes” I figured it was a limitation of them using sprites in thier niagra system, which would make it rather difficult to make an accurate shadow. but if there’s a simple coding fix or something that makes them able to, that would be awesome

@@levelupvfx It's not a simple coding. You'd have to capture the depth buffer from light's perspective, in the shader that renders the actual splat rendering you'd have to compute the fragment's position in light's space, make the comparison between the depth buffer and the distance to light and decide if the fragment is lit or not. And that's just the basic approach, but since the splats are puffy, additional shadow filtering techniques would have to be employed in order to produce a smooth shadow. Or implement volumetric light scattering where the splats could be interpreted as cloud density and also have self-shadowing. There ar multiple ways, but it's definitely possible. I was kind of expecting that since Unreal supports lit particles, that would kind of work automatically.

Sadly I pretty quickly gave up when it came to Gaussian Splats in blender, so I only tested it with blender before I started using postshot, I think the color data should be be in the PLY file, but if not, I’m sure there’s a way to get it out seperately

If you would give me the chance, I'd like to argue my case here, I can tell you feel strongly that my title is pure clickbait, but I feel it is valid for what I am teaching. I believe when a title says "In blender" and does not mention plugins, it is implied that it is a tutorial using Vanilla blender. I cannot speak for you, but personally I actually find myself frustrated when I click on a tutorial where the title does not disclaim that its all a plugin, because I prefer knowing the powers and limitations of vanilla tools before moving onto plugins. While it may seem obvious to us in the know, many blender beginners do not know what you call "the normal way". And they find tutorials that teach them to use vertex painting or other wrong ways of painting masks. This video exists to teach them "The right way" to do it, which for most cases, the "right way" IS "The best way", especially for beginners who are just starting out, which this video is aimed at. Perhaps calling it "The Right Way to Texture Paint In Blender" would be more appropriate, but at the end of the day, I feel strongly that its just semantics at that point. Within the first thirty seconds of the video, I explain the problem "You can't understand how to properly mix two textures together on one object". If this does not address the problem my potential viewer is facing, I've provided an explanation of what I am teaching quickly, so they can click off and continue searching for a video more suited for their needs. I feel providing a quick explanation of what I am to do in the video, and then teaching that, is how I interpret "fkin decency" in the online educational space. There is a place for plugins and external programs, I wont argue that Philogix doesn't provide superior tools when compared to blender's native ones, it absolutely does. But if I were to account for plugins or, more importantly, 3rd party programs, I would much rather prefer to teach people how to use Substance or 3D coat, since it probably doesn't need to be said that dedicated software almost always is better than generalized software like blender.

Yes! Nothing you make is processed online, everything happens on your machine, I think you may need to be connected when you first start up because they need you to log in with your account, but after that you are good

Of course! Happy to help, that’s exactly why I wanted to make this tutorial!

Haha I keep a fire extinguisher next to my computer just in case

Thanks!

Yeah, I’m thinking of how to do this as well. I believe the best way is to somehow cache it out as a particle system and then bring it in with Niagra, but I’m not exactly sure about how to go about caching it out. Believe me though it’s on my list of things to do so stay tuned!

Next big nuke workshop will be a live action set extension, using Blender to generate the rest of the environment! It’s in the works so stay tuned!

@@levelupvfx waiting and excited thanx dude 😄😄

And Yes It Actually Is Working A Lot Of Commands, But It Is Making Me Look Like A Hacker 😎 😂

Your final files will be saved wherever you set up the "Output" inside of blender! Just like if you rendered it normally! (Right side bar, output tab, underneath your resolution and frame range options)

Your output will be whatever folder you set it to be in blender the same way you would render a normal animation, by default, this is set to TEMP

Sure!

Thanks!

There is a suggested limit on their documentation of 100 to 300, but since everything is local, you’re not actually uploading anything so you have no limit to how many images you can use. For example I’ve run splats using 1500 images, and I’ve run ones using a few hundred. In general, more images will help, but there deffinitly is a sharp falloff from where adding more images don’t add any more detail, they just slow the training down

Thanks! And they are part of one of the Forestation biomes you can get with GeoScatter (separate purchase but definitely worth the money if you can afford it!)

The more you know! I’ve always called it a dash, I would assume most people refer to it as that colloquially more than literally, given there is no em-dash key on most keyboards without using shortcuts, but cool fact!

Yeah, textures could have used a bit more work, didn’t actually use metallic properties at all, probably would have helped get it a bit closer

I know! I’m hoping they are able to find a way to get them working with Niagara, but it might be an engine limitation

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Yes, if you want to render a certain frame, instead of “-a” at the end of the terminal command, do “-f 123” (123 being whatever frame number you want, could be 1, could be 5000)

Hi man plz did you found the solution or not?

@@mahdi6832 No Not Yet Do you Know the reason or where the problem??

@@anteracademy I solved the problem by update the driver if your computer amd go update your driver from amd

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The image will come out wherever you set it up in blender in the normal file output location just like if you had rendered it the normal way.

It does compared to the default denoiser, but not a whole bunch, and you can make up for that by dropping the samples even lower!