Amelia Whitehart March 10, 2022

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Checking the Only Insert Available option means Auto Keyframing only affects scene elements that are already animated: Blender, like many 3D applications, has a feature that will automatically insert keyframes when you move an object or bone. Blender calls this feature Auto Keyframing or ‘autokey’. I prefer animating this way because it saves on keystrokes, and because otherwise I sometimes forget to key part of a pose I’ve been working on. The drawback of using autokey is that it also sets keys on things you aren’t intending to animate. For example, if I tweak the position of the camera or lights, and then tweak them again later on at a different frame, this will result in them being animated, even if I don’t want it to be. Fortunately, Blender offers a way to solve this: Only Insert Available. With this option toggled on, autokey will only set keys on things that are already animated. The first time you key something, you have to do it manually, but from then on the process is automatic.

This is one of my favourite add-ons. It allows us to import real-world terrains from Google Earth into Blender. You can download it for free from GitHub. After installing the add-on you should find a GIS menu in the top of the 3d viewport. Choose Basemap under Web/Geodata and proceed with the default settings. A map of the world should be loaded into the viewport. The shortcut G brings up a search menu and brings you anywhere you desire. Increasing the zoom level to a value around 12 seems to be right most of the time. Then use the Middle Mouse Button and Mouse Wheel to move around adjust the zoom. When you are happy with the selected area, press E to project it onto a plane. This is already pretty neat but the terrain data is still missing. For this purpose go back into the GIS Menu and this time choose Get Elevation. The default settings should be fine. Let it load for a few seconds and a displacement map will be added to the plane. And there it is, a real-world terrain in Blender! Beware, that this add-on uses real-world scale. Your plane might be multiple kilometres long.

Never try to attack the entire model at once—instead, give each task your undivided attention. The more effort and focus that goes into every piece of the puzzle, the better everything’s going to end up. It’s next to impossible to master hard surface modeling without studying hard surfaces in their many forms—namely, in real life, as well as from photos and things that you read online. This includes not only using reference images but taking the time to make meaningful observations about stuff that you run into, even if it’s just something like the peeling yellow paint on an old steel banister. Structural details, mechanical details, and aesthetic design choices can all be fascinating to learn more about, and everything that you take in will inform your work greatly.

The Client machine automatically receives the rendered frames from network renders: Start by switching the render engine from Blender Render to Network Render. On your master node, choose Master from the Network Settings panel of Render Properties. When you click Start Service, you can view the status of the farm by opening a web browser on that machine and pointing it to http://localhost:8000. With the master node running, go to the other machines and set them up as slaves. It’s the same steps as for the master node: just choose Slave from Network Settings instead of Master. Assuming the machines are on the same network, when you click Start Service, the slave node should automatically find the master. See extra info on https://3darts.org/.