Oh dear, off we go on another tangent.
Hold on to your hats!!
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Yesterday's Platdude Pixelart seemed ideal for turning into a PixelCubes artwork, so I set about playing with that and...
I know people (including myself) have grumbled hundreds of times before about Blender, but .. honestly, yesterday was doing my head in.
I've gotten used to Command (Alt) + Option (WinKey) + 0 to take the viewport and convert it into the current camera's position. I'm not sure if it did that by default, or if I had to tweak the settings to do that.
But it isn't doing it now.
And the camera jumped to a stupid position, so I had to zoom it out.
.. On a Macbook, without a mouse. I had to do the two-finger pinch/zoom thing on the trackpad, and it VERY STUPIDLY SLOWLY zoomed out, bit by bit, slowly, slowly, slowly..
Then I dug through the menus for anything that looked vaguely like "now make this the camera", at which point... The viewport jumped back to where the camera was, zoomed all the way back in at a stupid location.
.. so you know what I did? I sighed... I did all that again, repositioned the viewport, and hit the other menu that looked like it might set the camera.
And the viewport jumped right back to the old position again.
RAWR!
And my render keyboard shortcut isn't working either.
It's infuriating.
It's REALLY infuriating.
I'd use PixelCubes so much more if I didn't have to keep fighting with Blender EVERY SINGLE TIME..
What other options are there, though?
What decent 3D renderers are out there, where I can load the scene, set the camera, position a few lights, then click "Render Me!!"
Hmmm.
Pixelcubes DOES show the view, doesn't it..?
What if I could Render the view, properly?
Is there a Javascript Renderer that could cope with everything?
And so, I spent most of yesterday browsing through a bunch of options, and coming up mostly empty. I found a few possibilities, but I'm not sure anything could easily handle the chaos of the 100,000 boxes that I made
Might have to look into getting things working myself.
I'll have to keep looking into the possibilities, here. If I CAN find a decent way to do it, I'll then have to rejig a bit of PixelCubes' GUI so that I can position camera and lights properly, set focal lengths and things like that.
For now, if anyone has any decent favourite image renderers, let me know
[verse]
I saved all my settings and thought they were safe,
But when I opened the program, they'd started to strafe.
I hunted the menus. The options were missing.
And no matter the buttons, could not find my settings.
[chorus]
Save my settings, Blender, don't you stray,
Bring my shortcuts back today.
Lost in menus, click away,
Find my options, let me stay.
[break]
[verse]
With frustration mounting, I clicked and I scrolled,
But Blender had hidden the shortcuts I’d told.
I’d spent hours tweaking, crafting just right,
Now left in the void, a most desolate plight.
[chorus]
Save my settings, Blender, don't you stray,
Bring my shortcuts back today.
Lost in menus, click away,
Find my options, let me stay.
[break]
[verse]
Where once there was ease, efficiency soared,
Now chaos and havoc, my patience was floored.
Oh Blender, why dost thou play these tricks on me?
Restore all my shortcuts and let me just be.
[drop][chorus]
Save my settings, Blender, don't you stray,
Bring my shortcuts back today.
Lost in menus, click away,
Find my options, let me stay.
[verse]
I saved all my settings (set set set) and thought they were safe, (were were thought)
But when I opened the (pro pro pro) program, they'd started to (st-st-st) strafe.
I hunted the menus. (gone) The options were missing. (where)
And no matter the buttons, (tap tap tap) could not find my settings. (ack ack ack ack ack)
[chorus]
Save my settings, Blender, don't you stray, (blend blend blend)
Bring all my shortcuts back today. (blend all the key-key-key-keys)
Lost in menus, I will click away, (ack ack ack ack)
Find my options, don't let me stray. (stray blender stray)
[break]
[verse]
With frustration mounting, (moose mouse mount) I clicked and I scrolled, (click-click)
But Blender (blender blender) had hidden the shortcuts I’d told. (cut cut cut cut)
I’d spent hours tweaking, (tweakitty tweak) crafting just right, (Cur raft cur cur raft)
Now left in the void, a most desolate plight. (down through the void, void void void void void)
[whispered]
(the void, the plight, the desolate plight)
(run through the meadow, and tweak it just right)
[chorus]
Save my settings, Blender, don't you stray, (blend blend blend)
Bring all my shortcuts back today. (blend all the key-key-key-keys)
Lost in menus, I will click away, (ack ack ack ack)
Find my options, don't let me stray. (stray blender stray)
[break]
[verse]
Where once (once) there was ease, (ease) efficiency soared, (soar)
Now chaos and havoc, (chaos, havoc) my patience was floored. (on the floor, burn burn burn)
Oh Blender, (blender) why dost thou play these tricks on me? (you evil fiend)
Restore all my shortcuts (cut cut cut cut cut) and let me just be. (be be be be be be be be be be)
[whispered]
(be be be be be fly away)
(fly to your hive so the Queen can survive)
[drop][chorus]
Save my settings, Blender, (blender, blender) don't you stray, (blend blend blend)
Bring all my shortcuts back (back back back) today. (blend all the key-key-key-keys)
Lost in menus, (wheres the menu) I will click away, (ack ack ack ack)
Find my options, don't let me stray. (stray blender stray)
[Dave is frantically searching through piles of stuff while Green watches from the sofa]
Dave: They've got to be here somewhere! I always put them on my special key podium!
Green: You mean that stack of Coke cans you refuse to throw away?
Dave: No, next to that. The other podium.
Green: Dave, when was the last time you actually went outside?
Dave: Tuesday! No... maybe that was last Tuesday... or September...
Green: Exactly. You never go anywhere. You just sit here experimenting with fizzy drinks and terrorising vegetables.
Dave: That's not true! Last week I was living in the main RCHomes building, now I'm here. I've been "out" in-between.
Green: Going from your apartment to the bunker and back doesn't count as being "out".
Dave: Sure it does. There were cabbages. Cabbages don't exist inside. That's out.
[Scene Two]
Int. Dave's Bunker - Kitchen Area
[Dave is now emptying drawers while Green makes tea]
Green: Have you checked your pockets?
Dave: Seventeen times.
Green: All the pockets?
Dave: I only have one coat. I'd order more online, but they deliver to the door and... well...
Green: And you can't get to the door because you're locked in. Brilliant.
Dave: No, I can't open the door.
Green: The door's locked?
Dave: Yeah, that's why I'm searching for the keys.
Green: It was open earlier. I came in just fine.
Dave: Sure, but you shut the door behind you.
Green: You mean, I'm locked in here?
[Dave nods]
Green: With you!?
Dave: Dave, yes!
[Scene Three]
Int. Dave's Bunker - Computer Area
[Dave is now trying to hack his own security system while Green cries in the corner of the room]
Dave: Maybe if I reverse the polarity...
Green: This isn't Star Trek, Dave. Hack harder.
Dave: I could write a program to override the locks!
Green: Write quicker!
[A Locksmith calls through the door]
Locksmith: Hello? Mr. Wallace?
Dave: Parker. My name's Parker.
Locksmith: Sorry, wrong bunker.
Green: [shouting] No! Come back! We need help!
[silence]
Green: NOOOoooOOOooOOOOoooo!!!
[End credits]
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