Environment & Tech Artist
Please note: Stacer has been abandoned in 2023 and will receive no further updates. Stacer is a free open source tool for Ubuntu based Linux distributions that helps keeping your distro clean and provides an easy to use and nice visual interface to do so. Here’s a short feature overview. The detailed overview can be […]
If you are running Linux Mint Cinnamon and try to use software that uses the Alt+Left Mouse or Alt+Right Mouse hotkey (like Blender or Substance Painter), you’ll run into a problem. Instead of using the function that is bound to that hotkey inside the tool, you’ll move or resize your current window. To disable moving […]
This tutorial explains how to turn DirectX normal maps into OpenGL normal maps in Krita by inverting the green channel. If you’re used to inverting a normal map channel in Photoshop by selecting the channel and pressing Ctrl+i, you might have noticed that this doesn’t work in Krita. Instead Krita inverts all colors in all […]
rotation_degrees, transform.basis and quaternions If you want to rotate a character towards a point, there are three popular methods you can use: modifying the character’s rotation_degrees.y value, changing the transform.basis or using quaternions. This tutorial will show you how the transform.basis approach works. The transform.basis property of any Spatial node (or nodes that inherit from […]
If you have ever created custom classes by using class_name MyCustomClass in one of your scripts you might have noticed that these classes don’t return their custom class name when you use get_class() or is_class() on them. This tutorial will show you two solutions to this problem. Let’s say you have a Player.gd script that […]
This tutorial is also available as a Guide on Steam. It was written for Godot 3.x. Some details might be different in Godot 4. This tutorial will teach you how to prepare tilesets in Blender for export to Godot, how to use the .escn exporter for Blender and how to configure the tileset in Godot […]
I want to paint my mesh in Blender. How? You have finalized your mesh and now want to paint it by hand. This guide will show you how to enable painting on your mesh. First, you’ll have to correctly UV unwrap it. This guide does not cover how to do that – I’ll assume this […]
The explanation of range remapping in this article is universally applicable to every use case where value remapping is required. Towards the end of this article we’ll take a look at how to implement the formula as a function in the Godot game engine. If you are just here to understand how range remapping works […]
Wenn ihr Blender erst seit Kurzem benutzt, werdet ihr euch vielleicht fragen, warum manche Objekte gelb und andere orange sind, wenn ihr sie auswählt. Oder warum in Blender manche Faces gelb sind und andere weiß, wenn ihr sie anklickt. Blender unterteilt ausgewählte Dinge in zwei Kategorien: aktiv und selektiert. Wenn ihr mehrere Objekte nacheinander mit […]
If you are constantly pressing the period key on your numpad to refocus Blender’s camera or have problems zooming in because the camera gets slower the more you are zoomed in – there’s help. There are two options in Blender’s preference menu that make navigating the viewport a breeze and eliminate the aforementioned problems entirely. […]
