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This tutorial helps new Git users installing Git on Windows and choosing the right options. Git can be downloaded for free from the official Website Information / Select Destination Location The first two Git setup screens only contain licence information and the option to change the installation path. Select Components The third screen contains the […]
Dieses Tutorial hilft neuen Git Benutzern dabei, Git unter Windows zu installieren und dabei die richtigen Optionen zu wählen. Git kann kostenlos von der offiziellen Website heruntergeladen werden. Information / Select Destination Location Die ersten beiden Screens des Git Setups enthalten lediglich Lizenzinformationen und die Möglichkeit, den Installationspfad zu ändern. Select Components Im dritten Screen […]
Y+ and Y- normal maps Some applications like the Unreal Engine 4 use Y- normal maps, which means the green color channel of these normal maps looks as if it was lit from below. Blender on the other hand uses Y+ normal maps, where the green channel looks like it was lit from above. If […]
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 read here. Enabling or disabling apps that run at startup System Cleanup (package caches, […]
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. 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 in a way that allows easy updating if your meshes change later on. Our […]
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 […]
