Tipps & Tricks

Materials

Procedural radial coords

torus_true_procedural

Animation

Driver with expression:

 #frame/50

The point in time can be read with bpy.context.scene.frame_current and set with bpy.context.scene.frame_set(frameNumber).

Particles

Non Overlapping Particles

Non Overlapping Particles

Google Maps to Blender

griesplatz

Video Tutorial

With RenderDocs

  1. Start Chrome in Debug Mode

This command starts Chrome and shows the GPU PID:

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c "SET RENDERDOC_HOOK_EGL=0 && START "" ^"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe^" --disable-gpu-sandbox --gpu-startup-dialog"

  1. Start RenderDocs Inject into the Google Chrome GPU process. This must happen before you start any 3D.

  2. Browse to Google Maps Only works with Maps, not Earth!

  3. Capture a scene Either use "print screen"-key ("Drucken" in german) or click the button on RenderDoc while moving the view.
  4. Save the capture as an RDC-file.
  5. Import the file to Blender with the MapsModelsImporter. This takes a while and might not work if you didn't do everything according to this list.

That's it!