The tutorial & resources sharing thread

[Vinc3r]

We know we have already Babylon 101, How To, Resources and even Off-site tutorials but sometimes it can be helpful to just share a link to the community, which can talk about general 3D realtime practices without being directly linked to BabylonJS, and so this thread to get your wonderful tip & tricks on the fly!

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So let’s start this:

• a nice simple & efficient guide to have cleaned and optimized assets: Optimizing scenes for better WebGL performance - Soft8Soft (yeah it’s come from Verge3D, another webGL engine, but the tips are agnostics).
• Polygon table by Pedro Amaro Santos showing great solutions about common modeling issues
• a PBR Guidre by Allegorithmics (actually Adobe now)

[Deltakosh]

Boom! Pinned topic because cool!

[gryff]

@Vinc3r : I like it

So not sure if this is in the right place - but software some people might find useful :

Materialze

Materialize is a stand alone tool for creating materials for use in games from images - start with a diffuse image and create heightmap, normal, metallic, smoothness and AO images for your PBR materials in Blender or BJS.

Unfortunately, it is only available for Windows.

And here are a couple of tutorials :

Materialize - Quick Start Guide - PBR Textures in Minutes

Materialize | Full Easy to Follow Guide

Hope that is what you might be looking for …

cheers, gryff

A couple of additions:

1. It is free software!!
2. You can start with any image. So take a picture of tree bark with your cell phone and it can be converted into a tileable image with all the other appropriate other images being produced.

cheers, gryff

[Cstfan]

Other links about good practices in real-time 3D:

3D Content Guidelines for Microsoft
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=58097

Art Pipeline for glTF

Art Pipeline for glTF

[Vinc3r]

The Camera Versus the Human Eye

@Roger Cicala

This article started after I followed an online discussion about whether a 35mm or a 50mm lens on a full frame camera gives the equivalent field of view to normal human vision. This particular discussion immediately delved into the optical physics of the eye as a camera and lens — an understandable comparison since the eye consists of a front element (the cornea), an aperture ring (the iris and pupil), a lens, and a sensor (the retina).

[Vinc3r]

Normal Edge Decal Tutorial by Leonardo Iezz, pdf download available through the description.

[Cstfan]

Unboring.net | Workflow: How to make a PBR 3D model for the web

[Vinc3r]

The Ultimate Trim: Texturing Techniques of Sunset Overdrive by Morten Olsen (Insomniac Games), an interesting way of unwrapping UVs, allowing material mass-sharing and textures number mass-optimization:

The Ultimate Trim: Texturing Techniques of Sunset Overdrive

[flo]

I found a converter for FBX to .glTF/.glb, for those who still not have a proper gltf exporter in their 3D package:

facebookincubator/FBX2glTF

• supports all platforms
• has a lot of built in functionality
• draco compression is awesome for small .glb’s!

[Dad72]

I also have some tools that happen to me to use. Maybe you will find useful (everything is for online use):

• Minimifi Javascript : https://jscompress.com/
• Unminifi Javascript : https://beautifier.io/
• Key Code keyboard : JavaScript Event KeyCode Test Page
• Javascript Validator : Best Online JavaScript Validator
• Json Validator https://jsonlint.com/
• Normal Map online : NormalMap-Online
• Converter 3D online : Online 3D Converter
• Converter in Ogg (audio) : Convertisseur OGG en ligne

[Vinc3r]

Have you ever wondering what basic Blender keyboard shortcuts could look like? Here you have:
Learn Blender with a poster infographic.

[Vinc3r]

A forum thread which could help beginners: Blender best practices for bjs?

[Vinc3r]

Some non-exhaustive list of textures library:

• the good old and famous https://www.textures.com/
• Substance library https://share.substance3d.com/
• Quixel library Quixel Megascans Library
• for organic characters: https://texturing.xyz/
• high quality open sourced HDRI https://hdrihaven.com/
• same, but for textures https://texturehaven.com/
• the title says it https://cc0textures.com/

In bulk (I don’t go often on these website, can’t guarantee quality): http://texturelib.com/ ; https://www.texturepalace.com/ ; http://texturer.com/ ; https://www.textureking.com/ ; Terminal 26 - Freie Texturen, 3D Modelle und Terrains ; http://www.plaintextures.com/ ; https://www.openfootage.net/ ; http://noemotionhdrs.net/ ; https://www.highqualitytextures.com/textures/ ; Magnet Textures - textures library - www.magnet-textures.com ; https://lostandtaken.com/ ; http://hdrlib.com/ ; https://www.goodtextures.com/ ; https://freetextures.3dtotal.com/ ; Free Texture Downloads ; https://www.environment-textures.com/ ; https://www.cgskies.com/ ; http://bgfons.com/ ; Arroway Textures ; http://www.allcgtextures.com/ ; https://freetextures.3dtotal.com/

Textures search engines: http://textures.one/ ; https://cubebrush.co/

That should be enough

[Vinc3r]

Blender tutorials huge list: https://stylizedstation.com/article/blender-tutorial-bible/

[gryff]

@Vinc3r : That list includes about half a dozen tutorials by Grant Abbit - who I have mentioned before on this forum.

cheers, gryff

[gryff]

There was a request previously on the forum about creating trees and vegetation from @inteja . While browsing the internet yesterday that I ran across a tutorial presented at this years Blender conference :

The Holy Grail of Plant Creation - Julius Harling

Published on October 25th, it goes from start to finish - so it may be useful to @inteja (with his Aussie vegetation) and others.

cheers, gryff

[inteja]

Thanks @gryff!

[gryff]

@Vinc3r and @Deltakosh Why is this thread so hard to find when you are logged in? It is not listed in the "Content Creation … " subsection unless I am logged out.

It is an important thread for people who are looking for resources.

cheers, gryff

[Deltakosh]

It is actually pinned so I have no idea why