PBR Mixer 2.4 Triplanar projection. Position and Direction based... mixing (world/object) Texture resizer and complete control over Principled inputs for blazing viewport performance. Superhive: Gumroad: #b3d #blender #blender3dshow more

Atlascape for Blender. Bundle your textures into atlases and... build complex multi-layered PBR materials which use only a few textures. Export to Unreal, Unity, and Godot. Coming soon to my Superhive and Gumroad stores. #b3d #blender #blender3d #cgishow more

PBR Mixer 2.5 gets new Height Map and Coordinate... features for all-new ways to mix your PBR textures. No sculpting or geo nodes. 100% done with a material! #b3d #blender #blender3d #blendercommunityshow more

Blender 5 introduces a new and improved Sky Texture.... This makes it easy to animate sunsets for example. By using the Sun Position extension that comes with Blender, we can more intuitively and realistically adjust the sun position. #Blender #B3D #Blender3Dshow more

Build advanced multi-layered materials without ever opening the shader... editor. PBR Mixer is the simple-to-use material creation tool for #Blender and it's available at 25% off in Superhive's Winter Sale. #b3d #blender3d #blendercommunityshow more

1/2 Meet Wan2.7-Video — The Comprehensive Model for Controllable... Video Storytelling! From single clips to full-scale narrative direction, we’ve built more than just a generator. We’ve built a director’s suite: • Multimodal control over performance and style via text, image, audio, and video. • Character customization with up to 5 reference inputs and voice profiles. • Video editing with simple, intuitive instructions. • Full-stack creative toolkit: generation, editing, cloning, restyling, continuation, and more. • Sustained improvements in visual fidelity, motion stability, and prompt adherence.show more

We get compared to TrueSky, PSA, and others a... lot, but honestly, we're not trying to be them... Sky Plus was built to give you full intuitive control over your sky without the bloat or complexity. Lightweight (only 3mb), procedural, works in both EEVEE & Cycles. You get full controls over the sun, moon, stars, atmospherics, day/night cycles, and all the detail you need without feeling overwhelming. Just drag and drop from the asset library and it's yours to customize however you want. No addon means no locked down controls; plug your own nodes in, break it apart, remix it. We don't override your render settings, it's real-time, and you'll never deal with broken updates when Blender changes. Sky Plus isn't "our sky" - it's your sky, built exactly how your project needs it. --------------------- With tiers starting at $7, $20, and $50—we wanted to make sure powerful sky tools were actually accessible to everyone, and not just another high ticket wishlist. On top of that, we're having a 40% Off sale this week, so don't miss out on that! 🥰 #blender #blender3d #b3d Superhive (formerly Blender Market)show more

Currently testing Hunyuan brand new 2.5 model for image... to 3D. YUP! It's MAJOR improvement over 2.0, especially with making details look sharper, it can also reconstruct more detail. It also generates PBR materials now and you can automatically rig the character on the website. It's much better than Trellis and Tripo from my testing! Took it into Blender as well to compare Hunyuan 2.5 (on the left) and Hunyuan 2.0 (on the right). I wanted to see the mesh with a solid and material preview. If you're doing 3D printing, these would probably work very well. However...the biggest issue here is still topology which is a complete and utter mess, there's also still issues with texture projection...and the entire model is a single mesh, there needs to be a method to generate the model in parts BUT this tech is certainly improving. As someone that is also a 3D artist, I actually want to see what this tech is capable of generating to output 3D models.show more

Did you know that in Blender you can have... edge highlighting and ambient occlusion right in the regular 'Solid' shading mode? ✨ People were asking about my viewport shading settings, so here they are! 1. Press the small button on the top right of your viewport 2. Check 'Cavity', and set the type to 'Both'. World Space 'Valley' acts exactly like ambient occlusion. I like to disable the 'Ridge' here though, because inverted AO doesn't make sense to me visually 3. I also usually keep the 'Shadow' enabled for extra definition, but keep in mind that this is performance-heavy, and if you have millions of polys you may see stuttering 4. I also like to enable 'Backface Culling'. It's not uncommon to produce inverted geometry when you model. This setting allows me to see it immediately, and thanks to that, my geometry is always correct when I export it to Unity! 5. You can also select a different studio lighting preset, or go with a matcap if that's something you're into! 🚀 #b3dshow more

MALEMA'S PRINCIPLED POSITION ON XENOPHOBIA Julius Malema, the leader... of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party (Economic Freedom Fighters), will go down in history for his principled position on xenophobia. While Western politicians like US President-elect Donald Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer have fearmongered to win votes—whether demonising Haitians in the US or Bangladeshis in the UK—Malema has stood up time and time again against xenophobia, knowing it could cost him votes. In this 2019 video clip from a Soweto-based memorial for Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe (1924-2019), Julius Sello Malema (X) called out Black South Africans who have targeted migrants from other African countries over the past two decades. However, he said they have been attacking the wrong people over systemic challenges, such as rising unemployment and high crime levels, in one of the most unequal countries in the world. In the past, xenophobic rhetoric had been confined, for the most part, to the fringes of the political spectrum. However, in recent years, mainstream politicians have jumped on the bandwagon to secure votes. The EFF is one of the parties that has consistently and unapologetically rejected xenophobia despite being well aware that such a position could endanger their support. Video credit: @economicfreedomstruggle (Facebook)show more

Israel-based Mentee Robotics has demonstrated a logistics workflow: two... MenteeBot V3 humanoids work autonomously to pick and place totes. A Modular Agent System is preferred because it favors real-world robustness and lower compute needs over the End-to-End VLA model. Its architecture is composed of three components: - LLM Planner: Converts instructions into executable Robotic API Language code for reliable task decomposition and error handling. - Perception Stack: Uses pre-trained models (NeRF/3DGS, distilled vision) for scene understanding and navigation. - Control Policies: Reinforcement Learning (RL) models, trained at scale via Sim2Real, generate motor commands, enabling high-accuracy mobile manipulation. Crucially, the robot learns new tasks from a single demonstration in hours. Object tracking uses 3D geometry (STL/URDF) tracked in the video to define the RL reward function. Training is optimized using 'Automatic Curriculum Learning', which autonomously adjusts task difficulty based on robot performance, eliminating manual engineering. All computation runs onboard.show more

🧑‍🏫 How to make a glass/refraction shader: 🍷 Refraction... will ultimately have the effect that whatever is behind your mesh should appear distorted by the surface of the mesh itself. We're not going for external caustics projection, just modelling glass-like, distorting "transparency". 🌆 In Unity, you can sample the *global* _CameraOpaqueTexture (make sure it's enabled in your URP asset settings), which is what your scene looks like rendered without any transparent objects. In Shader Graph, you can simply use the Scene Colour node. 🔢 The UVs required for this texture are the normalized screen coordinates, so if we offset/warp/distort these coordinates and sample the texture, we ultimately produce a distorted image. We can offset the UVs by some normal map, as well as a refraction vector based on the direction from the camera -> the vertex/fragment (flip viewDir, which is otherwise vertex/fragment -> camera) and normals of the object. 📸 Input the (reversed) world space view direction and normal into HLSL refract. **Convert the refraction direction vector to tangent space before adding it to the screen UV.** Use the result to sample _CameraOpaqueTexture. refract(-worldViewDirection, worldNormal, eta); eta -> refraction ratio (from_IOR / to_IOR), > for air, 1.0 / indexOfRefraction (IOR). IOR of water = 1.33, glass = 1.54... 💡 You can also do naive "looks about right" hacks: fresnel -> normal from grayscale, which can be used for distortion. Or distort it any other way (without even specifically using refract at all), really... 🧠 Thus, even if your object is rendered as a transparent type (and vanilla Unity URP will require that it is), it is fully 'opaque' (max alpha), but it renders on its surface what is behind it, using the screen UV. If you distort those UVs by the camera view and normals of the surface it will be rendered on, it then appears like refractive glass on that surface. > Transparent render queue, but alpha = 1.0.show more

Yemen leader Al-Houthi: "The American president has Zionist clergymen... serving as key advisors on what they call 'the Middle East'." He argues the US-Israel alliance is not politics -- it's a shared religious project: The Jewish Zionist vision: "their king coming to rule the world through them" by exploiting the entire region -- "its position, its wealth, and all the advantages it holds." The Christian Zionist vision: "Christ will return" once Greater Israel is established, then "they will establish a joint state to rule the world for a thousand years." Both serve the same purpose -- "not merely religion practiced as a devotional act, but because it fulfills their greater ambitions of dominating this region and achieving complete political control over the world." The price? "Muslims must be eliminated and removed. This is a central tenet for them."show more

Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using... Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors paper page: present Magic123, a two-stage coarse-to-fine approach for high-quality, textured 3D meshes generation from a single unposed image in the wild using both2D and 3D priors. In the first stage, we optimize a neural radiance field to produce a coarse geometry. In the second stage, we adopt a memory-efficient differentiable mesh representation to yield a high-resolution mesh with a visually appealing texture. In both stages, the 3D content is learned through reference view supervision and novel views guided by a combination of 2D and 3D diffusion priors. We introduce a single trade-off parameter between the 2D and 3D priors to control exploration (more imaginative) and exploitation (more precise) of the generated geometry. Additionally, we employ textual inversion and monocular depth regularization to encourage consistent appearances across views and to prevent degenerate solutions, respectively. Magic123 demonstrates a significant improvement over previous image-to-3D techniques, as validated through extensive experiments on synthetic benchmarks and diverse real-world images.show more

EPSTEIN, INTELLIGENCE, & THE ELITE. BLACKMAIL IS MORE POWERFUL... THAN PROSECUTION. Blackmail is the weapon of choice for intelligence agencies because of its vast and infinite amount of control. Once you have it, it never goes away, and can control an individual for life. A dystopian robotic-like system, compromised and controlled interchangeable politicians and citizens in all aspects of society that make our world go round, pushing legislation and looking the other way when needed, all controlled by fear, aka, blackmail. This is why it must be eradicated from our system, government, and control mechanisms. We will never have a true honest system and move forward in a positive direction because of the "Hidden Hand in control." The main factor in which the Epstein list or certain information will not be exposed is because of it's connections and on going operations with our intelligence agencies and others. What we wanted was a list of the clients of Epstein because everyone knows there were hundreds of them and thousands of victims and videos which implicate very important people. What we want is accountability and consequences for the ones involved and justice for the victims. Why does it always have to be about the elite? This should be about the lives that were destroyed by the elite and intelligence agencies. If you go through the evidence and testimonies of the victims, you can easily find the people involved and associated with Epstein. Just because you think it's over doesn't mean it is. The information and comments made over the last couple months and the new video that was released really doesn't prove anything but loudly exposes a cover up operation. It seems almost intentionally done that way to highlight certain individuals or the matter in general in a way that will still don't fully understand yet. Everything was sloppy and very uncoordinated and points to something bigger happening. After all the time, promises, posts, and information dropped over the years paints a picture of a bigger operation at play. This is not just a simple one layered situation, and I don't see people changing their tone and promises made over years, simply overnight. There are many theories at the current moment, but one, logical, in particular one is that the blackmail is now being used against the deep state. There are still individuals within the administration that are compromised and are not working for, but against the trump administration and might also be apart of why this concluded this way. We will still continue to fight for justice no matter what and over the next few weeks we will learn more and understand the bigger picture because this isn't over yet and their are still thousands of kids that we need to save. There is a reason for everything transpiring, with layers, optics, and timing procuring for that specific reason in order to complete the original objective, which was to destroy the deep state cabal and shatter it into a million pieces, and we're not stopping until we do. I know right now is difficult but there is more to this story, and when the time is right, it will be exposed. We have to stick together and help one another and continue to fight this fight together. Whoever the enemy turns out to be. Stay strong, have faith and Godspeed.show more

I built a Three.js rendering study inspired by Tiny... Glade’s painterly aesthetic, and got it running at 120fps in the browser. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been studying how stylized games achieve that soft, handcrafted look in real time. Tiny Glade was a huge inspiration, and I wanted to use the browser as a constraint: no compute shaders, no native GPU access, and single-threaded JavaScript. As part of this study, I implemented: - GPU-driven instanced brick walls with procedural noise jitter and elastic build animations - Tree, bush, and flower rendering with billboard card expansion, wind sway, and grow animations - Procedural grass with terrain conformance and interactive push deformation - Animated water with layered noise, interactive ripples, and Fresnel-based reflections - Procedural terrain with slope-aware triplanar materials, dirt paths, and rocks - A 7-pass post-processing stack with TAA, bloom, depth of field, painterly filtering, ACES tonemapping, 3D LUT color grading, and film grain The hardest part wasn’t writing any single shader. It was making all of these systems work together at high frame rates inside WebGL, where every millisecond counts and performance problems compound quickly across animation, materials, post-processing, and scene management. Some techniques in this study were inspired by analyzing Tiny Glade’s rendering approach, while others were original implementations built from scratch from visual reference. That contrast taught me a lot: recreating an effect is one challenge, but designing your own shaders and systems to achieve a similar feel is a very different one. This is a private educational rendering study. Some temporary placeholder content is being used during the research phase, and any public or production version would use original or properly licensed assets. Huge credit to Pounce Light for the incredible art direction and rendering work in Tiny Glade: Three.js #gamedev #webgl #threejs #rendering #graphics #realtimerendering #shaderdevshow more

🚨⚡️ Late Turkish Professor Necmettin Erbakan: “The richest 300... people of Jewish origin in the world rule the world. They are Zionists. The United Nations and its affiliated organizations are under their control. Masonic lodges are the first step in this process; we are living inside this prison. These 300 constitute the political association of Zionism. They have established organizations and armies everywhere. Journalists and writers from all countries are under their orders. Businessmen and politicians are in their grip. These Zionists decide who stays and who goes. They ensure that the party they want comes to power, then tell you: ‘You elected them.’ This is, of course, a lie. For 350 years, the governments of all these countries have been run in the same way. These 300 also determine the direction of the highly important Bilderberg Conferences. They have placed their people all over the world and control all think tanks. The Rockefeller family in the United States, the Rothschilds in England and France, the Agnelli family in Italy, and Mitsubishi in Japan. But in the end, the decision is always in the hands of the Rockefellers. The global debt-based economic system is in their hands, and the Rockefellers ultimately always decide. One of the secrets of these 300 is a concept they call ‘authoritarian democracy (Demokratur),’ not democracy. Authoritarian democracy is something completely different: it looks like you voted, but in reality, you only chose the option they put in front of you. Do you think it is different in modern countries like the United States or Germany? You are mistaken. It works the same way there, because everything starts there and then spreads to the whole world.”show more

THE GENERATIONAL SATANIC DEATH CULT. From generation to generation... these bloodlines of the same continuous families have controlled our society for centuries. The ones behind the curtain all have one major thing in common. No matter where they come from in the world, no matter what their beliefs are, from Baal, to Lucifer, to Lilith. They all worship, absorb, believe, and project the same energy. And that energy is an evil, Satanic energy. These beliefs, the Satanic ritualistic abuse and sacrifice of children did not only begin thousands of years ago and just magically stop. They were also denounced by society over time and forced underground and behind closed doors. But today, you see the plan, the revival, and the complete push for the normalization to overtake and control this world and influence every living thing on this planet. From the sexualization of children, which is the insane push for legal pedophil*a, to transgenderism, which highly resembles and correlates to the Baphomet, who has both male and female parts. Transhumanism, mixing people with machines and A.I., and the huge push like Satanism is ok just because it's also a religion, like the now after school Satan groups for children as young as in kindergarten. Do not be fooled. these are all dangerous along with all of their connecting ideologies. Everyone knows right from wrong. Good vs. evil. This is how you know the that if the powers that be and their core beliefs stem from ancient Satanic and occult belief systems that are only self-serving and deal with the horrific torture and satanic ritual abuse and sacrifice of children alone, you should stay as far as way as possible from everything associated with it. Another trick being being pulled on humanity that people are so easily manipulated by is taking many old belief systems, practices, and satanic rituals and repackaging, and relabeling them as "New Age" practices or beliefs. Your being fooled. None of this is new and has been around for thousands of years. You're opening yourself up to things and you don't even know it. All of these are warnings signs and tricks that many are falling for. The sacrificing of children alone should tell you everything you need to know to understand and realize that the foundation of the ones in power and their true goals is an overall evil agenda for humanity.show more

World Economic Forum - 15 Minute Cities and Climate... Lockdowns. European MP Christine Anderson issues a stark warning: the convergence of automation, "15-minute cities," and climate policies is not about convenience or sustainability—it's about constructing a framework for ultimate control. In a recent interview, Anderson dissects what she sees as a deliberate agenda to strip human autonomy. She argues that the push for hyper-efficient urban design, like the 15-minute city model, creates the necessary infrastructure for future "climate lockdowns." This isn't theoretical; she points to legislation already passed in parts of Great Britain that could enable such measures. Her vision of the outcome is chillingly feudal: a society where your freedom of movement is a commodity. You may be permitted to leave your designated zone only a handful of times per year, while a wealthy elite can purchase additional passes, effectively buying freedom from the less fortunate. The result? A new class system based on mobility. Anderson then points to Saudi Arabia's "Neom" and "The Line" as the logical endpoint of this control-seeking ideology—a massive, centralized structure housing millions in a perfectly monitored environment. In such a place, compliance is easily enforced through control over essential resources, like a meal-plan prescription system. She concludes that these data points, when connected, reveal a trajectory toward the complete impoverishment and enslavement of the populace. It's a grim forecast, framing the World Economic Forum's "Fourth Industrial Revolution" not as progress, but as a pathway to a modern serfdom. The central question she leaves us with: Are we building smart cities for people, or open-air prisons for subjects?show more

For generative AI to become an interesting art tool,... we need much more control over the output. The slot-machine-like nature of pure text-to-image leaves too much to chance. Using the "Real-time Latent Consistency Model" that I'm using in the example here, is the first time I truly got a glimpse of a future where we'll be able to use our artistic skills and sensibility, to get control over AI image gen. Systems like these will never be able to match the quality or originality of a skilled artist, it won't surprise us in the same way an artist can. Things are a mess in terms of the training data these models are based on, and the questions about copyright concerns and about a time when everything will look the same are very valid. At some point capabilities like these will be embedded in photoshop, and anyone will be able to generate a pretty picture. But to create interesting designs, to tell original stories and to surprise us, we need creatives and artists with something on their mind. We'll be able to create immersive worlds, by making brush-strokes and sculpt marks, without needing to worry about all the dials, plugins, wires of our 3d and 2d tools today. I love to sculpt, I love to draw, and I love to explore new mediums and new ways to create. The Gen AI tools we have today are far from perfect, and things need to be steered in a better direction. For that we need artists to help point the way. Gen AI isn't going away.. it's too powerful and has the potential to allow us to tell stories like never before. Like all other big technological shifts, tech like this will come at a cost, but it will also open up new opportunities and empower a new generation of storytellers. I might be naive, but I believe that human ingenuity and creativity will persevere in this new world ♥️ #art #aishow more