thank god for the mythbusters though because it used to be that whenever i knew i had insomnia i’d just kind of accept it and stay up doing whatever until my morning classes and spend the day feeling like shit
but then they did an episode where they established that even just fucking laying there for a half hour, not even sleeping just laying there and not even for an hour, makes a significant difference and you’ll feel way better
it has made a huge difference in my life to know that it’s okay if i can’t fall asleep, it takes a lot of the pressure off and ironically helps me fall asleep better
friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:
change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot
this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)
you can set your likes and follows to private
checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing
follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric
drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally
DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!
tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7
be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3
Enjoying delicious strawberries, it feels that its life has reached its peak. In fact, happiness is so simple, you have to work hard to please yourself.
Bad
"salad dressing" don't be so pretentious it's sauce. it's salad sauce
February 20 2005 3/20/05
I tracked down a budist temple only a couple hours from here.
Maybey reincarnation is what i'm looking for.
I know I would have to wait until I die and I can't choose what I become but, it could give me some goals.
Good deeds and meditation right?
“Public libraries are such important, lovely places!” Yes but do you GO there. Do you STUDY there. Do you meet friends and get coffee there. Do you borrow the FREE, ZERO SUBSCRIPTION, ZERO TRACKING books, audiobooks, ebooks, and films. Have you checked out their events and schemes. Do you sign up for the low cost courses in ASL or knitting or programming or writing your CV that they probably run. Do you know they probably have myriad of schemes to help low income families. Do you hire their low cost rooms if you need them. Have you joined their social groups. Do you use the FREE COMPUTERS. Do you even know what your library is trying to offer you. Listen, the library shouldn’t just exist for you as a nice idea. That’s why more libraries shut every year
Baby gremlin
peculiar critter
"I would kill for you. I would die for you" would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs for me? Would you let yourself be held for me? By me?
February 26 2005 3/26/05
So.
Some one from the occult contacted me over email.
They offered to help me destroy my eternal soul.
Not kill me mind you.
He was very specific.
This would mean that I would lack a soul.
I would be untouchable to every god and demon.
I would not go to any afterlife.
When I die, that would be it.
Like a dog, or a horse.
In a sense I would be something different from the average human.
People often ask me about how I create fur in blender, so I decided to make a post about it with all the details. I will use my personal Kotie model as an example. It already has all the fur but I will create a new one with step-by-step explanation ~
I will only create the fur for the face, but everything I will use here works for the rest of the body as well!
Important:
I use Blender 3.6.
I don't know much about the new hair system; I don't work with it for now.
I'm not a professional, not a teacher, and not a Google or Youtube. I'm a chaotic self-taught hobbyist who does stuff for his own use only, so I don't know everything :'D
I don't know if will I do more posts like this. It's not easy, it took me many hours of work.
My main blender-related post.
So, met the hairless Kotie! He is ready to get some fur...
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I create fur through multiple Particle Systems. So, I created a new one and edited it a little, making the hair particles shorter. Then I use Vertex Groups to control where the hair will grow. For example, I want to create facial fur, so I create a Vertex Group for the face (I already have several) and paint it using Weight Paint. Red is for fur and blue is for places with no fur. Also Vertex Groups can be used for fur length, clumps, kinks and other settings. I sometimes play randomly with these.
Next, the fur needs to be combed and it is easier to do this symmetrically. Particle systems are never symmetrical at first, so I just remove the half and then mirror the other half.
There is a bug related to the symmetry of hair particles in Blender. I once made a post about it.
Combing works like… combing. I just need to comb the fur in a natural direction (if you are not sure how to comb it - look for photos). It also usually makes sense to make the fur thinner - this can be done by changing the "Diameter Root" in the Hair Shape settings. This will make the fur look more like fur and less like spikes.
Then I add Children to make the fur densier. At first it usually looks very smooth, even unnaturally smooth, so I need to make it messier. There are many tools for it - clumping, roughness, plus I can add some details by selecting random hairs and editing them separately. There are also the Length and Threshold settings in Children to make some part of the hairs shorter than others.
Another good idea is to make a duplicate of the particle system with a lower fur density and edit it separately (it's important for it to be a fully separate one, so press F9 when you duplicate it). I made the fur on the duplicate longer, fluffier, combed it a little differently, and added some clumping. The main fur is blue and the duplicate is red, to make them clearly visible.
A good way to paint fur realistically is to mix (using Mix Color node) few Color Ramps with Curves Info. This allows you to color the fur in every little detail, especially if you will also use texture masks.
I used texture with stripes as one of the layers, and this is what I got:
I use Cycles and Principled Hair BSDF
All other fur parts (neck, body, paws, tail) are created in a similar way. There can be as many of different Particle Systems as you need (and as many as your computer will allow you to do). To improve performance in the viewport, you can set fewer displayed hair children than in the render.
More color details can be added using texture masks - for example I drew one with spots for whiskers.
This is what I got + black one as a bonus/variation.
Fur settings are individual - for example, it can be more or less shiny, so it makes sense to try different variations and choose what looks best. 3D is always about experimenting and trying new things! c:
Also, each Particle System can have its own material. I gave Black material to some of them (they are red in viewport) and this is what I got:
That's all for now, thank you very much for reading! I hope this was useful to these who are interested in creating fur in Blender.
~ Vill Liedo <3
I like wakfu, blender, marvel, random web series, and technology.
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