I haven't been able to do a direct comparison with the MINI2 as I lent mine to a friend but its on my to do list as soon as I see him to get it back. If you're coin is shiny and you cant do something like spray it white the MetroX is almost definitely going to get a better result. If you can spray it white then its going to be a very close call (which is why I want to do some testing)

@@ArtisansofVaul I look forward to seeing your results as id like to do some higher rez scanning of these types of delicate stuff , Id probably use some that white dry hairspray 😀

I am wondering if that is because Blender just got updated so the addon needed to be updated to to work perfectly with it? Did you update or redownload the addon? The other thing is that more complex addons sometimes need you to close Blender and open it again once installed for some reason. Maybe you started playing with it right away before closing and reopening Blender when you first tried it out? For the Everscroll thats part of Hard Ops (which works with Boxcutter) so if you havent installed that yet that might be why. Glad it seems to be working for you now!

​@@ArtisansofVaul Alright so after some trial and error (pretty much the entire day) it seems like the red box selection only works if I press D to open the menu before I start working. If I open the menu from the top left buttons it shows up as a thin line, but goes back to the larger area mode (and never reverts) if I press D. All in all it seems to be working fine, I managed to follow everything else until the part where you inset the grooves into the foregrip. At that point it just slices through the model even though I set it to Inset. I probably made some mistake when extruding the front guard section and that's what's causing the issue. Talking about updates: I'm using Blender 3.6.5 and what I believe is the latest version of Boxcutter and HardOps (I bought the bundle yesterday). I should probably update Blender but I'm the kind of person who fears updating software. Thanks again for your help. It's really nice to see you keep responding to all of my messages on videos that are often 2+ years old. You're definitely one of the best Blender youtubers, imho up there with the Guru. EDIT: Alright you're going to love this: I haven't managed to solve the issue yet but I found out that the entire scene was somehow enveloped in a huge geometry resembling a ball of crumpled paper which was trying to apply a solidify modifier to itself and possibly something else. I have no idea how it got there but I'm still laughing.

I can't disagree, Blender is complex and what you're trying to do (match a shape up to a potentially complex shape) isn't a very simple start to learning a program unfortunately. Its much more complex than drawing out a simple shape for example, which is how most people would start. The other issue is wanting something that works for what you want is very different to what other people would want. I doubt what you are trying to do is what 90% of people would want. For example I started with Blender wanting to make something from scratch. Other people want to sculpt a face/body/figure. Others want to animate. Just because it is what you want gives us a distorted view of what other people want/need and its unlikely you will ever find a program that will instantly do just what you want as the basic tool set. But I wish you luck finding one what does. 👍

I think this is what you're looking for 😁👍 kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKrTYpd5ZcmFhtE

@@mixchief Yeah, it happens 😅

Thats very generous of you to say. Thanks.

@@kurzedbrush244 😅 I do tend to do that.

Thanks so much. So (as often happens with videos in a series) the viewers tend to drop off as the series goes on for various reasons. I have just videoed the last in the series and it is up on the Patreon (dealing with the feet and commenting on some other aspects of 3D printing modelling) and I say at the end that as long as it gets 400 likes then I will do a video on rigging and then printing the model. Basically if I know there is enough interest I will be happy to but I don't want to waste time making content that isn't going to have much interest. I do have some rigging videos regardless here and I am going to do one on a armoured arm/leg as theres a technique I think is worth showing there. Here are the other videos: Rigging a mechanical arm and Inverse Kinematics: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpuqgJidZ7WCbrM Machin3 Tools Groups for “Rigging”: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4OsfGWHbMeGqM0

@ArtisansofVaul Honestly, you should have many more than 400 likes on your videos. You are one of the few Blender channels I recommend to people looking into modeling and learning Blender. I will be checking out those two videos here shortly, if not, then in the morning (US Central time). Thanks again!

No problem 😁😁😁

This isn't really designed for game use if you need it to be all quads. It's more designed for 3D printing. But if you triangulate the mesh it should be OK, but as you have identified you'd want it lower poly than this.

Thanks Richard. Thats really useful to know. Anything in particular that made this video stand out? Its always really handy to get feedback.

@ I meant to say ‘we see your best work in this series’ as it’s so clear with the work flow. The presentation of options and why you do it one way and not another (respectfully). Future proofing your decisions. Its beyond what I would try and make but it all makes sense and you make it attainable

@richardokeeffe8375 👍🏻 Thanks man 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@@ece2178 Thanks so much 😁😁😁

@Mrawfulgamer That's an interesting idea and I'd be happy to explore it. Should it make it better? I hadn't heard that.

@kurogiza Thanks so much. I'm so happy to hear its going to be useful for people and their designs 😁

I agree to an extent. But I don't think it's wrong to learn through the addons and then learn the more complex interactions as you go. Learning everything through the "vanilla" way to use Blender just makes a more slow and frustrating process. Being more efficient and then understanding how it works "under the hood" as it comes up is fine.

@davidbayley4441 Cheers David. Massively appreciated 👌🏼

@@vekkulious 😁😁😁 Cheers. Hope it helped.

@babegamecraze Thanks. Just so you know most of this in current Blender I would probably do through Geometry nodes.

@@ArtisansofVaul Good, but for people who are just starting in Blender and doesn't really know how to use geometry nodes this is gold.

@@EmilySmirleGURPS 👍🏻 Nice. I haven't tried that. I'll give it a go

@@supersaltlee7657 😉😉😉

@My2Cents1 it's a demo and of course it's always going to depend on things like your screen size. I would like the option to change the location of the bar though.

Yeaah I don’t like this. It’s like I have to relearn where everything is again. They should have given the option to keep the old toolbox as it’s only easthetics. I searched for a way but could find any.

@@Jason-o5s 👍🏻

@@Densmode3dp 😁😉

@@kbcubezz6190 😁😁😁 Thanks so much

@@AdamJensenReal That's a big problem if it's having that impact regularly. Have you reported it?

@@ArtisansofVaul I found already Issue reported - few ppl have it (not fixed). But i fixed it :) somehow the keyboard shortcuts was changed. I restored them and now its all working. Im not sure is it some addon or what but. If someone have it go to settings > Keymap > scroll to 3d View and if you have button "restore" - click it. I will go now to report the fix there.

@AdamJensenReal well done! And thanks so much for letting us know.

@TheRodentMastermind Yeah I imagine doing it once, whilst annoying, is going to be great to have them all sorted and forever there to use without having bring them in to each project.

@SicTyrannis559 No I'm not telling you that. I'm just demonstrating how to set up a brush for someone that's new to it .

Nope.. you don't need to... Append from your old blender file, you won't be able to use them until you Mark them as Assets in the data section (I think that is what it's called, the alternative option on the Layer tab where it shows all the data in your blender file... Once you have done that you can just create folders and drag them in the Asset Panel. I've just done over 600.

@@russell-k1p Sorry, I don't really do animation as I model for 3D printing. I would imagine using key frames would be the key to using it for animation but I'm far from an expert.

@@ArtisansofVaulthank you i understand thanks for replying mate.

@sweetcorn1936 select the object, ctrl+a then "Make Instances Real".

@@sweetcorn1936 I should add that I would generally use Geometry Nodes to do this now as it's a bit more of an elegant solution.

@@ArtisansofVaul amazing response time thank you! (heart)

@@ArtisansofVaul iv never really touched on geometry nodes , i have about 600 hours on blender , never seen this topic before so was nice... i have been learning to bake textures to my assets to send to unreal engine quite the pain in the ass , specially baking a metal texture , any good quality add on's for blender you recommend for baking a full asset with a lot of textures on it instead of baking one by one .....without making mistakes , cheers again

@AdrianChenSixx Possibly. I don't think it's particularly hard though. It should be very easy to bring in purchased brushes and textures now though, which is great.

It's not to bad, append from your old blender file, Mark as Assets, Make folders in the User section of the Asset panel, switch to All and drag them into folders.

@kodesh8751 That's annoying about the white theme. I'm not sure if there is a setting to change where it's located but I haven't found one yet. It would be good to be able to have it somewhere else for sure!

@Microdose_RC I've got some bits here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJy4f3aKqM1saZosi=VB8tcBmFa2uPPdwf It's mostly focused on merging scans together but has the process I follow too.

Having the same problem!

@@TamberCave@rookmorrigan8379 Append from your old blender file, you won't be able to use them until you Mark them as Assets in the data section (I think that is what it's called, the alternative option on the Layer tab where it shows all the data in your blender file)... Once you have done that you can just create folders and drag the brushes into them in the Asset Panel. I've just done over 600.

Cheers 😁😁😁

@@9b8ll That would be really annoying if it didn't work with the brought brushes. I hope they are updated to work with 4.3

​@ArtisansofVaul a little late, but most of them work in blender 4.3. Now easier to add them manually instead of appending every single brush. I just wish you could put the assets to the side for more room.

@@devriv8983 Awesome 😁 Glad to be of help

@seasoned-pastronaut Oh I hope they haven't done away with the shortcuts. Thats going to annoy a lot of people if they have.

I just tried and the shortcuts seem to be working for me...

@@ArtisansofVaul It still doesn't work for me on some brushes. I tried the draw, layer and clay brush and they don't work but some of the others do despite not listing and shortcuts bound to them... EDIT: and none of my shortcuts from 4.2 copied over

@seasoned-pastronaut That's annoying the shortcuts didn't copy over.

@@rasmuskochhansen That's bizzare. I can't say I've experienced that when I've used it. Sorry...

@@ArtisansofVaul Np, thanks for the reply. I found something odd hidden in the mesh, and that fixed the scaling issue. Now the mesh is just not affected by the rig, although I can see the vertexgroups for them. DEF-bone vertex group name, but nothing happens. Will keep looking around :)

@rasmuskochhansen Glad you solved the first issue. I found sometimes if the mesh has issues it won't work very well/at all for rigging automatically

@_casg Haha. I doubt it as that's a really stable Blender version. But I think this will push a lot of people over the edge to this update.

@ idk I’ve been doing okay for a while. All these updates really don’t change my workflow on creating.

I wish it would automatically turn off too but apparently some people want it to remain and that got the popular vote so turning nFlow off doesnt stop the transparency. To turn it when nFlow is on just deselect the ghost like icon in the top bar of options.

@0698alejandro Nope. As long as you haven't uninstalled the last version there is a button to move over all the info/preferences.

@@ArtisansofVaul oh thanks!!

@@torq21 Totally agree. This is an excellent addition to Blender as a sculpting system.

@@OmniTAF I have a video on that here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/e4PNYqBnr6egqNU I have a few follow up ones too

@@JoshJay If you mean how Sketchup will show the middle of a line and where it is in relation to other space unfortunately not. That would be AMAZING

@ET-The-E-Man Thanks so much 😁

@darrennew8211 Cheers man. And good points on the changes that seem to be happening 👍🏻

@evilotis01 Oh... interesting. I only really tried out the sculpt tools as that's what had got me excited 😅 Maybe worth waiting for 4.3 to be fully released know the 19th and see if the issue is still there.

@@ArtisansofVaul yeah, i thought the same, but still having the same problem in the released version. do they work for you??

@@evilotis01 Just checking you mean the lasso, box select and tweak tools? They are working fine for me.

@@ArtisansofVaul specifically box trim, lasso trim and line trim. i can only get them to draw a selection box, which does nothing :-/

@@evilotis01 Hmm... Maybe some sort of interaction with an addon? I haven't found that happening to be able to help I'm afraid