At the moment it is not compatible with 4.2. Blender removed some elements with eevee next and it broke part of the effect. I have an update ready but I’m waiting for a patch from blender.

@@Tradigital Will Live Paint 2 be seperate? I bought the package deal, but I unfortunately wasn't aware that the above was required.

@@oldbonniegamer938 no, it will just be an update to the current tool.

Hey! Every geometry nodes tree has a group input. If you take one of the empty slots and drag it into another node, you will have that input now as a setting under the geometry nodes modifier tab.

So yes! The filter can be used on animated scenes. Scene size is really a matter of your computer system. If it does cause issues, I have found splitting your scene into separate scenes and compositing them together works pretty well!

@@Tradigital Thank you

In this version sadly no. I do have a new version hopefully coming in the near future that will help though!

At the moment it is currently not compatible with 4.2 due to some features that were removed in EEvEE Next. I have an update coming, but I am waiting on a patch from Blender before releasing. For now, just use the filter in 4.1

@@Tradigital will do, thank you!

4.2 is currently not working with eevee next, but blender 4.1 should work fine. What are your system specs? Is it just crashing or do you see any red nodes in the geometry nodes panel?

So I have changed the way you import it, now if you add this file to your asset folder it should show up in your asset browser and just drag and drop it. That should work. Currently appending will also bring in objects, cameras, and scene information which is probably why it is crashing.

Not sure what is happening here, it might be a topology issue with the objects in your scene.

Hey! Yes you can hide unused socket in geometry and shader nodes by pressing ctrl h with the node selected.

@@Tradigital btw, what do "Sample Nearest" and "Sample Index" nodes do at the botom around 6:40? Sample Nearest should have Sample Position set as far as i know, or else it returns 0. Cant be rotation from "Curve to points" be directly fed to "Rotate euler" that goes to "instance on points"?

@@the-guy-beyond-the-socket so in order for the camera plane to pull data from the curves it has to sample the nearest point. Without it, the plane will try and treat it as identical indexes as the line art curves. Since they don’t have identical indexes you have to sample by nearest index. Stuff like this is quite confusing so I’m sorry if I’m not making sense. I would try and search up some videos on sampling in geometry nodes. They will most likely make more sense than I am.

Sadly no, this effect is currently not possible to export since it is primarily in GN. You would have to recreate it in a similar method through unreal’s system.

It’s still in the works. There is one big thing that blender is currently still trying to fix in Blender 4.3 that should help. They basically broke the refraction shader to rgb in eevee next. It no longer works and that was a big part of this tool.

How large is your overall scene? It might be a clipping issue. Not sure though. I might need to see an example of what you mean exactly. Feel free to message me on my discord. The link should be in my linktree above!

Hey! The biggest difference is that this has now been added to the asset manager. If you add this file to your asset management location? It should be an easy drag and drop from your asset browser!

So the version I have on my gumroad has intersecting edges. Just be aware that it is a very heavy effect and will definitely bog your system, so I recommend only enabling it in the final render

@@Tradigital Aw man I can't pay I'm broke thanks for trying though

Currently it does not work, I have an update coming out soon that will support both eevee next and cycles. Sadly blender’s shader to rgb is a bit broken in this version and no longer supports the refractive shader.

@@Tradigital oh, glad 2 hear that. Thank you anyways, the filter is amazing

Sadly, I’m not knowledgeable enough in Unity or Unreal to really know if it is possible. I know some people have done some similar effects, but I haven’t been able to achieve it, especially in real time. Even though this effect is live, there is no way (at least in blender) where it could run in 30 fps.

@@Tradigital Hey there! No worries! We will keep exploring the options and see what we can come up with!:)

I had to remove it due to people misusing it and thinking it would convert photos to paintings. I have full cycles support coming though in a few weeks with a big update!

No, this effect is not something you can bake, but I do have another tool specifically for painting normal maps that will be coming soon! That will be exportable to other softwares.

No, this effect is not something you can bake, but I do have another tool specifically for painting normal maps that will be coming soon! That will be exportable to other softwares.

I’m sure it’s possible in Houdini, no doubt at all!

Hey so this is actually more heavily CPU bound then GPU since it has to compute the mesh information for every single frame. One thing that can definitely improve things in the most recent 4.2 version of blender is using a bake node at the very end of the node tree in the geometry nodes panel and then baking out the animation sequence before the render. This will definitely ease up the processing, but be aware that if you make any changes, you will need to delete and re-bake the cache.

It should update as the scene changes since it is taking all the mesh data live, all you need to do is animate your scene for it to follow.

@@Tradigital is there a way to animate the effect in 2s?

Best would be to just set your render steps to 2. That should give you what you’re looking for.

Im using eevee by the way!

Hey, that is definitely strange with the lighting, sometimes for shaders you do need to have very bright lights for things to react properly, but my main guess is that the geometry nodes part is no longer working in updated versions of blender and it is messing with the shader. I plan on updating this hopefully soon in the summer. I have some new ideas I want to implement but it might be awhile till I can get that working properly. As for the stroke node, it is pretty deep inside the node tree of the shader editor, do you plan on altering it?

@@Tradigital omg you're so fast to answer and I really appreciate that hahah I see, yea that might be the issue but no problem I'll try to mess with it until it works. As for the paint stroke node, I was just trying to append it like you did at 40:15 but I couldn't find it. I did some digging and I found out that it is indeed there but it's under another name, it's under "Blender Illustration Shader" so that was solved hahaha. I'll def look for the new update, I appreciate your hard work and can't wait to see what you come up with!! I wish you a great summer brother. (PS: I'm doing a short simple skull render to dip my toes in the water XD , I'll tag you when i post the video)

@Cansyrian oh I forgot I changed the name, glad you found it. I will be revising it for this to all be easier in the coming months hopefully, this is very out of date, especially in Geometry Nodes tree. Definitely keep me up to date and I can try to answer anymore questions you have. Message me on Instagram or Twitter with images and it can normally be easier to answer any concerns.

This is actually something that can be improved in the current 4.2 version of blender. If you add a Bake node to the very end of the node tree and bake the animation sequence, you can render much quicker and less likely to crash since it has the computation saved as a cache!

@@Tradigital oh thanks for your quick response! 🙏🏻 I will definitely try that !

Hey, when I say baking, I am talking more about cache baking that will help speed up animation workflows. What you’re proposing is actually already possible. You will just want to disable your scene collection and enable transparent backgrounds. That should give you what you are looking for!

Hey, I changed the input process. It is now treated as an asset that you just drag into your viewport from the asset manager. Just add the downloaded file to your asset location and it should work!

@@Tradigital aah okay, does the rendering takes time like 7 minutes? is that normal?

That really depends on the settings you are using and your system. Eevee doesn’t need a lot of samples to make this work, what typically takes time is the computing of each frame. Resolution and system performance is probably going to be the biggest factors to render time.

It currently does not support orthographic. I do plan on implementing a change in the future with it though.

Hey, I had to remove it temporarily because of people misusing it. I will have an update soon though that will have cycles support.

Hey! I actually explain in basics how to do it in this video Turning 3D Models into Masterpieces: A Blender Tutorial kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKbEe2OCaapmb5I

The overall process is identical. As long as you are using geometry and have your collection setup, it should look clear. The only significant change is swapping the detail level out for min and max stroke scale that give you more freedom over the final results. I would need more information on “blurry” to understand what is happening. This could refraction issues or flow issues depending on how you setup and which step you might have missed.

Hey! Sorry to hear that? Could you explain the process you used to import more? I did change it so you can use the asset browser since I had a lot of requests for that. If you add the file to your asset location, you can just drag it into the scene and it should look correct without any settings blown out. Give that a try and get back with me if it is still messed up.

@@Tradigital sorry for responding late, been kinda busy thats all lol, ill try this and see if it works!

@@Tradigital how i imported stuff? i basically followed all the steps in your tutorial, including checking out all the checkboxes and whatnot, for what i imported it was mostly basic models and whatnot, nothing too complex. im a bit new to 3D modelling though

So yes, the method has been updated like I said, the old method will import the previous scene which is not necessary. I would try the asset browser like I said above and see if that works

@@Tradigital put it in my asset folder and it does appear once opening the asset browser, at least for me it works more like a shortcut for the asset rather then how you described, still had to apply the same settings, slightly less crude looking this time around! still not quite oil like yet but i feel like ive made some progress!

I suppose you could if you wanted. You would just need to replace the plane instance with an actual geometric brush stroke. Only issue is that the refraction would probably not work properly anymore.

Are the paint blobs geometry or normals? They look 3D, and a depth map of that is exactly what I’d be looking for.

@JulianKingman they are just a bump map, so normals. They’re not actually modifying the topology.

Depending on the settings you enable, it can be a little better or a lot worse then the grease pencil modifier. Keep in mind this is something you use at the end of a project and you won’t want it enabled while you work on modeling or animation.

i have the same problem :,v

What version of Blender are you using?

@@Tradigital hi, thank you for answering. I really appreciate you took the time. I am on 4.02

Hmm this is definitely strange. It should be working fine. You might need to email me your file to solve the issue. My email is “[email protected]”