I can’t believe how clear normals were explained. Honestly the best explanation I’ve found on the internet and I’ve done my research!
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
Thanks guys! I know there's quite a few tutorials out there on this already, but I thought my take on simplifying things could help those left a little unclear still. So I'm happy to hear this =) -Chris
@CoRon3x3 жыл бұрын
Took me 3 tutorials from 3 different people to finally land here and get a clear explanation that doesn't raise even more questions. Thank you!
@blengine3 жыл бұрын
Happy to hear it!
@Bax365 Жыл бұрын
9:29 Perfect definition right here. Easy to understand and to the point.
@joelpaik2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this! Normals are tragically underdocumented in blender for beginners and so many of the problems I ran into as a beginner came from normal issues. I would have loved something like this back in 2014!
@macronchampion3 жыл бұрын
Ok I'll buy you course right now, I finally understand what is a normal
@SpoonerStudios4 жыл бұрын
Best tutorial on normals I have ever been able to understand. Thanks for this, explains so much.
@DGaryGrady4 жыл бұрын
From my math background I already had a theoretical understanding of normals and the relationship of normals to shading, including flat versus smooth shading, but I still found this very informative and worth watching all the way through. I agree completely with Myah Gloom (great name by the way!), Spooner Studios, RealTimeX, et al that this is a brilliant tutorial.
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
I thought of including some math in this for a deeper understanding, but after making the initial outline it just seemed like it would complicate it for people newer to the subject. And it's awesome to hear someone with a math background still found the simplified explanations interesting, thanks for the compliments! -Chris
@DGaryGrady4 жыл бұрын
@@blengine I think what your decision was exactly right, and besides the modern mathematical approach tends to emphasize abstractions anyway -- vectors and tensors as entities distinct from their numerical representations, for example. By the way, here's an early paper from Ed Catmull (way before Pixar) that's not exactly packed with equations either: ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/app/uploads/sites/45/2017/09/catmull-movies.pdf Note that the commands for animating a human hand were entered in the form of text on a Teletype! Anyone who thought that pre-2.5 versions of Blender had a difficult interface needs to think about this! Also, to produce a movie they had to photograph a CRT screen with a film camera. In fact, even ILM's early CGI work had to do this, and they had to adjust the camera's shutter angle to allow for the gradual change in brightness of CRT phosphors. (I used to know some people who worked there.) We don't know how easy we have it now.
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
@@DGaryGrady Ah it's refreshing seeing a more technical paper break things down on that level. And wow, they were a different breed of creatives back then haha, these methods require some serious dedication in contrast to what we can achieve now with just a few clicks.
@Eridian7574 жыл бұрын
Easily a great tutorial for art , understanding light to surface interactions is so clearly and concisely explained here . Thank you man .
@gauravnegi68576 ай бұрын
this video pushed me to buy the course, and so far it's quite amazing.
@blengine6 ай бұрын
Thank you I'm glad you like it! The course is getting quite old at this point, but I still think there's a lot of worthwhile stuff in there.
@gauravnegi68576 ай бұрын
@@blenginethat's no problem honestly. I came here cause I reached the normal video In that course too after watching it on youtube.😅 The course was designed quite a lot the way I like a course to be. I can see some stuff being old, but I am still learning a lot. Thanks a lot for making it, when you reach projects and you have an idea of what tools does what it makes it a lot more engaging.
@samratix24972 жыл бұрын
OMG thanks sir. Your teaching capacity is awesome. I was confused about normal even after watching several videos until I saw yours.
@blengine2 жыл бұрын
Thanks, happy to help!
@gaburieruR4 жыл бұрын
É, parece que as aulas de física deram frutos! Normais em física e modelagem 3D são ideias parecidas! Muito obrigado pelo tutorial, muito explicativo!
@josephvanwyk20883 жыл бұрын
Well this was a FREAKIN IMPORTANT video to watch. Well done. Thanks.
@aninekruger47213 жыл бұрын
Best explanation ever!! Thank you sooooo much!!
@ygypt2 жыл бұрын
3d stuff is always the most confusing and time consuming in my projects. you explain things so well for idiots like me thx so much bb
@dropletdew54292 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for explaining this! Us Blender beginners really value this info in our way to learn how to use the software.
@NyanCatTheOnlyOne7 ай бұрын
Thanks, this was extremely useful. I kept hearing about flip normales without knowing what that mean!
@cubbleshasreturned6968 Жыл бұрын
This is so clear and concise! You don't know how stressed I was trying to figure this out!
@blengine Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it! For some reason it seems like this is one of the most over-complicated topics in 3D.
@cubbleshasreturned6968 Жыл бұрын
@@blenginewill there be a part 2 coming soon?
@blengine Жыл бұрын
@@cubbleshasreturned6968 I think this one covered everything I set out to cover, but is there some specific info you'd like to see in a part 2?
@_i_m_10 ай бұрын
Very useful video, thanks!
@andy.puempel4 жыл бұрын
Very Clear and systematic presentation. Nicely done. Excellent instructional technique.
@katethebard2 жыл бұрын
Really appreciate this awesome content! Very well-constructed introduction to normals. Thank y'all!
@MikhailCazi Жыл бұрын
This was so precisely done.
@aminjl_art Жыл бұрын
simple to the point, loved it
@scholzdigital3 жыл бұрын
Man, this was so helpful! Thanks! I will watch all your other stuff as well. Love the teaching style a lot.
@rmt3589 Жыл бұрын
The internet will likely have to deal with me continuously asking what normals are for the foreseeable future. Edit: This video actually taught me a lot. I keep forgetting what normals are and having to reresearch them, so hopefully it sticks this time.
@bang34124 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@taimuralix3 жыл бұрын
Extremely underrated!
@fallandrix52322 жыл бұрын
Been searching for a definition of Surface Normal because I'm now on my Fresnel Effect lesson of my Shading Course in Fine Arts.... AND FOR ALL VISUAL ARTISTS OUT THERE! SURFACE NORMAL IS JUST A FANCY WORD FOR THE DIRECTION OF THE PLANE! LIKE WHAT THE F! btw... great vid! love ya bruh..
@blengine2 жыл бұрын
Yep I went far too long thinking normals were way more complicated than they are. Hope this video clears things up for a lot of people that thought the same =)
@cervidae33594 жыл бұрын
It's a lot easier to see the normals if you check the "face orientation" box in viewport overlays.
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
Yeah that's true I should have included that in the second half of the video, but the lines were necessary to visualize the angles involved. -Chris
@jparmy68033 жыл бұрын
Alternatively turn on backface culling in the viewport shading drop down
@SkSafowan2 жыл бұрын
Great video keep those coming !
@NB-qj5ol3 жыл бұрын
Good explanation thanks
@MIchaelSybi8 ай бұрын
As far as I understand, normals are a simplification of how real life surfaces work. What you've described is similar to diffuse shading model. As the angle of the lightsource changes from perpendicular to paralel, the amount of light decreases that hits the surface, hence the surface becomes less bright. Lambert's Cosine Law might shed some light on it to reflect upon. Imagine you look from the light point of view, and when you view the surface form the 45 degree angle, you see less of its surface, and it decreases the more you get towards the parralel angle of light rays fo the surface
@blengine8 ай бұрын
Normals themselves are simply the direction a face or vertex is pointing, and that's all. They're nothing more complex than that. They are indeed used for calculating shading, but also used for certain tools like extrusion, and for different modifier operations. But normals themselves are just the direction something is pointing.
@MIchaelSybi8 ай бұрын
@@blengine Of course. I was referring to light incidence decay related to normal
@blengine8 ай бұрын
@@MIchaelSybi Okay just making sure =) Because normals are probably the most needlessly overcomplicated subject in 3D, and I wanted to make sure anyone reading the comments understands that normals themselves are not complicated.
@MIchaelSybi8 ай бұрын
@@blengine And I very, very thank you for this! You did a great job at it. Explaining something in simple terms is an art of itself
@blengine8 ай бұрын
@@MIchaelSybi Thank you very much!
@gravijah4 жыл бұрын
Wow so many things that make now sense, thx!!
@harsh84573 жыл бұрын
Subscribed for great teaching I want in future :)
@sdrawkcabdaernacuoy4 жыл бұрын
Great tutorial, as normal.
@ksenijapopovic9619 Жыл бұрын
So good
@JohnDaniels2 жыл бұрын
Hello, I am talking with a developer from Nvidia's PhysX division and he said the following. Does this sound like he means the normal on the static mesh and if so how would you project the normal onto a analytical cylindrical surface? "There are solutions available. The first option would be to leverage contact modification - you can just take those contact points, project them onto an analytical cylindrical surface and adjust the normal to point back to the COM of the shape. If you do this, you'll get perfectly smooth contacts."
@blengine2 жыл бұрын
Hey John, I really have no idea what any of that means.
@JohnDaniels2 жыл бұрын
@@blengine That makes 2 of us 😁Thank you for the reply 👍🏻
@techofhappiness3954 жыл бұрын
Really great Tutorial 😊 and well explained. Please make videos on other Maps also.
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
This is something I'm anxious to get to, just explaining all the different types of texture maps, so maybe I'll start on this soon. -Chris
@techofhappiness3954 жыл бұрын
@@blengineMany Thanks
@tahwissa4 жыл бұрын
Top tutorial
@ronaldhulsmeyer10524 ай бұрын
Thank you. Very clear descriptions. I would be interested in purchasing your course but I need to know if your course is updated to the 4.1 version seeing as how you are using 2.8 on the purchase page. That's where I ran into trouble with my last course. 4.1 works a whole lot differently than what they were teaching me on and that caused nothing but problems. Please let me know. Thanks again
@blengine4 ай бұрын
Unfortunately this is the nature of Blender these days. There's a ton of tutorials, and only a handful are 100% compatible with the latest Blender version at any given time. The Blender Encyclopedia is no longer being updated because the funding just isn't there to keep up with that course, and at this point an update would basically mean an entirely new course. There is a lot of information in that course that's compatible with the latest Blender, but there will be many incompatible parts along the way, so I wouldn't recommend that course if you're looking for something more straightforward to follow, sorry about that. I would love to redo this course, making it even bigger as well, but with the way Blender is updated and tutorials are outdated, including by irrational changes to tool names and UI shuffling, I no longer think I'll be making another course like this.
@ronaldhulsmeyer10524 ай бұрын
@@blengine Okay, thank you. Sorry to hear that. I'm fairly new to this and it's just frustrating searching through a million videos to find a simple 2 click solution to a problem. I'd be willing to pay someone with knowledge just to be able to ask them questions when running into snags without having to search through their vast array of courses to find what I missed or ask a Blender community that doesn't really help either. I'm still struggling with simple, basics that I can't find answers to. Again, I'd pay someone just to point me in the right direction when I'm stuck. You give great, detailed advice. Sorry you won't be making more courses. Thanks for the reply, friend. Ron
@blengine4 ай бұрын
@@ronaldhulsmeyer1052 I'll definitely be making more courses, just not one that's like the Encyclopedia course, though I may release tutorials similar to that on KZbin. If you're looking for some personal training, I unfortunately don't really know where to look. You could try posting in the forums at blenderartists.org though, and hopefully you can find some help.
@ksenijapopovic9619 Жыл бұрын
Could you go a bit more into normals and particles?
@blengine Жыл бұрын
Particles aren't something I use much, but if I ever do I'm sure I'll have some more tutorials on it, and I'll keep the request in mind.
@anghaiphung62433 жыл бұрын
Hi Chris, you say that Flat shading uses face normals to light the surface, but if I rotate a vertex's normal in Flat shading mode, the shading of that face looks off while its face normal still points upward. Can you shed some light on this?
@blengine3 жыл бұрын
Rotating or modifying normals creates a set of "Custom Normals" or "Split Normals" which is a bit of a different story. I go over more about that in the "Editing Normals" lecture in the course. I'm sure there is some information on those topics on youtube as well, but I don't personally have anything on my channel about that right now. -Chris
@gab910 Жыл бұрын
please can u tell me how to put normals in both in and out of the face?
@blengine Жыл бұрын
Hey, I'm not really sure what you're asking, can you give me an example of what you're trying to accomplish?
@gab910 Жыл бұрын
@@blengine i exported a leaf to unity and it shows one side that's why i need to put the normals on both back and front 😅
@blengine Жыл бұрын
@@gab910 Every face basically has normals for each side, normals are just the direction a face is pointing, and this direction is used for shading both sides of a face. However, in game engines, it's typical to only render one side of a face by default, for optimization purposes, because you often don't see both sides of a face. So the game engine only renders faces pointing outward, and makes the inward faces(also called back-faces) invisible using a feature called Back-Face Culling. There is likely some kind of option in Unity to turn back-face culling off for individual objects. This might be listed as "back-face culling", which you would turn off for a leaf, or it might be something like "double-sided", which you would turn on for the leaf. Where this is, I don't know, I haven't used Unity so you'll have to fish around for that.
@gab910 Жыл бұрын
@@blengine Thank you for the explanation
@TechnicalJatin14 жыл бұрын
Chris , Pls Make a Course on one more car modelling but this time more advance like Buggati gran turismo. i would definitely buy it whatever price it have 😩🧡 please make
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
I am 100% making another car course, but I have no idea when, I'm *still* catching my breath from the corvette course. I also don't know what car I'll be modeling either, lots of good ones to consider!
@TechnicalJatin14 жыл бұрын
@@blengine HeHe Making This Encyclopedia Course is Easy Than The Corvette I Guess !?
@onurerbay76724 жыл бұрын
www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/cars/bugatti/83291/view/bugatti_vision_gran_turismo/ here are the blueprints :) You can try to model it on your own without a course. That's what I will try as soon as I am finished with Chris' Corvette. But I totally agree, I would definitely buy another car course made by Chris.
@onurerbay76724 жыл бұрын
@RealTimeX I have not searched for architectural blueprints yet. Here is another good resource for vehicles and aircrafts: drawingdatabase.com/category/vehicles/cars/
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
@@TechnicalJatin1 Yeah definitely. Though the encyclopedia actually took around 15 months, and the corvette course around 6 months. The difference is that with the encyclopedia I was working on tons and tons of different topics, so it was always new and interesting. With the corvette course, I probably modeled that corvette about 7 times over and over during that 6 months to get the recording right, so it just got super tedious and draining.
@aravindsreekumar70224 жыл бұрын
Great tutorials man.. i have some problems while doing a model I recalculated the normals, but when i try to move the vertices snapping to any of the axes, the movement is not alligned with the Reference plane. what to do with that??
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
I don't think I understand the scenario. Could to share an image of the issue?
@aravindsreekumar70224 жыл бұрын
@@blengine it got cleared. Thank you 😌😊😊
@yagz78203 жыл бұрын
So same normals with mathematics
@captaincrispy21843 жыл бұрын
Two people have to recalculate their like.
@bhavinb.artstation4 жыл бұрын
It's normal to think tht normals are easy to understand
@0815Snickersboy4 жыл бұрын
Here is a comment for the algorithm ;)
@ZorlacSkater8 ай бұрын
But why did they named it "normals" and not "perpendiculars" or "surface vectors" or something similar, that would make much more sense.
@blengine8 ай бұрын
Heh, yeah I don't know what the origins of the word normal are in geometry, but I agree, a more specific term for it would be nice.
@osunneyebusayo454421 күн бұрын
I think I has more to do with the way it's named in physics
@Ardeact2 жыл бұрын
how many CG artists know this? I sounds so crucial yet not talked about
@blengine2 жыл бұрын
I'll be honest, I didn't even fully understand the topic for like a decade. I mean I knew what I needed to know, but it always had a slight amount of mystery surrounding it. Then after I decided to really figure it all out I was surprised at how simple it truly is and how over-complicated others make it seem.
@sabmis26583 ай бұрын
Vertex normals makes no sense to me, they are just dots...
@blengine3 ай бұрын
True, a 1-dimensional point has no direction so it wouldn't have a normal, but in Blender they're not just 1d points, they can also be used to store other information. Like in this case, you can look at it like the vertex not having its own direction, but rather it's representing the directions of the surrounding faces and edges.
@aqualust5016 Жыл бұрын
The term normals needs to be revised with something more intuitive by the pros and experts in these industries. It’s an absolute waste of time trying to understand jargon that is too obscure for others to grasp without a deep explanation. Face direction, face surface, or mesh orientation would be fine.
@blengine Жыл бұрын
I would've been happy if it was just less of a common everyday word and a word all its own.
@artur29454 жыл бұрын
Учите тригонометрию, математику по лучше и не будете такими тупыми..жесть ка для детей рассказывает
@DGaryGrady4 жыл бұрын
Artur: That's a little harsh, and I'd hate for math phobias to discourage people from using Blender. Sure, it helps to understand the underlying theory (and besides trigonometry I'd include vector analysis and basic optics, by the way), but lots of Blender artists do great work with only a vague understanding of what's going on underneath. Also, working with Blender is a good way to learn the theory,
@blengine4 жыл бұрын
Артур Саптаров, you're right. In fact when we toggle "show normals" it should pop up with a math equation on each face instead of a blue line. That would be so much more clear, stupid Blender!... Math isn't necessary *at all* for introducing normals and their practical purposes. -Chris