Dynamic Proximity Blending in Blender

[@0cyrhoe]

Many thanks! Just need to mention - if your object is large, you need to adjust "Lowest" in the VertexWeightProximity modifier, and I needed to move the empties (probably because my initial object wasn't located at the origin). Hope this helps someone.

[@carlosedubarreto]

AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! Just shared it on twitter. You did a great tutorial, loved it. Its so simple to do

[@deep66tube]

That's amazing thanks I was looking for this ages ago and now I stumble upon it via Blendernation :) ! BTW I like that you explain the theory as you go rather than just demo the tech - very helpful for us learning !

[@deep66tube]

Oh - maybe a stupid question, can we bake this blend effect? I mean block A is concrete, block B is mossy, apply your method then bake to new asset C?

[@Crompwell]

@@deep66tube I’m glad you found it helpful. I believe the addon allows for baking. My setup may require some additional work, but I believe it is possible to bake it down, let me do some experimenting. :)

[@tenpovine1668]

This is awesome, I managed to understand mostly everything!

[@dantab2407]

Great great great thanks a lot! I've been waiting for this trick for a while.... because in old blender versions we were able to blend between two different faces with 2 materials by a slider, if they were in the same mesh. Unfortunately I coudn't find this till the 2.8 Thanks again for sharing, that's so kind !

[@Crompwell]

Glad to be of help :)

[@Remesher]

If you want the same mapping without UV projection, you have the option to turn-off Transfer UV in the Blendit settings.

[@kevincrompwell9780]

Thanks for sharing !

[@johnjaylen6754]

you all prolly dont care at all but does someone know of a trick to get back into an Instagram account..? I somehow forgot my account password. I appreciate any help you can give me.

[@gatlinprince5199]

@John Jaylen Instablaster ;)

[@johnjaylen6754]

@Gatlin Prince i really appreciate your reply. I found the site on google and im in the hacking process atm. Looks like it's gonna take quite some time so I will get back to you later with my results.

[@johnjaylen6754]

@Gatlin Prince It worked and I finally got access to my account again. Im so happy:D Thanks so much, you really help me out !

[@perori_neko]

very clever method, this actually convert the uv offset value to a color in real time, then introduce it into shader network using uvmap node. I think blender need a modifier that can convert vertex group to vertex color directly

[@markfong7764]

Excellent tutorial. I was looking for just something like this

[@NOTESOFDISSENT]

This is very cool!

[@kevincrompwell9780]

Thanks for watching !

[@dreamzdziner8484]

Awesome tutorial. Thank you so much for this.

[@georgios.marinoudis]

Thank you so much

[@dineshdiabolic5451]

This is ingenious way to blend materials between object. But does it work when you scatter rocks with particle system???

[@Crompwell]

I’m not sure. Would be interesting to see. I do know that if you merged all the instances into a single object, it should work.

[@mobilenerdgames]

purchased it today to support you how to install thy phyton script and us it? there's is no documentation in it just the python file

[@Crompwell]

I’m not the person developing the Python script. That’s another person entirely. I’m just showing it here. However, if you go into blender’s prefs you should be able to install the script from the addon menu.

[@mobilenerdgames]

@@Crompwell ohh okay i thinked you are the dev lol

[@jbinventive2407]

@@mobilenerdgames To install addons you can just go to preferences, install, and select the zip file. This will install automatically. Let me know if that's not clear.

[@count23all]

Can this be used with particles? So say a gradient texture can be applied using a vertex group/falloff effect on an object?

[@thefreshest2379]

I never coulda figured something like this out

[@Crompwell]

Glad I could help :)

[@ali32bit42]

your method has one major flaw. mixing two principled shaders will disable screen space reflections on your materials. to avoid this you have to mix everything into one single principled shader ! so you need indevidual mix nodes for each PBR texture.

[@Crompwell]

I hadn’t considered that. Thanks for the insights!

[@kevincrompwell9780]

Looks kinda like an ET head

[@rlhugh]

Note: personally I would prefer less preamble, and just get stuck into explaining how to do this :)

[@Crompwell]

@@rlhugh :)