I really supported your channel before, but this makes me question it again... please stop using AI images as your thumbnails, using that technology means you agree and support it and how it was created even though we all already know that it was created by stealing millions of people's art work without permission, compensation, or even any credits for them. Let's stop making thievery seem like a normal thing
@leeoiou72952 ай бұрын
So sad that dreams was never a public PC application. It is one of the most impressive apps I have ever seen.
@brabes762 ай бұрын
Agreed. I think dreams is one of the most impressive game development environments, even rivaling all of the top rated game engines in my opinion.
@Elwaves29252 ай бұрын
I seem to recall they were thinking of considering a PC release for the future but it appears that nothing came of that. Then again, you don't hear much about Dreams anymore either. I'm sure some still use it but it seemed to exist in a large but fairly short lived bubble.
@vxpdx2 ай бұрын
@@Elwaves2925 yeah, had it not been PS exclusive it would've been a notable product for sure. Not long ago I saw a level design talk that was made on Dreams and it was quite interesting, since at one second you were looking at the key points of a topic just as if it had been done in PowerPoint and the next you're immersed into an in-engine example, all seamlessly. Like it looked as if prototyping was really fast with it
@xXYannuschXx2 ай бұрын
@@Elwaves2925 I think the devs stated at one point that they completely overshot the mark with Dreams in comparison to LittleBigPlanet. While Dreams allows you to do basically anything in it, it has too much freedom and ends up being way too complicated. Like OP said, its like a whole game engine. LBP was more limited, but was also FAR simpler. I think we are going to see a real LBP4 in the future.
@cube2fox2 ай бұрын
Apparently it sold way worse than expected. :(
@decidev2 ай бұрын
I can say as someone who sculpted religiously on dreams VR when I had my PS4 it feels fantastic and is very intuitive to use. I honestly think it’s the best implementation of 3d modelling I’ve ever seen.
@_gamma.2 ай бұрын
It makes a TON of sense for controller input, very glad to see the technique spread!
@dylananhorn1Ай бұрын
I agree while not really great for ultra high detail it was fantastic for getting shapes in quickly and stood out as a sculpting tool. I think part of the reason dreams failed is because they used the same controls for modeling for everything, including all the "logic" or code. That and the limitations of the "dreams" meant that you couldnt do anything too crazy in the engine without breaking it up into many levels. If they had a pc port i wouldn't be surprised if dreams was still relevant today, especially if you could export/import models. It's very similar to the epic "marketplace" but was all free. Having something powerful with completely free/sharable models/code/everything game design would be a massive for indie devs.
@mariusirgens55552 ай бұрын
I see a few comments here claiming that «Metaballs» and «SDF» is «the same thing». However, in the original «Metaballs» paper by Blinn, called «A Generalization of Algebraic Surface Drawing», he used an Algebraic method to calculate intersections between a ray and a shape directly. SDFs uses a Geometric method; an iterative approach, which is a bit less optimized, but much easier to work with when constructing more complex shapes. The original SDF paper was called «Sphere tracing: a geometric method for the antialiased ray tracing of implicit surfaces» and was written by Hart. Both papers are amazing; I can highly recommend them.
@tikimillie2 ай бұрын
I always read metaballs as meatballs
@_Nobody_SpecialАй бұрын
@@tikimillieMmmm, meatballs..
@DonChups2 ай бұрын
Another Dreams user wanting for a good SDF app for PC. It's so different and feels so good ...
@brabes762 ай бұрын
Dreams did use the SDF Method for modeling, but I believe the models we're saved as point clouds. That's why it wasn't easy to export or import models from other applications.
@cube2fox2 ай бұрын
I think they were saved as SDFs, and that's sufficient to explain why importing/exporting was difficult. Other software almost exclusively relies on texture mapped polygon meshes. If I remember correctly, the SDFs were rendered as point clouds though. Usually they are rendered via ray marching, which doesn't involve point clouds.
@brabes762 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox ok, I may of had it backwards but I do remember point clouds being part of the equation.
@MrlegendOr2 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox "i didn't say we were raycasting *analytic* sdfs. we combine analytic sdfs at load time into volume textures then absolutely we do raymarch those volume textures to produce the 'unsplatty' look as in the video. we do splat the loose stuff, but that doesn't apply here." By the guy who co-wrote the Engine on Twitter (x) 🙃
@cube2fox2 ай бұрын
@@MrlegendOr Not sure what that means exactly but thanks
@J3R3MI62 ай бұрын
AI fixes that easily
2 ай бұрын
That Sony shut down Dreams was a very stupid decision.
@robinhorneman22452 ай бұрын
But it makes a bit of sense because not many people learned how to use it properly because of it's complexity. Most people used it to make some basic things and stopped there so Dreams got flooded with bad games/projects which hurt the player base. There was some gold to find but you had to dive trough a lot of obstacles to find it.
@ChrisCarlos642 ай бұрын
Like their other games though such as LBP series. These things are great for creatives, but many gamers are NOT creative. They don't have the patience or willingness to stick it out. Often you just get cheap clones, and clones of cheap "push to advance" or "text" style games that have little variety and just basically feel the same all throughout. I loved playing LBP and trying to learn how to use it, but it was just a chore to get through to find stuff that was ever really good from all the chaff. I never got Dreams, but I imagine it suffered the same fate.
@sonicsnake442 ай бұрын
@@robinhorneman2245 Some people like myself never got dreams because their was no path to make money of the things you create with it. Without that its basically just a complex toy.
@etiennelorthoy76152 ай бұрын
Love your video man! I'm making a video game called Hard Chip (on steam), where you build huge semiconductor chip. It uses SDF with a raymarching algo and voxel to split the render into discreet cells (and with Monogame/C#!). Like you said SDF is old, and various implementation/use cases exist. My two cents on the topic from my own experience: SDF has major drawbacks and major advantages. If you don't play into its strengths, it’ll be a huge pain. So it’s hard for people to use it because you have to understand what it is good at first. If you use it for something for what it is inefficient. You’ll get poor results and then it’s easy to just discard it and forget about it. It’s not a good all round solution. But when you play into its strengths, that’s really game changer! For Hard Chip, it allows the game’s circuits to scale like crazy, without having to resort on cube like aesthetic.
@ViRiXDreamcore2 ай бұрын
I’ll check this out. Sounds interesting.
@DradoJJa2 ай бұрын
saw Hard Chip in Biteme's Stream. Great Concept!
@etiennelorthoy76152 ай бұрын
Aaah yeah first time ever HC was on a video! Those guys at Biteme were so entertaining to watch (even though they gave HC a D!)
@chrisnatale59012 ай бұрын
My right year old son has been modeling 3d art projects with Womp for a few years now. I strongly recommend it for anyone introducing a child to 3d modeling. It's very easy and intuitive.
@sikliztailbunch2 ай бұрын
I wouldn´t call it the future of 3D modeling. It´s already being in use. And Boxmodelling is still a thing. SDF creates too many polgons vs a clean hardsurface topology. SDF is core in a lot of procedural modeling stuff in houdini or meshing simulations in general. But it will not replace other modeling methods for good, so I wouldn´t call it the future.
@adrianscarlett2 ай бұрын
As far as i know, CAD kernels use Nurbs and / or brep to represent their geometry. I dont think they ever went away.
@Skyefaux2 ай бұрын
SDF modeling has been a native part of houdini for many years ✨
@ianharvey91362 ай бұрын
Was looking for this comment
@mark-horgan2 ай бұрын
You're right, doing a quick search of the docs, it seems to have got it's first SDF node in 2009.
@agublizzard2 ай бұрын
SDFs are also the foundation of unreal engine's lumen.
@kazioo22 ай бұрын
Not really a foundation, but one of the methods of simplified representation of geometries to optimize speed. They combine many other tricks (voxels, light cards, screen space) and the code is constantly evolving. They especially need all these "hacks" because of the virtualized micropolygon geometry (Nanite) that makes tracing actual geometry very difficult.
@ArksideGames2 ай бұрын
...which has DOGAWFUL optimization -_-
@agublizzard2 ай бұрын
@@kazioo2 basically is the basis for the software ray tracing method. The light cards are used to update the surface cache for light sampling at the trace hit position. I believe voxels are not used anymore, that was sort of a fallback method in an older implementation.
@cube2fox2 ай бұрын
I think Lumen (only) uses SDFs for a simplified scene representation in the software RT version of Lumen. The version that uses hardware RT doesn't use them, as far as I am aware.
@agublizzard2 ай бұрын
@@cube2fox exactly. It is a scene representation that exploits some properties of sdf to efficiently trace rays.
@paulofalca02 ай бұрын
You can also create SDFs in Material Maker
@wailfulcrab2 ай бұрын
So it's kinda mix of boolean and metaballs?
@MrSheduur2 ай бұрын
pretty much yeah.
@ArksideGames2 ай бұрын
yep, just slap a new name to it
@Polygarden2 ай бұрын
Signed distance fields is the actual name for meta balls. It's essentially the same, a mathematical description of distances of shapes.
@mariusirgens55552 ай бұрын
@@Polygarden I might be wrong, but I believe the original «blobby objects» paper by Blinn used intersection algorithms rather than sphere tracing (later called SDF).
@xyzwio2 ай бұрын
Metaballs are done using SDFs.
@Dan_Tasty2 ай бұрын
C4D motion graphics users use SDF with the volume mesher system plenty. It's pretty powerful, especially alongside Zremesher that's in C4D by default since Maxon bought Z-Brush
@psychoanima2 ай бұрын
for something that doesn't have to be rigged, animated and then used in a commercial game engine SDF can have some purpose. However, to use it in mainstream engines, that SDF is a pain in a butt to work with. Yes, you can maybe import it as a static mesh inside unreal, turn it into nanite and let it go. But to use it for character designs and animation you will have to do retopology of damn thing, turn everything in a proper triangle amount, redo UV, and then everything else as you should do with proper poly geometry. That said, SDF is in my opinion exact the same thing as something Zbrush intorduced with it's technology long time a go. It was visually stunning but in order to be applied in real application it was almost a reverse engineering thingy.
@spikebor2 ай бұрын
This is like live boolean meshing which is very engaging for playing purposes, can be good to make organic environment things like rock formations; but to make actual props and complex characters, mesh modeling still is the way.
@hirkdeknirk12 ай бұрын
Super interesting video. Thank you for that. I'm getting more and more annoyed with modeling in Max and Blender. Clavicula will be tried out right away.
@sascha14612 ай бұрын
that's awesome! I was hoping for something like dreams to come to PC, didn't know this kinda technology was called SDF. Always liked the more organic kinda look you would get from dreams models compared to blender
@hamuArtАй бұрын
1:09 looks like a metaball just not spheres but deformed smooth cubes with triplanar projection.... cool idea.
@brmawe2 ай бұрын
Wow, I did not know Media Molecule was using this!!!
@fablewalls2 ай бұрын
I remember you covering Neobarok once and you said it was weird then! Nice to see your pronunciation of "weird" has changed almost exponentially with its weirdness. 🤓
@Imhotep3972 ай бұрын
Modeler was Oculus Medium and Facebook sold it, because they didn’t know what they had.
@jamesf2811Ай бұрын
I'm surprised no one has figured out the perfect match: Hammer editor (or a clone like Sledge) + SDF So much WIN right there :)
@MarkRiverbank2 ай бұрын
Unity’s TextMeshPro uses 2D SDFs; I think Freya Holmer’s Shapes might as well. I’m not sure they have a big future for 3D models in games (without converting to polygons) because of the cost of raymarching, but I am surprised they haven’t been used for colliders.
@St4rdog2 ай бұрын
Clayxels has been in the asset store for years. Great for cartoony games.
@litjellyfish2 ай бұрын
All most all modern vector text renders usually have a SDF based mode. Since like years ago
@wo2622 ай бұрын
One thing I like about SDFs is that you don't need the world space mesh conversion until the very end (if you want to use the model later in traditional 3D software). Instead, what you see on screen can be splats or adaptative mesh or raymarching or whatever, essentially having infinite resolution for curved surfaces. Mudbun or Clayxels for Unity come to mind.
@rohitaug2 ай бұрын
It's not the future simply because creating meshes in Blender will always be faster for someone who is good at it. It's cool tech for those who can't though.
@JeffreyThrash2 ай бұрын
I think its future lies in making 3D modeling possible on devices that are otherwise too cumbersome for more traditional methods of 3D modeling. Dreams shows that SDF is a great solution for anyone that, for whatever reason, may want to model with a game controller. Perhaps in the future, SDF comes to Blender and as a result Blender can be comfortably used on a Steam Deck or other handheld gaming PC, for instance? I played an extremely niche PS2 game once called "Graffiti Kingdom," which allowed you to model your own player characters with the PS2's joysticks, and it probably would have been far less cumbersome if the game had Dreams-like SDF modeling. I imagine you're right, though, that for desktops and laptops, it's tough, if not impossible, to beat the speed of box modeling in Blender once you practice the hotkeys and other shortcuts until they become muscle memory.
@J3R3MI62 ай бұрын
*AI will always be faster
@rbi97642 ай бұрын
omg, thank you for mentioning Dreams
@_gamma.2 ай бұрын
Been messing with 2d sdfs lately, they’re magic! Definitely trying out clavicula in vr
@Skelly5962Ай бұрын
Dreams is not a game, but it is a platform that could be used to create games.
@dominionscave47522 ай бұрын
I found out about SDF a few years ago and created some code to generate shapes and scenes of geometric shapes. Many an application displaying fractals like Mandelbulb uses SDF rendering. This is all done in a fragment shader which was rather limiting. So I ported the code over for a CPU to use to generate graphics and as I suspected, it was super slow as SDF require parallel processing to have any form of real time graphics display and interaction. I thus abandoned SDFs as using openGL in a fragment shader was not easy to code and get the results anywhere near a conventional 3D modelling software app like Blender. Things may have moved from that time as faster GPUs and perhaps more code friendly methods to create SDF applications have evolved. But from my experience, things like reflections, transparency and texture mapping are very difficult, more processing intensive, if not possible at all. I could be wrong, but SDF do have a place in 3D modelling and rendering in certain circumstances, just not as generalised as conventional polygons or point clouds.
@LostPostProductions2 ай бұрын
Will you be covering the Humble Bundle by Q-UP Arts featuring virtual instruments and other audio assets? Some of it looks appealing but I'm not sure if the bundle is mainly .wav files or plugins for compatible DAWs only. Regardless, thank you for all the videos you make. It helps tremendously when searching for new tools and assets! :)
@johansandas17332 ай бұрын
I'd love to see this as well, liking and commenting in the hope it will float to the top
@512Squared2 ай бұрын
ConjureSDF: free updates for a year when entering the alpha version. But then it shows the prices for the next version up next to it. But if it takes over a year to bring an update, then you are not actually going to be getting any more than the alpha version for 40 bucks? If all three updates come out within that year, then you are getting the package for a 'early supporter' fee of 40 bucks. The 1 year of updates is misleading, unless they've given a strict roadmap for when they are getting to version 1.
@NonBinary_Star2 ай бұрын
I've always wanted to learn Houdini but it has remained an enigma for me as well😢
@therealpeter22672 ай бұрын
SDFs have been here for decades, I don't know what you're smoking
@airman1224692 ай бұрын
They have. But they’ve only recently come into focus. Not sure why the sudden interest, but there definitely has been an explosion of interest very recently.
@kazioo22 ай бұрын
@@airman122469 It started more like 5 years ago. They became the new "voxels" and then it moved to NERF and other things.
@therealpeter22672 ай бұрын
@@airman122469 It's probably that computationally we can make modeling software that won't stutter all the time from a moderately complex SDF model anymore (depending on rendering technique like raymarching or voxelization and meshing), but it's a reeeealy bold claim that this technique is anything new imo
@lightpurple31472 ай бұрын
exactly this. i just watched the video and i was like wth
@n30hrtgdvАй бұрын
I've been using blockbench for low poly but this looks like a great way to make 3D assets. will look into it.
@maxmax0032 ай бұрын
The basics of sdf is volumes or if you like voxels that based on density determinate where to draw the surface, sign negative inside and sign positive outside(maybe the other way around) and that's the sign in the name. Thats why it seems organic since you can use noises in the volumes which are vbd mostly(for optimization), I even think sculpitris from zbrush and 3d coat use it in the background and Houdini has a lot of tools and has been using it for years and is no just for organic modeling, you could use it for hard surface too with no problem, I think this video was done without doing a good research, even unreal I think it uses sdf for creating approximation of the geometry for lumen
@JamieBainer2 ай бұрын
Dreams is so awesome. Great to see a lot of options on PC now!
@itzzFocalFlare2 ай бұрын
MagicaCSG basically went from being fully-featured free to being fully-featured paid with a cripplee-to-shit free version.
@TheDemonking822 ай бұрын
The program for vr was oculus medium and it was amazing sad it’s on the adobe nutsack. Gravity sketch so far and 3dcoat have been my sculpting go to.
@Luciole0.382 ай бұрын
in french, SDF mean "without fix home", Have a good day
@madcatlady2 ай бұрын
I haven't used Sketchup in over a decade but I recall that doing something similar, I do this sort of stuff using metaballs in Carrara.
@karlwest4372 ай бұрын
The thing that fascinates me about SDFs, is that they're similar to neural radiance fields, when a neural network is trained to recognise faces, they're kind of building an SDF representation of an average human face, encoded in the neural weights, which is sort of what your own brain is doing too, it's all relevant to AI and brains and it's so cool! 😃
@shanillaabdul98962 ай бұрын
The Clavicula starting screen managed to trigger my trypophobia a little.
@daniel620182 ай бұрын
That's a 3D Fractal.
@esparafucio2 ай бұрын
Substance Modeler was being developed internally by Allegorithmic before the acquisition by Adobe so you're probably thinking of something else.
@glenfoxh2 ай бұрын
I have what he is talking about. It was once called Oculus Medium. And is no longer supported by Metta. After Adobe took it over, they didn't do much with it for some time. Then, they finally made an update, and added it as part of the Substance collection, sort of. Substance Modeler is basically Oculus Medium at its core. But made a bit better now. I have not used it since Adobe took it over, so I don't know a lot about all the new changes to it. From what some have said, those that still have a copy of Oculus Medium, and try to run it today, it will not work. Likely all thanks to Adobe telling Meta to lock it up in an update to it, so it can't be used anymore. >.>
@Domarius642 ай бұрын
It's OK, Minecraft is still "voxels". They're just scaled bigger than what people practically use the term for, so the colloquial term "boxels" had being coined at some point, but they are voxels in every way.
@jkmi94002 ай бұрын
Bro in french SDF means homeless (Sans Domicile Fix) I was scared when I clicked on the video 😭
@ELTABULLO2 ай бұрын
I am currently homeless and LOVE 3D modeling, so beware.
@sovanima2 ай бұрын
😢😂
@whtiequillBj2 ай бұрын
I don't think we'll see it in "a couple of years". Once Maya and big companies have begun to move their workflow. Yes, I feel we're going to see it. This will take a decade, at least, to train and teach everyone how to move from polygon modeling.
@marshymarcelo2 ай бұрын
SDF Macross
@JeffreyThrash2 ай бұрын
You know many people's first ambitious attempt at an SDF model will likely be SDF-01 just because "Signed Distance Fields" and "Super Dimension Fortress" share the same abbreviation. Mine included.
@DarrylCross2 ай бұрын
That's kinda where my mind went at first. Glad to see I'm not alone.
@markkuykendall54752 ай бұрын
Clavicula = clavicle? Your clavicles are your collar bones.
@zeljkoopalic59942 ай бұрын
What is up with conjureSDF pricing? just have one final price of a finished product, so strange
@ZandyXR2 ай бұрын
Great vid thanks! Adobe Modeler replaced Medium (which adobe took over initially for VR Sculpting
@nobob85642 ай бұрын
I could see it useful for some things, but I don't like hoping around to different 3D modelling apps if I can avoid it. So, if I used it, it would need to be for something that would take ages to do in Blender, but be super fast with SDF(which seems niche, but I've never tried it, so idk). I may give it a whirl at some point. Might be good for making some trees or interesting alien flora. If it's as weird as you say, then I'm looking forward to the Clavicula video.
@AndrewHelgeCox2 ай бұрын
Inigo Quilez on KZbin and Shadertoy has some great examples of directly rendered SDF scenes and explanations of how SDFs work.
@AndrewHelgeCox2 ай бұрын
Linking SDF explainer in case the link is banned: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGOQoYWMj9qGa8U
@PashaDefragzor2 ай бұрын
Sector modeling is the future, I am currently creating unique generators for different character types. Hopefully this will help me create AAA+ games all by myself instead of hiring an army of modelers.
@wtflolomg2 ай бұрын
If you don't mind beta software, Substance 3D Modeler is available for free from Adobe for the Beta version.
@MikeMike-wc8on2 ай бұрын
Nice, I used to try Clavicula (it was Neobaroc those days) 😊
@BeauregardHall2 ай бұрын
Clavicula - I recognize that behavior from the movie Annihilation!
@Scatty6662 ай бұрын
Latest modeller introduced primitives that enables you to do some really cool SDF non destructive modeling
@albaglib2 ай бұрын
Cinema 4D introduced SDF (Signed Distance Fields) technology in Release 20, as part of its Volumetric Workflow.
@timothywcrane2 ай бұрын
At first I confused this with STL, Thanks.
@Daniel.F-3dart2 ай бұрын
Every time new software comes out, everyone says the same thing. "It's the future" but the current present is quite far from being a good future in the industry, and none can compete in digital sculpture with Zbrush.
@JeffreyThrash2 ай бұрын
In my experiments with SDF, though, this is something I want to be the future for once.
@Daniel.F-3dart2 ай бұрын
@@JeffreyThrash It does nothing that cannot currently be done with current software. And about all the promotion it does of Adobe,... Many artists are already leaving their software behind to use open source and lesser alternatives, due to Adobe's policies and its theft from users.
@JeffreyThrash2 ай бұрын
@@Daniel.F-3dart I played around with Blender's forgotten Metaball technology a bit, and I suppose you're right, it's hardly new or even innovative. Still, I wish I had learned about this stuff sooner for quickly making character base meshes, plus using it combined with the auto-retopology tool QuadRemesher does introduce some faster workflows for me.
@Eugensson2 ай бұрын
I tend to believe SDF has been if not invented but greatly developed in it's early days by Iñigo Quilez.
@therealjones-o6x2 ай бұрын
There was the application "Organica" more than 25 years ago which did essentially the same thing. There is nothing new under the sun.
@Potatinized2 ай бұрын
so it's basically like a human heart. first we put a heart shape base, then a girl comes and we'd thought it would make it bigger, but it suddenly changes to subtractive and we ended up with a hole in our heart..
@st33ldi9ital2 ай бұрын
SDF are big part in success of many big games. One of which with impressive use of them was APB. SDF been around a long time and a crime it isn't used more than it is.
@antoniogranado64942 ай бұрын
Also Octane render have SDF.
@dinsfire84892 ай бұрын
Signed Distance Field is awesome. I hope MagicaCSG takes off
@PscalАй бұрын
In french, SDF means Homeless… I read : Homeless, the future of 3d modelers… Oo!
@Potatinized2 ай бұрын
with the pace of Autodesk updates every year, i'd say they're in a very dangerous place if this method catches on.
@skyebrows2 ай бұрын
For some things a I can see it, but probably impractical for things like mouth interiors. Though we'll be in generative G-Splat land before very long.
@imaginingPhysics2 ай бұрын
Can any of these applications return the actual distance function? The code for it? Thank!
@sega5785Ай бұрын
When will you talk about details at 4:30?
@hugobeyerАй бұрын
I wish, maybe static objects, but resolution needs to go crazy high. animation isvery costly
@slamotte2 ай бұрын
I may started getting into this, I would love to know more about clavicula
@adriencarrera52512 ай бұрын
I tried Clavicula before and it is quite impressive. And yeap, Clavicula is collar bone in spanish, I don'tt know if that was the dev intention though
@schemage22102 ай бұрын
Is SDF not just a variant of Metaballs? I mean from a surface level (no pun intended) there doesn't seem to be much difference in the workflow, rather maybe a difference in the underlining math of the software. So if they are so close to one another, why are SDF's likely to be worth investing in when Meta-balls just vanished from practical use.
@goemboeck2 ай бұрын
Cinema 4D has had SDF Mode since at least from 2018. Dreams came out later?
@ShrikeGFX2 ай бұрын
I think Volume Builder is Voxel based, but it combines the best of SDF and poly modeling as you can transfer any poly model mesh to it, as opposed to being limited to SDF shapes. SDFs will have better performance tho.
@daemoriazy87512 ай бұрын
It's been a core part of my workflow since its introduction, too. I love how it's just integrated in such a complete way with the rest of the toolset!
@ShrikeGFX2 ай бұрын
@@daemoriazy8751 Yeah its a huge game changer for modeling (and gamedev)
@bscrushy2 ай бұрын
No mention of Project Neo by Adobe?
@olexp90172 ай бұрын
Houdini is the biggest and the simplest in the same time 3d software (due to it's simple and consistent logic compared to other "simple" but very inconsistent opponents). And if you really want to play with SDFs, this is your friend.
@abdelkarimkeraressi1418Ай бұрын
Wow nice I hope it gonna come to blender soon
@TheRidiculousR2 ай бұрын
Im pretty sure DRG's cave generation works with something simmilar
@adamfilipowicz92602 ай бұрын
Isn’t c4d volume builder sdf?
@ollicron73972 ай бұрын
It's not going to take over every part of modeling just the stuff geometry nodes can't already do in Houdini and Blender. Can it help? Sure but for the most part not many people need it. At the end of the day the software used is just a tool and nothing more. There's already addons, for example in Blender that take care of things like boolean meshes so this isn't ultimately necessary.
@Cymock12 ай бұрын
Hasn't SDF been always used in games for things like collision detection?
@_vofy2 ай бұрын
Clavicula Nox, by Therion, good song.
@St4rdog2 ай бұрын
Unity has had Clayxels in the asset store for years.
@EricWilliamsCG2 ай бұрын
Was the ai thumbnail created with signed distance fields? 😛
@awesomemike38572 ай бұрын
No it wasn't, pretty disappointed to be honest
@gamefromscratch2 ай бұрын
Not AI. Stock image licensed, but not ai.
@JeffreyThrash2 ай бұрын
@@gamefromscratch If the stock image came from Adobe Stock or possibly Getty Images, then chances are it could be an AI image that has been uploaded to the stock image site like a normal image. This is why I'm actually buying reference books these days like I'm a 20th century artist (e.g. Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a whole library of references he would use for daily comic strip ideas or drawing more complex stuff correctly). It's getting harder and harder to tell whether that image you downloaded off of Google Images, Pinterest or other sites is actually a photograph and not AI-generated. Obviously, references are only useful if they have 100% correct lighting, anatomy, perspective, etc., and all the AI images flooding the Internet and crowding out genuine drawings and photographs make this a lot harder to determine, now. Buying reference books, especially ones that seem to be made before 2015 according to the copyright pages, is the best solution I can think of for now.
@thisGuy481Ай бұрын
Am I wrong, or is Plasticity also an SDF modeler? It presents itself in a very similar way to SDF but it may just be CAD lol
@theoathman81882 ай бұрын
oh Dream. I forgot that exist. The game that was abandoned by PlayStation
@frankenjstein9371Ай бұрын
ZBrush already does all of this stuff, for like 12 years.
@spider8532 ай бұрын
didn't 3D Coat used sdf for a long time?
@simonmeszaros27702 ай бұрын
hmm this seems doable in blender with nodes, as they support boolean opperations
@Le5sterleCheMiDevi2 ай бұрын
NURMS has nothing to do with NURBS, NURMS is a "made up" name for the old 3D Studio Max subdivision surface algorithm.
@MikeLeed2 ай бұрын
Sculptura on IPad is also SDF
@jeffsmith9384Ай бұрын
This is like vector graphics in 3D
@sanketsbrush2 ай бұрын
I always had hard times understanding SDF comparing to rasterization
@zdspider67782 ай бұрын
It's just math... You've got an origin (which can be a point or a line) and you can move that origin (offset it) anywhere relative to the world origin. Then you can define a space from which you can calculate a _distance_ from that origin, which can be viewed as concentric "rings" around the origin. And it's "signed" because that distance can be either positive or negative (meaning also inside the shape). It's not terribly difficult to comprehend how it's done in 2D. But I don't know how it's done in 3D. I'm guessing the same but with an extra axis. So you've got not just XY on the cartesian plane, but XYZ.
@tiagotiagot2 ай бұрын
SDF is defining shapes based on mathematically defined surfaces; rasterization is rendering based on calculating pixel colors. Both can be used together or independently; they're about different parts of the process.