HardOPs and Boxcutter - BEGINNERS TUTORIAL for Blender

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[@PonteRyuurui]

FREE SciFi Terminal Blender Course (HardOPS & Boxcutter workflow). ➤➤www.blenderbros.com/terminal

[@Anthony_Gutierrez]

Man, I never would have been able to get as confident with blender as I am over the past couple of years without your videos. None of my instructors in college were this helpful

[@PonteRyuurui]

cheers mate, glad i could help!

[@bUildYT]

This feels like learning blender from scratch again, but this time its the smarter bigger brother 😂🎉

[@CycleverseGames]

That align to edge function in amazing!! I didn't know that was available. Thank you very much.

[@donner7708]

Exactly what I needed thank you!

[@ShidoSoul]

Thank you making this tutorial!

[@TimTylor]

Great overview! I just got the add-ons and this was an excellent introduction.

[@Abdullah-wo2lv]

Thank you for this explanation

[@jimmysgameclips]

Thankyou! Some really handy tools here for sure

[@mr.cheeseburger3746]

Thank you master!

[@rajveertomar3599]

you are the best brother

[@woldemarkiev]

Thank you a lot - the day i found this tutorial is my blender birthday

[@DanVogt]

Phenomenal tutorial. Subscribed.

[@ray3dx661]

Thank you so much, this has been incredibly helpful! I really appreciate all you've taught.

[@PonteRyuurui]

my pleasure!

[@zhekunwang8589]

Very good video as always

[@arashtehrani7726]

very useful tut...thanks for make this.

[@buppington]

The best addon, its got a bunch of timesavers and neat tools for almost any workflow. Definitely worth its price and then some.

[@PonteRyuurui]

amen to that

[@TertiaryChrome]

Tip if you're using an Azerty keyboard with Tilda mixed with numerical keys, which applies SubD when you call Hops Helper : I went around by pressing Ctrl+% and it called the proper Helper menu.

[@davidstedmond7705]

I didn’t think I needed boxcutter but after getting it I honestly can’t believe I wasn’t using it from the start.

[@clkndggr]

If a viewer is having trouble figuring out how to add weighted normal with ALT + LMB, you have to press it while you hover the mouse over the sharpen option in the Q menu. Took me a bit of investigation to figure that out. Hovering over Q menu brings up a mini-menu.

[@EridaniOpsCG]

Keep coming back to this when I update and forget how hardops was set up 🤣

[@TheKevphil]

Is there a Bezier tool for making cuts?

[@user-xl9fv8fn9y]

Hello, can you tell hot keys to duplicate model with box cutters which not apply?

[@ali.almiss]

Hello. I don't have that info bar on my screen as yours whenever I cut something with this addon. Therefore, I'm not able to see options. How to make it pop up?

[@LordYodel]

thank you so much, appreciate all your videos man. But what's confusing for me as a rookie. you talk about chamfers vs. Bevels. I can't find any clarification or clear explanation about the difference between chamfers and bevels. Also, practical use case. When to use a bevel, when a chamfer, and what different types? When to use it on a SubDiv, and when to use what kind on a low-poly game asset. Thank you so much man, it would be super cool to have a video like that, explaining those fundamentals. Cheers man and keep rocking! 👍

[@PonteRyuurui]

here watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqqafGOiep6YqNk

[@mark8664]

Thanks for the intro. Dude your accent is killing me.

[@PonteRyuurui]

ya my mom said the same thing so i emmigrated

[@mark8664]

Haa heeheee@@PonteRyuurui

[@_casg]

bro how come when i use the cube from hardops menu and switch to cutter, it doesn't cut anything. But when I use cube from blender menu like you did , it cuts?

[@Pneumanon]

My Q menu doesn't work. It used to work, but now I haven't been able to use HOps or Boxcutter for over a year. I've updated Blender, Boxcutter & HardOps several times, and am on the latest version of all three now. I assume it's something to do with the Keymap but I can't figure out how to fix it. If anyone has a link to clear instructions on how the Keymap should be set up that would be much appreciated.

[@sudayang1230]

Hi, while using the box cutter tools, when I press ctrl + .(dot), I could see gizmo; I like this then, I tried to move face to one of axis, the gizmo moved, not my prop. Could you let me know how to resolve this? I'd like to modeling while active that gizmo on it.

[@PonteRyuurui]

Cant, i hate the gizmo thing so I have it perma nuked. Ask on our discord discord.gg/cBMF9X5

[@alessandroconstantini5941]

At 10:17, when the mesh has a bevel applied, sharped in the Q menu doesn't seem to do anything or add a modifier. Even when I manually add weighted normals in the modifiers section, adding a boolean removes the other modifiers and doesn't work. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong here or is it maybe a bug?

[@PonteRyuurui]

update everything, also WN is alt + sharpen

[@ghozgaming8704]

Sorry for the tangential question, but are you using a Linux distro? And if so, which one? (Thank you for all your videos! Purchased HO+BC!!)

[@PonteRyuurui]

win 10 mate, and you're welcome

[@BUdJohnson242]

Discord link says invalid, heads up!

[@user-kb7sy3su8d]

Thanks a lot!

[@justanothernobody7142]

I'm not sure if I'm missing something but I swapped to using Blender from Maya. I have always used the old Maya setup of holding the alt key to pan and rotate the camera in Blender. I'm not sure if that is the cause but any option in the Hardops menu that requires holding alt and clicking just doesn't work. I don't see any way of assinging the alt key to something else in hardops. I tried assigning my pan and rotate to the ctrl key instead just to see if it worked but it made no difference. I'm using the latest hardops and Blender installs. Great video btw! Edit* Ok for anyone else who has this problem I somehow just worked it out. For whatever reason the ALT key seems to work different than the other keys. So for example if I press Q and then want to add a weighted normal, I have to left click and hold on sharpen, then hold down ALT, then click off of sharpen and let go of ALT.

[@PonteRyuurui]

my advice to you is thus: do NOT make too many changes to your key bindings until you are proficient and know where stuff is located. You wont be able to follow any tuts and it will be a disaster.

[@justanothernobody7142]

@@PonteRyuurui I actually haven't made any changes for that reason. I've been using Blender for a few years now so I'm not a beginner. I basically just changed the basic viewport navigation controls because Blender's standard controls at the time were horrible coming from Maya and Max. Anyway I solved the problem and added it as an edit just in case someone else gets confused by it in the future. Thanks for the help anyway!

[@erlson]

my hardops is at the bottom but I still have to press only once to get to boxcutter...Maybe I'm just lucky?

[@vi8799]

Sorry for the stupid question, but how can a newbie enter this topic? Hardops, meshmashie, boxcatter, decalmachine - I'm just confused about what is meant for what.

[@PonteRyuurui]

it's your lucky day www.blenderbros.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-hard-ops-boxcutter-50

[@DamielBE]

is it possible to change the keybinding of the shortcuts? Because on AZERTY keyboards, especially the Belgian ones the tilda is only reachable with "Alt Gr" + "=" on the bottom right corner of the keyboard, next to the right shift.. edit: wait, it is ctrl + ~ or CTRL + ` ? in either case the ALT GR is required to reach the character

[@PonteRyuurui]

dl english language, switch when working

[@jaujud]

It's possible to change the keybind as well. Go to Preferences -> Add-ons -> Hardops -> Keymap and for this particular case look into Menus & Systems -> HOps Helper.

[@DamielBE]

@@jaujud Nova!! thank you! That was the one hurdle keeping me from using the HOBC suite, now I know I can go, buy and use it without keyboard issue.

[@darrenberkey7017]

The parts where he swears are subtly disguised bug fix and feature change requests for the Blender developers. 😆

[@PonteRyuurui]

spot on

[@vrharh]

Please Ryu, can you explain if I buy your course on Blender Market, do I have access to all the lessons directly from your site? And are future updates and life time access included in that version as well?

[@PonteRyuurui]

You do, but this isnt my addon. If you mean courses then sure.

[@vrharh]

@@PonteRyuurui Actually that's not the case. I learned it the hard way. I took one package of courses directly from BlenderMarket, but now I can't access them directly from the BlenderBros site. I have to download all the lessons on the hard drive, which is bloody annoying. I'm registered on BlenderBros but when I log in I don't see those lessons I took on BlenderMarket.

[@PonteRyuurui]

@@vrharh well of course you cant, it is a completely different website and we do not own Blender Market... email us directly and we can help you out. By "your site" i thought you mean our store front on blender market

[@TILK3D]

It doesn't work for me in version 3.4.1

[@PonteRyuurui]

thats because 3.4 is terrible

[@Cyber_Kriss]

The only option I really don't get is the inset cut. This shit just doesn't work most of the time... I know I am missing something, but I don't know what.

[@PonteRyuurui]

it's a bit fiddly but i think i have a vid on it, try ssearching the hops playlist

[@Cyber_Kriss]

@@PonteRyuurui Yeaaaah... I have to dig deeper 🤔

[@davewills6121]

Hi guys, noob question, every time i cut with Boxcutter i get this big ass 'timed text' across 70% of the screen. Could some kind soul tell me how to correct this please, its so feckin annoying? Regards

[@PonteRyuurui]

i ve no idea what it is, hop on hops discord and ask

[@davewills6121]

@@PonteRyuurui No luck with the issue, yet saw your vid on ''Powerbackup'', so sorted. Enjoying your content and have subscribed to you FREE content and brought the ''The Ultimate Guide To Hard Ops And Boxcutter_upd'', so looking forward to diving in.Kudos

[@ArtmasterRoy]

Hi, I can't follow your links from Russia

[@PonteRyuurui]

use vpn

[@stltrekmodels.4157]

Personally I think Boxcutter is yet just another vile plot thought up by THE MAN to keep a Brother down!

[@PonteRyuurui]

have you considered a day off?

[@stltrekmodels.4157]

@@PonteRyuurui Never I am to busy making 3D printed Star Ships and Chess Pieces. LOL. I actually love your content as I have been a fellow Blender modeler for 14 years now. I also use Z Brush, CC3/4 3D coat and Marvelous Designer. I did learn Blender the hard way, so any add on's or techniques that make it easier and faster is a definite plus. Just thought you might like the retro joke. Most of the kids know nothing about THE MAN.

[@PonteRyuurui]

@@stltrekmodels.4157Ttbh I've no idea who that is. Cheers mate, glad my mumbling is helpful.

[@stltrekmodels.4157]

@@PonteRyuurui THE MAN was a thing that black people and hippies used to call the government and the police. It was a meme for about 3 decades. I joke about it some times. Anyway I just set up 3 now printers so I can start printing model parts to test fit. The Boolian and Beveling tuts are great. I have always modeled the hard way so I love learning easier and faster methods.

[@PonteRyuurui]

@@stltrekmodels.4157 well when i was growing up the only black ppl in the country were coal miners. there is a terminal course, free, grab it, it will teach you the basics on addon workflow, link is in the vid descr

[@mihailamarcel5201]

its usefull only for shortcuts..the rest is pure crap!!!when to see your solutions for complex forms..like some asimetrical arhitecture ...its useless crap

[@PonteRyuurui]

awww what happend, your mum's attic too small?