How to Build a Big 3D LEGO City (without blowing up your computer)

How to Build a Big 3D LEGO City (without blowing up your computer) | Blender Tutorial

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Жыл бұрын

In this video I show you in 7 simple steps how to build a big 3D LEGO city scene inside of Blender and keep your computer as performative as possible while doing it.
Links from the video:
Mecabricks: www.mecabricks.com
Rebrickable: rebrickable.com/
Micro-sized buildings: rebrickable.com/users/FunnyTa...
Mecabricks Add-on: www.mecabricks.com/en/shop
City set: www.mecabricks.com/en/models/...
Street elements: www.mecabricks.com/en/models/...
#lego #city #blender #animation #tutorial #spiderman #mecabricks

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@TiNKLeFilms Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! And if you know more tips and tricks for building a large Lego city set, feel free to share them in the comments :)

@legome_theog 11 ай бұрын

thank you so much for this 🙏🙏

@A7MED3D 10 ай бұрын

Can't wait to see what you will create 🔥

@The_Pokemon_Conservationist 8 ай бұрын

HOOOOLLYYY CRAP ITS HIM THE LEGEND HIMSELF!!!

@GabrielCadaret 8 ай бұрын

You are one of the most amazing lego animators in the world. I look up to you.

@Harvey2k 7 ай бұрын

same mannn as a person your age bro I look up to you and I used to try blender but always gave up but you inspire me so much to try again

@Grinder9099 6 ай бұрын

Ayo, I was here😂

@calvinbrownanimation4152 Жыл бұрын

Hi, great tutorial. theres an rasier way to get my city in blender, if you open it in mecabricks you'll notice i have it in groups. so you can bring it in by 1 group or a few groups in at a time. for example you can hide the road group and bring in just the buildings, that will make it easier to select the building bricks in blender. regardless this a cool tutorial

@TiNKLeFilms Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah. That's a great point! Thank you :)

@Spider-Man3231 16 күн бұрын

WE ARE GETING TIPS FROM THE GOAT HIMSELF !

@LittlePangy Жыл бұрын

this is great! I love your tutorials and hope you continue to make them :D

@WackoMcGoose 11 ай бұрын

Easy compromise for if your scene "absolutely must" have the LEGO® logo visible on the studs: use the "what the camera can see" trick to selectively grab only bricks close enough to have the logo visible, export _only those_ with the logo enabled, then align into the scene as necessary. ...Orrr... go full studless and ensure no studs are visible to begin with.

@AlexisRivera3D 11 ай бұрын

Thank you for the time in making this. I was struggling with big scenes this week, these tips are great. Keep it up, subscribed!

@hammerhead_theanimationgoat Жыл бұрын

So helpful!! Thank you so much for making this!

@savageopress1753 11 ай бұрын

This is a very impressive tutorial! Thank you for all of the great information!

@mayoshixi 8 ай бұрын

This is so insanely helpful and waaaay too underappreciated! Great work!

@LockeAnimations Жыл бұрын

super useful

@TheGardenofBricks 11 ай бұрын

Super helpful video!! Thanks so much for creating this 🤝🤝

@conorsvfx Жыл бұрын

Great tutorial!

@kaushikkorlam6313 Жыл бұрын

Amazing

@voted Жыл бұрын

Such a good video!

@mayostudios9958 Жыл бұрын

Pretty useful information thanks man

@jasiek_iq1156 11 ай бұрын

This is great! Thx for it.

@Brickenator 11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!! This is so helpful!

@LegoEpicAnimator 10 ай бұрын

This is very useful info. Thank you.

@robestey5628 8 ай бұрын

Thank you - too cool.

@DazDroAnimations 10 ай бұрын

Another way to get light models (mostly for buildings that aren’t focused on) Straight up just get the textures from all sides of the building and just put it together as a cube that still looks like da like Lego

@ritpop Жыл бұрын

well done bro edit: holy molly, 17 years?

@TiNKLeFilms Жыл бұрын

My channel? Yeah... I'm old 🫣😅

@pichotiner 7 ай бұрын

Hi! Cool video, can you explain me how you added the scale preference when importing

@A7MED3D 10 ай бұрын

You are a lifesaver you know that right ? Thank you so much for your work !!!!

@TiNKLeFilms 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support! I'm always happy to help ☺️

@Moki314 11 ай бұрын

I was excited when the asset library got added, but I never actually learned how to use it, but now I will be using it for sure! Thanks! One thing though, car wheels. What would you suggest for instancing car models that you want to have the wheels spin? I guess one way would be to have all of your car models without wheels and then have separate wheel assets, is there a better way of doing it than that?

@TiNKLeFilms 11 ай бұрын

Yes, that's one way of doing it. Or you could uncheck "Instance" when importing the car model (like here: 12:35). That way you should be able select all the individual pieces, so you can animate the wheels.

@mekkobobo 11 ай бұрын

ily

@scylex11 10 ай бұрын

hello tinkle!, i am doing this tutorial and i want to ask you if its a good idea to import all the buildings that i want to convert in asset in the same .blend file, i import one then i convert it to asset and save it, i hide it and repeat all again until i have all my buildings in assets, its a good idea? or i have to put the buildings in diferrents .blends for better performance in blender? thanks you so much

@TiNKLeFilms 10 ай бұрын

Yes, that's totally fine. That shouldn't influence the performance in the project that you'll use the assets in. It might just slow the original project down where you imported all the buildings to create the assets. So when you feel like the project gets too heavy or takes too long to open, just make a second one.

@eduardoalanis3617 10 ай бұрын

When importing a model the scale slider doesnt show up, is there another way to scale it to 0.001?

@TiNKLeFilms 10 ай бұрын

I just found out that the scale slider is exclusive to the paid Mecabricks Advanced add-on. So unfortunately there seems to be no good way to scale your models down if you are using the free version. Cause if you scale it down after import, it will not work with the shading and the textures 😕

@Domiass 5 ай бұрын

Привет,а можешь пожалуйста сказать свои компоненты компьютера?

@leoitaliano1336 9 ай бұрын

How did you combine both mecabricks & epicfigrig in one n-panel tab?

@TiNKLeFilms 9 ай бұрын

It's a free add-on called "Simple Tabs". You can find it on Blender Market or Gumroad.

@comebackguy8892 8 ай бұрын

Hi! Just a quick question. Is it normal for a hallway scene with studs (paid version) to take 19 minutes to render with an RTX 3080 and still look very noisy with 4096 samples in Blender 3.6?

@TiNKLeFilms 8 ай бұрын

19 minutes with 4096 samples sounds possible. You should try to achieve something good looking with 300-500 samples. If it's too noisy, even after denoising, try to add more lights to your scene. Even if you want a dark look in the end. You can make it darker again after you rendered it in your editing software or with the compositor in Blender. But rendering with more overall lights should reduce the noise amount.

@lex48628 11 ай бұрын

Man, I have a doubt, how do you solve the bug when rendering animations, the images keep appearing white "spots" in the render, do you know how to solve this?

@TiNKLeFilms 11 ай бұрын

What I normally do is set the direct light clamping to a very high number. 100-200, or just as high as possible (depends on the lighting in your scene) before the white spots appear: i.imgur.com/juzB8ln.jpeg

@lex48628 11 ай бұрын

@@TiNKLeFilms ok thanks :)

@lex48628 11 ай бұрын

Hi man, I loved the tutorial, it taught me many things, but could you make a tutorial on the lego spider man minifigure eye rig?

@TiNKLeFilms 11 ай бұрын

There is already a good tutorial from the creator that is linked in the pdf with the rig ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/hGnSZaCOhcR4eKc )

@lex48628 11 ай бұрын

@@TiNKLeFilms very thanks bro !!!

@scylex11 10 ай бұрын

hello tinkle sorry for another question but you can tell me how you scale down your models of civilians, spidermans, etc because scale down the rig is impossible and if you scale down the model the rig doesn´t work, thanks you

@TiNKLeFilms 10 ай бұрын

Easier to show than to write :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4eWmJttlL6gj5I

@scylex11 10 ай бұрын

@@TiNKLeFilms awesome, thanks you

@edvinwichmann8493 5 ай бұрын

i can't change scale. What do i do?

@TiNKLeFilms 5 ай бұрын

I think you need Mecabricks Advanced to change the scale. I wasn't aware of that when recording the video. Just leave it at 1, it's fine too

@geoffreyneiley6383 10 ай бұрын

Hey, love the tutorials so much! I was wondering if there was a good place to find more Lego blender tutorials, because it seems that there are barely any tutorials here on KZbin.

@TiNKLeFilms 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! If you join the Blender Bricks discord server ( discord.gg/szcVWAUdud ), you can find a "lego-tutorials" topic with many, many good KZbin tutorials. Some even are unlisted so you can only find them there.

@gothic_gachi 4 ай бұрын

In the free version of this Addon (Blender Lite) in Cycles mode the model looks like sushi. The description of the addon says that the renderer does not work only in Evee. I understand correctly, the bricks should automatically be similar in material to plastic with glare? Because in .zmbx format the model looks very terrible. And in .obj format the model looks fine, but I have to manually create the plastic material to make the model look realistic. Am I the only one having this problem or is it the free version of the Addon to blame? P.S. I will add from myself that in .obj format the model has normal edges and bevels (but without Lego logo). The difference is that the model takes longer to load and textures will have to customize themselves. 🤷🏼‍♂ (Fixed) Lego logo in .obj is still there.