How to DISCO BALL-ify ANY Object | Blender 3D Tutorial

[@chrisprenn]

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[@Peak_Stone]

Bro, you are a genius

[@nerukas86]

freakin hell, your tutorials are simply great! Respect points were added to your inventory again!

[@Thandidladla]

Been looking for this effect for a while. Dankeschön!

[@chrisprenn]

Bitte sehr ;)

[@myndwork]

dear Chris, I can't thank you enough for your tutorials. I come back to binge watch your chnnel every once in a while and I am amazed by your work every single time. Thank you for all the free work that you put in for the community and for the occasional curious mind out there, your channel is a treasure.

[@supremebeme]

nice application of instant meshes

[@Arthur-zr1vx]

I know I am very late to the party but this is excellent! Thank you so much :)

[@chrisprenn]

🥰

[@esandradem]

thank youuu! perfect tutorial!

[@insertanynameyouwant5311]

I actually needed to understand how Instant Meshed work, thanks!

[@abrahamwondafrash7549]

Oh my God ...I have learned a lot from this tutorial.....the (mark sharp) for edge split thing.....the solidify material thing....and after I have learned about the solidify material thing, I automatically learn that I can also assign different materials for the bevel too....by just increasing the (-1) value of the material index on the bevel modifier. thanks a lot....

[@Frostroomhead]

Thank you so much!

[@_pinkangels]

neat lil tutorial!! thank you

[@uykubozuk]

THANK YOUU SOOO MUCHH

[@zozoolaroxmusic]

Mentioned you in description, boss. Great tutorial

[@mantovannni]

I was sent this way from a Fb group, thanks for the tutorials. Great stuff keep it up :)

[@TACKO3D]

Nice dude! Very rare to see people remake tutorials for other software. Thanks for sharing

[@yahyaelnaggar2264]

Incredible effort!! Your channel is so underrated.

[@chrisprenn]

Thank you!

[@DissertazioniVideolu]

what's the reason for not using the Blender remesh modifier?

[@nurb2kea]

Nice idea and as simple as it is, it's looking very good with the scull.

[@jedemopro]

Really brilliant tutorial. Animation Nodes is awesome, but complex. Your explications are fantastic. Congratulations!!!!!!

[@afrosymphony8207]

this is insanely addictive!

[@chrisprenn]

It is!

[@AMR2442]

I learned so much from this one video.

[@Neffysux]

I’ve been looking for something that remeshes like this! Thank you!!

[@KineticEgg]

Thanks for reminding me Instant Meshes exists... totally forgot about it thanks to using the likes of Zbrush, Modo and Houdini for years in production, and now I'm back to my Opensource love in, it's totally going to be part of my 3D scanning tool set. Excellent vid as always Chris. many thanks, and keep up the top quality node tutorials.

[@chrisprenn]

Thank you!

[@yvesmolina]

You make my day Chris P ! I never forget to take Instant Meshes with me in my toolbox, it's true that it's an incredible software. Have a nice evening. 🚀😃👌

[@Orozco_PNW]

Excellent tutorial! I might have to do this for my company logo for a 70's themed holiday party! I might import it into Unreal Engine to animate and render, but I am curious if Cycles can render volumetric fog reflections bouncing off the disco ball? Seems like it would be very intensive and take too long to render, but curious if you have any thoughts!

[@chrisprenn]

Glad you enjoy the tutorials! I believe neither Cycles nor EEVEE support volumetrics of reflections

[@Orozco_PNW]

@@chrisprenn Good to know, it seemed so promising with the Megalights release in 5.5, but I guess I'll keep dreaming...

[@robguzman_]

This is awesome. I've seen tutorials on how to do it in Blender with Geo nodes, but it's far too complex for something that should be simple.

[@LusoCMD]

Great! Thanks

[@Bonyari_Boy]

Perfect tutorial, thank you!

[@vstreet7583]

Another great tutorial. Really enjoyed this one. Instant Mesh looks very useful. Thank you for everything you do. THANK YOU! Dg

[@phuongnganinh4634]

amazing good job

[@chrisprenn]

thanks!

[@zozoolaroxmusic]

Thx. Great tut.

[@frankrossi65]

Einfach fantastisch. Vielen Dank.

[@akuunreach]

As someone that has worked with cut glass, the edge is very sharp, not beveled. Maybe really expensive disco balls have beveled edges, but I doubt it.

[@chrisprenn]

makes it look better anyway ;)

[@gRAFpxtv]

Thank you so much, can't wait to try this one ^_^

[@johanverm90]

Who needs Houdini ?Awesome ,thanks ..!

[@shirlynitzan3508]

hey thank you! from where did you get the different mirror metrials?

[@chrisprenn]

simple glossy shaders or metallic...

[@animatoonstv.2216]

Thanks for sharing all this amazing tutorials.👍👍

[@vadyhero]

Create cube, add Subdivision modifier "3", Disco ball done...

[@BeregFILMS]

!!! COOL!!!

[@johnnyshepherd9615]

Hey Chris, great video! The examples/dataset from github has no UV sphere included. I exported a UV sphere .obj from blender into instant meshes in order to make a traditional (spherical) disco ball, but there were always singularities that seemed impossible to manually resolve. What am I missing? Thanks!

[@chrisprenn]

Hm I haven't actually tried it with a sphere LOL ... a "round cube" doesn't look like a real disco ball I guess...

[@TristanGrimaux]

We need this disco ball in geometry nodes!

[@chrisprenn]

I agree

[@blendermaniac]

A brilliant tutorial! Thank you very much for this. At one point I have not understood the procedure. You have created a second material for the sides of the small mirrors. As if by magic, this was assigned to the sides. This did not work for me. This can't be related to the name "Mirror SIDES" - right? Have I made a mistake?

[@arianullah6257]

Have you tried using Autoremesher by Jeremy HU, it produces better results compared to Instant Meshes and is also Open Source

[@chrisprenn]

must try!

[@arianullah6257]

@@chrisprenn I also suggest that you check out the Blenderartists thread on the tool

[@claudiaatteveld4971]

Unfortunatly in the windows version of Instant Meshes there are no models in it ( bunny etc.) it's just empty. Any thoughts on this?

[@chrisprenn]

Did you download and install the "datasets"? Check the github page for instant meshes

[@claudiaatteveld4971]

@@chrisprenn Thanks I got them now, for new users who aren't used to github it can be easily overlooked that more zips need to be downloaded in order to get the same models as shown in the tool.

[@playtheguitarladida]

I tried this with Text, but when I added the Displacement Modifier, front and backside of the letters werent affected, even though they were all marked sharp - can you help me please? :3

[@danielcrane3026]

I'm trying to use this technique to create some disco-ball text. but the problem is that disco balls' tiles are offset row by row. they are not perfect grids. Any ideas on how to achieve that offset look?

[@chrisprenn]

That is a bit tricky since the mirrors are always based on the underlying topology 🤔

[@TheDeepDiveOriginal]

Chris, you should try the free apprentice Houdini version.(if you find the Indie Limited edition too expensive - its like 300 bucks) Im saying this from the standpoint of a person, using Blender, Animation Nodes and Sverchok for years and years. Try out Houdini, there is nothing like it. As a software engineer, you will find yourself REBORN. And dont get me wrong, im a blender fanatic for around 12 years. But Houdini + Blender (as rendering environment) - oh, my....

[@ashdalat.]

👁️👃👁️ this guy looks like pro from university

[@robertocassettari198]

How many GPU are in your case?? :-)

[@chrisprenn]

Just one at the moment. Waiting for prices to drop but they are going up again 😥

[@MrFarkasOfficial]

Lol instant sub

[@alexiath4457]

why does everything work great in the viewport shading preview mode but not in the render one????? :@

[@chrisprenn]

Oh the joy of Animation Nodes ... If all else fails use viewport rendering or render with my script (see chrisp.zone)

[@annoyingwitch6769]

i can't download add on. Blender say that it has been imported, but it doesn't appear in the list so i can't check it. Anyone having this problem?

[@chrisprenn]

FYI: the python versions must match between blender and animation nodes

[@12XFactor]

The Instant Remesh tool is really nice but instead of this tool, you could have used Blender's Remesh function (in sculpting mode). This function is by far not good as Instant Remesh but would be a "Blender only" solution just as a side note.

[@chrisprenn]

blender's remesh is way not as good as instant meshes for THIS requirement ... prove me wrong ;)

[@Dandemonium_]

I wish I could say this was a great tutorial but without any instruction on how to actually install the add-on then I'm temporarily lost for words.. Any help greatly appreciated!

[@gamblingslash7451]

Didn't work with me :(