This is not my area of expertise so I can’t be of much help.

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Because they’re tangent space normals, and where there are seams, tangent space changes sharply. It is not that the normals (world space or object space) are discontinuous; it is that the tangent space is discontinuous, and so the tangent space normals are discontinuous, even though the world space normals are not. (Tangent space is a space where the +Z vector points in the direction of the sampled normal and the +X vector points in the direction of increasing U, from your UV map. The normal map color is a remapped vector intended to be interpreted in this tangent space. The direction of increasing U changes sharply across seams. Which is okay.)

Seems different on this case where normal map is continuous but tangent normal is not. I guess you can unwrap the ring in one piece to have only one seam and hide it somehow.

People can help figuring out quicker if you share blend file. Remove anything that is unrelated or not sharable, purge unused data blocks, pack resources, upload somewhere.

CD and CRT? That thing should be running… not discord
My dear early 2000

Ahh yes… woof jsteg communication

That’s when you go look at fanart / doujin

It’s reusing very few nodes for many connections, no node group nesting so it looks messy. Unless it is modular and I can reuse it in other scenario, no point in spending more time on it just to make it look better or save few milliseconds per run.

Didn’t scroll far enough to see third panel. I’d say it is funny enough even without third panel.

Poor Yunyun. (｡•́︿•̀｡)

If you definitely need it to be bitmap texture…

A. Boolean
Make a shallow hole punch and boolean. Then bake the hole, or not. You can set material of the hole in boolean modifier.

B. Knife project
Make a shape of the hole then project onto the spear. Then extrude in to make shallow hole.

Finally you can bevel the hole to make it not look like a cheap CNC cut and bake the hole onto the non-hole version of the spear or keep the boolean mesh as is.

With this level of detail, I’d just use vertex paint or multiple materials on different faces. It’s cheap, it’s fast, no unwrapping.

edit:
Forgot to mention that if you planned to keep sub-d in final, you need pay attention to unwrapping strategy as it can shift seams and distort the texture at different sub-d level.

Discussion on Blender Artists forum. If you want extra cortisol today.

edit:
My prediction… their 2026 financial report gonna see a huge drop for small donation from individuals.

Netanyahu, don’t crime!!

Jail

Netanyahu, pwease crime!!

Also jail

Sees profile pic and name thinking… “Is this blender bros??”
It is blender bros…

Well, if the OP really want, they can get a few courses on the high seas.
I suppose blender bros courses are made well enough and popular enough for someone to “distribute” them.

Major titles from Cygames and Mihoyo?

• Granblue Fantasy
• Arknights (Hypergryph)
• Blue Archive (Nexon)
• BanG Dream! (Bushiroad)
• Genshin Impact
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Zenless Zone Zero

And to lesser degree, Princess Connect!

I see a pattern here…
sigh, it’s all gacha games with a lot of waifu material

Gotta have everything for everyone to succeed I guess.

Non games (honestly I don’t see fanart of these as often compare to gacha games)

• Re:Zero
• SAO

It feels to me like Gentlemen’s agreement. If a franchise have any guidelines for derivative works, it always include things like no NSFW, no crimey things, etc. Didn’t stop people from making rule 34 art. Let alone tons of NSFW AI slop.

Can I read up about that anywhere?

In case you’re curious, franchise official website should have it (if they have any guidelines at all)
Should find it following links like “二次創作” and “ガイドライン”

not allow you access to updates on addons, materials, tutorials, etc. a year after you bought them

Oh dang. Totally missed the news as I don’t follow community side of blender very closely compare to developer side.

Usually run blender very lean, no addons unless absolutely necessary, almost exclusively from official extension platform. So, near zero reasons for me to ever visit marketplace.

Almost hundred addons here, haven’t tried any of them so I can’t give recommendation.
https://superhivemarket.com/search?search[q]=hair&search[category_id]=6

Don’t know what kind of look you are going for.

The $0 way, sculpt separated blobs of hair and retopo?

For animation, Mikassa is made that way. May be same for Storm too, not really sure.

If not animation heavy then either curve -> convert to mesh -> sculpt. Or hi-poly sculpt then just remesh.

Police doggo!

* hide a lot of funny leaf jerky under my clothes

Hoping for Kinako anime while this one get another sequel.

Where it all began (pixivfe) NSFW

I wish more airsoft channels are as chill and as technical as this guy. No merch shill, straight to the point, good data collection.

What did he do this time?

Not easy to pick only one title that will match the taste of every newcomer. Will be way easier if said person pick a few titles then give them seal of approval.