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--- 3d:start [2025/03/30 15:38] – [Low Poly Workflow] mh
+++ 3d:start [2025/04/17 17:28] (current) – [Useful Add-ons] mh
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   * **Extra Meshes :** Gives access to more primitives in the Add Menu (**''SHIFT'' + ''A''**)
+  * **Rigify :** Very handy for rigging humanoidss or basic animals
+  * **Node Wrangler :** Provides useful tools for working with nodes
 ===== Useful Tips =====
+=== Quick Favorites ===
   * You can right click on an item in the top menus of the viewport and select **Add to Quick Favorites** which makes them available in the Quick Favorites menu (**''Q''**)
+=== Low Poly ===
   * Solidify + Decimate modifiers work well together to give jaggedy looks to objects and land parts.
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 If your mesh is chiseled looking and shaded differently because the quads and triangles are not on the same plane you can flatten things out by selecting all the concerned faces and scaling them to 0 along the proper axis.
-Useful tip : when using knife tool ''E'' starts a new cut elsewhere.
 Careful when using mirror modifiers, if you move in object mode it moves both sides in the same direction along the given axis because it moves the object center around which the mirror is calculated. If you move in edit mode it moves the selection relative to the given axis effectively copying the move on the mirrored side.
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-==== Seamless textures ====
-Using seamless textures is useful as the texture will repeat itself when scaled without it being too noticeable at a glance. However, if you scale too much, a pattern will become visible as the texture repeats itself.
-There are two ways to scale :
-In the node editor, on the **mapping** node :
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-In the UV editor, by scaling the unwrap. This second option is preferable if you are going to export your scene to a game engine as the UV unwrap (and it's scale) will be exported with it.
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-A handy feature of seamless textures is that they will continue applying if you modify your geometry. One good way to do this is with an edge slide (Shortcut : ''G'' + ''G''). If you want to edge slide beyond the existing geometry you need to remove clamping (Shortcut : ''C'' while edge-sliding).
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-==== Procedural textures ====
-Procedural textures are created by using nodes instead of images or photographs to create a material. Basic texture nodes are mixed together (often with a **MixRGB** node) and the Color output is then used to give both roughness and normals to the material.
-{{3d:procedural-texture.png?800}}
-When creating textures with this method it's important to think macro-details and micro-details and mix them together. The ''Scale'' value of the basic texture nodes can be used to this effect.
-A rapid shortcut to create a mix node is to ''CTRL + SHIFT + RIGHT-CLICK & DRAG'' from one node to the other one that you want to mix.
-The procedural textures can be very easily tweaked and modified. They do not require much artistic skills as opposed to the //creation// of textures based on images and photographs (although those are often available for free or a small fee on many platforms online). One downside however is that these textures need to be baked to be exported to a game engine, although that is a minor downside as baking is often required when exporting to game engines anyways.
 ===== Scultping =====