Asset: Automatic Room Generator
Added 2020-04-02 21:46:34 +0000 UTCSo, I already posted this over on twitter a few months ago, but I wanted to make sure everyone here saw it too, cause it's a little silly, but I use it all the time (it's what made all of the interiors in the Dynamo Dream teaser).
It's a cube, and every time you duplicate it it generates a new interior (based off of a grid of 40 different rooms). There's a few parallax-type objects that appear in the rooms too, to give a bit of depth (helps a lot if you're doing an animation).
HUGE thanks to Simon Thommes for basically showing me how to do half of this and sending me a kickass white noise node alternative for 2.8 (the only way I could get this to work prior to 2.81) , Fin O'Riordan for giving me some suggestions/insight into 2.8 blender nodes with eevee, and Johnny Valencia for taking and letting me use the initial photo that inspired this thing :)
Here's a breakdown on how to use it (although I think it's pretty self explanatory).
If you click on the GLASS shader, in the shader editor you can adjust the probability that a light will be lit or not (you can animate this for a really easy time-lapse effect!)
If you click "ROOM PRIMARY" you can tweak the window saturation and tint. You can also Tab in there and make the tints whatever you want.
The results are decent- but I've gotten a ton of use out of it for just slapping something into background windows that I want to add a bit of life to.
Right click, save as:
Room Generator
Comments
The timelapse usage! So sick. Thanks.
Hairynscary
2022-06-10 04:35:23 +0000 UTCAhh!! I love it
WangleLine
2021-09-08 19:00:31 +0000 UTCOH HO O yA BaBY !!! Sir Ian THaNK u ๐๐ฅณ๐
2021-01-15 05:50:31 +0000 UTCHome button will center node group also, without having any nodes selected. Will save .83 seconds from having to hit "A" key each time, which is almost four years over the span of an average Blender users lifetime.
Godzookie
2020-07-14 17:25:00 +0000 UTCHi ! just a lil dumb question if anyone knows the answer : How would you implement this onto your building? would you use booltool? Or would you just assign the shader to the "Windows" of the block? Thank you so much !
2020-05-26 11:05:09 +0000 UTC๐
Griffin Toal
2020-04-14 21:24:32 +0000 UTCDaaaaamn, that is awesome! I've come to realize that I'm refreshing this page AT LEAST one time a day. Thaaaanks!
2020-04-03 18:01:39 +0000 UTCThe value you're giving us probably more than you think Ian! Thank you so much for teaching in such a straightforward manner.
2020-04-03 16:35:17 +0000 UTCHolly heckin frick! Where do you learn all this node stuff! I mean I watch YouTube videos on it but they are just like "plug this node into that and then this to that and you get this" They never tell you what they do. Except blender guru but a lot of his vids are out dated
2020-04-03 14:42:51 +0000 UTCThis will come in super handy when I finally find the time to build my ultimate dream dystopian chud-infested megalopolis of the future...
Pete Burges
2020-04-03 11:27:21 +0000 UTCFreaking amazing! Thank you!
Phillip Park
2020-04-03 11:24:12 +0000 UTCSo friggin cool.
Gehrig Campbell-Dempsey
2020-04-03 05:18:35 +0000 UTCAh! Oh, no, I'm not particularly good at audio. The audio was done by Impossible Acoustic, who are AMAZING- they're this local Seattle sound team, and they've done nearly everything I've released for the past 8 years. They're just so good at creating audio that 1.) feel tangible, but 2.) actually helps conduct the viewer experience (they're fantastic at deciding what should get sound and what shouldn't).
Ian Hubert
2020-04-03 02:38:22 +0000 UTCAfter viewing it again Dynamo Dream teaser i have to say the mixing and mastering of audio is also top notch... so many question in my head which daw..did you use izotope as your mastering plugin....i will silently wait in awe.....
shonal bose
2020-04-03 02:17:12 +0000 UTCOh my god, Ian. You make the very best assets EVER!
Kryat Lore
2020-04-02 23:48:45 +0000 UTCA Heyullz yeahh.
Jimmy Deface
2020-04-02 23:46:41 +0000 UTCI love it.
2020-04-02 23:11:02 +0000 UTCThis is awesome! Thank you so much!
2020-04-02 22:42:18 +0000 UTCYeeeeeeeeeeess!!!
2020-04-02 21:54:51 +0000 UTCHaha! Yes sorry! I caught that right after posting. I was like, "What are the odds that the ONE time I don't check the video to see if the capture worked it would go wrong?" And I went to check it and... yup. -uploading one with my voice! Should be ready in 10 seconds!
Ian Hubert
2020-04-02 21:54:17 +0000 UTCThis is great!
2020-04-02 21:51:11 +0000 UTCIs there suppose to be audio on the video? If so, there's no audio. If not, I miss your voice.
Colin Stein
2020-04-02 21:48:54 +0000 UTC
