{"id":14237,"date":"2020-08-05T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=14237"},"modified":"2020-08-05T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T20:04:13","slug":"blendup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/08\/05\/blendup\/","title":{"rendered":"BlendUp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently on a modest 30% sale at the Blender Marketplace, the third-party <a href=\"https:\/\/blendermarket.com\/products\/sketch-style-add-on\">Sketch Style add-on for Blender<\/a>. Basically, it can turn Blender into a sort of basic &#8216;home-brew SketchUp&#8217; and $16 seems quite reasonable for that functionality. Especially as it&#8217;s apparently relatively easy to use&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You basically press a SINGLE button and BAMM! You\u2019re ready to render. All the materials in your objects have just been overridden by the SKETCH STYLE material.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I like to hear from software. No need to fiddle around with nodes and Freestyle. Though the add-ons styles are rather CAD-ish and limited. Certainly far more limited than if you had SketchUp and undertook a thorough scouring of the Web looking for free Sketch Style presets&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/blensk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/blensk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-14238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course the problem with SketchUp is that it doesn&#8217;t play <em>at all<\/em> nicely with Poser or DAZ, which is why you won&#8217;t see any such bridges for that &mdash; despite the quite nice sketched-line and ink-wash effects that can be had from 3D in SketchUp.  These quick and client-pleasing effects are why the architects use it.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently there may be something like the Sketch Style add-on coming natively in a future Blender but, judging by the demo I&#8217;ve seen, it appears to be very early days on that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently on a modest 30% sale at the Blender Marketplace, the third-party Sketch Style add-on for Blender. Basically, it can turn Blender into a sort of basic &#8216;home-brew SketchUp&#8217; and $16 seems quite reasonable for that functionality. Especially as it&#8217;s apparently relatively easy to use&#8230; You basically press a SINGLE button and BAMM! You\u2019re ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-special-offers-and-discounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}