Blender EEVEE how to make realistic clouds

Blender: How to make realistic clouds

In this blog post, I am going to walk you through the steps I took to turn my cartoon-style cloud into a more realistic cloud in Blender. The result will be as seen above: the rainbow ends into a fluffy cloud on each side. Notes: This is a Blender EEVEE guide…
Blender problem: copy buffer is empty

Blender Problem: Copy Buffer is Empty

Unfortunately, I ran into an annoying problem where I wasn't able to copy paste objects from one Blender file into another. I always do this by opening two instances of Blender, and simply applying the Ctrl + C and Ctrl + V technique. This time however, it didn't work... and I…
How to break a solid object in Blender

How To Break a Pillar in Blender

For a 3D project, I needed a broken pillar. Apparently it's not possible to make an object solid in Blender, so I had to do a bit of searching and experimenting to try and figure this one out. I would like to share with you how I did this! First, I…
Blender Bread Material Tutorial

Blender Eevee: Simple Bread Material (No Texture)

I made a quick and simple loaf of bread in Blender and colored it in Vertex Paint. Then, I used a Noise Texture and Math Node (Multiply) to create a bread-like effect. This was achieved without the use of an image texture. Please click on the image above to see a…
Blender: Active Object is Not a Selected Mesh – Ctrl+J Doesn’t Work

Blender: Active Object is Not a Selected Mesh – Ctrl+J Doesn’t Work

While working on a new project in Blender 3.2.0, I ran into the following problem: I wanted to use Ctrl+J to join several meshes/objects, but it didn't work. Blender said "Active object is not a selected mesh". I started looking into what the problem was, and I came across the hint…
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Blender Doesn’t Extrude Correctly

While working on a new Blender scene, all of a sudden, I notice Extrude isn't behaving as it should. I wanted to Extrude, right-click, and Scale, but it didn't extrude at all and just scaled. I knew it had to be a setting I forgot about somewhere... and that was indeed…
how to mirror an object in blender

Blender: How to Mirror an Object

Let's say you're modeling a little fox. You got its head, its tail, ears and paws. But then you need to mirror those ears and paws to the exact opposite part of the body of the fox. How do you do that? Well, this is what I was running into when…
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Blender: How to remove white border on transparent PNG

When working with transparent images in Blender, I ran into the problem of making them properly transparent. After successfully making my PNG files transparent, I ended up with a white border on this image. Apparently when you apply Alpha Clip to a PNG in Blender, you may end up with this…
blender transparent image texture

Blender: How to add transparent texture image to an object

When you add your transparent PNG to your object in Blender, you will notice that it shows black where it should be see-through. To fix this and make sure your transparent image shows up properly on your model, you just need to follow the following steps: Remove black background from transparent…
Blender: How to make a transparent image texture (nodes setup)

Blender: How to make a transparent image texture (nodes setup)

For the project I'm currently working on, I need to display an image texture with transparency on my Blender model. It took a lot of effort to try and get this done, and it's not ideal, but it works! So I'm hereby sharing my nodes setup for the Shader Editor, for…