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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Aug 2

Can't verify right now, as i am on vacation.. but probably a bit faster. In any case - the limit is more gpu throughput.. here on my laptop it starts to drop below 60fps with 10 Million Tris in EEVEE.. (Because it creates 5x more hidden geometry for the shaders)

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Jul 20

It is a Blender add-on that enables you to render millions of constant-size lines and outlines in real-time using EEVEE and Cycles, magnitudes faster than grease pencil.
So for technical drawings, line art etc. not so much for characters / deforming meshes..

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Jul 20

OmniEdge Add-on, WIP
Preparing some examples for the release (still a few weeks out).
Cycles renderings – not nearly as fast as EEVEE, but pretty...
#b3d #blender

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 25

OmniEdge add-on, WIP
"Constant Screen Size" in action!
Shown here: three Starlink shells, GPS, GLONASS, Intelsat, Galileo, and Iridium.
All lines scale and animate entirely on the GPU in real-time.
#blender #b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 19

OmniEdge add-on, WIP
Small update: custom attributes can drive line size.
In this case, curvature is calculated in a separate Geometry Nodes setup, then read by the OmniEdge modifier. Preliminary UI layout also visible.
#blender #b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 11

OmniEdge add-on, WIP
Edges interact with shadows, reflections, etc.
Even better - Lights see them as constant-sized!

Outlines are slightly thinner, but it works. Sunlight shadows (since parallel) only show correctly in ortho cams. Can’t have it all...
#blender #b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 11

OmniEdge add-on, WIP update:
Now fully dynamic - no preprocessing, all in GeoNodes/shaders.
Outlines + sharp edge profiles + constant screen size + exponential falloff (prevents fat lines in the distance).
#blender #b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 4

OmniEdge add-on work in progress.
Screen-space billboards - also zero cost.
All real-time calculations are handled in an EEVEE shader..
#blender #b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 3

bit of both - but the geo-nodes part is static if the mesh does not change.

Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · May 3

Screen-space lines with miters and UVs, zero cost. All real-time processing runs in an EEVEE shader.

Add-on will be called OmniEdge - and once set up, everything works without the add-on installed.
#blender #b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Apr 30

the file:
archive.atair.cc/data.001/00....

archive.atair.cc

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Apr 30

One more try – 10× faster, 60 fps with 12k edges.
Screen-space edge scaling still the bottleneck..
GeoNodes file in comments (model excluded – belongs to id)
#q3dm6 #blender #quadrascan

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Apr 26

The file:
archive.atair.cc/data.001/00....

archive.atair.cc

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Apr 26

3D modeling like it's 1963.
Vector display for #Blender
Geometry Nodes / Shaders - File in comments
#b3d

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Mar 19

Something I built in the last weeks (from scratch) – the pressure control mechanism works really well..

Rhino + Grasshopper C# for the GCode, CNCjs / MKS DLC + Grbl as controller

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Feb 9

anyone here remembers Lightscape 3.2?

Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Feb 8

it is blender and OmniStep
omnistep.atair.cc

OmniStep

omnistep.atair.cc

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Feb 8

unfortunately it wont work for a animation that is already done (maybe there are scripts for that?)

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Feb 8

hi - omnistep creator here! To get rid of the glitches - change the camera rotation mode to 'Quaternion'. Euler Angle correction will work in the next update

omnistep.atair.cc/09_faq.html

FAQ - OmniStep

omnistep.atair.cc

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Feb 8

it will be in the next update! but i am a bit busy with work and other things.. and have to clean up a lot of code still - hope its out end of the month

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Jan 17

Experimenting with hybrid rendering techniques - getting closer to a consistent workflow. It's a mix of Blender Cycles and Stable Diffusion 1.5

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Dec 24

Another small showcase for modules (coming in v1.2)
This time Third Person in walk mode + Zoom + AutoFocus

The add-on parses the module folder on load, so everyone can add more modules..

OmniStep - Now on BlenderMarket / Gumroad!
#b3d #blender #omnistep

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Dec 23

Update 1.2 will introduce Modules!
Here the 'Third Person' module in action.

Modules are itegrated into the add-on but are file-based - so they can be changed / updated on the fly.

OmniStep - Now on BlenderMarket / Gumroad!
#b3d #blender #omnistep

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Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Dec 16

thanks - i get the same results.. so strange. turned everything off - adaptive, light tree etc. all light path depths set to 1

I always was under the impression that this stuff scales pretty much linearly - now the question remains if this is a cycles problem or i got this wrong for so many years

Damjan Minovski @damjanminovski.bsky.social · Dec 14

usually this should be near-linear, bandwidth / data transfer being the only bottleneck..

So - all this skew comes only from adaptive sampling?

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