Install Emboss Plane from the fileįinally we need to activate the plugin in the same way as the previous step. Once selected, click the Install Add-on from File.
button at the bottom of the window and navigate to the emboss_plane.py file you downloaded from our GitHub page. Next we will install the Tactile Universe’s custom plugin for making models: Emboss Plane. Step 2.4: Install and activate Emboss Plane plugin Active the Import Images as Planes plugin Use the search box in the upper left of the window to find the plugin and then activate it by clicking the checkbox next to it. This plug in will allow us to import an image as a texture applied to a plane, the starting point for creating a 3D galaxy. Next we will had over to the Add-ons tab to activate the `Import Images as Planes` plugin. Step 2.3: Activate Import Images as Planes plugin If you are using a Mac trackpad instead of a mouse check the box next to Natural Trackpad Direction to activate proper detection of multi-touch events used to navigate around scene (NOTE: this option will not show up for Windows). If your keyboard does not have a numberpad check the box next to Emulate Numberpad, this will treat the regular number keys on your keyboard as if they were coming from a numberpad. You will likely only have to change these settings if you are using a laptop with a trackpad, or a keyboard that does not have a numberpad. To increase it go to the Interface tab and under Display increase the Scale to the value that works for you. I find that the on my laptop the default font size is quite small. These can be found by going to File > User Preferences: File > User Preferences Step 2.1: Increase the font size Now that we have Blender working we need to adjust some of the user preferences. When you open blender you should see the following default scene: The default scene for Blender Step 2: Changing the User Preferences New features have also been added since these posts were made, updated version will be available soon. The README.md file contains a description of each file.ĮDIT (Feb 24, 2020): For Blender 2.80 or higher make sure to use v4.0 or higher of the plugin. This download will be a zip folder containing the various scripts and plug-ins needed to make models.
To begin, download and install the latest version of Blender from (currently v2.79b), and download the latest version of the Tactile Universe’s software from our GitHub page (currently v3.4).
For the most part I will not be covering how to navigate/use the user interface, to learn about that check out some great tutorials from Blender Guru and CG Cookie. In this post we will be going over how to set up Blender for the use of our software. Here is an overview of Font Selector v2.All of the modeling software written for the Tactile Universe makes used of Blender, an open source 3D modeling and rendering program. This version is only compatible with Blender 2.8x. It allows you to dynamically visualize available fonts applied to a text object without the painful process of importing a font through filebrowser. Hey Blender Heads ! The Version 2 of Font Selector is out and stable !įont Selector is a simple addon to add font functionality to blender.