How to make Depth Maps Seamless and Tilable with TrueDepth addon for Blender 5.x! — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hello my creator friend. And now I'm
2. 0:02going to show you another cool feature
3. 0:03of True Depth add-on which was updated
4. 0:06recently to version 3, which is
5. 0:08absolutely fantastic by the way and I
6. 0:10highly recommend you guys checking it
7. 0:11out. Uh so, this feature is this make
8. 0:14seamless feature. So, let me briefly
9. 0:17show you what it does. So, what you
10. 0:19basically see here it's uh not a one
11. 0:21piece actually that was converted into a
12. 0:23mesh into 3D geometry or 3D relief. It's
13. 0:26actually a series of
14. 0:29uh meshes that was done uh
15. 0:32with this uh add-on.
16. 0:34Uh you can check this. You see, these
17. 0:37are actually six
18. 0:39different meshes.
19. 0:41Uh the the problem is that if you will
20. 0:42generate it right off the box and try
21. 0:44to, you know, place it side by side, it
22. 0:47will not work. So, you will see the the
23. 0:49seam which, you know, comes from various
24. 0:52reasons. We will not go too deep into
25. 0:53that, but it will it will be uh with the
26. 0:56seams.
27. 0:57And let me quickly show you
28. 0:59uh what you can do or how this feature
29. 1:01actually is working uh this make
30. 1:03seamless feature, uh which will help you
31. 1:05create your pieces to be seamless so so
32. 1:08that you can position them side by side
33. 1:10and create like really big big walls of,
34. 1:13you know, this kind of tiled uh textures
35. 1:16or actually uh tiled meshes, right?
36. 1:19So,
37. 1:20let me start a new new file here like
38. 1:23this.
39. 1:25Side panel True Depth. I'm in GPU mode.
40. 1:27I'm in large mode which gives the most
41. 1:30precise uh results. And here I'm uh
42. 1:34clicking on open. I have this neat
43. 1:36folder with various images here. And
44. 1:39this is my uh
45. 1:40a tileable or seamless texture. I mean,
46. 1:43I know that it's tileable. So, if I will
47. 1:46check it here,
48. 1:47let me actually show it to you really
49. 1:49quick. So, this is the texture and if I
50. 1:52will
51. 1:54position it like this, you see that it's
52. 1:56absolutely uh tileable.
53. 1:59You see, both in vertical and horizontal
54. 2:01direction. So, I'm not I'm sure that
55. 2:03it's tileable.
56. 2:05So, now I will
57. 2:08Oh, by mistake I loaded here into the
58. 2:11depth slot.
59. 2:13Don't do that.
60. 2:14You have to open the original image here
61. 2:18in this
62. 2:19in this portion of the in this tab.
63. 2:21Select image for depth generation. So,
64. 2:24here, here, and go here, and then I will
65. 2:27quickly generate a depth map.
66. 2:29And here you go. And I can just quickly
67. 2:32create a mesh, and boom, you have it.
68. 2:34Cool.
69. 2:35Now I will quickly address this
70. 2:37slopiness because in my in my case I
71. 2:40want to make keep it straight, so it's
72. 2:42tileable even in vertical direction. So,
73. 2:44that's why you have this beautiful
74. 2:46feature here uh
75. 2:48tilt correction.
76. 2:51Like this.
77. 2:53So, I will
78. 2:54uh up it to one.
79. 2:56So, I will update the generate I will
80. 2:58update the depth map. So, now it's much
81. 3:02more straight.
82. 3:03And then I will up the resolution of it.
83. 3:06Nice. And then I will decrease the
84. 3:09extrusion a little bit a little bit like
85. 3:10this.
86. 3:12Fantastic.
87. 3:13And now check this out. If I will just
88. 3:17right out of the box, if I will try to
89. 3:20place it side by side like this.
90. 3:25And don't mind the the the the speed of
91. 3:28of interaction while I I was dragging it
92. 3:30like when I was dragging the copy
93. 3:33because now it has really a lot
94. 3:35modifiers, right?
95. 3:38So, to in order to optimize you can
96. 3:40always uh
97. 3:42just, you know, convert it to mesh.
98. 3:45So, let me enable the word.
99. 3:50I will snap it roughly here.
100. 3:53Nice.
101. 3:54So, you see we have a seam here. It's
102. 3:57very very visible and it's not nice at
103. 3:59all. So, that's exactly where this
104. 4:02feature is shining. So, select uh the
105. 4:04original mesh
106. 4:06and then let's go to uh this portion of
107. 4:09uh
108. 4:10UI and let's click make seamless. And it
109. 4:13will think for a while and boom, now we
110. 4:15have
111. 4:16perfect um seamless meshes. How cool is
112. 4:20that?
113. 4:22All right?
114. 4:23And now you're free to convert it to
115. 4:25mesh
116. 4:27like this.
117. 4:30And you can even
118. 4:33Let's place it here.
119. 4:37Like that.
120. 4:39So, roughly
121. 4:41so that you get the point.
122. 4:43All right. So, as you can see, thanks to
123. 4:44this neat little feature,
124. 4:46um you will be able to extend your
125. 4:48meshes making them uh seamless and
126. 4:51easily tileable between each other. And
127. 4:53I was really happy developer added this
128. 4:55feature as making depth maps seamless is
129. 4:58a very handy feature uh on its own.
130. 5:00So, if for any reason you haven't heard
131. 5:02of True Depth add-on and its absolutely
132. 5:05fantastic powerfuls, do check my earlier
133. 5:08video where I review [music] its latest
134. 5:10V3 update and you will be good to go
135. 5:12creating stunning things in a couple of
136. 5:14clicks. See you there.