in this video i want to show you how to use vr and blender to plan out a workspace what's up
i'm jonathan and welcome to maker tales this video is sponsored by thangs this video is all
about sharing my current blender vr workflow it's still heavily under development what we're
going to be using in this video is blender xr by marui plugin as well as using something called
ovr toolkit so that i can have a screen of blender inside of blender right so i'm going
to do my absolute best to explain what the madness is that's going on here before we jump into this
as you can see in the background over there that's very much blender xr the actual application now
i'm going to bring up another screen right here and this here this is my actual view in here
and using ovr tools i can get a screen inside of blender so now i am inside of blender with
blender open up on a screen now this is incredible because this gives me the chance to basically
interact with the vr environment with me in it just to give you an example i have a
roof right this minute i can just press h and the roof is gone i can go to this back wall
press h the back wall's gone i can go and see that table there on my right i can select it
and press g shift z and i can just move it around to wherever it is that i want now you can do this
in a myriad of ways right this minute i have it set that i am in the environment itself
you could actually set this up so that what you're modeling is just off out to the distance
so you're modeling on the screen you're just looking to the right to check out how it looks
it is an incredible modeling experience and in fact i love using blender like this for
things that you really shouldn't use it for so for instance 3d print design i love to
design something up and it's literally coming to life right in front of me it is amazing so
with this quick overview of what exactly is going on i hope that explains the madness
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is the view that i see down here is just basically sort of the same as the view that i see except
this is the screen that i have up in my 3d space so that's sort of my my blender work interface
and then down there on the angle that is sort of just like an overall rendered view live of
this space now there are so many different ways of working within virtual reality and doing this
i find that for my own needs the best one is this having a keyboard and mouse right here
so that i can just go and interact directly with everything yes it's a little bit weird sometimes
but it's all there so first let's get all of this stuff into the workshop so i can see it
it's just out over there for me but i'm gonna just literally just let's grab
what for me this here would be the new resin printer all of these little bits and bobs actually
yeah now let's just bring this all in because then i would know sort of the space allocation
that's needed for what i'm wanting to do here so let's bring that over to here
and i can just turn around and straight away just see and inspect this a little bit
if i want to have my hands in the space because i'm using blender xr they do have some nice little
hand in spaces i could even actually interact with things but i find that blender xr isn't exactly
what would i say the most intuitive way of working with it look if i go for moving
and i select this printer there we go it's moving about but i want to only be let's say only on
the x y it's not going to be only x y up there so i have to undo that and then i can go back
and move this around so here we go i can move this wherever i want i'll leave that there for now i'm
not going to bother because there's no need to and right i think that goes pretty well i like
taking a look around in the space and i have a feeling that i like where that table is
and maybe i have some shelving units outside here that i'll bring in so let's just bring those in
just so we get an idea of what we have as well so i'll bring those in so i'm just going to go
over here let's bring this one in here so i'll go g and then just take a look it's it's surreal to
bring things in to virtual reality while you're in it it's it's pretty crazy um i have the air
compressor that i definitely need to bring in i think if i bring this in under that table there
that looks all right to me but it might need a little tweaking later on down the line um you know
what let's do a big tweak now i think what i'm wanting to do is move this table so let's do that
so i'm gonna move this over here i think i'm going to rotate it let's go for a 180 degree rotation
and well it's just moved over there on my left hand side which is pretty good i'll snap that
into place and look there's actually a nice little gap here i did not expect that so i'm gonna grab
those shelves they look like they might fit there so let's bring that in rotate it
some 90 odd degrees and that is gonna fit you know what i'm actually going to use
blender xr for this part just because i want to so i'm going to move you in to there let's just
check that that's not going to okay i've got moved it a little bit too far you know what let's go
back to blender this is why like it's nice to just be able to move things but at the same time it's
quite nice to get an accurate positioning as well so g move this i want to move it right to about
there that's where i want it all right so now with that there let's start moving
those things i think i'm going to move it with this for now
i'm going to get my new printer let's put you over here the wash and cure station let's put you here
the air purifier you know what i think over in that corner would go quite well yeah
that goes nicely and this here is going to be my ultrasonic cleaner i quite like the idea
of putting it down in this nook so let's use
a bit of blender snapping to put that in a better spot so let's go gz snap it
to there let's also put this in a little bit of a better position than i just put it in
so
a little bit like that okay that's looking nice now obviously this table isn't in the right
place so let's move that to the right position let's go move it over to there and i quite like
where that is it doesn't take up too much space here in vr it doesn't look that like overwhelming
so let's actually bring that pretty much to where i am right this minute so let's rotate that
90 degrees let's take a good look at where this is going i'm gonna plop that right about there
take a good top view of this and just bring it out a touch that's looking good to me
there indeed now my cr-10 printer this is a little bit big and it's taking up an entire workbench so
i'm actually going to bring in some new geo i'm going to basically copy the the table top that
i have here and bring it down so let's go into edit mode select this up duplicate it part it out
with the selection grab that and whack it down here is that right that is perfectly on point
yep that is where i want it and you guessed it i'm gonna put this down here will that fit
it will it'll fit quite nicely actually awesome okay that's cool um yeah let's let's just
move this a little bit on the x just so it's closer that way i'm happy with that
and now shelving wise i've got two two shelves that i can put in here one are these big
metal stacking shelves and this other one is a big wooden beast here now i don't know
do i want that wooden one there just feels like i'm missing out a lot of height
shelf-wise here so what i'm going to do is let's bring in the metal ones let's
just space them out and see how many i can get in maybe i can get them all in i don't know um
so let's see let's see let's see so i'll just bring that around over to here and these are
pretty big these are 45 centimeters by one meter so they're pretty decent size let's take a look
from up above as well so that we make sure that we're not getting ourselves in too much
of a pickle there's a little bit of a gap here on the side which i guess i could put some type of
long material in there so let's grab all of these let's go gz 300
and reselect those i could have just deselect one oh well said 300 um
you know what i think we're gonna fit them all in and that's pretty cool because that means we get a
whole bunch more shelving in here which is just what i'm wanting
yes i see oh that's nice that's nice that's nice i'm happy with that that is looking
really nice indeed so ah but why is that all moved out of place let me just move that printer back
to where it should be
and let's also get so these these things here are representational of some silicon mats that
i've bought and i want to look at the colors now a little bit so i've got two black ones
one of them is a really thin black one that i want to have on this workbench i think another
gray one here
maybe i want
how do i want to do this how do i want to do this maybe
what i'll do is i'll set this i want to set this as like the printer's silicon one
and then i have one four like supplies on that side another one
for the resony bit here and then i just have one over here for whatever other projects i'm doing
does that that work i don't know let me just let's see how's that looking yeah
that is looking good it does it does seem pretty natural let's take a look from here
let's just move this to a position a little closer to the edge somewhere there move you g said
you know what we should probably do some snapping here so let's go
on the y snap to that point here please and then you
snap as well to that point there and then you guys snap together and
you snap to that point there that's looking nice actually
and it's looking really nice i think i want to
move the printer though just a little bit more in this direction let's see
oops i've got the wrong thing selected undo that i want to select the printer please yep
yeah then there i can keep my supplies this can be the map that i clean constantly there
is my ultrasonic cleaner let's just put that in a little bit more of a central
position that we have set here just so that it looks nicer in general
yeah it also means that if this ever spills it's not going to be on anything nasty and we're going
to need that space that's it you know what i'm i'm pretty happy with how this is going so let's bring
back the walls oh so you might not be able to see that on my screen of course but here now this
space is shut i am happy with this plan oh the compressor i want to move that so this
is something that's really good about checking this space and planning a space like this you
can really be in the space and decide if you want that or not so i can actually move that
closer over here i can still push it back a bit so let's do that g x note on the y and pull that back
to there and then that's nice and cozy up there because i can then use that with the resin just go
straight from here dunk it into there i'm gonna have to find a mat or cover that area up there
but yeah i think we have this planned out as you can see there's the screen that i've been using
and let's see how this turns out in reality i guess that there that that's that's how i
went ahead and planned my new clean space and there you have it that's my in development vr
blender workflow i love it i find it incredibly enjoyable to actually do blender vr inside of
blender it really is a surreal experience and if you ever get the chance to do it i strongly would
suggest you do it now currently i can't seem to get it to work on my quest two but i have been
able to get it work on my htc vive a huge thank you to my patrons you guys are absolutely awesome
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