Perhaps this video needs a simpler tutorial because there are no definitions of what a driver is

Hey guys,

right now I'm polishing a sculpt and I'm having trouble with my blender 2.9 performance. I've already put so many vertices in with dyntopo that blender runs very slow. Has anybody a tip on how to get things running smooth again?

I thought about starting the retopology on those areas I've already polished and delete those parts afterwards to get rid of those many vertices. Is that a good approach?

Regards,
tobles

Thanks for the great introduction. Unfortunately, symmetrize didnt work when I tried to mirror the bone with it.  Symmetrize simply did nothing. So the whole construct kinda collapses and only partially works.

the materials and stuff where do you get them

I'm doing something wrong here, and I'm not sure what. I'm in Blender 2.9, and I'm using a different feather texture than the one in the video. I've checked "from intancer" (thank you Duerer!) on the texture coordinate, and plugged my body color texture into the color slot of Principle BSDF. But what happens is that instead of the instance feathers taking on the colors of the mesh underneath, all the feather instances take on the color of the feather object's location in the UV map. I'm attaching a pic of my node set up. Any thoughts?

I've finally decided to take 3D seriously.

My goals are to take things to a professional level this year.

I won't be keeping absolutely every image here, I'll probably change them over time but I want to give people a general idea of progress over time.

Currently Working on:

I've got about 30 courses going at the moment... but I'll try to focus on one at a time in this here polybook.

Sculpting in Blender for Beginners.

It's actually a yansculpts tutorial. But When I'm done studying it, I've got to go and get my modelling skills under control with the mini-tank and treasure chest tutorials.

going to go through this 10 times and see how I improve over time.

Mini Tanks

unwrapping the treads.

Not the solution to my problem as it still fails: 

* - For others doing the course and having the same Blender 2.92.+ problems as me, you can get the Long Term Support LTS version of Blender 2.83.12 here: https://www.blender.org/download/Blender2.83/blender-2.83.12-windows64.zip

Note that there is may be bug fix incremental releases to the LTS Blender 2.83.+ release. 

Look here: Long-term Support — blender.org 

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So then I will try Blender 2.79b Standalone then located at Index of /release/Blender2.79/  

Blender 2.79 works; am I suppose to have some addon enabled in the later versions perhaps?

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The Rig UI is not being shown. Why is this happening? I have Blender 2.92.0. I clicked on "Allow Execution of Scripts". 

Is it because the Windows 10 path is too long? I did have to shorten "exercise" in the file name to "ex" already/

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Read blend: //CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\char\VonnBots_2.80.blend

scripts disabled for "//CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\char\VonnBots_2.80.blend", skipping 'animation_vonnbot_280.py'

Read blend: //CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\char\VonnBots_2.80.blend

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Another example

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Read blend: //CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\2.80_ex_10_antenna-overlap-START.blend

Info: Read library:  '//CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\char\VonnBots_2.80.blend', '//char/VonnBots_2.80.blend', parent '<direct>'

Error, region type 5 missing in - name:"Action", id:12

scripts disabled for "//CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\2.80_ex_10_antenna-overlap-START.blend", skipping 'animation_vonnbot_280.py'

Read blend: //CG Cookie\Blender\Animation\Animation in Blender\02) Animation Essentials with Wayne Dixon\b) Blender Animation Bootcamp\source-files\chapter05_VonnBots_2.80\ex_10_antenna-overlap_source-files\2.80_ex_10_antenna-overlap-START.blend

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In the mean time I will retry in the root file system of the system disk.

OK, so I tried that to no avail. Also I've found if I have the 'system console' shown on the screen, load the animation_vonnbots_280.py and click the 'run' play arrow in the text window Blender stops responding.

I guess I need to report a bug to Blender Foundation? Or is there a '2.8.+ blend file to 2.9.+ blend file' upgrade process I should be doing to be trying these VonnBot resource animation lessons?

So that done, I will download, install & try again with a separate Blender 2.8.+ install.

Thanks.