v2.1.7

Changes

• Support for opening pre-rendered Blender scenes, and syncing them to music
  • This allows you to connect with several instances of osci-render and Blender at once
  • It also massively improves performance when using Blender this way
  • This comes as a new file type, .gpla, which stands for Grease Pencil Line Art
  • Blender scenes can be animated within osci-render, and synced to the BPM of your DAW
  • Thanks so much to @DJLevel3 for making this feature, and for writing the tutorial below!

Using the new Blender features

• Install the latest Blender plugin below
• Create an animation in Blender

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• Add a Scene Line Art object, or Collection Line Art object if using collections

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• Change the following settings from default
  • Edge Types
    • Intersections: Enable
  • Geometry Processing
    • Overlapping Edges as Contour: Enable
    • Crease on Smooth: Enable
  • Composition
    • Overscan: Set to 0
    • Image Boundary Trimming: Enable

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• Bake the line art. If keyframes appear on the timeline, great! If not, clear the baked line art and bake again.
• When seen from the side, the line art is only visible on some edges, which are the edges that are visible to the camera.

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• This becomes clear when viewed from the camera’s perspective.

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• In the osci-render Blender plugin, click “Save line art to file” and name the file to which the line art will be saved. Note: The plugin automatically adds the extension .gpla if there is no extension or if the extension is not .gpla.

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• In a DAW (in this tutorial, Ableton was used), open the osci-render VST3 plugin and (optionally) enable MIDI. If using MIDI, it is recommended (but not required) to set the number of voices to 1 and increase the sustain level to 1.000.

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• Using the “Choose File(s)” button in osci-render, open the .gpla file exported from Blender. This will open the Line Art Settings panel and begin rendering the line art from the file.

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• To synchronize the animation with the BPM of the song, tick the “BPM Sync” box and set the framerate in frames per beat. For animations that have a length of a power of 2, setting the rate to a lower power of 2 makes the animation loop exactly at the beginning of a bar. In this example, where the animation is 32 frames and the rate is 8 frames per beat, the animation loops every 4 beats or 1 bar at 4/4.

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