11th May 2016

Introducing: Blender Cloud Texture Library add-on

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Wouldn't it be great if you could access some Blender Cloud content directly from within Blender? Now you can! In the following video, Sybren demonstrates how to use the new Blender Cloud Texture Library add-on!

How does it work

Download the Zip Bundle, then install and activate the Blender ID and Blender Cloud add-ons. The Blender Cloud add-on is still in testing, so make sure you enable the testing filter to see it in the list.

Blender Cloud Add-on

In order to browse the texture library, you need to log in via the Blender ID add-on. The Blender ID add-on allows you to connect your Blender with your Blender ID account. If you don't have an account, you can get one for free here.

Blender Id Add-on

That's it! If you have a Blender Cloud subscription, you can press Ctrl+Alt+Shift+A and you'll be able to browse the Blender Cloud Texture Library.

Blender Cloud Browsing

Coming soon: your own texture library

We hope that you will find the content of the Blender Cloud Texture Library useful! Of course we understand that it would be even better if you could upload your own private collection of textures. We are working on it right now.

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11th May 2016 - 12:57

It is online!!

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11th May 2016 - 13:16

@Sybren Stüvel: Yay, awesome! congrats on getting this up and running! :)

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Alexis Andersson

11th May 2016 - 13:53

you guys are on a spree! this will be really handy

Alexis Andersson

13th May 2016 - 13:16

Trying this out these last days and it works super smooth. While I was trying I also came up with some ideas/feature request.

While I am texture painting or sculpting i use texture brushes(under the texture tab) and it would be nice to be able to download specific brush texture directly there and maybe have some ready customized brushes with metadata that changes settings.

For example there is a spray brush, where the brush texture is dots and the stroke has jitter at 0.7

just an idea:)

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13th May 2016 - 16:08

@Alexis Andersson: That kind of direct links into the UI will happen when we hook up the Asset Engine work by Bastien.

Preset sharing of brushes etc. might also be nice, we'll keep it in mind!

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Luciano Muñoz

11th May 2016 - 15:32

amazing guys!!

Michael Carella

12th May 2016 - 16:03

This is really cool, thanks!

Luciano Muñoz

11th May 2016 - 15:42

Hey guys, great addon, I have a bug/question/featurerequest/ i don't know which one: but it's basically that when internet connection is not all that fast, the addon should give you a percentage bar in the header while letting you continue working because right now it freezes your blender and to me it has taken sometimes up to 20 - 30 seconds to download an image, also maybe a download queue could be nice, if i can pick a texture while that downloads i can pick an other one, and an other one and so forth.

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11th May 2016 - 19:15

@Luciano Muñoz: Hey Luciano! Those aren't bug reports, but just great ideas. We'll come back to this in the upcoming Blender Institute podcast too. In short: some of those features might be implemented in a further future, but I think downloading a texture in the background should be implementable quite quickly.

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Luciano Muñoz

12th May 2016 - 16:45

@Sybren Stüvel: yes i was just commenting about that, thank you very much man, really great solutions and feedback

Torben Kubel

12th May 2016 - 18:42

Hi Just wan't to say.....It work's Very Very Well....So clean browser design...I like the size in the Browser too..:) The auto get Bump map - if it is there is pretty Cool....Clap Clap The Speed and ease to use is great great.

Is it Asset Flinger in the Clouds.....?

Good work all...Cheers

Tai

David mcsween

13th May 2016 - 05:49

@Luciano Muñoz: thats a great idea. I wonder if they get to large, or the user is away from high bandwidth internet, you could use a scaled proxy version until it can be replaced?

Gerhard Hoeberth

15th May 2016 - 10:44

:-( I am loged in, but I got an error: First "Checking login credentials" stay long on screen. Then: "An error occurred: [Erno 13] Permission denied" :-( Whats wrong? (my firewall is down, thats not the problem)

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17th May 2016 - 10:07

@Gerhard Hoeberth: Hey Gerhard. That error seems to indicate a local error writing the credentials to your harddisk. Is it okay if I contact you via email to sort this out?

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Gerhard Hoeberth

26th May 2016 - 00:50

@Dr. Sybren: I have now tried as an administrator. But it did not help. Need my email address?

Luca Passoni

24th June 2016 - 10:33

This is really cool! Thanks, guys!

Séverin Lemaignan

29th May 2016 - 01:12

The addon fails on my system with th efollowing error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/skadge/.config/blender/2.76/scripts/addons/blender_cloud/gui.py", line 597, in draw_menu
    drawer(context)
  File "/home/skadge/.config/blender/2.76/scripts/addons/blender_cloud/gui.py", line 646, in _draw_browser
    item.draw(highlighted=item.hits(self.mouse_x, self.mouse_y))
  File "/home/skadge/.config/blender/2.76/scripts/addons/blender_cloud/gui.py", line 176, in draw
    bgl.glBindTexture(bgl.GL_TEXTURE_2D, texture.bindcode[0])
TypeError: 'int' object is not subscriptable

Any idea? (I'm testing it at home on my laptop which runs an Intel HD5500 on Linux...)

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29th May 2016 - 11:25

@Séverin Lemaignan: Which version of Blender are you using? Did you compile it yourself, obtained it from the build bot, or are you using an official release?

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Roelant Rijs

4th April 2018 - 22:37

I was looking forward to using this, but it's unusable for me right now. I can't read the text in the asset browser, it's too tiny. Dragged a window from my main (high dpi) monitor to the old one. Of course the entire interface looked oversized, except the sset browser. Weirdly, still too small (though slighty larger). I'm on Mint 17.3 + KDE right now, dumping it for new Ubuntu18 with whatever is standard there, soon. Hope that fixes it.

Francesco Siddi

5th April 2018 - 08:08

@roelant.rijs: Yes, unfortunately the current implementation does not support adjustable dpi like the rest of Blender's interface. This issue will be addressed during the development of the asset browsers in the upcoming Blender 2.8.

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7th April 2018 - 11:31

@roelant.rijs: Upgrade your add-on to version 1.8, it has support for interface scaling.

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Roelant Rijs

8th May 2018 - 09:12

@roelant.rijs: Thanks a lot guys, going to check it out as soon as I'm in front of my own screen.

Roelant Rijs

9th May 2018 - 08:59

@Sybren A. Stüvel: Turns out I was already using that version, so, no luck :( I'm eagerly awaiting Blender 2.8, and by the time you're in beta I'll do some tests to see if the problem's been fixed at my end.

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9th May 2018 - 22:13

@roelant.rijs: You can always edit the code of the Cloud add-on and increase the font size ;-)

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Roelant Rijs

10th May 2018 - 16:32

@Sybren A. Stüvel: I still need to get used to all this editabitliy :) Line 221: blf.size(font_id, self.text_size + 20, text_dpi) I just added the + 20 and it looks fine. Succes!

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11th May 2018 - 08:43

@roelant.rijs: Open Source rocks :)

Wouldn't it be better to just increase text_size with 20?

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Roelant Rijs

12th May 2018 - 11:04

@Sybren A. Stüvel: If you say so... you're the programmer. :P Didn't want to mess things up anywhere else, I was just glad this worked!

David Storey

17th March 2019 - 21:58

Hi guys. Any progress on updating the Blender Cloud ID addon to 2.8?

Pablo Vazquez

18th March 2019 - 10:38

@David Storey Hi David, we've been using the Blender Cloud add-on in 2.8 for months now! Just get the latest from the usual place https://cloud.blender.org/services

David Storey

19th March 2019 - 23:51

Can't get the Blender ID Authentication working with 2.8.

David Storey

19th March 2019 - 23:53

cloud link and sync in 2.79 but not 2.78link to the zip bundle isn't working. I can use

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20th March 2019 - 11:08

@David Storey Please use https://developer.blender.org/ for bug reports.

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john wolfe

24th July 2019 - 18:07

so we will be able to upload our own collections and download other users collections? thatd be great. I just signed up and it seems like there needs to be more options im just figuring it out but id def like to see a way to download more of them or something