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Forgiveness for my pedantry, but pretty sure a greeble (or greeblie) is the individual plastic details that they would glue on to create the texture, not the texture itself.
You wouldn’t say a texture is “greeble”.
Edit - and if you’re talking 3d modeling, greebling is done during sculpting, it’s not a texturing step.
Blender modeler here. We often do grebble in geometry nodes. Not sculpting
You could also theoretically do it in the texturing step with a displacement modifier using the new(er) dynamic scaling.
Oh yeah. Forgot it was stabilised
I get where you’re coming from but texture in layman term is (microscopic) characteristic of the surface. You wouldn’t appreciate crisp 16bit RGBA pixels in your mouth when you bite an apple.
Back in the days where they used miniatures to do spaceships sometimes the vfx dept. would take model kits and glue the entire plastic sheet, sprues and all, to the miniature. You know, like this.
The definitive greebled cube.
Huh. I thought it was the invisible things that only cats can see that makes them kinda crazy.
it is. this is just word theft. ;p
The term “greeblies” was coined by George Lucas in the 1970s to describe details on model ships used in the production of Star Wars
;-P
well George stole it from cats. I don’t have proof but it’s what cats would want.
That’s… that’s 100% believable. After all, he stole Chewbacca from Russian (собака)
As we say when we’re camping with no signal, I don’t have the Internet, so it must be true
And here I was calling it the Borg
So in the future, have they also solved the problem of “dust”? Those poor cleaners…
i like the star trek borg cube texture instead personally
It’s like a kind of reverse greeble.
As far as I know it’s also considered greeble, the term was just coined later
Is there a special name for electronic doodads in sci-fi? Like the control panels in the Millennium Falcon or Luthen’s radio switchboard in Andor. Shoot, Mother’s room in Alien is another example. It’s like the electronic version of greebles on a starship model. Do they have a special name as well?
That whole aesthetic is cassette futurism, as distinct from the glass touchscreens of Star Trek TNG.
Oh yeah! I forgot that was a thing. Tx ^^
You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
Anyone want to see the greebles on my dick? There are four distinct types!
There was even a pretty cool plugin for Cinema4D with that same name IIRC.
This is nurnies erasure.
