blendate

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• Using custom dither patterns
  May 22, 2025 by osuika

  To use a custom dithering pattern, you need to make a image that goes from light in the top left corner to dark in the bottom right corner. For example: You can add this pattern in the dithering secti... Continue reading

  
• How to render cutscenes
  April 21, 2025 by osuika

  Rendering cutscenes This tutorial shows how to create a cutscene consisting of multiple frames as a playdate video (pdv) Let's use a bearded man for this tutorial. It looks like the provided blend fil... Continue reading

  
• How to render rotating animations
  April 14, 2025 by osuika

  Rendering rotations This tutorial shows how to create a series of spritesheets containing multiple frames of animation per rotation from your 3D object. This approach is useful to display rigged model... Continue reading

  
• How to render animations
  April 14, 2025 by osuika

  Rendering rotations This tutorial shows how to create a spritesheet containing multiple frames of an animation from your 3D object. This approach is useful to display animations using rigged armatures... Continue reading

  
• How to render rotations
  April 13, 2025 by osuika

  Rendering rotations This tutorial shows how to create a spritesheet containing multiple rotation angles of your 3D object, allowing you to display it from different viewpoints in your Playdate game. T... Continue reading

  
• How to render a single static image
  April 13, 2025 by osuika

  Rendering a Single Static Image This tutorial shows how to export a single image of your object using its current pose and the configured style settings, without rendering any rotations or animations,... Continue reading

  
• Overview
  April 13, 2025 by osuika

  Introduction Blendate allows you to take your 3D models directly within Blender and export them to a series of spritesheets using turntable rotations, animated sequences or a combination of both, comp... Continue reading

  
• Installation
  April 13, 2025 by osuika

  Requirements Blender: Version 4.0 or newer Playdate SDK: Version 2.6 or newer (may work on previous versions but untested) Step 1: Download Blendate Download the latest Blendate release. It contains:... Continue reading