# Blender4FTC

## What is Blender4FTC?

Blender4FTC is a Blender addon and material library designed to make CAD rendering simple and easy, while being fully customizable for advanced users.

## FTC Rendering Community Discord

We now have a community discord for rendering help and discussion!\
<https://discord.gg/qdRpznexYK>

## Blender4FTC Features:

**Material Library**\
Blender4FTC has a 43 material/shader library containing common materials used for FTC and CAD.\
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**Materials in default library include:** goBILDA Yellow Jacket, Wood Floor, Void Background, Field Tile, Smoked Polycarb/Acrylic Glass, Ring, Red Hard Plastic, Polycarb/Acrylic Glass, Plywood, Mirror, MecanumRollers Yellow, MecanumRollers Grey, Light Carbon Fiber(CYCLES), HDPE/Hard Plastic, goBILDA Servo, Glass, Delrin, Dark Standard Metal, Dark Rubber, Dark Plywood, goBILDA Dark Jacket, Dark Carbon Fiber(CYCLES), Dark Alluminum, Carbon Fiber(EEVEE), Brushed Steel, Black-Oxide Coating, Alluminum, Standard Metal, 3DPrinted Template, 3DPrinted Red, 3DPrinted Orange, 3DPrinted Green, 3DPrinted Blue, 3DPrinted Black\
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**Material Customization**\
Ontop of a 40 material library, the majority of the materials are fully customizable, whether it be through Blender's node shading interface or the custom Material Workshop

<div align="center"><img src="https://199189802-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQKXLlmjCpsWxEPDwvv%2F-MQN1PUPEpMNGhYH6dze%2F-MQN5nDEF2yhW6wLOGYC%2Fimage.png?alt=media&#x26;token=02280f0c-d61a-4c6b-8e0b-5d85d3f8c040" alt="Material Workshop"></div>

**Scene Management**\
Blender4FTC can auto-configure render settings based on a color theme and computer performance. The Scene Management panel in the addon allows you to adjust compositing(post processing) effects, render settings, and position of camera with ease of access.

![Scene Management Panel](https://199189802-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQKXLlmjCpsWxEPDwvv%2F-MQN1PUPEpMNGhYH6dze%2F-MQN6N49Eru7wrGQ_W_S%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=29f95e8d-ecdb-4995-b7a1-c122d2593417)

**Scene Presets**\
Blender4FTC includes 2 default scene "presets" to assist with scene management.\
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**Field Preset:**\
Blender4FTC includes a pre-made field scene embedded inside of the addon with the material library.

![Field Scene](https://199189802-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQKXLlmjCpsWxEPDwvv%2F-MQN8-Xhq9TDNVYemO87%2F-MQN9dOCwANeGBN4RENZ%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=160df645-5081-4e2f-a385-9093f32bc009)

**Void Panel/VPanel**\
VPanel is an easily configurable plain color background

![VPanel Settings](https://199189802-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-MQKXLlmjCpsWxEPDwvv%2F-MQN1PUPEpMNGhYH6dze%2F-MQN7pBqfT-IeU7n8gcf%2Fimage.png?alt=media\&token=e71395e2-aa82-44a3-8820-1d521b0afc48)


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