Blender 4.2 Beta Is Here with New Features!

[@melancholy652]

bloom in 4.2 can be obtained in compositing. There is a separate Glare node there. You add it and switch glare type to bloom. Works in real time

[@FireJojoBoy]

Oh hey does that mean it also works in cycles now?

[@krupajac9936]

@@FireJojoBoy yes

[@melancholy652]

@@FireJojoBoy shue!

[@yochintohere]

Focus Distance is the one I wanted for very long. Perfect for compositing !!

[@quarryspanish]

the DOF without going into render mode is a lovely touch

[@krupajac9936]

this was always there

[@apatsa_basiteni]

Khronos PBR, EEVEE Next, Ray Portal BSDF, amazing features

[@KonkaBass]

Changing add-ons to this new extensions UI format at first glance looks like a pain in the butt. BUT, I can really see the usefulness of it in that now you can have these third-party project push updates to blender automatically which is really cool plus with the new extension page it kind of centralizes everything a bit more and brings the community of add-on devs together in a more central place. V cool I think. And while there's probably going to be a little bit of a bump/hurdle in getting existing add-ons integrated into the new system, in the long run I think it's a benefit.

[@MrSofazocker]

6:14 I really do hope they first of all fixed purging of dependencies without requiring you to press it 3-4-5 times, And also I really hope they did NOT get rid of those. But this is the current theme... remove "unnecessary things" to make the "UI cleaner"... but then you still have them and if you need them search with F3.... What? Changing an action that was already cumbersome, from click, "hold your mouse of this specific thing or it vanishes" then a second click. To, Click, hover, click, click click, aand click. So 2 for 5, thanks. It probably "remembers" your last inputs to, requiring you to check and uncheck whatever you wanted again and again.

[@IridiumZero]

What are you babbling on about lol

[@paindavoine_design]

You can already pick the focus point in 4.1 (and older versions as well), but it's only by doing a right click in the 3D viewport (which is still more practical), but this new button in the menu is nice to have too !

[@weeliano]

They should include a dedicated EEVEE shadow catcher, or at least a standard shader for it. Great breakdown as usual!

[@emilie1977]

open source, i love it

[@322ss]

You mean FOSS.

[@emilie1977]

​@@322ss yes, thanks for the correction

[@Silvie3D]

@@322ss what does FOSS mean

[@SW-fh7he]

​@@Silvie3DFree and Open-Source Software

[@Silvie3D]

@@SW-fh7he ah ok thanks

[@dirtcreature3d]

the materialX export option is HUGEEE ive been asking for this forever. SO HYPED. Blender is now the defacto companion software for Houdini imo

[@hereb4theend]

The bloom is now in the compositor.

[@eobet]

The UX of that is way worse compared to before. I get why they did it, but it just takes longer to do things now.

[@sabatheus]

They need to fix that EEVEE bloom. I use that all the time...and I know I'm not the only one!

[@MalmqvistM]

It’s more of a post effect so it’s better to do in the compositor

[@DiThi]

It's already available in the compositor, glare node (switch the type to bloom)

[@basspig]

Looks like there's going to be some issues with backward compatibility with some pre-existing project files from what I can see here.

[@gabrielmoro3d]

This drag and drop installing mode is beautiful.

[@AAvfx]

This is the best short I've seen today 😁

[@mahmoudm.s.dwaikat1482]

lol The development rate is faster than the learning curve of most people, this is confusing

[@iHeartAMP]

That's life in a nutshell 😢

[@kickskii]

I will be staying at 4.0 cause can't live without classic auto smooth I love collapsing the modifier stack using hardops I hope someone makes something like modifier pinning that makes the modifier not apply without being unpinned and have a specific priority on the list

[@TenseiCho]

Extensions is going to be a fricking game changer. Reminds me a lot of why I love VSCode.

[@eobet]

The easy way Eevee handled bloom was a big reason why I used it over Cycles quite often… sigh.

[@ashes9928]

in Cycles , material - emission - strength , and you can change the color how is eevee better ? also in Cycles the bloom will have an actual light and will have an effect on other objects unlike eevee

[@mucho_mu]

@@ashes9928 Eevee next now has lights from emission shaders.

[@REDLINEROADS]

the bloom effect is part of the glare node in the compositor

[@jakejake6029]

Thank you for taking time packing all of the these updates from this latest blender info, really insightful, keep it up

[@MikeHunt-pu5cm]

As far as I know you can make your own Themes in all the Blender versions I've used.

[@cg.man_aka_kevin]

YEY, EEVEE NEXT IS COMING!!!

[@jonduke4748]

Blender progressing very rapidly compared to 3ds max and maya. Modo does good updates, but they have yet to fix the ui for higher dpi, it's 2024...

[@Zeffyras]

Thanks for the video! I love Blender, just the lack of polymodeling updates is disapointing to say the least...

[@Nieverton69]

Will I be able to export several objects, which are inside a single sekeleton rig, by pulling out the related sekeleton rig? 5:55

[@scarit.]

EEVEE 💅

[@MrSofazocker]

24:37 USD - Can they stop, please STOP saying Blender supports USD if not even half of the spec is implemented? Thank you.

[@italolinarez9978]

There is a separated blender that runs on usd available on nvidia omniverse

[@MrSofazocker]

9:50 Ey.. nice and we still going to use an empty bcs it stupid AF (speaking of, auto-focus? anyone?) and we still can't add an offset to "Focus on Object", and everything will always be blurred since the origin is at the centre of the object.

[@Justathereptile]

Can we still use previously bought add ons? like Auto Rig Pro? I want to be abke to still use the AddOns I have?

[@NoobHit]

Ah finally after a very long wait. Eevee Next is going to get Awesome 😍

[@telefrag.]

Am I seeing this correctly? Blender can finally export batches of individual meshes at once without 3rd party addons?

[@ottobanu]

Love all the work they're putting into this software.

[@Nacreous01]

Thin film is a nice addition, been waiting for it

[@vvvorlds]

2:20 Basically that's a cheap way not to be responsible for malicious addons. Instead of thinking about secure architecture.

[@Mr_Steve3D]

Hello, I am wondering how to get an Addon promoted on an askN

[@luanespedito1475]

Needs to learn blender again in each new release

[@1zymn1]

Always has been. I started learning in 2008, before nodes and when there was a game engine.

[@OJbfjrnsiJ-l1i]

Dude I am so excited!

[@pks001]

Why can't blender and armor paint merge together. We would like to see that to happen soon

[@Mamika_AFK]

Armor Paint is an independent project, but blender could improve the texturing aspect similar to Armor Paint

[@MrSofazocker]

@@Mamika_AFK Its a fork of blender tho

[@matejhoppan311]

what is the difference between blendermarket addons and extensions websites? it is separate things and they are trying to get developers on the official side?

[@MrSofazocker]

7:59 Pin to LAST? Who tf came up with that idea and to NOT add a "to TOP" button aswell? They already get added as the first item in the list, pushing everything down... Who tf needs this a button to "Pin to LAST"!? But EVERYONE wants their SubD as the TOP most modifier.

[@rehmanarshad1848]

I can't even argue with that logic. 🤣😆

[@gfxrxz]

New Update and we didn't get A BLUR NODE FOR SHADER EDITING

[@kickskii]

Just give me ability to have a non modifier based auto smooth that doesn't screw me over when modeling

[@luciox2919]

the auto smooth modifier is the worse update made by blender

[@darkknight4353]

Will the installed addons get imported in the new version or it will broke and we have to install all the addons again

[@ab3d_art]

and still no object opacity like in 3ds max...

[@adiiiiii1]

What do you mean ? Wireframe mode ?

[@ДНПСИгрыИСервисы]

X ray?

[@ComixProductions]

I do wish that were a thing for rigs and stuff but I do really appreciate everything we already have

[@Arjjacks]

Blender does have that. You need to go up to the viewport shading dropdown arrow, to the right of the render balls, set the colour to object. Then in the object properties tab (golden square), scroll down to and open up the Viewport Display menu. In the colour tab, you can lower the alpha to whatever you want for that object to set its opacity.

[@ab3d_art]

In 3ds max its very simple, right button and object properties, and you have object opacity slider from 0 to 1, AND YOU CAN ANIMATE IT ! AND ITS METHOD IS VERY SIMPLE AND USER FRIENDLY 😉

[@waltage]

Looks like trim work as hide

[@christianr.5868]

Glad to see arm64 is supported

[@Villager_U]

you can run normal x64 blender on arm soc but expect 10-15% perfomance loss

[@blented]

rotational snapping incrementssssssssss

[@SoulJAH74]

I don't understand why they can't add caustics to cycles

[@MrBrigadierArchived]

no time codes?

[@havocthehobbit]

blender is faster to unzip or install now without the addons and whatever other changes they made to make it fewer individual files or smaller size . It use to take me maybe a minute or 2 to unzip but it takes less then 15 seconds now . Also downloading is quicker . Very very cool if you update to latest alpha alot without doing your own nightly builds

[@jesuss196]

The addon change is something I really hate, I don't understand why they changed that

[@original_M_A_K]

weird: 4.2 alpha worked for me but 4.2 beta doesn't work for me... it starts then disappears... any thoughts???

[@Alumx]

either some addons or your default start scene is crashing it. try renaming the appdata blender folder (blender 4.2) and run blender again so it creates a fresh startup again, if it still crashes then you should look into reporting it as a bug (in case it wasn't fixed already on daily builds)

[@original_M_A_K]

@@Alumx Legendary... i'll give it a go, thanks mate

[@CaCriGuz]

Thanks :)

[@CrowleyBlack2]

17:34 Yeah, I'm sticking to the old version.

[@uripedialogy]

Blender emang keren. Anak muda indonesia harus pelajari dan pakai.

[@allennorth9746]

can you make video about new Khronos vs AGX ? thnaks

[@JJ-dt9lo]

I am still on 3.6.2 i would update when they get to 4.6.2

[@debokkavadebokkava796]

when it is coming , cant wait

[@original_M_A_K]

its out now :)

[@iceseic]

Nah, I'll stay at 4.0. A lot of addon broken past that version

[@btn237]

Worth reaching out to addon dev if your addon isn’t supported, 4.2 is LTS version so will receive fixes for a couple years.

[@SanOcelotl]

What addons are broken?

[@Those2menoverthere]

THE (more intuitive) UV SNAPPING. YES. 🎉 Finally…

[@AtoomikDzn]

The bloom is now a compositor effect in Eevee since real time compositor is done

[@ravanin]

I hate blender versioning "system" and their idiotic refusal to change it. Every time you release a major version that's gonna break a bunch of stuff, you should increase your version number acordingly as a warning to let people know things are going to break and tutorials are outdated. this should have been blender 5.

[@KeplarDesign]

This is so true!

[@bUildYT]

not the eevee bloom noooo

[@jaimemagpayo5241]

I am starting to like and wanted to try blender I just hope it’s not hard to learn : )

[@KayHilman_]

Yoo what I'm in an askNK video?!

[@stexiati1]

To me these are too big changes. Why are they changing the base of the software so often, it is hard to keep up with these huge changes

[@displaced_vertex]

I tried 4.3 Eevee, my 2 year-old file works there

[@LudaneRua]

FINALLY, GPU COMPOSITOR

[@DavidBoura]

Blender 4.3 already there 😅

[@StevenWhite-w6p]

So I guess Grease Pencil 3.0 is delayed again?

[@nikhil22bhardwaj]

What happened to Cycles X ??

[@saivarunsanapala8199]

that's what the current version of blender has. it started since 3.0

[@VFX-9]

amazing

[@zain9842]

Is it just me who's annoyed that they changed the name to extention instead of plugin..... addon was fine but if you had to change call it a plugin

[@sheini7800]

holy shit why do you have a nvidia A6000? that thing costs like 6000 dollars

[@Complecx]

LETS GO

[@slow-blow14]

when i try to view in evee blender shut's down

[@gcharb2d]

Thanks for the video, very instructive, but I'll stick with Houdini! 😉

[@2011manbeast]

Changing the way you install addons is just dumb. Why mess with something that was perfectly fine?

[@Dead_Last]

You can auto update addons now, and blender takes up less space. Also you can create directories for addons, to install all at once.

[@Silverstormer]

@@Dead_Last its a win win, less tedious manual updating of addons and less space taken by blender.

[@Puckerization]

Why bury the Install button in a sub menu?

[@ComixProductions]

To make it better

[@luckyblockfatality]

I felt this way about blender 2.8 and look what we got from it, id he patient

[@Hiyum.]

Please stop saying " simply" word repeatedly. It's annoying us to hear... And yah i respect you... For the info.

[@hasanhuseyindincer5334]

👌👌👍👍

[@leesetiawan9540]

dafuq is khronos, just give us ACES jeez

[@andycalauor3D]

waaaahhhh...the brushes!!! nooooo.

[@sidneywilson-nai4253]

STEP import

[@RockAnimations]

already exists via an addon (STEPper, sold by Ambi on Gumroad)

[@humberlick]

leave Blender "As is" not broken don't fix it. All these updates are a gimmick to get funding. I still support blender 100%without updated new features, leave it alone. Star funding opensource graphic window systems for Blender Lets create our own window system.

[@Arjjacks]

So stay in 2.79 or 2.4 or 1.6 or whatever, then. They'll forever stay "as is", so you won't have to worry about "gimmicky updates" anymore.

[@MelizzanoDaquila]

YeeeeeeaaaaaaAhh

[@waltage]

Toooooooo Many addons. Need better organizer for them

[@original_M_A_K]

try simple tabs

[@waltage]

@@original_M_A_K link pls

[@Alex-mc4fh]

They could call it the most boring release yet!

[@SW-fh7he]

Why

[@Sairawkerh]

BETA OR ALPHA IS BETTER

[@hoodboyslim]

Alpha...according to Andrew Tate

[@afromixstudios]

Alpha male vs beta male

[@AgustinCaniglia1992]

Beta

[@Mamika_AFK]

Lmao 🤣

[@Create-The-Imaginable]

"Beta" is only better in Software, but in real life "Alpha" is better!

[@29yakuba]

nothing special..........................................

[@SeregaZinin]

Cinema 4D And Houdini ;)

[@LoisMoon]

We need a new physics simulation system.... 🥲

[@TheNei]