Blender 4.2 is HERE and it's HUGE! What's New?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Hi everyone! Let me know what you think about the new version of Blender in the comments below! :)

[@Mickeymedia955]

Its cool please can you help me with a laptop to start learning blender please i cant afford one thank you ❤

[@Max_Cypher]

While there are many interesting upgrades; Bloom, Ambient occlusion, screen space reflections, and shadows, (things I use constantly) are all removed from render settings... The bloom in the compositor is inferior IMO... I have to work with it a while before I can judge better.

[@Arjjacks]

@@Max_Cypher Mmmmmmm, not really. AO and SSR are under Raytracing now. Literally the first dropdown is Method: Screen - Trace. You then set the resolution, max roughness, precision, and thickness, most of which is pretty similar to Eevee legacy. AO can be found under Fast GI Approximation Method, though you're best off largely sticking with global illumination. Again, most of the settings are still there, plus some new ones. Shadows are found under Sampling, except for the memory allocation, which is under Performance > Memory. Bloom has been moved into the compositor, yeah, which is where it always should have been, since it's a post-processing effect. Could certainly use some love, though, admittedly, which should come in 4.3, now that the GPU compositor as a whole has been moved out of experimental.

[@Max_Cypher]

@@Arjjacks Thanks for the detailed response 👍

[@jorgeabuauad]

new here, I try to sub divide a plane in the context menu and is not there any clue bro.

[@Ayyubzee]

I can't wait to learn blender fully so i can start making money and begin donating to the community

[@TheCGEssentials]

No time like the present!

[@innocentmmeto]

You don’t need to learn it fully, learning blender never stops, you’ll learn per project

[@DankBricks]

We donate by paying taxes

[@Ayyubzee]

@@innocentmmeto That's true. Let me get to work. Thanks

[@shiteetah]

Keep that attitude and you’ll have an extraordinary life, take it from an old geyser.

[@gcprost]

Thanks for doing this. I haven't used Blender for a few years and I was curious about how it has improved.

[@hazcotube]

Thanks for the summary

[@raosam]

Nice and clear, Justin. thanks

[@Lizardforce]

Awesome Thanks bro! Love your channel always helpful!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Happy to help!

[@nwor38lk]

Can you help me to find where is shadow catcher in blender 4.2 ?

[@LathangiSutha]

where is EXTRA CURVE ADD ON in the new version? - especially SPIRO FIT curve

[@LathangiSutha]

Where is EXTRA CURVE add on in the new version? - especially Spirofit curve

[@rotce07]

Justin, I am a contractor and make my projects in blender. I send my clients a video of the project and everything used to be sharp and clean looking. Can you make a video about the settings of the new Eevee. Basically I want it to look as close as possible like it did in 4.1. The 3d viewport is fuzzy. Things just don't look the same. If I disable raytracing it looks worse. Please help

[@ten-ub4xd]

legend

[@gaia35]

how is this displacement not the same as the old one? It still relies on dense geometry.

[@Interloper_32388]

I had submitted some ideas for an external app to blendermarket and they replied with great response and hinted at a tool to manage your downloads. I was suggesting something like AEscripts at the time but with the release of 4.2 here my guess is that they'll be offering it as a repository vs a software/plugin manager. Hoping to see something soon either way - I love blender market but keeping up to date or finding past downloads would be a great for an app for that ;p

[@TheCGEssentials]

I'd be interested to see what they come up with - I do like the integration of the extensions, but I wonder how that would work with paid add-ons

[@berer.]

My viewport in blender has been all messed up since 4.1. I'm still using 4.0.

[@k3factsbusiness970]

hi sir please help me I am facing problem in using GIS master add on in blender 4.1 is saying this python traceback (most recent call ) and Long paragraph con you please Fix it sir 🙏

[@_MaZTeR_]

This update completely broke refraction. No matter what you do, it appears blurry by default as if in previous updates, you would've combined two refraction shaders together with mix node and put the mix value at .5.

[@themilosgrozni237]

my EVEE already looks amazing ( yes ..with some light tweeking it's pretty nice ) . also my BUMPED textures look really sattisfying...therefore I DON'T NEED DISPLACEMENT ( more unnecessarry geometry ) in EVEE. but still i'm curious and excited about 4.2.....i'll jump into it just to take a look

[@TheCGEssentials]

I mean...no one's making you use it I guess

[@keenefx321]

Sweet!

[@TheCGEssentials]

Very!

[@13thnotehifireviews7]

The thing is they keep changing where all the icons and settings are such that when you follow a tutorial in 1-2 years time many things are in different places or do different things. It's difficult enough to use without this. I wish they would write the manuals in lay terms (not like I am a maths expert) and also blender based tutorials that you can pay for, or are obligated to pay for in using the software. It is painful to work out what does what sometimes, I'm agonising with fluid sims at the moment and I'm loosing the will. How the hell do forcefields actually work and applying tutorials to my project and rendering each bake which takes a minute or two after tweaking settings (not knowing what they do but guessing), is agonising. They need to charge people. I would happily pay £10 a month to use this software if it was improved for the end user.

[@dubtube6691]

How about a proper bend modifier

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - I could go for that

[@agussugiyono7906]

Where is loop tool addon, I can't find it

[@godwinyo5206]

click on the 'get extensions' button above 'add-ons' and type loop tools

[@TheCGEssentials]

I think I'll make a video on this next week as there are a lot of questions about "where is "x" add-on"

[@navisidhu5872]

Why ANT landscape addon not show in 4.2 ?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Don't know, I haven't looked. Did it get shifted to an extension or is it still an add-on?

[@navisidhu5872]

@@TheCGEssentials I searched in addon but nothing show

[@godwinyo5206]

@@navisidhu5872 it's on the 'get extensions' above the 'add ons' button search for ant landscape

[@vrstate]

just wanna say this mark Zuckerberg loolike is and keeps being my go to from cad to blender sketchup, anything in general you rock

[@TheCGEssentials]

Lol - glad I could help

[@2006jakebob]

All my sims only run half as fast than on 4.1

[@nikolas4749]

Hi Justin could you make a video on Ray Portal BSDF ?

[@TheCGEssentials]

Possibly - unfortunately my schedule is really limiting my content on this channel right now - 2024 has been a lot...

[@nikolas4749]

@@TheCGEssentials Thank you for your work

[@steeve4756]

I love your content but the intro... It jumpscares me 😭 Also, good luck in your channel.

[@Omnivoid22]

Lol I was gonna comment on his Intro. I think it's time he switches it up lol

[@TheCGEssentials]

Why mess with a winning formula? ;p

[@Omnivoid22]

@@TheCGEssentials add to it XD. So you have two winning formulas

[@steeve4756]

@@TheCGEssentials Yeah, this intro will probably be like a tradition for your channel for the rest of it😁Keep on inspiring with your channel, your contents really help me with my blender workflow, thanks🙏

[@KendisFX]

The intro may seem strange, but that's why it serves its purpose perfectly: you won't forget it and will always associate it with this channel. It's unusual and that's why it's brilliant.

[@letomaneteo]

Version 4.2 is still buggy for me. Blender stops working when switching to eevee. No program closure report. Updating the drivers didn't help. Wrote to technical support. In general, I noticed that there are many similar reports in tasks. There are also many other bugs associated with the new engine. Hope they fix it soon.

[@TheCGEssentials]

Like as in it crashed, or as in it took a long time to compile shaders and froze up?

[@letomaneteo]

@@TheCGEssentials just disappears without a closing report)) when you click on the materials mode and also when you click on the renderer button

[@letomaneteo]

many write about this problem after the release of 4.2, the same thing happens on many integrated video cards, on some video cards there are other problems - with the display of shaders, but this will be fixed) but people are worried whether blender will continue to work on integrated video cards or will become so demanding hardware that will become inaccessible to the average user

[@denzel_mob1523]

the fact that you still have to subd your mesh to get displacement in vanilla blender is just sad

[@alfacebrutal]

Didn't know that, is it the shader displacement or the modifier?

[@denzel_mob1523]

@@alfacebrutal both

[@MaxNewberg-r4l]

blender have more versions than a taylor swift album

[@Omnivoid22]

Lol I wish I could. I need a new computer. Gonna take me 3 months of saving to get a powerful enough computer in comfortable with

[@3dMistri]

No use of evee displacement of there is no adaptive subdivision...

[@TheCGEssentials]

At least that I know of - I might be missing something

[@shura8817]

and cycle rendering seems much slower ...

[@TheCGEssentials]

Using the exact same models and settings? I've not tested this

[@shura8817]

@@TheCGEssentials yes

[@cloverfield911]

BLENDER EEVEE 4.2 has slowed my computer right down!!!!!

[@BEST_SCITEACHER]

Hi Community, i have been improving now and then but latest versions don't cope up with my pc. which specifications really work for future 5 years of blender , I own a i5 Probook G3 may be someone can donate me one and becaome grateful.

[@maksurdu9305]

Intel iris xe 😞

[@zedeon6299]

many people that hated the extension doesn't undertand how this will improve blender in the long run

[@TheCGEssentials]

Honestly I don't find it THAT different, but the integration where you can check for updated versions to me is pretty cool

[@3dMistri]

Can you elaborate how...

[@johnnyapoliyo421]

4 cores required ... I'm out