Blender 4.2 LTS New Features Official Overview

[@hisanimations]

harryblends finally getting the recognition he deserves!!

[@gottagowork]

That was one hell of a presentation.

[@amoose136]

@@gottagoworkfollowed him earlier this year. All his video are extremely cleanly produced with oratory delivery like the narrator from The Stanley Parable.

[@8195229]

It’s done so well. Reminds me of the hitchhikers guide movie intro

[@3polygons]

I was going to comment about it. I don't know anything about nodes, but yep about presentations, design, etc... and that was _really_ brilliant.

[@60CAL]

lol bro Owns this company 😂

The Geometry Nodes feature presentation is next level

[@TheOne11111]

@@principedelapaz3593 Houdini is for enterprise level and their price is no joke but the quality is really good. Blender is for every levels. Some people like Android, some people like iOS.

[@user-nt1wu8rj3i]

Blender is the 2nd 🫱🏻‍🫲🏽 after Houdini​@@principedelapaz3593

[@maxleveladventures]

@@principedelapaz3593 1. This comment was pointing out the presentation of the features, not the features themselves. 2. Houdini is Houdini and Blender is Blender. Neither are competing with the other. Speaking of Harry's presentation: I found it quite distracting because I couldn't stop trying to figure out how in the hell they did it 😂. Was it done in Blender, After Effects, something else or a combination?

[@xanzuls]

@@maxleveladventures it's done in blender by screen capturing and retiming in edit.

[@maxleveladventures]

@@xanzuls no way…. And then masking out parts where you have multiple things moving at once. If that’s how it’s done, it must have taken ages.

[@PopStrikers]

Blender continues to be the gold standard of modern creative software. Pure focus on making a better product. Love to see it in a market that is increasingly exploitative. Thank you to everyone who made this version possible!

[@3D_Blender_C4D]

Exactly why I am presently switching from C4D. Exploitative is an understatement.

[@nicholashausmann]

00:00 Intro 00:17 Extensions (Themes/Add-ons) 02:16 Modeling 03:49 Rigging/Animation 05:52 Geometry Nodes 11:44 Rendering 15:29 Compositing 17:04 Video Editing 17:53 User Interface 19:52 Import/Export 21:01 Outro Love the new animation features in this update! Great work as usual.

[@SanOcelotl]

Damn Blender is too clean, its incredible that is free and open source, what a great team they have

[@Борис-л3с]

Yes, it's crazy 🤯

[@deadpianist7494]

Shush you will jinx it

[@PrashanSubasinghe]

The image used for the image import feature 3:07 😄

[@KeeChuanLoh]

Thanks, never knew i would need that :)

[@ArcangelZero7]

You know it's good when Brent Rambo approves! 😐👍

[@Abdallah_yusuf]

my compliments to the animators of this video especially "Geometry Nodes" section. bravo guys you nailed it.

[@therealmattbixler]

11:11 When I tell people about why blender is so different as a piece of software, this is usually one of the first thing I bring up. There is so much professional-level creative software now that never gives any thought to optimization. It's not sexy or exciting, and the high-level giant studios can always afford to put some more money into hardware when things start slowing down. Blender bothering to prioritize optimization with new versions keeps the software better accessible to smaller studios, home contractors and just straight-up hobbyists who are running on less-powerful hardware. Just thinking of all the people who are able to start their careers in their bedrooms or kitchen tables on little potato-computers or people who get to start making things because they like making them is what makes me go from describing Blender as something cool and useful to something that's capital-I Important. Great video, great software, thanks to everyone for all their hard work. It changed my life, and I know I'm not the only one.

[@kazioo2]

Isn't editing giant mehses in Blender still much more laggy than in Maya or Max? I remember discussion a few years ago that it would require architectural rewrite.

[@RyanKingArt]

Great new features!

[@owenjenkinsofficial]

Blender's biggest super power is the teams constant and unrelenting improvements and innovation. Blender is rarely stagnant. I love seeing these improvements and upgrades. So exciting!

[@badoli1074]

I'd say the biggest super power is that blender isn't afraid of ditching deprecated functionality risking pissing off long time users. Other programs keep decades old functionality that is far, far gone in usefulness because a handful of anachronistic users still don't want it gone. Blender goes like: "Yea, well, deal with it and go with the times. Or use old versions." Which keeps the program fresh. Like with geo nodes. The first implementation was definately rushed, so they threw out a lot of that. You can't use 2.9 geo node trees in 4.2 blender.

[@fakecubed]

​@@badoli1074 They also brought back attribute workflows in a later version of geo nodes when they realized there was still good uses for it.

[@ernstryan1]

That matrix joke was great, made me LOL.

[@vuk8550]

What a great time to be a 3D artist and and a Blender user. This feels like a birthday! :D

[@Artist.Verse1]

Very excited for _Compositor and VSE_ update. Glad it's still getting attention

[@Max_Moura]

Wow, Blender 4.2 is packed with features! I especially loved the new Geometry Nodes additions, like the Realize Instances node and the matrix nodes. It's amazing how Blender is constantly evolving and becoming more powerful. I'm excited to see what the future holds for Geometry Nodes, and I'm sure we'll see some incredible creations using these new tools. Thanks for the detailed overview, Jonathan and Harry! Keep up the great work!

[@ArcangelZero7]

Y'know when Blender gets a huge update like this, I watch videos like these and think "How the heck am I gonna remember this though?" But this time, a BUNCH of stuff just feels so intuitive that you'll either pleasantly notice it, or it'll feel like it's always been there. That's exciting! The add-on updating tool seems absolutely incredible though. That was one of my biggest frustrations with add-ons! This update is AWESOME.

[@PabloVazquez]

The best updates are those that you don't really notice at first until you realize everything goes smoother, more intuitive, and just works

[@ArcangelZero7]

@@PabloVazquez Woah hey there, Pablo! 👋 You're right! After just a little bit of time using it, that's *exactly* how 4.2 feels. More "speed-of-thought" and consistent than ever. No more "Oh, I thought that would work." moments. Simply a joy to use! :) I can't say enough how much I appreciate everything you and the team do to empower and inspire artists everywhere. I hope you have an awesome day! 😃

[@fullyleaded]

GPU COMPOSITOR!!!!!! WOW!!!!! YES!

[@JFinns]

This should be more upvoted. Runs so fast now even on my 4070.

[@Piipolinoo]

That geometry nodes presentation was something different. I can't even. Makes me believe in humankind again. Blender stands for everything we need more of in the software universe. Thank you to everybody involved for your amazing efforts.

[@Tertion]

"Allow online access is disabled by default" Looking at you, Adobe, Microsoft and all the others !!!

[@thejeran]

God I love geometry nodes

[@Dude_Blender]

Brooo just tried the GPU Compositor!!! I dreaded using it because it was sooooooo glacially, continentall drifty slow, but this is a massive update!!

[@MrBrax]

I made an audible gasp at some of these new features and I'm just a few minutes in

[@Houdini_Bob]

@9:19 getting crooked sockets into alignment and letting you know is dope

[@William-nw4sk]

Love how @harryblends makes it sound like a documentary.

[@timothycook]

Brain was like, " Hey, is that the guy from Kurzgesagt?" 😁 Great update by the way!

[@noiamhippyman]

As a hobby user most of the stuff is either over my head or something I'll likely not use. But vertex displacement in eevee? That's a nice one!

[@PaladinVII]

This is amazing! I understood less than 10% of that, but that's amazing! I can't wait to fall further into the rabbit hole of Blender!

[@Yishinyourear]

Here we go! Been patient all year!❤

[@OnAWireStudios]

This is a MASSIVE update. I haven't been this excited since 3.0

[@mr.t967]

Amazing! Can't wait to try all the new futures! Cheers to every one at the blender studio ❤

[@itayozari6252]

WOW 🎉 what a geometry node presentation

[@SviatoslavPetrov]

Thanks for review! So much work was done for animate presentation!!!

[@falxonPSN]

Harryblends' node presentation was super, super satisfying to watch. That was some top-shelf stuff! (Though I do have to admit frowning when he used depreciated instead of deprecated. Made me think of my car payments.)

[@GalaxiePerfect]

WHAT AN UPDATE!! Absolutely amazing stuff, guys.

[@haroldwithma123]

Thank you blender for the update, you're my hero. But I'll finish my donut first in blender 4.1 before I move to blender 4.2 😊🙏

[@UHStudio]

awesome geometry nodes presentation, and yes for eevee next, extensions and embedding some addones, and the compositor!

[@simonzhang3D]

Geo nodes section was wild holy shit

[@owenjenkinsofficial]

What I would love to see is a series of native or included extensions that are based on modeling production workflows with UV's, naming conventions and other pipeline things that some may benefit from. If you know of any good addons for this type of thing I'd love to hear about them!

[@hermano8160]

Finally! The default cube has the correct tilt. No.1 reason to update!!!

[@lightspeedbubble7359]

Yay for snarky tooltips and demos! Don't refrain, devs

[@たなかあすか]

Yes. I'm ready.

[@たなかあすか]

日本からコニチワ、blender！！

[@SonicPman]

EEVEE BUFFS!

[@__se7entin__]

like fr i can't believe my eyes. i gotta see it for myself

[@piotao]

HOLY SHIT release, omg :) As always is even more awesome! Kudos for all Blendery dudes there! Thank for the update!

[@bUildYT]

i know we say that at every update, but thats the best update ever !

[@luzid.vision]

Amazing new features! Thank you so much to all of Blender!

[@CharonNg]

Great new features overview! Thank you Jonathan and harryblends and just donated to Blender.❤

[@BlendingEdge]

Great presentation, Jonathan!

[@Reroute3D]

This all sounds great, cant wait to dive in.

[@st3b3d]

Thanks for the update big dawg!

[@csikosandor]

The Blender team did it again! 🤯

[@jeremybaker5205]

That add images to planes gag made me chuckle

[@abhijitchilukuri5090]

Blender devs are simply amazing! So many updates and in such a clean fashion!!

[@jey1222]

Thank you a lot for the update 🎉

[@nahum8240]

holy cow, Blender is actually cooking and is open source fgs

[@donmiko345]

just came here to say this is absolutely mindblowing. Blender folks, you're all amazing! 😍

[@dsoft3131]

Man i love blender. People who keep working on blender is life savers

[@conradjustinart]

Redone EEVEE is getting too similar to cycles! When tried a simple animated scene with basic cubes casting shadows on each other - Shadows are noisy and jittery while playing the animation. Adding Raytracing on top causes even more noise and the denoising doesn't quite work (changing a method to Ambient Occlusion still keeps the shadows ugly). Every small change in the samples of the shadows - freezes Blender for many seconds. So essentially - new EEVEE is slower and worse. I was using EEVEE not to get photorealistic light simulation (there is CYCLES for that!) but because it approximated light beautifully and FAST without any noise. Its main advantage laid in the animation - you could run complex scene with high FPS due to how well it was optimized. It also had a lot of customizable features which are now essentially gone. Please, keep an option to use the old EEVEE in the 4.2 version.

[@hadriscus]

that list never ends

[@simonzhang3D]

Not sure if this is 4.2 new but you can drag and drop add ons zip files in the viewport and replace old add on but keep perferences. Thata was so easy updating all add ons now

[@Dark.Animates]

You had me at viewport motion blur.

[@ramiths8171]

Wow! They are polishing the shit outta Blender

[@karlisstigis]

Huge release!

[@fxdojo]

this geonodes voiceover guy is the winner

[@peterlemon1385]

Great job everyone involved!! The best open source software just got better ;)

[@V.Z.69]

This guy looks so real!

[@eccentric3D]

Thx Jonathan! Great intro as always-

[@user_xyz948]

Just a small note - Unchecking "Allow online access" will not act as a block for extensions/add-ons to connect to the internet. I find that pretty misleading considering how it was labeled as a "safety measure", which it isn't. The new features look great tho. Looking forward to what people can do with it.

[@vi8799]

Good release for upgrading from 4.0

[@ukmonk]

Excited but also a little scared lol! Every new build, there is always the worry of sorting out all my addons. Are my settings going to be the same? Are my addons going to be updated? Work? Broken? Etc. Hopefully this extension thing will sort that out. Can I save my settings so they will carry over to 4.2 please?

[@gottagowork]

Hopefully this is a one time thing, but I have to browse for all the "included" addons (like add extra curve objects and sun position). It's gonna take bloody forever.

[@ukmonk]

@@gottagowork yeah I think we will have to look for all our favourite add ons etc. I think its a one time thing! I have so many addons though its gonna take a long time....

[@ukmonk]

@@gottagowork I just screenshotted them so I have a reminder of what I need

[@Ruby3D]

My OCD now waving goodbye because viewport angle has finally been fixed thank goodness

[@jensworld444]

Blender is just amazing. Looking forward for doing future projects

[@Songbearer]

This update has me saying "Thank god. Thank god. Thank god" at the monitor whenever a change is mentioned. Texture displacement in Eevee though? Ohhhh yeaaaaaahhhhhhh!

[@webinatic216]

Node wrangler should be the default and not an add-on that one must enable. It's essential if you work with nodes.

[@DaveBenNoah]

Blender is the best software ever made! Keep on keeping on!😃

[@jeffsfolio]

Umm, missing the brush and textures as assets. A major feature I was really looking forward to. Really looking forward to 4.3.

[@tuulikk9193]

Good things. But Blender still needs upgraded knife and extrude tools. I hope core modeling tools will get more love in the future.

[@sanjaux]

Lasso Hide and Line Trim WOOOOO!

[@sanjaux]

That geometry nodes animation oh my goodness

[@megalobanter3997]

It's from another youtube channel that has more animations like this, you can find them in the description of the video

[@sanjaux]

@@megalobanter3997 Yeah I saw! Definitely checking them out

[@funnyberries4017]

Very Exciting! Huge movement forward! This release feels like it should have bene titled 4.0, it's the big jump!

[@metatechnocrat]

Harryblends Hitchhiker's Guide style explanation of the new nodes is just perfect. Going to sub him right now.

[@Fans.of.Darth.Vaders.Empire]

awesome

[@paulbirkpowlly]

That was awesome.

[@BlenderVedaEnglish007]

7:57 next level presentation ❤🎉

[@Reynardfoox]

More texture paint feature then???

[@matchdance]

Thank you Blender!

[@samihimas]

That's so crazy!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@3Digitalist]

It might sound like a small update, but faster Undo does soo much. Especially when working on large complex and undo'ing takes 2-3 sec

[@bluuesnapper]

Omg I'm so excited for Eevee updates 🔥

[@johantri7482]

OMG Harryblends is hilarious 🤣

[@hamidrana085]

harry's animations+humor, sick!

[@AiryGallantry]

There is something fishy with the splash screen! Lol. Jokes aside, thank you very much to all Blender developers and everyone involved. This is amazing.

[@muhammedkandemir4086]

I really like the EEVEE rendering part 🎉

[@USBEN.]

:'-) Thankyou, you beautiful people.

[@jamescolin4433]

Super! But Eevee Light Linking, Eevee Light Liiiiiiiiinking! Please!)))

[@_nenyasha]

We'll surely get through it together

[@robertalexanderquinn9044]

Sooooo many awesome update! focus distance, hair alembic, wow but... still no fix on fluid motion vector or blur? come onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[@kwekunelson6574]

👏👏👏👏👏Great set of updates Blender

[@ArturComanda]

Good jobs guys!

[@HARDstone3d]

IT'S HUGE! 🔥🔥🔥

[@My3dworld0]

Best updates ever 🎉🎉🎉

[@MACHIN3]

13:01 great tip, missed that one.