Blender 4.2 LTS New Features Official Overview

[@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

The Geometry Nodes feature presentation is next level

[@w1-w2-w3]

@@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.

[@GabGonLouCar]

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.

[@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 😂

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@Lidoe]

@@3D_Blender_C4DI blame autodesk and adobe

[@3dbob891]

depends on how you see it. If you have no money concern, every other software still has much advantages over blender. Blender is extremely powerful as standalone though

[@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! 😐👍

[@RyanKingArt]

Great new features!

[@Abdallah_yusuf]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@mask3284]

I literally screamed when he mentioned harryblends. I am sooo glad for him!

[@vuk8550]

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

[@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.

[@ernstryan1]

That matrix joke was great, made me LOL.

[@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! 😃

[@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!!

[@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.)

[@MrBrax]

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

[@Yishinyourear]

Here we go! Been patient all year!❤

[@UHStudio]

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

[@mr.t967]

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

[@SviatoslavPetrov]

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

[@GalaxiePerfect]

WHAT AN UPDATE!! Absolutely amazing stuff, guys.

[@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!

[@Tertion]

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

[@timothycook]

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

[@itayozari6252]

WOW 🎉 what a geometry node presentation

[@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!

[@Houdini_Bob]

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

[@jcrav93]

whoever made that skull is amazing. I wish I could make something like that

[@CharonNg]

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

[@AnnCatsanndra]

I cannot be the only person who struggled for more than an hour trying to figure out what happened to the "Blend Mode" section after their Blender version auto-updated when they haven't touched the software in a couple of months. But it turned out the reason I was particularly struggling is that the scene I was editing had doubled materials in most places, so even after I went in and fixed the alpha mapping, I would see no change because there was a duplicate underneath that had a different almost identical material that I hadn't changed. rip.

[@BlendingEdge]

Great presentation, Jonathan!

[@stumbleboypro]

Definitely an amazing upgrade. One thing I've been waiting for a long time is that we can finally have the option to group objects like in all 3D software. Definitely the collections are good for organizing objects, but when animating it is very nostalgic to have the option to create a group of objects which animate as one, it would save a lot of time. If it could be added it would help us a lot in our animation flow.

[@OnAWireStudios]

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

[@piotao]

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

[@abhijitchilukuri5090]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@bUildYT]

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

[@dsoft3131]

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

[@hermano8160]

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

[@donmiko345]

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

[@fullyleaded]

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

[@JFinns]

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

[@st3b3d]

Thanks for the update big dawg!

[@luzid.vision]

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

[@DEADEYESTUDIO]

everytime i see what blender updated it always impresses me more and more. perfect timing too cuz i wanna try some of the newer features on a few cutscenes for my game im working on. once i have a job im defintely donating cuz the effort is amazing.

[@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 😊🙏

[@eccentric3D]

Thx Jonathan! Great intro as always-

[@Consisto7]

This all sounds great, cant wait to dive in.

[@jey1222]

Thank you a lot for the update 🎉

[@jeremybaker5205]

That add images to planes gag made me chuckle

[@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！！

[@simonzhang3D]

Geo nodes section was wild holy shit

[@nahum8240]

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

[@figaro-dg5c5]

Love it. Reviewing extensions is the best.

[@SonicPman]

EEVEE BUFFS!

[@__se7entin__]

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

[@peterlemon1385]

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

[@V.Z.69]

This guy looks so real!

[@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!

[@vi8799]

Good release for upgrading from 4.0

[@jensworld444]

Blender is just amazing. Looking forward for doing future projects

[@William-nw4sk]

Love how @harryblends makes it sound like a documentary.

[@lightspeedbubble7359]

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

[@ramiths8171]

Wow! They are polishing the shit outta Blender

[@karlisstigis]

Huge release!

[@csikosandor]

The Blender team did it again! 🤯

[@funnyberries4017]

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

[@hadriscus]

that list never ends

[@Dark.Animates]

You had me at viewport motion blur.

[@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

[@3dbob891]

Blender 4.2 seems to be indeed a massive improvement. Finally some of the most basic features the industry uses for ages, start to become available for the masses. Yes I sound ironic, blender is awesome but it is still dragging along after everyone else because it tries to do everything. A good thing for individuals and small teams, a bad thing to be a head to head competition aside of autodesk - and even there if you know the tools in and out, it's hard going to blender even with the same knowledge, it is hard to ignore the amount of convenience when I also don't need to care about the money spend. Still love blender, wish you the best and seeing you all improving it so much is awesome. Now make the license non viral but still open source and third party software would start to actively use you instead of mostly working around.

[@ArturComanda]

Good jobs guys!

[@kwekunelson6574]

👏👏👏👏👏Great set of updates Blender

[@sanjaux]

Lasso Hide and Line Trim WOOOOO!

[@matchdance]

Thank you Blender!

[@88RunnerBlade]

Blender is just going to keep evolving until it's the only and most complete 3D solution on the market, shutting down all the competition, isn't it?

[@webinatic216]

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

[@CynicalOctopusOfficial]

I literally changed nothing in the settings and it fucked up my shadows for some reason, nice update : ^)

[@winterthewisp]

I have the same issue! It just freaks out for no reason. Also removed bloom from render settings and slowed down cycles rendering a ton...

[@BlenderVedaEnglish007]

7:57 next level presentation ❤🎉

[@metatechnocrat]

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

[@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

[@paulbirkpowlly]

That was awesome.

[@jeffsfolio]

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

[@fxdojo]

this geonodes voiceover guy is the winner

[@DaveBenNoah]

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

[@Neutil]

OMG This is so amazing!! I love this❤❤

[@bluuesnapper]

Omg I'm so excited for Eevee updates 🔥

[@hamidrana085]

harry's animations+humor, sick!

[@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.

[@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.

[@My3dworld0]

Best updates ever 🎉🎉🎉

[@Alex-q8g6n]

Great job!

[@Ruby3D]

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

[@airtrack2010]

Can we have access to the old Legacy Eevee in new version tho? The new Eevee shading just does not look right on so many of my old projects...

[@PabloVazquez]

Unfortunately not. It has been permanently removed. But you can report these issues as bug if you think something's off. Perhaps we just need better defaults. Go to the Help menu, Report a Bug.

[@AdrianLopez_vfxwolf]

Harryblends WOW! what a presentation! How was that animation done?

[@BlenderHoy]

He said he'll explain it in his channel! Give it a follow.

[@voronium]

Thank you, Blender team!!! Another great update! 8-) Where I can find the new "region toggle pie" setting in the preferences - it seems as missing in the final release???

[@PabloVazquez]

Due to a mistake, it shows up only if you have enabled the "Developer Extras" option in the Display panel in Preferences. Once that is enabled it will be in the regular Keymap section.

[@voronium]

@@PabloVazquez Thank you, Pablo!