Forget about Nodes - Blender Conference 2024

"Forget about Nodes" by Simon Thommes
Blender Conference 2024
2024-10-23 13:00 at the Felix Meritis, Amsterdam, classroom. -
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[@JaredOwen]

Love it when I see Simon is giving a blender talk😀

[@mipe7755]

Dude has so many Blender instances running he could open a restaurant.

[@RomboutVersluijs]

They are not running, he's probably also a developer. I also gave 4-5versions installed. He just has them pinned to the taskbar

[@mipe7755]

​@@RomboutVersluijs Who said a dev cannot be a successful cook? 😁 But ok, I didn't think about different versions pinned to taskbar.

[@jeffdavies2824]

Good presentation after the first 4 minutes of tech difficulties. These video could use some light editing for content.

[@sovannsey2180]

Been binging a lot of production log videos recently. I can't imagine the frustration from all the freezes. But it's still a nice presentation! I love Gizmos.

[@ShiroiAkumaSama]

Luckily this video popped up in my feed, I had no clue that there is a lot of new content on the Blender channel, time to bingewatch them all.

[@DrTheRich]

Yeah blender conference going on all weekend. It's every year end of October, so you can look forward to next year after finishing binging this...

[@lopoisaac]

Amazing how good Geometry Nodes are today (please: custom gizmos soon!!). So much power to create anything!! Thanks for the talk, my favourite so far 😊

[@khtrammell]

I’m getting strong Jim Halpert vibes from Simon. And I dig it.

[@BlenderVedaEnglish007]

20:51 I personally feel that the transform gizmo node should have a yellowish background color for the title of the node, as the gizmo are yellow in color, it will instantly help the user connect the dots

[@NicCrimson]

Blender crashing at the start is to funny. 🤣

[@egretfx]

why he's using a beta build?

[@NicCrimson]

@@egretfx to showcase the new feature

[@donnydarko7624]

I feel like he had way too many programs running when he started.

[@GrimK77]

@@donnydarko7624 I feel he has battery power and power saving features to blame. I would not run Blender unplugged. Hopefully it's not because it's MSI.

[@chlbrn]

@@GrimK77 I currently consider buying a new MSI motherboard and then I saw that logo...

[@MaxLaMenace]

Do gizmos work with snapping ? Is there a way when setting them up to define snapping increments or steps ? This would be huge to create nodes to design modular constructions, furnitures, systems, whatever...

[@jippee1]

Tooltips for gizmos would be nice

[@3d-illusions]

Would be awesome if there was a 'check gizmo being interacted with' node, that could be used to feed a switch node to temporarily disable expensive nodes or reduce values to ensure good performance during tweaking.

[@moonlaiy4280]

I love Gizmos :) Thanks for developing

[@takerefuge3d]

This is gonna be real fun to play with!

[@Yishinyourear]

This is actually huge!❤

[@NicCrimson]

45:00 Finally!

[@BobCrowder-b2j]

give mo gizmo -- super future for Blender

[@moravianlion3108]

Forget about Blender crashing

[@josebarria3233]

To be honest, I dont like the idea of back propagating the data from the nodr to their inputs. I think that the node should just return a single value as expected and have the inputs be modified by single values via an extra new node or a new socket in the Group inout node (which i dont like either)

[@donnydarko7624]

Seems ideal for real-time input control over parameters.

[@eelhor]

Very helpful explanation.

[@sergiomendo77a]

Can this gizmos bring the same concept from rigging? Where we can create our own gizmos and simply eyedrop them.

[@GarviHere]

We should be thankful that we are able to listen to this even

[@sergiomendo77a]

​@@GarviHere well, you can be thankful and also bring some ideas to the table, it won't only help me or you but others.

[@kruz3d573]

@@GarviHere Maya is still industry standard.

[@DrTheRich]

Gizmo's aren't actually meshes. They are just UI shapes floating in 3d space. Like the 3d cursor, or the arrows for moving objects around.

[@sergiomendo77a]

@@DrTheRich well, they can always be changed if users see an advangate in implementing custom meshes. For some reason they are on rigging.

[@FancyFun3433]

now we need hair simulation nodes and cloth simulation nodes with real time simulations

[@workflowinmind]

Since when does simon looks like a fashion model?

[@BlenderVedaEnglish007]

27:37 Why has the blender not yet activated UPI payments or youtube thanks button, it is very easy for us indians to donate instantly, bcoz blender is spreading like wild fire in india

[@edmungbean]

blender's gunning for c4d fields and houdini mops at the same time

[@GrimK77]

"Technical difficulties"? With MSI laptop? Say ain't so On more serious note, running presentation on battery power, most likely on power saving mode, with high perf software might not be a good idea.

[@edmungbean]

the nodes get so messy - it seems almost better to have each datastream solo-able so the green geo, grey data, plus float/integer/vec are all easily identifiable and easy to tidy up

[@robertleedavis5609]

Is editing before posting a thing?

[@SophiaWoessner]

the breathing into the microphone is hurting my soul

[@Klayperson]

0:40 windows moment

[@genesis2303]

The first second I saw the face I knew there will be an asterisk to that title, next time try with mask 😄

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Kinda curious, when you had to present you talk. Were theybactually already working on 4.3. i mean these talks are submitted months ago. We were srill in 4.9 i vekieve and they were workijg on 4.2

[@phm6834]

Almost unbelievable how blender organically develops without much blabla what maxon promised almost a decade ago. Yet maxon never delivered.

[@goober7535]

why call it foregt about nodes if its literally ONLY covering a node based workflow. the title implies we'll learn some trick, but its just nodes being nodes

[@DrTheRich]

He talked about that in the beginning. It's so people who make node tools and node plugins can make them for other people who then can forget about nodes. So maybe it should be "Help others forget about nodes"

[@donnydarko7624]

The title is engagement-bait. This is pretty huge for creating more intuitive and faster environment creation workflows, and also gizmos seem pretty ideal with regards to real-time parameter mappings.

[@donnydarko7624]

​@@DrTheRichor for yourself to streamline processes that you frequently do.

[@Sonario648]

@@donnydarko7624 Though they aren't as useful when you're already using gizmos. I can see a scenario happening where you can't tell whether you're using the node gizmo, or the standard gizmo.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

Next stop burning man

[@shrimpkins]

Sometimes, if I'm doing a presentation, I like to make sure everything is working properly before showtime.

[@lagrandesylvaine]

I find the GN more and more complex. All these blocks for some Low Poly trees. it's more difficult to understand how it all works than to create a scene. I think it might harm Blender.

[@sebbosebbo9794]

GN possibilities are endless. Tools, rig handling , procedural modelling , VR , etc.etc.. Nodes are impossible to ignore..