Exploring Blender 4.0: A Game-Changing Update You Can't Miss! 

Yeah that would be a great addition!

It seems too me they did it.

Well, at least they finally have Light Linking, even if it's tailored in a 1990ies way instead of having it modern and with nodes support. They could have learned from the problems other softwares have with light linking for almost 30 years now, but they decided to make the same mistakes, even tho people on the dev forum made them aware of the problems. xD

Couldn't agree more!

Yes, true.

Pretty neat feature!

Thatˋs my favourite!

if it wasn't for Blender 2.8, we wouldn't have had Maya Indie to begin with.

it's all a work in progress there are professionals using it instead of ZBrush it depends on how you sculpt and what you do with blender! it does not need to be zbrush, maya or anything else it only needs to be blender and you can sculpt!

@@GaryParris it depends on the resolution on stuff. Blender only gets you so far no matter your computer power, Zbrush though has only hardware limits. 30 million polygons are absolutely possible with a mediocre computer and yes you need so many for sculpting, especially in realism.

That's fair! Thanks for the feedback:)

Yeah, but its linked to the asset browser so very few people will actually use it.

No, it's you who can't figure out how to color pick outside photoshop window!

its specific to MS Windows at the moment

not abandoned just more important things at one time, but not not abandonded, promote Blender to people, encourage giving to the Dev funds and encourage software programmers to spend time and energy on Blender and maybe your wishes will come true!

the dev. power is limited... the moment was there... but Z brush is a hard nute to come even close... its the right but well hard decision for the tiny group of devs.... modelling is now and was in the past in the beginning of the open source phase community driven development project, and with add ons now powerful back.. ..... sculping is a nice addition but not the goal like Video or VFX comp.. too..

@@GaryParris This is what I do most, and as much as I have believed and invested in Blender since 2018, it has only advanced a little with the presence of Pablo Dobarro, sculpting is extremely important and modeling too, the priorities have been FX, but don't underestimate the modeling side

@@GaryParris If even after so long it still hasn't improved in this part, I highly doubt it will, maybe next year when the pixols patent comes out of maxon reality will start to change

@@sebbosebbo9794 Yes, I agree, but Blender is also no longer as small as it used to be, and to get close to ZBrush unfortunately there is a long way to go, I would like Blender to go head to head, but unfortunately I can't even use it in my work for simple sculpting things (I work as a sculptor most of the time)

so? maya has started implementing things that others had before it for a long time including blender, point is to move forward, blender has always been evolving not stagnating!

You're very welcome!

it's slow progress but there have been minor increments as they work towards it, add to the dev funds

maybe simple change the theme ,..Imao. .

Yeee though they need to just update there sculpting modules, uv unwrapping and texturing tools such as texture painting needs to rival 3d coat and substance painter

It already is an industry standard, depending on the industry you are in, In the automotive design world is widely used and prefered over other applications currently.

Its not only becoming industry standard, it's becoming THE industry standard

No need to be industry standard, it can be better. I friend of mine started to learn blender 1 month ago and he said that he is already blown away and is loving it (he always used maya).

forget industry standard nonsense

Thank you so much!

Thank you! We don't have any concrete plans but we're also not ruling anything out

switching from Max to Blender 2 years ago changed my business … The library system in blender is just too powerful for archivz

Cycles GI and glass/caustic are really not realistic compared to Corona/Vray, stay on 3dsmax

UH Studio Design Academy is a professional architect and uses blender for arch Viz for so many years, check out his stuff on youtube

Finally!

Except "3.7" would have crashed every older version any new files were opened with. There are huge changes under the hood, specifically with OpenGL. It's just unlucky that Eevee Next and Grease Pencil 3.0 had to be pushed back to 4.1.

4.0 breaks a lot of stuff introduce new stuff and a lot of changes ar now landing right know....its a lot of backend , backround changes and like other said too.. the now old system is now old , not full compatible... Ta da... 4 . O

we should stop saying professional and industry standard as well seeing outdated those words are

The naming convention was established years ago. There will never be an x.7 version. It's not about it being such a huge update, which it is.

The default font change blew my mind

It did, but it works really well!

Glad you liked it!

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It is a new buzzword kind of thing. Just give it a year or so and you don't have to hear it anymore as people have gotten bored of it :)

Remember when people used to say paradigm shift all the time

yep, along with professional, industry standard, they are all business words to fool people that things are beyond free software! totally misleading

Edit -> Preferences -> System -> Cycle Render Devices, check your GPU under CUBA/OptiX. This could be the reason, as it happened to me aswell. The update unchecked those options.

And Maya or 3ds max still have a shitty outdated viewport and many other amazing features that Blender has. If we talk about modernizing the software, it id Autodesk who needs to modernize their software more. Blender is the most modern 3d software outthere

Simulation nodes? The guy who made animation nodes is the main dev behind geonodes development, they are developing a fully unified system rather than just a python addon.

wrong hair and simulation is being adressed a bit at a time with everything Geonodes, and you clearly haven't been watching that explode right now

Hair and cloth simulation are vaporware. Nothing more. What I have zero use for, is "modeling by math."

@@saimon1987 imo they improved their UI a bit. It's still overloaded, yes, but it doesn't hide it's features. Professional software expects you to know what to do with it and doesn't need to hide it to attract new users. That's why autodesk is also Charging money no hobbyist would pay. Had to go "back" to 3ds Max 2022 and I have to say it feels like a breeze to work with it compared to blender. Lot's of improvement and they seem to take blender seriously and incorporated some things that worked well in blender.

AI supported image rendering.

the new bsdf is supposed to offer more control over your materials tho

Old modifiers menu could never have coped with all the new geonode modifiers coming. You haven't lost any control in the BSDF shader either, everything's just organised into dropdowns now (with additions).

add ons like,, modifer list" or ,,old modfier menu" helps....all free ... happy blending

@@Arjjacks New BSDF shader is a lot smaller than the old one, and while offering a few good features - lacks control over many crucial ones

@@almas4663 Only while all its submenus are collapsed. Opening them up will quickly expand the new BSDF to much, much, much larger than the old. There are loads more options in the new one now, clearcoat tint, sheen models, IOR and specular controls, better SSS, and more.

I honestly use it all the time. For lookdev and modeling it's just a no brainer!

@@FlippedNormals is it an industry standard?

​@@henriquem.8736it's on its way

​@@henriquem.8736the auto desk monopoly is over so industry standard is a bit of an out dated term, blender is used in game, design and movie studios now and I see blender in about half the prerequisites for 3d jobs I look at now

@@henriquem.8736 No, its better

It really is!

No, they are very good, just have patience and take your time learning them. They make you work extremely fast and many shortcuts suits more than one area.

been updated keymap on 4,0 and it's only a mess if you cant deal with life changes

Actually I mean "I hope it change for better" and not the other way around.@@GaryParris

you can, but it is all still in fluctuation, also ACES can be used but you need to go through a process of making work, there are youtubes out there chowing how, but AGX is also another industry standard option and is welcome

@@GaryParris AgX is not an industry standard by any mean and it does not even support HDR display transforms. ;) ACES is an industry standard and supports HDR display transforms.

Because smooth shading in regular object mode will carry into sculpting now, including Dyntopo. No need for both toggles anymore, one does it all now.

try rendering with exr format!

@@RoboThePanda yeah that's the only format I use

For a small one-man doing small animations and still renders, blender is way more than enough, I used cinema 4d in the past (still do for some specific tasks) but after switching to blender my workflow was much better in dealing with more complex projects because there were things that i could do in blender but couldn't do in cinema 4d Maya is powerful too and you can still use it if you have the budget, but usually it's good if you are working in a large studio on very complex projects because it is mostly used that way. But if you want to save some money while keeping the quality of your projects at the same level as maya then blender is the way

@@vowel8280 What can you do in Blender that you can't do in Cinema4D?

@@stevenrivera6233 I'm no saying you can do more in blender than in cinema 4D, both softwares are unique in their own way, but for me, there are things in blender that i found more helpful than in cinema 4d, for example: -the new render engine called eevee, which allows you to preview materials and procedural textures more easily and you can render motiongraphics animations much faster (if they don't require photorealism) -the collection system in blender is awesome! It's similar to cinema's layer system except that is more dynamic, you can use them as just layers to organize your scene and also use than as groups for objects that can be instanced with particle systems and geometry nodes, or just simple instances -the compositor, which is blender's own post processing system, allows you to edit an image right in blender before and after you hit the render button, which is very useful In cinema 4D you can only render out passes and then import them in after effects for post processing, in blender you can create mutiple postprocessing results and have multiple render outputs for each result with a single render -shader animations are much easy to make in blender than in cinema 4d and the performance is much better -modeling tools in blender are much more flexible than those in cinema 4D There are a few more but for me these are the main ones

@@relected Ohh, I just checked it right now and you're right. Thanks for letting me know man 😉

Right, coz light and shadow linking, Kuwahara filters, realtime screen space effects, and overhauled rigging and animation UI is so scientific and not at all artist focussed.

With great power comes great responsibility

IMO, every software DCC to GameEngines aint that really easy to keep up as it's a technology. heck even NLE video editor aint that easy to get with, I even haven't harness the full potential of FL Studio, and Reaper when making music. It's an endless stuff so keep learning, or give up if you're really not good at learning stuff.

By that logic literally no 3D software is “artist friendly”. If you’re going to learn how to make using computer tools you’re going to have to get used to learning technical stuff. You’re complaining about a “scientific world”, while using a literal computer.

only if you are trying to keep up with the others, stop competing, start learning and using the way you want to!

Legend!

windows only at this stage

@@GaryParris its not

You can use Steam to get the latest version. But you can also have multiple versions installed, no problem!

you can use several versions with ZIP packages as portable applications, no need to install

@@FlippedNormals thank you, is blender just as good operating and performance wise if i install on steam cause i didn't even know it was on there.

I believe 4.0 has a new feature to transfer your previous custom config.

Also there is the microsoft store version which updates automatically

Simulation/geometry nodes need to be more polished (volumes, per element loops,...) and then there will probably a way to do muscle simulations that way :)

Blender needs to take animation seriously. Period. It has vastly outdated physics simulations at every level: fluid, particle, cloth and hair. And the existing sims haven't been ported to GPU acceleration. It doesn't have a robust built in Animation Node system, which should have come BEFORE geometry nodes. Does this release have built in animation layers? Or does it still rely on an unreliable and buggy addon for that? How about built in integration of bone poses with shape keys without 3rd party addons?

Geometry Nodes are for hard modeling wankers. They don't access animation channels, armatures, or allow locational calculations over time (say calculating the distance travelled for a car making a u-turn so the wheels turn at the right speed). They don't simulate hair or cloth dynamics. What they do with particles is unrefined, outdated and amateurish.

@@StephGV2 have you checked the new animation system they've been developing? They showcased it on Blender conference, and they are also developing phsyics inside geonodes in future.

it's being addressed by those using 4.0

why you can't go in? xd

I was like that a few years back and it was an interior viz project that enabled me to get to grips with it. I think because I was mostly adding pre made objects to a scene and only modelling when necessary allowed me to take my time and get comfortable with things like navigation and keys first.

what sort of hurdles are keeping you away? general navigation? understanding geometry? nodes? geometry nodes? or is it a hardware issue?

Feel free to ask questions, the community will help you get in with ease!

The UI is probably one of the better ones for 3D softwares so I’m surprised you’re feeling this way. I guess every UI is a bit difficult to grasp at first.

If you want nurbs or somethijg like it then why the hell qould you use blender in the first place? Go and start using plasticity, fusion or rhino and do not ask Blender Foundation to implement something that their software is not designed for. Blender is for polygonal modeling.

Yeah agreed if that’s such a concern plasticity is way better. For blender to grow it needs to attract vfx folk, unfortunately blender for 3d printing is niche as most are using cad or plasticity or just zbrush

you're using the wrong software

Blender isn't made for real world objects, it's not CAD software to begin with. They don't neeed to address anything you've mentioned here because Blender isn't supposed to do those. (Unless someone makes addons for it). Blender is a polygonal modeling DCC with some NURBS capabilities but it's not a NURBS modeling tool. Blender isn't designed for what you are asking for so focusing on that aspect would alienate the majority of Blender userbase.

​@@saimon1987None of the software you mentioned is free/open source... Comparison isn't valid. Fusion 360 has a "free" hobby version but it's limited.

why bother learning to drive when you can already walk everywhere!?

Well, then it's best for generalists and also I'd say modeling in Blender is superior than any other poly modeling 3D DCC.

Comparing modeling in Maya with Blender. Spitting on Maya. Blender is a much superior modeling algorithm created for practical work, while Maya is the last century even using its marking menu won't help much. That's my humble personal opinion, and considering the prices of software the choice is obvious.

A jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one.” This is a quote by William Shakespeare

​​@@rano123213ds Max is the actual best generalist software, especially for modelling. For hobbyists it doesnt matter tho except for those who have the budget to afford 3ds Max and especially with add ons which is usually affordable for the average guy living under western living standards

​@@22cinefor what your getting in Maya it's far wayy to over priced especially for it's modeling tools which is better done in blender as side from quad draw for retoplogy

It's difficult to compare since they focus on very different markets. Maya is way more built for the enterprise market and is naturally then more suited for big companies, while Blender is built more for general 3d creation and excels at that

Bro, what are you on about. maya too has edit modes for face, vertex and edges. Same workflow in both. The modelling toolkit is the edit mode. And maya sucks at modelling as its destructive modelling and not uses modifiers that we can later remove if not needed like 3ds or blender. I give maya is the best at animation, but modelling NOPE.

​@@praveencrypty7902it is absolutely not the same workflow, tf you talking about?

That might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

it is the same workflow. I use both Maya and Blender. It's the same. @@cyd_hunter99

Disagree completely. Been using Maya for around a decade and learning Blender, the modeling has been far more intuitive for me. Not ripping on Maya, it's great, but Blender has a lot more convenience and efficiency for me in terms of modeling and modifiers.

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