Five HUGE Features Coming to Blender 3.3 

Yeah, that's what I did. I did the same for showing face normals (blue and red) cuz im paranoid my jank modeling turned something inside out lol

Yeah, that's what I did. I did the same for showing face normals (blue and red) cuz im paranoid my jank modeling turned something inside out lol

It is still surprising how many people are making tutorials or Blender focused video, while not knowing the very basics ...

You can also alt click the checkbox to apply it to all objects you have selected, so if you have thousands of objects you just have to click once.

They're working on a total refactor of EEVEE similar to the cyclesX project. It's called EEVEE NEXT. Hopefully it'll end up getting those features.

İt's probably left for Blender 4 at this point

@Juso3D I mean, it'll high likely shift again until it's ready. See new hair system for example

EEVEE doesn't get enough love that it deserves. It's so good for any non-photorealistic projects

@Juso3D I can't see any difference in the 3.4 alpha builds...and isn't it strange that in the 3.3 page, the section of Eevee is omitted?

😂😂😂 oh man 😂😂

*Me with a desk covered in junk:* What a faux pas.

It’s an essential part of any workstation

Sweet baby Ray's? That's my jam!

@@darkfoxfurre you're not seeing the McDonald's wrapper and two coffee cups just off camera.

I didn't noticed it either, unfortunately.

My case gets so hot during rendering I could almost use it as a bbq.

yea i was glad to see that addition and have been using it

Turning on “Cavity” (AO) shading in the Workbench renderer is also helpful for clarifying the geometry.

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 Yeah, but my comment wasn't about giving tips for modeling in Blender, it was speculating about reasons on his more rhetoric question "why did it take so long to get this feature?"

Flat shading is the opposite of that: it makes the geometry harder to see, not easier.

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 This is a pointless discussion. As I said, this was no comment on how to improve the workflow, but trying to make up reasons why the developers didn't add that feature earlier. My comment was never meant to seriously explain anything - so I could have also said something stupid like UV spheres are there to help make cubes look more rectangular.

I reckon it's already saved me a few thousand mouse clicks.

Do you have any examples of other little features that they should add?

@@alex-qn5xp Simple stuff that many professional programs have. I've used Maya since 2008 and Max before that. I haven't touched Blender in over a year so they might have added some of the stuff I am about to mention, so forgive me it they have. None of what I mention should need to be a part of some addon I find online too. 1. Dockable/floating workspaces. Blender is horrible for multi-monitor setups. My setup is the viewport on one monitor and all the menus on the other (layers, channels, tools, properties, etc). And no, stretching the program across monitors isn't the same. 2. Speed! Blender's viewport is slow. Once you are used to the speed of Maya it is really hard to go to anything else 3. Pie menu editor and pie menus closer to how Maya's marking menus work. Check out Maya's marking menus. They are pie menus on steroids. All my tools, and any menu I don't need on my second monitor, can be opened with a hotkey. z + click opens a quick menu with all the tools I use plus options. Shift + z + click opens up all the menus I use from texturing, materials, to rendering. ctrl + shift + z + click opens up all miscellaneous menus, tools and custom workspaces. Maya already has a default marking menu with shift + click but creating your own is vastly superior. Those menus, along with spacebar being the default super marking menu, my hands barely have to leave the bottom left corner of my keyboard. Thank god I can already customize shortcuts and bring the move, rotate, and scale keys to where they are in every other program out there. 4. Component selection through the right click menu. You can change the right click menu to have the option to cycle between verts, edges, faces, and all... but you lose the other options of the object context menu. All they need to do is add those to the top, or bottom, of the right click/object context menu. 5. The major modeling feature I cannot believe they left out... the ability to add an edge exactly where I click. I absolutely hate having to lay down an edge and then drag it from the center of a face closer to a parallel edge. There is an addon out there, but again, I shouldn't have to search for that. My subdivision modeling time goes up having to do that to every edge which needs a support instead of just laying down an edge and then immediately going to the next edge. Don't get me wrong. I'm quite impressed with what they have brought to the table in the past few years. Even some of the professional addons like meshmachine and hardops are lifesavers for hardsurface modeling, especially texture work. However, just as the OP mentioned, the devs want to add a bunch of sexy features without getting all the basics down. These five simple features alone would probably make me switch. There's a reason why Max, Maya, Houdini and a few others are the major players. It isn't only due to the companies behind them having some crappy practices or them being entrenched into the field. They are truly solid programs. Maya itself was created to be completely customizable for any workflow with input from Disney. Open source devs sometimes seem like they don't look at other software, or they do, and then figure they could change what already works to make it better.

@@Trevor_Bennett An interesting read, thank you.

@@alex-qn5xp You're welcome.

before the big 2.8 changes, they started this "UI paper cuts" sub-site where people would discuss such things, with captures, mock-ups for suggestions and developer feedback. I tried to search for it, but it seems like it just devolved into a small "task" on their issue tracker.

It really is!

Use the industry keymap and then spend about two days setting up keyboard and mouse shortcuts plus try to find as many addons as possible which will mimic functions found in Maya. I still use Maya primarily but with some time, roughly two days, I was able to get blender to act fairly close to how Maya acts. It's still nowhere near as fast or responsive, but it is making my transition a bit easier.

I personally don't want the button because reasons (probably no one would care read) but I went to test this before making a reply and noticed why the UI button isn't just doing that. Apparently it also does the Shade Smooth operator, because if you just enable the Auto Smooth on a Flat Shaded object, it will still be Flat Shaded, so what it does is [Shade Smooth] > [Auto Smooth] and specifically in that order, because [Shade Smooth] disables [Auto Smooth]. So, like if you add a cylinder like he does then enable Auto Smooth, it'll still be flat.

You could always put it into Quick Favorites... it is completely the same.

You could always put it into Quick Favorites... it is completely the same.

Numpad period key. It works for everything in blender. Objects, nodes, and the outliner.

Have you tried the blender cloud add on? Surprisingly it's not included, but you just have to download the zip from the official website and create an account. Some things work, some others don't but it's really a time saver.

You can use the portable versions of blender. These run straight out of the folder and dont need installing. This way you can just download the new version, import the old settings and delete the old folder.

Weird, blender almost never crashes when i use it. Maybe its because of your hardware?

Pre-sets should be added at some point. That's the direction that the whole of Blender is going, geo-nodes with pre-made settings. They've even talked about replacing the whole modifier system with geometry nodes eventually.