VSE 2.0 #134 | Blender.Today LIVE - YouTube

Hola Pablo, hello Pablo,

(I'm a bit late, but I forgot to write this last week) I wish you (and everyone watching/reading this) a happy and healthy 2021. To start this year off, with a big boost of motivation, I've written a free Addon called "Blender Analytics". It is made to keep track of your Blender Usage Times, compared with the previous day, making Blender like a game of trying to use it more. (NOTE: EVERYTHING IS STORED LOCALLY! I CAN'T ACCESS AND/OR SELL YOUR DATA) . You can get it here if you'd like to try it out. I'd like to get feedback on the code , so I can improve it and make it available to a wider audience. Can you recommend to me some places where I can get helpful feedback or is there even any planning for a relaunch of the Roast my Addon-Series (If yes, I'd like to submit this Addon for this)? That would be really cool!

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Hello Pablo, I have 2 questions:

1- Are there any news on the GSoC projects "Custom Menus" and "Many Lights Sampling"? After the end of the GSoC we didn't have any news by the devs and nothing got implemented.

2- How is it going the reshaping of Right-Click Select?

Hi thanks for the live ! Any news on the "Implicit surface skinning" implementation ? ( rodolphe-vaillant.fr/permalinks/implicit_skinning_project.php )

Hi Pablo, I was just wondering if viewport sync options is something we can see in the near future?

Although I've been working with 3D software for years, I'm still relatively new to Blender. I'm truly loving this software more every day! One thing I miss while using Blender is I don't see a easy way to sync and un-sync the rotation, pan or zoom of my viewports?

When for example modeling a large object and I have a viewport of the front and the side open if I zoom in or pan in one view I then have to manually adjust the other view every time to get the same section of the object visible.

I've seen some other users talk about this issue here: blender.community/c/rightclickselect/T1fbbc/

And Here: blender.community/c/rightclickselect/kmfbbc/

And Finally I want to say thanks for all the hard work and all the work the development teams puts into making this program so great!

Hi Pablo!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

The "Apply" button on the (awesome and fantastic) Geometry nodes doesn't convert scattered geometry into the real instances.

Will it be implemented on release 2.92?

Thanks!

Hi Pablo, I wanted to ask what happened to the retopology Overlay Task developer.blender.org/T70267 Is it still being developed or was it abandoned, currently one of the major problems with retopology in Blender is not being able to see the retopology mesh because it can be hidden by the high poly mesh.

just wondering, is the compositor gonna become real time for VFX and animations anytime?

Feature Request:

Hi Pablo,

i would like a feature to ignore face normals for a volume shader on a mesh so that both inside and outside faces shade as outside in Cycles. (even if for camera only)

reason being is when using diplacements vectors on a mesh (to make clouds) parts of the mesh become inverted dynamically and are shaded as transparent only due to being an inside face which cant be overriden. (solidify does not help)

no one in the forums has overcome this issue and it would greatly speed up cloud generation using dynamic meshes instead of vector displacement within a volume shader. (eevee can only use the primitive cube for volume)

kind regards

Sean

Hello, just wondering, is the compositor gonna become real time for VFX and animations anytime?

i recently came across a eevee displacement system in dev, how likely do you think this will get implemented

developer.blender.org/T68477

Hey Pablo super off topic question: Can you share a bit more info about your Mate (how you make it, drink it, etc.). You said that good Mate is expensive and the not so good Mate is cheaper. How do you spot good/bad Mate? Are there any DOs and DON'Ts?

Hi pablo, I know it is a feature request but why don't we have the option to have new created geometry in smooth shaded? And Autosmooth on? Thats what everyone does after creating new objects. Anyway.. Was Just to fill the questions for today.Have a good time! stay healthy and best wishes to everybody at blender!

Hi Pablo, how is it going? I hope you have started the year well. I have a query about the Properties editor, in the Workspace part there is a section to enable or disable Addons, but there is no way to have it synchronized with the ones in preferences and only deactivate the one you don't want? I think it would be of great help to have the Sidebar organized and create custom Workspaces for tasks that I would do in each one. But if I have to reactivate all or almost all, it becomes somewhat cumbersome.

Thanks in advance, sorry if the question is silly.

Returning topic, Line Drawing support in Blender is limited. Freestyle is 'single threaded,' doesn't handle Particles (leaves, grass, hair/fur, etc.) crashes on large files without recovery due to memory management. LineArt also stumbles on big files being painfully slow, lacks Freestyle line refinements, even as I maintain new builds on Graphicall.org . I am a Patreon for BEER development, purchase Line Addons of mixed usefulness, and lament the lack of a Real Time Line Rendering solution. Make Freestyle multi-threaded, cache results, and allow Editing of solutions on the Cache in Real Time, and let it work with memory more efficiently without crashing, please. Thank you for all the fine development work.

Hi, Pablo! How are you? Cheers from Brazil and thanks for the amazing show!

I'd like to ask if there is any news of plans about the new Interactive Nodes (like a "game engine").

Thank you! :)

Hey Pablo, I'm wondering if you knew of any way to add checkboxes to custom node groups, either in geo nodes or the regular cycles node editor, which would allow for boolean operations (True/False) of values within them?

So instead of adding a 0-1 slider that mixes between two colours/values you could add a checkbox that outputs Red if it's on, and Blue when it's off, for example (think the switch node in the compositor) :) Would be awesome from a UI/UX perspective!

Hello Pablo How about hair? Is there any progress with the Hair Dynamics? By the way I like Blender Today live very much. gr P

Great work Pablo! Here is some love for the Speaker object: SqeakBake addon. github.com/in10siv/SqueakBake youtu.be/puugbwrAoEw

Also when will the speaker object get some love from blender?

My proposal is to use the length of the NLA track to play the sound (to stop the soundclip if it is longer than the NLA track and maybe loop the sound clip if it's shorter)

gumroad (i know you don't like it): gumroad.com/l/Sq_Bk

Feature Request:

Hi Pablo,

i would like a feature to ignore face normals for a volume shader on a mesh so that both inside and outside faces shade as outside in Cycles. (even if for camera only)

reason being is when using diplacements vectors on a mesh (to make clouds) parts of the mesh become inverted dynamically and are shaded as transparent only due to being an inside face which cant be overriden. (solidify does not help)

no one in the forums has overcome this issue and it would greatly speed up cloud generation using dynamic meshes instead of vector displacement within a volume shader. (eevee can only use the primitive cube for volume)

kind regards

Sean