GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE & Q&A | BlenderToday #102

hi pablo,

What do you think about this GUI boolean design ? {attachment EXgIcmnWoAAHqSBpng}

Hello Pablo & Dalai

,,,, Am Slowly Forgetting The Fracture Modifier.....

Cloth Sim Needs some fixes Like The Cloth Is Making a ugly shape when it collides with the collision object Edges

Our team could really use an 8 bit weight painter, let me explain.

We use Unreal engine for our game, and Unreal converts all the vertex weights to an 8-bit integer value between 0 and 255. This can cause some rounding errors where Unreal will take the same weight, and round some of them up, and some of them down.

All I need is a way to pretend like I'm painting in 8 bit, meaning I'd select a weight value between 0 and 255, and blender would lerp this under the hood to the existing weighting code.

So to clarify, it wouldn't change anything fundamentally about how blender wights, It's just a UI update, with a lerp function you could switch on or off depending on what you're doing.

Hi Pablo & Dalai,

The wireframe slider of Overlay controls number of wires to display. I sent pache D7622 to change the slider function that adjust the opacity of wires. Are there are any possibilities this patch will be adopted?

Is spectral rendering going to be added anywhen in future?

Hello to everyone! Question: Is Blender's game engine coming back any time soon?

*** Mantaflow & GPU

Some questions about the features of the future..:

• will Mantaflow take advantage of GPU like EmberGen?
• can a stack of modifiers be exported and reused (to emulate a custom modifier)?
• what is the future of Cycles, what new features are incoming and will it ever be

able to compete with Octane or Arnold (in term of performance)?

• what new modeling tools we have to expect in the next releases?

A suggestion: what do you think about a new series of tutorial (like the one about coding) focused on "god" topoplogy to teach how to solve the main problems in box modeling?

thank you!

I'm basically Indicating the Gradient Background Behind....

This is a Screenshot From Settlers Walkthrough Videos by Julien Kasper.... He was Using 2.83

Is Gradient Backgrounds in Solid-Mode, Like that a Feature in 2.83? or can We already Set Background Gradient Like that in Solid-Mode? (I am Asking Because my Guess is It was Done using Code)

Thank You Pablo and Dalai.... You People Have been Working Hard For Blender.... (Quite Inspires Me.... That's Why I Watch BlenderTodays)

Hi, any ETA for the return of Bake to Vertex Colors feature which was removed after 2.79? blender.community/c/rightclickselect/kCcbbc/ The request has some votes and is already more than one year old.

Are there any plans for the Edit Mode performance improvements or Asset Manager?

Thanks

hello pablo.. i have a question.. why blender takes time while rendering when i try to render any object with a trasparent baground? it try to find something on the trasparent side, not only the only the object. it cost time. hope you understand the question.

Lots of love to Pablo and Dalai combo ❤️ stay safe ❤️

Hi Pablo & Dalai,

thank you so much for making these streams/videos! I discovered them much to late, so I had a lot of catching up to do, lately... Actually, Corona helped with that. :-)

One question regarding the 'Everything Nodes Project': Lately, I'm creating many fantasy plants, twines and other kinds of vegetation for 3d-printing. The Skin-Modifier has been very useful for that. Especially in combination with the ShrinkWrap modifier.

For that, it would be great if I could set the ShrinkWrap offset to e.g. 1/3 of each vertexes Skin radius.

I checked out the Blender source code and I think I found the right place for this to happen - if only I knew how. ;-)

Now, here is the question: Is this something that could be done with modifier nodes (in the future)? Like: plugging the SkinRadius into the ShrinkOffset... As simple as that?

Thanks again and have a great today/everyday everyone! Helge

Hey Pablo!

Thanks for showing my "analogUX" proposals in previous Q&As ( StylusUX and Analog Precision Mode ).

The problem in a nutshell:
All the sliders/tool manipulators behave in a binary way. To click or not to click, that is the question, there are no inbetween states. Our current input devices (especially tablets) offer a bit more freedom, but we don't take their advantages for most of the UI/UX stuff. I'm not talking about Neuralink, just it would be great to use the degree of freedom of the current hardware for a more fluent and effective interaction.

Questions:

• What do you think, who would be interested to roll these forward beyond the proposal state? I'm not a coder but can help in other ways (proposals already have some useful info).
• Could you please ask the UX/UX team, what are their thoughts regarding my proposals?
• A UI/UX SPECIAL | Blender Today would be great though...

Dear Blender, i am a new blender user .

I have faced a problem in Blender 2.82a . Problem is , After select spin tool & use it , i can ever remove this tool or shift to other tool . for these reason i can't go forward . When i open new window , then tab to edit mode , select object , then Spin tool come again . For that i uninstall Blender then install , thses problem show again :(

So there have any solution .{attachment CapturePNG}

Does everybody knows if there is any possibility to use layers in vertex paint mode on grease pencil?

Is there a solution? Created a Complex boat model, multiple Collections (Hull, Masts, Sails, Rigging, etc.) I want to be able to Animate the Rotation of the boat on Axis, to tilt over correctly while sailing, What is needed is being able to Parent Collections to an Empty, or something similar. Complex Multiple Collection models exist, how to have them all work as a whole. How does Blender Institute Staff solve this problem. Thank you.

please make extruding brush for sculpting with mask brush . because making it will be great help for advance developer

Can you use macro keys or keyboard shourtcut to launch a python script. Alt P dose not work outside of py editor

Can we get some changes in sculpting brushes

Try Improving the blender's cycle engine it needs some improvement in turns of performance

Make a custom loading screen when we launch blender{attachment Mergedpng}