Blender 4.0 is HUGE! - Blender Today LIVE #235

Hiya pablo, this might be the first time I've ever caught the show live! Last year there was a GSOC project titled "Soft Bodies Simulation using Extended Position-Based Dynamics (XPBD)". There seems to be some talk about this on the dev forum, but I feel as if it is difficult to find an authoritative answer regarding the progress of this solver + tetrahedralizer. Is there anything you can share on this front? Is the project still alive, or has it been canned? The GSOC was dedicated towards softbodies, but considering XPBD can be a multi-solver, could we ever expect this to replace the current blender bullet library? Are there any other solvers or libraries the team is looking into? My heart yerns for the day I can do realistic layered (muscle, fat, fascia, skin, and fur) creature simulation in blender. Thanks to you and everyone at the blender team for keeping the dream alive.

Hi Pablo, thank you for the Blender Today streams! I come from another 3D software and have been working in Blender for some time now. I don’t regret my decision to switch to Blender yet. But there are some little things that seem a bit unhandy to me. One of the things I struggle with most is that I can’t sort the elements in the outliner in a custom order (like you already can do with the collections). I read somewhere that the outliner is being rewritten at the moment. Are there also new features coming to the outliner, like custom order? Like in this proposal: blender.community/c/rightclickselect/1Xcbbc/ Thanks!

@Pablo Vasquez I was a little late catching the show Live today. I wanted to suggest something for the Toggle Region Pie that you started discussing, roughly at the 40 min mark. It would be a great addition, to have two additional selections in the Pie Menu:

1. SHOW ALL

2. DISABLE ALL

This would be nice when doing a meeting with others, and you want to instantly make the screen less cluttered, and be able to switch back and forth to make adjustments, or use specific tools.

Perhaps another option could allow an "AUTO HIDE" option, where they appear when the mouse is near one of the toggle-able UI elements, and hide when the mouse leaves the area. (Time adjustments set by the user would be a nice touch, but not entirely as necessary as the other features I mentioned.)

I would welcome a presentation about "Project Gold" and the Kuwahara filter use for more 'artistic' look to the render completed.

Hey Pablo, Hope you are doing great, your hair loking awesome as usual...

As you know the blender is spreading in the India like a wild fire and we have a 2nd largest population in the world and the population is 60 % youngsters

I being moderately smart could some how do a donation using paypal after a lot of hassel and the crypto is also a hassel for us

So it would be great if you implement "UPI Payments" option for BLENDER DEV. FUND so that it will be easy for us to donate as easily as we can... i would request you to consider this option please

Even wikipedia implemented the UPI PAYMENT OPTION for their donatin drive... So please consider this...

Hello, is there any plan about Principled BSDF NODE V2?

Is there any chance we'll get collections and drop and drag for shape keys and vertex groups?

Hi Pablo! Did You see Blender ripoff 3IXAM? 3ixam.com/en

Hi Pablo! Are there any plans to improve the weight painting workflow?

Hi Pablo! First time posting here, but I’ve watched your live streams for a couple years now! Hope you’re doing well.

I’ve been curious about real time compositing, and when it might be usable in the imageViewer for use in general purpose compositing. Having it usable in the viewport is great, and I use it all the time. But when using blender as a composite only project, I would expect real time comping to work in that workflow using the image viewer as well. Any info if that is coming?

Hi Pablo . I have questions about snapping - In Blender, there's an option for snapping with rotation, but it doesn't take into account the rotation of more than one object or vertex that's selected. When I use the snap tool (shortcut A) to snap more than one element, for example, two vertices, the resulting rotation of object Z should be halfway between those vertices, but that doesn't happen. Is there a possibility to set a common rotation between selected vertices, faces, or edges? Each of these elements has its own rotation in Z, X, and Y. It would be great if when snapping to two opposing vertices, the object's rotation would be the average of the selected normals for snapping. If snapping with rotation to a face takes the object's alignment into account in the Z-axis, there should also be a way to have a common rotation between more than one selected element using the A shortcut. This would make aligning and rotating objects in relation to other objects much easier. Best regards.

Hi Pablo, is there any news regarding VR in Blender, if im not mistaken there was a developer working with Daniel Lara on it no? The best option i have seen so far is FreeBird XR, but it would be great if the Blender institute would support the dev if there is no one working in implementing VR functionalities yet.

Hi Pablo !!

Why is the selection mode isn’t consistent between the different areas in blender ? For exemple, selection in Outliner for picking shortest path is SHIFT keymap and, on the other hand, with CTRL on mesh editing.

Can Blender use, by defaut, SHIFT for picking shortest path and CTRL in order to add to the selection anywhere as the others softwares do, such as file selection on Windows and Linux ?

Hola Pablo, saludos desde Madrid:

I've seen that node operators are in experimental now and I was wondering if the team will include a few examples inside blender like they did with the hair nodes, they could be really useful to retopo or to scatter objects with the freehand curves, to expand the filters, to add more physics simulations to brushes in sculpt mode etc...

Hi Pablo! Can you take a look at this: i.imgur.com/gFmupce.png