BLENDER 2.82 KICK START 🤔 Blender Today Live #85 - YouTube

Pssssst Pablo?... any updates on Asset Manager? ;-D

Some time ago, Pablo Dobarro had worked on Texture Painting improvements, that included adding properties to the Paint Brush, like opacity, flow, density, etc. Is the Blender 2.82 release going to include these improvements?

Here is the developer post, stating these changes in more detail:

developer.blender.org/D5697

Hi Pablo! Please can devs show some love to shadowcatcher for 2.82? Catching indirect incoming light (not only grayscale shadow) is so essential for VFX. Thank you! devtalk.blender.org/t/lets-finally-fix-the-shadowcatcher/691

Hi Pablo! I was wondering, will particle nodes also replace the old hair system?

Pablo.

2.81 completely changed my mind. My congratulations for the release. Thanks to this version, I will become a gold membership. It's a process, write it down. Tchau.

Any Upadte aboutthe option to change the colors in the face oriantation, Will you add 2 color editors in the User Preferences?

Blender 2.82 is not too far from having CAD Modeling features. With a little improving, blender already has snapping, coordinates, units and measuring. All is really needed now is a pencil to draw closed shaped polylines that can be extruded, almost similar to the way you have spline editing. With simple polyline with the option to close and extrude and BAM - Blender CAD.

I commend you Pablo for 'Blender Live'. You set the trend for other open source apps for better collaboration and development of their apps with shows like yours.

PS

I have seen the other entrees of CAD ideas with lots of bells and whistles, and that is fine but for starters, Blender is not far from CAD Modeling. Not everybody can draw like an artist, but with coordinates and a pencil, the project can quickly get done. Blender can then can begin to dominate the 3D Modeling Industry in every aspect. Hats off to you Ton Roosendaal for the vision.

Any luck with the Animation 2020? i feel rigging & Animation are the parts that Blender lacks the most & the Animation Editors are not as easy as in other Animation Softwares, i requested few features but i think it will tak a very long time if there is no plan for a big project, you guys have to put your eyes on that so Blender can be a great alternative to the most popular ones , Thanks.

Hello Pablo, last week I posted a question and you said the answer may be on the blender manual.

I checked and found nothing about the meaning of Watt for light power used in Blender (just "Power of the light in Watts. Higher values increase the intensity of the light."). docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/render/lights/light_object.html

Can you explain how Blender simulate light power and the meaning of Watts for lights in Blender ? Is Watt equilavent to a Bulb light, a LED light or an other type of light power ? How can I convert Lumen in Watts unit used in Blender ? I'm aiming to simultate a real scene with lights in Lumen and I'm searching a way to precisely model the scene in Blender. Thanks :){attachment lightpng}

Hi Pablo! I try to make patch to the sourcecode to implement custom face orientation color. I almost solve this conundrum, but still, how do we pass parameters to the overlay shader? What is the best place to ask the developers about the details?

And the second question: why "Remesh" modifier still doesnt have a "Voxel mode" option?

can we get something which make text tool in 3d view work better

With the object scatter are become a built in addon in blender, can we get a proper integration with the object scatter become a blender tools (left side tool panel), and more function (scatter objects, or collection) and improved UI?

Hi Pablo is it true that you guys switching to 6 months release cycle? i don't mind it if it means more polished features, also is it time yet to give more love to the input Editor? :)

It's possible to add an option for random rotation and random scale on the array modifier. There is a turn arround for that but a random rotation and random scale option will help a lot.

Hi Pablo i have 3 quick questions if you don't mind.

1. when will we get Armature Collections?
2. Why motion path no longer show preview point for Meshes like Armatures, it used to though?
3. the ghosting/pnion skinning is removed but there is no replacement?

Hi, Will the fracture modifire in 2.82?

Is there any plans for adding upscale super-resolution AI for blender?

Hi Pablo and <insert_name> ;-)

Love the live shows and all the work you all put in to make Blender great! Also a shout out to all the great community who help others. Thank you all!

My question is relating to the view and camera clipping. Will this get fixed to a global setting? At the moment the setting is per window, so if you change which window you are using (view port, shader etc) you have to change it again. Maybe it should be linked to the camera setting and it's default setting could be stored in the preferences.

Oh one more thing, the Node Wrangler. Isn't it about time this was turned On by default?

Thank you and much love

Can Dr. Sybren do a video tutorial where he explains USD when 2.82 is out? As far as I know the code for the exporter is under review.

Pablo you look Very Nice! Keep it for as long as possible!

perhaps Blender Merch will keep us all young forever too hmmm

Thanks Pablo for saying Pablo Dobarro so many times today, it made my day!

How will the hair system work with the New node system in 2.8X?

Hi Pablo! Is there a way (in Blender 2.81) to configure the File Browser's floating window (change to thumbnails, unfilter the files, etc...) and save it so it always stays that way? Not only for the session, but when I close and reopen Blender again. Each time I open it, I have to redo everything...

Thanks.

Hi Pablo! Is there a way to Disable Xray(Shading) while in Edit Mode to select through your entire Mesh? I usually don't care whats behind my Mesh

Hi pablo love the show, and all of you dev's.

Just wondering if there is plans for the text (not ui text) in blender to get updated?, compared to others in terms of geometry it isn't has good (same text in 3ds max is a lot cleaner), among other things like features lacking.

Thanks, from down under!

Hey. Just wonder what's up with Linux Daily Build? Since 2.81 release there's is still same 2.82 build from 21st. For windows it's up to date.

Hi there Pablo, I wanted to ask if it is possible to have the <b>fallof of a brush in sculpt mode</b> accesible with the shortcut Shift + O , like how you can change the falloff of proportional editing in edit mode, I think this helps making the shortcuts a little more consistent, what do you think?
(By the way, I've been testing the <b>Theory build</b> features that speed up renders quite significantly and I think they are pretty much ready to be implemented into the main brach of Blender, any news about them?)

Any chance for ever 360 equirectangular render soon?

Hi Pablo thanks for your show, very instructive. Just a kind of feature rquest... Is it planned to get a realtime preview of freeline styles by LANPR ? on a kind of material preview with lines instead of trial ad error ? Thanks a lot for the better and better Blender!!!

Any idea if Howard Trickey's boolean rewrite will make it into 2.82?

Hi Pablo, congrats for the show and to Blender for the amazing progress. I am a new user and I am not sure if this is a bug or not but say you have a cube selected (active) and a sphere, not selected; now if you BOX select the sphere only it becomes selected, the box deselected, but the context menus don't update...they do if you CLICK select the sphere.

Thanks!!

Are there plans to push the development fund with more individual contributions?

Right now, the fund heavily relies on companies. When the economy isn't going that well, they are going to cut those kinds of expenses very quickly. That's why individual contributions are very important as a counterbalance in my opinion. As of now, I don't think it is strongly enough highlighted, that every contribution counts. If you see how much money is being collected per month, a small contribution is going to feel very insignificant.

Hello Pablo. Great to finally catch you live. (I'm from South Africa). Cómo estás? I would like to know about rendering in cycles. Are there any plans for bi-directional paths or even for path tracing in order to create realistic reflections from metallic and glossy objects as well as realistic refraction, where the light bends and creates proper caustics?

Additionally, I was wondering paint layers when painting textures. Currently, the only ways to really do texture painting really well is by either using the paintlayers addon or by making a complex network of nodes to add / subtract / mix colors you are using. Is there anything planned for adding layers for painting and perhaps more brush tools for texture painting?

Can we get new themes for 2.82?

When will the tabs in Blender icons?

Hi! Sculpting is great, but what about painting? When it will be improve? Screen size cursor, normal align ets?

Pablo can you help get Pablo go rockstar on OpenXR support so we can sculpt and animate in VR with pen tablet input?

Hi Pablo! thanks for the show! Nvidia announced the discontinuation of CUDA on OS X and I'm in panic. I would be very happy to switch to linux but sadly I still rely on some softwares unavailable there. What will happen with Blender for mac when CUDA dies, have been any conversation about that?

Your 1 time donation is hard to find, can you add it to Blender.org?

Pablo is a genius! Well, both of them are, still, but what about tutorials for new sculpting and GP features? I'm feeling that I'm using it all wrong and not to the full potential.

Any news regarding the much-discussed Blue-Noise Dithered Sobol Sampling? ( developer.blender.org/D2149 ) Also - Eevee object motion blur? :-)

any plans to improve the whole text workflow(mainly the font changing part)? it's super confusing for any beginner and with some improvements, I'm sure more people would use blender for motion graphics.

Hi, i want to ask about the themes, there was a call for content a while ago, what happened ?

Hello, quick question.. Any texture paint improvements in the near future?

Hi Pablo, why is Blender's Viewport & Render engines give "plastic" look unlike others like Marmoset,Unreal, Arnold..etc? even the viewport looks washed out, i know that's all about Color Management but it seems something is missing from the core not just tweaking settings, I have seen a lot of Blender examples that have this problem but no one talks about it.

Hi Pablo! Thank you and everyone who is involved in the development of the Blender. You are awesome! Do developers have plans to add a wireframe node with no tessellation or a toggle box that switched between tessellation (triangulation) and the pure geometry? I know that you can get a wireframe render using freestyle, but this takes longer than overwriting all the materials with one shader with wireframe node.

Will the new Library Overrides allow for a single material to be instanced and have individual parameters modified, so we can have one material with different values assigned?

In a similar vein, allowing a material to access custom parameters of the object it's assigned to would be great for material variation without having to have multiple clones of the same material.

So Pablo, How is the world of particle systems and everything nodes going?

Hi Pablo. Why not make presets for a particular node? For example, it is often necessary to change the colour of the ramp but as an option. And be able to go back to the past option.

Hello Pablo , thank you for doing this show, it is amazing. I found really weird problem with Cycles. if I want to import heavy obj , lets say photoscan, 1million verts and want to see how it looks with environment texture lighting, rendered mode suddenly eats a lot of ram when Cycles is updating lights, if i switch to GPU (nvidia 1050+cpu) it simply freezes my computer, f12 also turns into kill button, and nothing helps but hard reset. BUT if you import same model and same texture into 2.79 it works perfectly, if you save 2.79 file and open it in newer blender it works perfectly with no issues and uses less memory than 2.79. If you do the same in newer blender , save file ,close and open it won't kill my computer, but Cycles uses 1gb more memory. I reported this in June when 2.80 was relased (all rc beta had it as well) , and turns out fresh 2.81 still has this problem. Is there any chance delepoers can take solving this issue under consideration ? :) thank you

Yeah, I know I'm a bit late on this one.

The so called new decimate f-curves operator (which also works with 3dview curves) does the same thing as the old simplify curves addon, which must be at least ten years old.

In the 3Dview, the simplify addon creates a new curve, so I guess it still offers one benefit to keep it around.

One thing missing wih the new operator, is that it doesn't show in the dopesheet.