WHERE IS 2.90? Q&A #117 | Blender.Today LIVE

Just watched you guys answering the VSE question. I know that the VSE 2.0 roadmap is based on 3 studio user cases, but maybe it could be an interesting exercise for the entire Blender Studio to have a VSE day where everyone(even those who never touched the vse) tried to edit something in the VSE.

Some could be assigned to do a workflow of the 3d view in combination with the sequencer ex. Grease Pencil or 3d previz using scene strips(without render to disk), others could try working in VFX(unrendered within Blender) in with the node editor, image and movie clip editor in combination with/round tripping the vse for ex. color grading, masking, tracking, vfx, yet others could just try to edit a lot of video material, like a Blender Conference 2019 Recap(where a rule could be that two following clips can't be from the same talk), and finally some could try to import, edit, export while preserving 4k and 10+ bit material through out.

In the end of the day everyone could premiere their work and compare notes, and then check them against the current VSE 2.0 roadmap, with questions like these in mind: Is there something obvious missing? What are the main challenges? What should be the top priorities? How should the different issues be approached? Besides refreshing the VSE 2.0 roadmap, it would properly be good for everyone in the studio to have some hands-on time with the VSE to get a deeper understanding of the great possibilities, but also the challenges of the VSE.

On the question of performance, I mentioned for you guys two weeks ago, I came across a user case, Unfa, who did a video on the subject back in 2017(performance-wise only caching has been added since, and it does not solve the mentioned issues, as is not fast enough to ex. replace proxies): youtube.com/watch

heo pablo, heo dalai! Nice to meet you again:D How r u guys? :D . Can we get raytracing feature on evee render?

Hello pablo!

Was just wondering what's the status on this patch? developer.blender.org/D4575

It's honestly one of the biggest problem with sculpting in blender. Importing and exporting large models is nearly impossible if you don't have a lot of RAM. Sculpt mode itself may be amazing but you will inevitably have to export and import at some point!

Hey, Pablo.

I work in sRGB mode because it just looks best in the viewport. However I want to export my images in Filmic look for the better dynamic range in editing. For now I always have to switch to Filmic before rendering, which is annoying when I forget it.

Would it be possible/make sense to create a Color Management node for the Compositor that takes care of the conversion so I don't have to worry about switching to Filmic all the time?

* @Helge * Hi Pablo and highly appreciated (live- and chat-) guests! :-)

Over the last few days, Jorge Zombie and I have been talking about the wonderful new Sculpt Vertex Colors . We noticed that they disappeared from the 2.90 build's experimental settings, but are still present in 2.91.

Trying to figure this out, we stumbled upon Release_Notes/2.90/More_Features#Experimental_Features : "They are also only available on daily builds of master. Beta and Final releases don't have their panels."

Question: Does this mean that some experimental features (like Sculpt Vertex Colors) can only be found in Alpha builds?

HI Pablo, my friend! Just notices a few days ago that William Reynish left BF and works now ar Unity (cogratulations for that!)

He left without an epic goodbye speech. I hope he was not angry because of some bittersweet communty members ranting on his hard and thought out work and left in peace and happiness. Can you confirm that?

will there be a game making add on?

We love you Pablo! I know doing this as much as you do is hard work but we love it!

I was looking for a place on youtube with a lot of blender tutorials in all aspects (Sculpting, Modelling, Tips And Tricks etc). I have not really found any, So I was hoping that blender could start a youtube channel just for tutorials... Question 1: What do you think about this idea? Question 2: Will this be put into consideration?

Hi Pablo,

1. any chance to have a loop function for ocean modifier
2. can we have a delunay algorithm added into the remesh modifier?

Thanks

Hi Pablo (and other) how are you?

Any news on new Text mesh improvements? (Cleaner Geometry, better extrude features etc).

and notice that certain max program just got a smart extrude tool very similar to blender extrude manifold! :D.

Tell the devs awesome work.

Heya Pablo! I wonder if there's a way to (single-click!) filter channels in the graph editor instead of having to hide multiple channels just to get the ones I want to see. It'd be super to be able to click Rotation X and see only the rotX channels for my selected control(s).

Unless I'm missing something (very likely) It's simply too tedious to filter channels I want to work on at the moment. Any tips/thoughts?

I know the big animation updates are a ways out for Blender, but I eagerly await them!

When will Cycles displacement leave "experimental" mode? It has been in that mode for many years. Also, are BF developers still working to get the Fracture Modifier into Main?

Uelaaa Pablo, hope you are fine!

in my opinion the mix node in the shader editor has an inconsistent and counterintuitive behaviour compared to any other software: usually black is transparent and white is full opaque but in the mix node the black values show the upper input instead to show the one below, basically the black values act as if they where opaque! What do you think about it?

Here is a question: will the texture nodes available form the modifiers (used by the displacement modifer for example) be integrated in the shader editor?

bye!

Morning Pablo! Well.... morning for me. Just curious about the decision to move the progress bar to the bottom far right from the bottom center? I'm good either way, but I do notice that it dominates the "scene stats" causing all the text to jump right every time it's activated. Not a big deal, but a little distracting while flip animating.
Maybe just left of the "scene stats"? Later!

hi pablo. i was wondering how to load a scene strip to cache (like prefetch it) in the vse. currently i have to scroll over the clip multiple times, because pressing play and letting it play doesn't load the whole thing to cache. thank you so much. love blender today. (i hope i didn't post this comment in the wrong area :l.....

Hey Pablo! Is the blender team getting hype for some vacation time?

I was wondering if you knew anything about the "nodes" part on the 2.90 road-map in user interface? Is this shading nodes and such? What kind of user interface changes are we thinking? Cheers!

Oi Dalai, hola pablo! Why do we have to run command line commands to enable blend file thumbnails?

Is any plan to make the operation logic to multi-select objects of collections?

Here is my wanted function that is coding by python. How do you think of the operation logic to multi-select objects of collections?

Below is the addon download link ( in description ) youtu.be/mEGBxpZdv-U

Hi Pablo, hope you are doing fine! Why is there a color output in gradient texture

heo pablo, heo dalai! Nice to meet you again:D How r u guys? :D . Can we get raytracing feature on evee render?

Will blender have the ability to add edges to groups in the same fashion like vertex groups, but for edges? (Sorry if it was asked before)

Hello,

fell behind in Blender news. Are there any 2D updates? advancments in drawing ect.?

Hi Pablo, recently a very interesting add-on was released for eevee, i am talking about the screen space global illumination add-on, it works pretty well, but not every scene can benefit for it.

My question is if there is any plan for implementing proper global illumination on eevee other than irradiance volumes, especially now that blender is going to move to vulkan.

Thanks

Hey Pablo In blender 2.81-2.83 there is no smoke in physics . Will there be smoke in physics in blender 2.9?

Are there plans to support importing SVG directly to Grease Pencil?

hi pablo, when you compile blender in linux, how to associate blender to open blender files from the file explorer? and not have to look for them from the blender explorer

I was wondering if you could comment on a RCS post I made about gizmos and shortcut consistency:

blender.community/c/rightclickselect/SYfbbc/

It seems like there's a disconnect and I'd love to work on a patch but I was wondering if it'd be difficult to introduce or if there was a good reason why constraints weren't introduced in gizmos-- since I'm sure other gizmos would benefit from this.

Is there any work on an update button within blender or an auto-update feature?

Is there any work on having multiple versions of blender on the same machine so you can work on different projects that use different versions and test a new version without breaking your current version?

Hi, What do you think of this idea, OpenFX nodes? This would add support for OpenFX plugins, advanced compositing and video sequence nodes. This is not a feature request just an Idea. It might not even be possible. Just wanted to know your thoughts.

will there be a game making add on?

Will Blender's Mantaflow improve to be as good as Embergen?

is unity going to collaborate with blender?