Blender 4 changes

[Dwayne]

@Todd_Vance I don’t know I’ve only Unwrapped 1 object at a time, but They did update the unwrap to be more efficient compared to previous versions.

[NP5]

More stuff mentioned.

@RayMobula

Grant Abbitt’s video on the new key binds in Blender 4 for weight painting (and why it changed).

• Ctrl + Shift + LMB to select
• LMB to add weight
• Shift + LMB to smooth
• Ctrl + LMB to remove weight

Weight Painting Updates in Blender 4

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ray

ps: Hey admins, can this be pinned to the chapter 5, Weight painting?

[NP5]

Texture slots in texture painting moved in Blender 4.

Texture Slots in Blender 4.0

5:00 into the Stylized Castle tutorial, Grant moves to texture painting. I ran into an issue with Texture Slots. I cant seem to find Texture Slots in any of the categories as of Blender 4.0. This makes it hard to advance the tutorial, and any others that require texture slots. Unless im just blind and missed it completely… [textureslots]

@Todd_Vance

Blender 4 moved the slots to a dropdown on the header (by default, at the top) of the 3D Viewport panel.

[NP5]

Snapping has been improved.

Press B over the point of your selected object you want to snap to the other thing.

Snapping Base Point in Blender 4.0 | Blender Secrets

[NP5]

Texture slots now here.

@Onur

For those who don’t know where the menu is; it’s at the top as a dropdown menu. At first I had my own issues to find it but I found it somehow. You can see it in the screenshot

[RayMobula]

More about textures from the grant master

Master Texture Painting in Blender 4: A Quick Start Beginner's Guide

[NP5]

Project individual elements from the Snapping menu moved here Grab move menu, if you ever want it.

@RayMobula

The option was moved to the menu in the bottom left corner

[Esperanza_Gaffo]

Shift + s is remove to for switch nodes type. It says a native implementation will be added in the future

[CypherPoet]

Regarding that “native implementation”: There’s an ongoing design discussion about this function, which is tentatively being called the “Swap Node” operator.

[NP5]

you-now-use-ctr-shift-left-click-to-select-bones-in-weight-paint

They updated it (ctrl left click isn’t working anymore), use ctrl shift left click for it now.

[NP5]

To enable the normals lines on Bezier curves. there is a new submenu in 4.0 specific to each mode. In Edit Mode, look to the right of Viewport Overlays - there is a new menu ‘Curve Edit Mode Overlays’

[NP5]

Blender 4.0 Keymap Updates

Other help.

[NP5]

Texture paint, colour sampling. Changed.

Sampling Colours in Blender 4 #tutorial #blender #blender4 #blender3d #texturepainting #gamedev

[spaceyjase]

Shift+X for the eyedropped/sample colour (was ‘S’), didn’t see it mentioned!

[RayMobula]

Nodes & smooth shading in 4.1

Set Shade Smooth works now.
Smooth by Angle as geometry node

No need for hack >>> Blender 4.1 >>> Smooth by Angle and Set Shade Smooth nodes

Hello There! No need for the hack using another group input note. With Blender 4.1 the Smooth by Angle modifier + node was added. [image] This allows e.g., have the ico sphere keep the sharp edges, while the rest is smooth. And Set Shade Smooth seems to work too. [image] Maybe update the section of the course. @StephenWoods Cheers, Ray

[NP5]

Smoothing in 4.1

Old Shade Smooth ignores marked sharp edges
Stays the same.

Old Auto smooth you can select the angle (Default 30d) Changing the angle interactively alters the edges ‘treated’ as sharp.
You can add marked sharp as well.

New, (replacement of Auto Smooth) Shade Smooth by Angle. (warning, may be best not to use, use the new modifer instead)
It marks sharp those angles it will treat as sharp. Not interactive! If you change the angle you have to re shade smooth and must undo by hand the marked sharps of previous creation.

Interactive version is now a modifier!
Modifiers, Normals, Smooth by Angle.
Works like the old Shade Auto Smooth. It has an angle number to change as before. PLUS an ‘ignore’ sharps marked tick box.
Warning, New Normals smoothing modifier needs to be last in the modifier list, or at least after a subdiv. But before a weighted normals. Just be aware like modifiers do sometimes order matters.

Applying the Normals modifier will mark sharp all that it had been making sharp.

The old Normals dropdown that used to be in the Data tab has been removed. Function is in the new modifier.

[zeRgenTa]

I just thought I’d leave a link to all the changes in 4.1 .
https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.1/
From what I saw, it looks like the biggest changes are.

1. Auto smoothing
2. They changed the way “I” works when making keyframes.
   (It now keys the location, rotation, and scale if no keying set is active.)
3. The musgrave texture no longer exists, because it has been worked into the noise texture.

[NP5]

Blender 4.1 Change >>> Rotate rotation replaces Rotate Euler

Hello there! Another Blender 4.1 change. In the Geo Nodes course, section 4, Tree Generator, the Rotate Euler node is used. Blender flags this node as deprecated. [image] @StephenWoods Rotate Rotation does the same job. Set it to local and the result is the same. https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/4.1/modeling/geometry_nodes/utilities/rotation/rotate_rotation.html#bpy-types-functionnoderotaterotation Cheers, Ray

[NP5]

Just added for ease of finding, 4 change.

Blender 4 changes and useful info for texture painting (the Orc)

Hey there, just wanted to let you know: In case you are searching for the hotkey for the color sample (Texture Paint > S over viewport in older blender versions such as in the lecture), in Blender 4 it is Shift X apparently: [Color Sampling Hotkey] Also apparently the color sample tool should work even outside blender starting blender 4, atleast ive read that in a thread while researching the shortcut. It did work for me! So you can just google ivory or some elefant tusk and use the color sa…