Blender 4 changes

[NP5]

One just seen elsewhere here.

@RayMobula

Hello there.

In Blender 4 the texture slot under workspace, active tool settings has moved.

The texture slot is now located here

You can create either a new image, or material.
e.g., a new material with a base color

The same tool shows the current image name. And allows you to save all images.

Adding material for the 1st time creates a material shader, with a texture node, and the new image is already selected.

The new image is immediately available in the image editor.

You can find more here > Blender 4 manual - Texture Slots

Besides the location to add a texture, the functionality Grant_Abbitt described stayed more or less the same.

Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Ray.

[RayMobula]

Great idea.

Here is one more on key binds

Continue courses on Blender 4.0 - or stick to 3.6.5 for now?

I would recommend using 3.6.6 while going thru these courses or until you’re comfortable with exploring Blender. Grant’s new rigging one is suppose to be updated for 4.0 so that one might be an exception. Normally updating to the newest isn’t that big of a deal, but There are a lot of hotkey changes. For example: x(Draw brush) and shift+S(Smooth brush) are now v and s. There are a lot of node changes two. Plus renaming which might confuse someone new to blender. That’s just my opion.

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rorsdors
Grant says to use ctrl click to select different bones in weight painting. I can’t get it to work in Blender 4, in the previous version no problem, in fact I tend to hold shift left click to move between the bones in 3.6. I can select the different bones in the vertex tab.
Have they changed the way to select different bones in weight painting in the newest incarnation of Blender?

Dwayne

@Dwayne

Yes they changed the hotkey. Officially it is now Ctrl+shift+LMB. In 4.0 alt+LMB also works. I don’t know if they’ll remove the alt+LMB in 4.1 or not. Ctrl+shift+LMB was supposed to be for people who use emulate MMB (middle mouse button), but testers seem to like it even when that option in preferences isn’t checked. Since Ctrl is used for invert brush on the other paint modes the changes weight paint to match. So now Ctrl+LMB invert weight paint instead of selecting a bone.

Dwayne

@RayMobula

Maybe the older videos need to display a note on the changes 4.0 brought along?

Like textures in texture painting aren’t in the pencil properties and moved in the area’s header.

Blender Animation & Rigging

Maybe the older videos need to display a note on the changes 4.0 brought along? Like textures in texture painting aren’t in the pencil properties and moved in the area’s header. [image]

[Todd_Vance]

UV Unwrapping:

I think I just noticed one. Before, if I am not misremembering, if you selected multiple objects and selected the default Unwrap (I used Conformal mapping), all the islands would be scaled according to relative size (assuming of course you applied the scale transforms!). In 4.0, it appears not to be the case.

[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.

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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’

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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