Seven Hottest Features in Blender 4.2

Wow. Thank you to all the people buying the course. This update is getting more attention than the original launch. ❤

Just wanted to say thanks for these regular Blender update videos. It's really useful getting a quick overview of what's new without having to do any digging myself.

a bigger feature i think you missed (unless its being delayed again) is the compositor now using GPU compute, so it is much MUCH faster, and actually intuitive to use! We already had GPU for the viewport composite, but finally it is coming to the render pipeline as well 👍

Im even more excited about eevee's realtime displacement

Global illumination sounds like a new religious mantra

I think the Ray Portal could be useful for things like TV screens, or windows in spaceships and other vehicles; places where you would've used a pre-rendered frame sequence as an image texture. This way you can animate what's going on in-scene, and off to the side, so any changes to the timing can be done right then and there. Imagine a character in a video call with another character, for example. You could create both scenes on one set with 2 rooms and use the Ray Portal to put both sides of the conversation onto the screens of both characters. Or if you had a moving shot of a building and there's an animation happening on a large LED screen and you wanted a certain action to happen at a specific framing, you could take care of that all in one scene.

I'm most excited about Khronos PBR. AgX was cool & all but felt undersaturated. This looks like it's taking the best of both AgX & Filmic worlds and smashing it together into something better.

Definitely some great improvements, as always. Every time I hear reference to the Pin To Bottom feature I think of a comment I saw where someone was complaining about the devs and saying what they need is a Pin To Top feature, completely oblivious to the fact that whatever modifier you have at the top stays at the top. 🤣

I've been waiting years for EEVEE next. Still feels somewhat unreal to finally have it in my hands soon.

I'm also excited about modifier pinning.

Very nice video! I love that kind of videos where like I trying to do that all these futures, but that feeling is really tough to point..very nice keeping goings, and good luck with your classes!

Thank you for putting out the content that you do, and thank you for being real in your videos. The one thing that Blender has brought to my attention over the years is the sense of community, and very human contributors that bring honest and sincere aid and assistance to the community as a whole. You have been nothing but top notch since the beginning, and very open and real about everything. I think I have seen every video you've put out now and I have to say that there is a short list of those who I recommend to anyone new to the program, and you are at the top of that list. Thank you once again, and I hope to meet you face to face someday to thank you personally.

Thank you for keeping us updated

Thing I wanna add: the Kronos PBR Neutral isn't necessarily a replacement for AgX. What this Transform is good at, is representing the actual sRGB from the materials in the final render. For example product renderings will benefit from it. Blender developer website has some good examples.

Thank you for overview!

somehow, until just today, I had not even considered themes for my Blender viewport... mind blown! Excited for 4.2

I actually did a demo for the 4.2 parallax few weeks ago for my addon Nterior , and it will be a breakthrough for sure , probably going to use it if it is memory efficient

well done! congrats!

I'm looking forward for the release

The ray portals for parallax seclusion is actually gonna be insane