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If you enable Clipping in the mirror modifier you really don't need to apply it all the time, can save on a lot of extra work. And some other quick tips: ctrl-1, ctrl-2, ctrrl-3 in object mode directly apply a subdivision modifier with the given level. And that vertex cleanup after the boolean is done quicker selecting the 3 verts in the right order, then hitting M for merge and L for last (nearby on the keyboard, so really quick): there is no need to first join two verts then clean up the left over edges.

How to fix shading after this? Gonna make a video about?

Super interesting and useful, thanks for making it understandable for us muggles!

Why is my fillet option, set first points, and set origin to spline grayed out?

I'd rather do scenefrake + 1 so you don't get issues when doing animations and such. There is a reason I believe they start at frame 1 and not ar frame 0. Can't recall though why or what the reason was

Ps when you showed the method of linking it to scene 02. I was wondering, can't we simply instance the same tall cup in the other scene? It's been a while since I worked with that feature. I don't work with scenes that much. Most of the times I create collections for different scenes in the main scene

I somewhat get a feeling this method is quite tedious. I'm not familiar with the asset library yet. I still use node groups as Custo material setups. Ps I've made an edit to the edit linked libraries, where when you edit them you can click a relais button. This is handy when you work with large scènes. Because normally you either need to do this manually in blender file section in the outline or close and reopen the working file.

If you were iterating over the same x number of materials, multiple times using the frame number as the input, using the modulo function of the math node, should enable this when the frame number exceeds the number of materials.

I know this might be too much to ask, but could you someday consider doing a tutorial of an entire scene (like a kitchen for example)? I really like the look you're able to achieve in Blender. Best regards!

Good video. So many different workflow options 😊.

Wait, let me get me bachelor degree in lighting physics and math first.

This is the exact issue I'm dealing with at the moment. The solution you provide feels a bit weird to me even though it seems to work from a visual stand point. But what if you're dealing with liquid being poured into a glass and you don't have a perfect edge loop you can separate out? There has to be a way of keeping the container as a closed mesh.

Nice tutorial , many thanks !

Just only for making mesh like that, there is simpler way than using Tissue add-on. (extra curve object) Add - Curve - Knots - Celtic links. This will automatically generate exact same mesh in a second.

This is gold.

But, viewport button doesn't animatable for collections. Right?

I use the knife tool all the time, but never really touched the knife project tool. It's a game changer!

I was using this recently. I want to simply turn off certain objects during a render, to make them disappear. I could not believe what a pain this was! When an object is turned off, the keyframes on the graph editor also disappear! Which make it incredibly difficult to animate. My solution was to ignore them in the viewport and just animate the render (camera icon) enable/disable. But ideally, I want the object to also disappear from my screen as well as the render. This really needs to be fixed. I should be able to animate both screen and render visibility with one set of keyframes, and I would like the keyframes to remain visible in the graph editor and dope sheet. There were times I couldn't even find the visibility channel in the keyframes. I had to turn on auto-keyframing and set a keyframe in order to get that channel to appear in the graph editor. Ideally, I would like to be able to animate objects fading out, without going into the materials editor. This is something I used to use extensively in Lightwave, and it wasn't difficult.

when i shrinkwrap the curve to a surface instead of it following a smooth line it follows the lining on the surface?

Great tutorial!! I was actually dealing with this exact problem on a project this week and came up with a similar but much more complicated solution using geometry nodes, i'll definitely use your method next time. As a side note, you can cycle through different variations at once using the index parameter as a driver for the same parameter on different objects with similar geometry node trees, eliminating the need to change each variable manually (this is especially useful for models with multiple parts and material combinations)

In one video, you thought Scenes, NLA, Video Sequence Editor. I love your videos. They are simple, Easy to follow and production ready tips.

Great topic! I worked on a similar very large project. One challenge I faced was file naming when working with such high numbers of images. I needed to figure out a way to automate this. I ended up using the markers in the video editor to mark the color name for each variation at each frame and copy and paste this across each scene strip. You are able to embed metadata, including the scene name as well as these markers to help identify the product variation and view in each render. I was then able to write a simple script that read the metadata to change the file name.

Thank you!

Love it! Little detail: No need to keyframe every frame (@ 6:40). You can keyframe initial key and last key and Blender will interpolate.

Soo helpful! thank you!

For me the eye icon and the display icon have two VERY distinct use cases, and I need and use both all the time. The EYE is for when I'm working on something and temporarily need to hide some mesh that's in the way, or if I want to solo an object during modeling or something similiar. I use it when I do not mind that the object comes back when I press alt + h to unhide everything. The SCREEN is used in the exact opposite case: I want to hide this object in the viewport PERMANENTLY. I use this for things like fog boxes or walls when working on interiors. Things that need to be in the scene but that I do not need to see at the moment.

You totally scooped me on this topic! Fantastic video as always, Christopher

I'm not sure if it’s something you’ve considered, but a masterclass from you would be incredible. Your knowledge and teaching style, focusing on the “why” rather than just the “how,” is why i subscribed when I did. Honestly, you’re in my personal Blender Hall of Fame, which is certainly the nerdiest thing I have ever said. No regrets 😅. You've quickly become one of the few people to have a fundamental impact on my workflow-alongside Viscorbel (from way back), Grant Warwick, VRay Guide, and Arrimus. I currently work in product visualization, and your channel has dropped so many gems that have been impossible to ignore. The content is excellent, and I’m so glad I discovered your channel. Please keep up the fantastic work!

Game changer! I've been doing this manually like a maniac all this time!? 😢 Thank you! 🥹 I feel like I'm beginning to see the Matrix now 😎

I think if you save the source collection as an asset after that you can import it as linked and dupluicate it in a circle . If you need to edit the source collection go to the source collection asset and use : "open blend file" and the changes will uptated in the linked collections

Very useful video, glad these topics are brought up. For beginners, it's confusing because they think hiding in the viewport is disabling, which it isn't.

For those wondering: the "eye icon" hide button is: "I don't want to see it, but still want the object used in the viewport." It doesn't affect the object in memory; you can toggle hiding objects very quickly (even if they are complex). Simulations still run on objects even if they are hidden this way. This is best for when you're editing something but that one object keeps getting in the way: just get it out of your way _for now_ without affecting anything else. The "TV icon" disable button is: "Hide this for me, I don't want it to affect my viewport." So, it unloads it from memory (but will use it for the render). As others like timothycook and dafff08 mentioned, disabling objects can significantly increase performance. And of course, this is what's used when deciding what to render in instances in the viewport. Like other aspects in Blender, it's a very useful feature that's not greatly explained 😅 (source: I've made optimization add-ons, so I've had to figure this all out)

Good information 🇦🇶

nowadays I'm using the "Quick Groups" it's amazing! u can simply press ctrl+G to group, and select and press tab to edit in new scene and tab out. extremely useful.

Never understood that default. And you cannot animate visibility without the tv icon (the eye can't be animated at all (which admittedly makes sense)). It's generally annoying though because the graphs /keyframes disappear too whenever you hide something (unless you set it up distinctly). A geonode with a simple switch (input or nothing) is more convenient than that. And a driver on the render icon so it matches the tv icon might be helpful as well. Another visibility feature that they have really put in the most undiscoverable place of all: the local collection viewport settings (and its relations to the vis icons). Hint: its in the N-panel somewhere 🥚 thanks for the addon link. Looks really useful.

off topic, but i watched a video by the inventers of khronos and they said agx is actually better than khronos for realistic render. (23:04 in this video czcams.com/video/0oIZoSg03PY/video.html ) i also saw a video by cg cookie for the "render raw" addon which says agx can be used to get better saturated colors than usual (this video czcams.com/video/hS7uaTquwWc/video.html), i'd like to know your viewpoint on this.

Next is multiple cameras, light setup and rendering to sequences.

First thing I do when install Blender is enable the "TV" icon and disable the "eye" icon for all workspaces and save the new default file. Never knew why the eye icon was default. Animator Pro tip: The TV icon will remove objects from the scene entirely vs just hiding with the eye icon. This allows for FPS speed up in scenes when objects that are dragging down the FPS are actually removed from memory.

Excellent.

This hide, disable for viewport and disable for render is one of the biggest think that have been bothering me since day one of me starting to use Blender. Sure having the possibility to having something in the viewport but not in the render or vise verse can be handy sometimes, but 99/100 if I hide something in the viewport I don't want it in the render either. And this is something that happens to often that I render something and it doesn't look the same as in the viewport because I somewhere forgot to press two buttons instead of one as you do in any other normal program, so then I have to hunt for that thing, which sometimes can take quite a while (on top of the fact that I also have to rerender it) ;\

You don't need to manually copy the object to other scenes. Select object, In the top bar, Object > Link/Transfer Data > Link Objects to Scene > Scene Name Or Simply Press Ctrl + L

so many shitty things in the UX/UI that makes blender really bad. It's a shame they rely on users for QOL fixes even though the addon devs are hamstrung due to limitations of Blender's framework. Blender devs egos are too big at this pointl.

this can be avoided entirely by marking it as an asset and editing in a different .blend file

the screen icon also does more. if you have a heavy scene it will also improve performance, since it actually disables the hidden object, removing it from the pipeline.

Hey there! I wanted to thank you for all the tutorials you’ve shared. They’ve been incredibly valuable to me. I recently created a reply video where I demonstrated how to set up a shader to change the color of an object. After I did notice you also want to change the material values and forgot to cover it in the video. However, I believe the technique is essentially the same, and you can apply it to the shader as well.

You can eliminate geometry nodes and all the multiple materials. Just use a value node fed into a color ramp that feeds into the color slot of a BSDF shader. For the value node enter #frame/number of colors. Then set the color ramp to Constant and then set the colors you want in the color ramp (spaced out evenly). Set the End Frame to the amount of colors you have then render the animation. This gives you one model, and one material.

Wouldn't it be possible to use the Scene Time node in Geometry Nodes to change the index, which would eliminate the need to make key frames? Effectively you'd just need to make sure the length of your animation was equal to the number of variations.

OMG. This is just what I needed. Got one of these projects this week.

What a nice surprise! I just got a new ProductViz case and decided to try it with AGX (I just downloaded 4.2). When I saw the Khronos PBR neutral option in the dropdown menu, I was like, 'What the heck is this?' Then I found your amazing video about it! Thank you! It seems like it will significantly reduce post-production time.

Someone may have said this already, but in geometry nodes you can change the material per frame using the set material index node, eliminating the need for duplicates.