Blender 4.3 is Here! - What are the NEW Features?

Talking about the new features of Blender 4.3.

00:00 - Blender 4.3 is Here!
00:34 - A Stroke of Genius
01:00 - EEVEE Lighting
01:48 - New Metal Shader
02:58 - New Procedural Noise (Gabor)
03:25 - EEVEE Compositing
04:09 - Extension Platform
04:39 - SLIM UVs
05:15 - Studio Friendly and Portable
06:00 - Massive Geometry Node Changes
07:04 - For Each Zone
07:21 - Gizmos
08:40 - Geometry Naming
08:57 - Grease Pencil with Geometry Nodes
09:59 - New Utility Nodes
10:14 - Other Geometry Nodes Changes
11:07 - Donate to Blender
11:24 - Grease Pencil Rewrite
12:30 - Industry Ready
12:38 - Brush Assets
13:27 - User Interface Changes
14:32 - More UI Changes
15:03 - Windows Arm
15:12 - Video Sequence Editor
15:48 - Splash Screen
15:58 - Final Changes
16:33 - Closing Thoughts

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[bouncycow]

So happy with the eeve viewport compositor additions and the grease pencil rewrite. ❤

[KevinMerinoCreations]

💖 Thanks for the insightful summary! 👏👏👏

[sarahwilkins]

I was existed about the grease pencil changes, but knowing that Wrap around is now the default in the text editor is the really game changer 💖

[ericpatrick]

💖 One of the things I'm the most excited about (aside from the upgrades to the VSE, which I love) is the inclusion of the Gabor texture. I can't wait to play around and experiment with it in procedural materials. That, the new Metal BSDF node, and the new options for volume scattering are all awesome!

[AZayden]

💖 With the massive updates to grease pencil, as someone interested in getting deeper into mixing 2D with 3D I'd love to see more on the grease pencil and all it can do at this point. Really awesome stuff in general with this update! Love the Light Linking update and diffuse roughness and metallic updates

[sb]

so amazing! i am always wishing the best for the development team and all the contributors. i wish that they could keep reaching a brighter future on every update of blender.

[kjelm]

❤ Thanks for this summary. This is huge. Improvements are welcome, but there is also much to learn.

[anomalyraven]

This is great. I'm definitely gonna try out my next project at work with this version.

[fabbrobbaf]

Blender 4.3 is a step forward! I'm quite excited!! ❤ Let's support the development team by donating

[waylenamccully]

💖 I've been away from Blender for a bit. Almost like starting over, except that my decades of use mean that I have no fear of interface changes. 😍

[theminecraft]

holy crap they remembered the video sequencer

[WaterShowsProd]

Speaking of how many people are using Blender, this morning I was watching a 30th birthday episode of Time Team, while recovering from a fever so I might have been mistaken, but they were modeling a recreation of this Iron Age settlement they were excavating and moving around in it, and I could have sworn they were using Blender to do so.

[zachhoy]

4.3 is pretty big... pretty pretty big. 💖

[stephenconroy]

💓 I think it might be time to try grease pencil - maybe!
I've been consumed with blender so much I haven't drawn anything in years!

[krzysztofdeoniziak]

<3
Whats best? New UV unwrapping and shelf in sculpt:
Whats missing? Working Vulkan.
Sadly, still i cant undock properties for active operation (item tab, or tab thats popup in down left, i moved to blender from lightwave, and there its called numeric, i miss it so much)

[Spacebar-D]

💖 Thank you for the overview. As far as I understood 2% of all users donating is their goal. Right now it's about 0.1% if I am not mistaken.

[WaterShowsProd]

Considering I'll be upgrading from 3.3.2 since now that all my legal rope-pulling and smoke-and-mirroring to set up my company and get my visa in order, I'll use what didn't get gobbled up in legal fees to FINALLY upgrade my geriatric computer... I'm excited about all of these upgrades! 🫀 I've already decided what my first project is going to be. And it will be suitably silly.

[stevehanscombe]

Cool news. But, have they managed to handle the shading problems for Mac? Since 4.1 i can't use blender for rendering anymore.
Anybody got simular issues?

[Liberdade]

I understand we all have own interests and niches. Faster sculpting is definitely up there for me. But for pete's sake, how high is the demand for grease pencil stuff?

[DonChups]

🥦 Already overwhelmed with the current features, but any performance and stability improvement are so welcome.