What is the most bat-guano-insane thing in Blender that you can't believe they haven't fixed yet?

[wilBr]

Mist and depth pass problem with alpha masks.

[MichaelBenDavid (Michael Colina)]

i dont know how is this called in technical term, but is impossible to create this non destructively type of bevel in the modifier but only manually in edti mode like this https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/223763/bevel-inner-edge-issue

[Strike_Digital (Andrew Stevenson)]

It’s not a fix, but for a workaround to this problem, check out this method:

Sunset forest

Yeah, that’s a problem I had for ages as well, to fix it you can use this trick: [image] Instead of using the mist pass, use the depth pass. By default, it has the full distance at every pixel, so to get a useable version, pass it through a normalize node to get it in a 0-1 range. Then, because it also has a lot of fireflies (but a lot less than the mist pass), pass it through a few despeckle nodes. I usually add one, play with the values until it removes the most noise, then add another one…

@Strike_Digital

Yeah, that’s a problem I had for ages as well, to fix it you can use this trick:

1. Instead of using the mist pass, use the depth pass. By default, it has the full distance at every pixel, so to get a useable version, pass it through a normalize node to get it in a 0-1 range.
2. Then, because it also has a lot of fireflies (but a lot less than the mist pass), pass it through a few despeckle nodes.
3. I usually add one, play with the values until it removes the most noise, then add another one and repeat until the image is clean.

Then hopefully you get a clean mist pass!

1: normalized depth, 2: with despeckling

[TheRedWaxPolice (I know dead mesh when I see it..)]

@thinsoldier

What is the most bat-guano-insane thing in Blender that you can’t believe they haven’t fixed yet?

Show gizmo while transforming.

C’mon, I mean c’mon…

[wilBr]

@Sunset forest

dd another one…

hi… thank you very much… I’ll try with my scene.

[wilBr]

Very useful, still lefting problems with trees near of the camera, but ok.

Leaf alpha mask get max depth value, ignoring tree trunk and background terrain.

Thank you again.

[Strike_Digital (Andrew Stevenson)]

Yeah, it’s a hack, so it doesn’t work perfectly I’m not really sure how you would fix those problems…

[Artur_Wieczorek]

1. Not being able to rotate bones around their actual pivot in edit mode using local space (seriously, I haven’t seen something this bad anywhere else)
2. Not being able to change bone’s direction (vector of the tip) or get rid of the tip completely

[Kologe]

@Artur_Wieczorek

Not being able to change bone’s direction (vector of the tip)

You mean ‘ALT-F’? Or have I missunderstood what you meant here?

greetings, Kologe

[YAFU (English is not my native language)]

This seems to be fixed from 3.0

[maorlavi]

1. Creating a stable Bend modifier, similar to Maya’s. The “Simple Deform” is very outdated and barely useful. A simple line, with a visualization of the direction, magnitude and angle of the bend.
2. Viewport colors to objects (like Emptys, Lattices, Etc.) instead of the unified black.

[Kazrarr]

So, as I am using Blender since a while now, I didn’t notice it, even at my start.

But I get more and more case where people just don’t know how to free cam around the scene, when they first came into Blender.

So I think, we should add a note after the start (like the popup main thing which show the version), to indicate you have to use the middle mouse to free cam.
(and they can add an option to disable it, not to show again, by exemple)

It may seem stupid, but I think it could make a lot easier the life of total begginers

[thinsoldier]

I disagree that your post fits in this topic but I do agree that that unprecedented number of total beginners in the Blender world justifies some kind of “beginner friendly mode” that integrates some kind of intro tutorial directly into the UI.

[Kazrarr]

Yeah you’re right, didn’t see it was more about “fixing” in this topic

sorry for that

[Artur_Wieczorek]

No, I mean being able to choose which vector aims down the bone. But it’s tightly related to the first problem I had. Generally I’m amazed that the new animation revamping plans do not even mention reworking the armature so that it matches the standards of common game engines.

[TheRedWaxPolice (I know dead mesh when I see it..)]

@YAFU

This seems to be fixed from 3.0

It isn’t…

[thinsoldier]

do other animation focused programs match the game engines or do they match the other animation focused programs?

[YAFU (English is not my native language)]

Ah, sorry, I thought you were talking about navigation gizmos.

[Artur_Wieczorek]

What does it matter? The concept of “bone” deformer in animation is very simple and is shared across every program out there.

[thinsoldier]

@Artur_Wieczorek

shared across every program out there

It matters because if the game engines do it one way and Maya/Max/Modo/etc do it another way, then I think it would be best if Blender copied Maya instead of copying Unreal.