Animating gears and talking about Blender

Soooo much good stuff in here, thanks so much Asbjorn! The Light Paths section alone... perfect.

this video has potential for so many memes

I'm glad you showed the example with the Light Paths bounce settings and the glass. I know many people always try to decrease render times and there are a lot of tutorials with tips how do that - I just watched a new one recently. Almost all of them mention reducing the max bounces and say something like, "you usually don't need that many bounces and it almost looks the same", sometimes they even show that it looks mostly the same. The problem is, they only present this as a method of lowering render times, but they miss out on the opportunity to show where higher bounces actually do make a difference. And then people are always using the low bounce values for every render but wonder why their glass doesn't look good, why there are black artifacts etc. and often don't have a clue where it comes from, because many tutors don't tell what negative results the low bounces could have. Another example are the Transparent bounces, which are for one independent from the Max Bounces what many don't even know, and secondly even higher values don't have such a high impact on render times (especially if there is not much transparency in your scene). I once saw quite a good smoke tutorial from a mostly good tutor, but when the animation was rendered there were a few black artifacts flickering in the smoke. He explained, that this is unfortunately a disadvantage of using the Adaptive Domain, because it would tend to clip some of the smoke or anything, but for the sake of faster simulation it is something you had to live with if you don't want to use even higher resolutions and disable the Adaptive Domain. But that's all nonsense, the black artifacts were only showing because of too few Transparent bounces and he could have easily get rid of that issue by increasing the bounces (you don't even have to rebake the simulation or anything) and it wouldn't even render that much longer.

Also, the whole wooden flooring with one image texture workflow is life changing. I'm only 18 months into my 'part time' Blender odyssey, but your tuts are so effortless and enjoyable to watch as you find something cool and get so excited about it, I just hope that 12 years later I'm even half as skilled as you are. Thanks

So many things to love about that video, but from a guy who has a traditional print background but who loves learning 3D and especially your channel, when you instinctively adjusted your kerning on the fly while still chatting away, that was especially cool and I was 'there is a reason I like this guy'... Its always in the details and you smash that every time. That was class...

You are frighteningly good at your job dude hope you get paid accordingly and have a stress free life. Thanks for all of this inspiration!

So (around 8:08) ... there are two options: Either hating two-handed-pressed-keys (you about the parenthesis, hehehe), btw which there was no need for, OR learning first grader mathematics. In that case the Associative Property (or law) of multiplication. You can write x *-1 * 12 / 16 or x * 12 * -1 / 16 or x / 16 * 12 * -1 or 12 * x * -1 / 16 and so on (test it with x = 192, every result is -144), meaning NO PARENTHESIS NEEDED[1]. You can even simplify the equation by combining the individual terms, like: x * -12 / 16. That is even more clearer to watch. Well, that is really basic. It can't be more basic:) (Hope I have no mistake/swapped number or char, qed, hehehe) Thank you for the wonderful tutorial and sharing your great experience with us, subscribed!:) [1] It can be debated (which I will not do, because anything additional is not only complicated for the eye, but also not intuitive in terms of math and beauty), but additional and not needed mathematical symbols hide your intent, possibly even confuse the viewer. Anyways ... why do I explain my intent? You yourself made clear that ADDITIONAL keystrokes are a pest and I practically say the same: Superfluous Mathematical Symbols just lead us into chaos (which is a topic for another day ... noise and fractals?! hehehhehe).

потенциал BLENDER в том, что он покрывает рынки не только UNITY и UE, но и AutoCad. в Blender программисту просто невозможно не влюбиться. гениально! и автор видео подтверждает мои слова! зачем "куча проводов", когда можно заменить одним?

Asbjorn i really like the way you explain things i learned so much from you keep the good work !

its professional level work . great

Oh, and what I forgot in my long comment on bounce settings, I really favour the EXR format as well. As long as I don't want to do a final render with everything composited and make a video out of it, the EXR format is fantastic. I usually use DWAA compression (I don't need DWAB for reasons you mention and found the files even smaller with A instead of B), and with that compression it looks as if it was lossless to me as well and the files are even smaller than PNG files. And they preserve brightness etc. as you said, so you can render them completely without any compositing just to save the image sequence as is. Later when you want to do compositing you can import the sequence into the compositor, do everything you want and just render it quickly and directly as a video file without having to be afraid it crashes or anything because you don't have to render the full scene anymore. And if you don't like the compositing afterwards, you can always do new composites from the EXR sequence without full re-rendering of the animation.

I like your tutorials

I'm gonna have to check out this Derrick dude. As an American your accent makes your tutorials so ...calming? Which is good because I often get frustrated with blender. But sometimes i forget that I'm supposed to be practicing and not listening to ASMR

wow this is amazing, blender in a highes level

we need more streams they are amazing for learning keep it up bro bro !

The Stream was awesome Quick tip for the gears don't use make cyclic for keyframe animation just use linear extraprolation just as a tip for the people watching this "Tutorial". I struggled some hours with that greetings from germany 👋

For single texture use it is sometimes good to separate channels and use only one channel for displacement, another for roughness, etc .... can give better results.

1:23:48 - this whole section should be a short. downloaded the whole stream and cut it down so i could have it on my desktop. loved that tip

Aw I missed this

I generally use 4 to 12 samples since i have a potato pc, and people rarely notice lol