we need more content from this guy. super clean presentation straight to the point
@jeffdavies28244 жыл бұрын
Awesome. I've been wondering about scenes for a while now. As my animations grow more complex, I'll be able to put this info to good use.
@TommyLikeTom4 жыл бұрын
You are great in Harmontown
@Jagent4 жыл бұрын
Easily one of the most useful blender videos I've seen in years. Thank you!
@arsa3d Жыл бұрын
Thank you ! i just cant believe that you are the only one on internet explaining this properly (and i googled it a lot)
@chuctanundaspiderbone54072 жыл бұрын
Excellent, Thanks. I know you published this video a couple of years ago, but now with everybody setting up their new Blender 3.0 Asset Browsers, this information has become even more relevant, especially to those of us for whom library overrides and data blocks are rather fuzzy concepts. I'll bet lots of peeps would love it if you broke this down and went into more detail. For example, "WTF is a library override anyway?" And, "What happens if I click "relocate" on those link thingies?" or "How could my Blender workflow become more efficient if I learned to use scenes effectively?" I know I am not the only person who has made a holy mess out of my computer learning Blender as I experimented, made & reused lots of stuff, and scattered assets across devices. Right?
@ZachHixsonTutorials2 жыл бұрын
Glad to see your still learning from this video! I was cantracted by CGC to make a short video, but would love to expand on these concepts more at some point
@chuctanundaspiderbone54072 жыл бұрын
@@ZachHixsonTutorials That would be great
@CasBox9 ай бұрын
Man you have no idea of how this video helped me. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge and content. I was stuck with my project, and this video helps a lot. It's very difficult to find content related to managing bigger projects or short movies in blender. Most of the content is related to very specific stuff and modeling a single item. Thank you for the help.
@paulwang68442 жыл бұрын
Thank you sooo much!!! You are only person that give me answer how edit linked objects ))
@RyanKingArt3 жыл бұрын
Super Helpful! Thanks!
@carbonx95.084 жыл бұрын
This video is just what I needed. Thank you and bless you!
@michaellarsen19873 жыл бұрын
Zach, you are invaluable!!
@workflowinmind4 жыл бұрын
Man, I needed that so much recently I had no idea it was already partially ported... Thanks a lot
@AndyTanguay3 жыл бұрын
Crazy important stuff for doing anything of a decent size. Thanks
@wexoriann4 жыл бұрын
Holy cow, Now it's wayy more easy to work with team on 1 project :)
@Butterbilk4 жыл бұрын
Oh, I just thought I saw this on Zach's channel until the CGCookie logo popped up at the end. Good to see you guys working together! Zach's name is misspelled in the description FYI.
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
Haha, you're right. I have to send an email to Wes anyways, so I'll let him know so he can change it.
@dhairyavijay20064 жыл бұрын
This is super helpful
@thibaultcezard7223 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! thank you so much for all those tips especially the library override and refresh button !
@violenttriangles3 жыл бұрын
OH THANK YOU! This stuff was super obscure. You saved my butt
@skarlok14 жыл бұрын
Need to know more about this compositing thing with multiple scenes .
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
It's about and easy at it gets. Add a "Render layer node," and select the scene you want. All that scene's render layers will be available to that compositing tree just like a normal render layer. It's great if you have really different scene setups, or want to use different render settings between layers. If you want to know something more specific, let me know and I'll be happy to help
@dawidwizor72054 жыл бұрын
@@ZachHixsonTutorials Is there a option to link specific collection to other scene instead of only objects? And one more question: I see there is linked copy option of scene but its live link between 2 scenes and moving object on one will move it on second too. Is there a way to make linked scene only via specific data block like mesh/material data without animations, positions etc?
@BenLe422 жыл бұрын
duuude. Thanks. I am working on some giant CAD files, and this is gonna be a life saver
@DavesChaoticBrain3 жыл бұрын
I have to thank Ryan King Art for finding this video for me. The linking and library override thing is exactly what I need to save my sanity! But I gotta tell ya, this seems like a bizarrely overcomplicated processes. How do other software packages deal with this? I came from Lightwave and one of the toughest things to overcome when learning Blender was that Scenes and Models are the same file. With Lightwave, models are separate so you could make a library of fully textured models, and when you loaded them into a scene, you were basically taking that model off a shelf and putting it in your scene, it wasn't creating a new, distinct version of that model in the scene. Basically, this linking/library override thing is Lightwave's default behavior and it really just makes sense to me. And even after this video, I still don't quite understand scenes as they apply to a single .blend file. Going to have to look into that some more.
@chuctanundaspiderbone54072 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@lubruz71644 жыл бұрын
This is exactly that I was looking for. Amazing!!!!
@JOELwindows74 жыл бұрын
Blender linkings!!! This is your daily dose of Recommendation Cool and good. Thancc
@87render_official2 жыл бұрын
Great , compact and concise information
@mariuszpocztowski95654 жыл бұрын
If you put object to a collection and then link it to another blend file you can move and resize it freely.
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
If I understand you correctly, you will likely need to make sure that the "Instance collection," option is turned off in the linking dialog, and then override the object, but yes it should work.
@tjseries30574 жыл бұрын
Thanks
@PauloSamurai3 жыл бұрын
Scenes are awesome! You can make a full movie within the same blender file
@binaryburnout3d4 жыл бұрын
oh dude. . . . documentation on the website is soooooooo sparse. thanks for this
@scottlee384 жыл бұрын
Thanks I needed this!
@jeffellis11494 жыл бұрын
Excellent. Very clear. Thanks!
@Viewfinderfx3 жыл бұрын
Great video! really shines some light on how to manage and organize projects!
@guy_incognito Жыл бұрын
Very helpful! Thanks!
@AdamBaird2 жыл бұрын
How do you link collections? If I add to the collection does it add it to both places?
@TommyLikeTom4 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@marlonvdw3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this very clear overview!
@jurgenvantomme4 жыл бұрын
Great tip!
@kevincortez95844 жыл бұрын
this is so useful. Thank you!!
@notsure19694 жыл бұрын
Dude. Awesome tutorial. Also, you kind of look like Elijah Wood.
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
Haha, that's definitely the first time I hear that one, but thanks 😄
@NordieBeats Жыл бұрын
holy shit hes the MAN, i had some trouble and you solved it in 4 minutes, fking A. hairline king, problem solving king! thanks!
@thane5_3d4 жыл бұрын
How is that override feature different from proxies? So have i have everyone seen use proxies for rigs instead, and it seems to work similarly in a way.
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
Overrides is replacing proxies as a more robust system. From a data standpoint, only the changes you make are saved, similar to a GIT commit if you are familiar with that programming tool. I never used proxies much before overrides came around, so I'm not well versed on all the differences though.
@LeslieStroobant2 жыл бұрын
LOL - what are we cavemen? Love your style!
@kubanowskyy4 жыл бұрын
Very useful ;)
@kleioscope3 жыл бұрын
Interresting :D Any idea of when material override will be possible ?
@ZachHixsonTutorials3 жыл бұрын
I know they keep talking about it, but I'm not sure when it's actually coming
@henriklarsen81933 жыл бұрын
MORE PLEASE!!!!!
@Arunkishor3d3 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@alebaroli3 жыл бұрын
how I can join the multiple scenes and make a final animation? When I try using the VSE, the sound from these scenes don't play. Only the animation.
@athinasdesigns3 ай бұрын
So like maya we can have our aniamation file and update the models? In case we finish the animations and we wanna update something on our models?
@yahyatarek4433 жыл бұрын
Thank you
@sgasolacewolf4930 Жыл бұрын
In the scenes thing does this mean if you add objects to different scenes that they won't make the blender project so heavy anymore?
@tomoprime2174 жыл бұрын
So Scenes behaves as the former Workspaces did?
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
Blender has had scenes since at least 2.49 (when I started using it) and probably earlier. If I'm understanding you correctly, workspaces are more just for UI layouts, while scenes are almost like having multiple .blend files inside a single file.
@alexmattyou3 жыл бұрын
Thankyou so much
@andrewhu77703 жыл бұрын
simple and clear! thx
@UonBoat4 жыл бұрын
Wow that Link feature is pretty similar to "an assembly inside an assembly" concept in SOLIDWORKS.
@lawrencedoliveiro91043 жыл бұрын
3:00 Did you say “overrided”?
@korochanew3 жыл бұрын
I have a question: I f I want to render an file on multiple friends pc's , and we share a same folder syncronized - is there a way to whrite in OUT an .. oot oot ender something? so friends don't need to place their out like d: or e: diferent drives and just open scene and hit render ?
@S9universe2 жыл бұрын
hey, i always thought about scenes for batch render multiple scenes, do you have any tips please ?
@architgupta3d Жыл бұрын
can we override custom properties?
@psalm13193 жыл бұрын
Thanks alot
@Mrwuck883 жыл бұрын
Hi, from 2:02, how to modify mesh without affect the uv and mapping? Thanks.
@ZachHixsonTutorials2 жыл бұрын
In edit mode, in the "options," drop-down there's a setting called "correct face attributes," that does this.
@berni85 Жыл бұрын
Is there any way to update/reload/refresh linked collection in blender 3.x ??? Reloading project file not working, and i can't find any other way in Outliner nad Blender file info to refresh modified collection. Please help
@xXSepZXx4 жыл бұрын
Really nice! I have a question, you can also link an obj? I mean, if I modify my obj it will update in blender?
4 жыл бұрын
No, it has to be a blend file. Best practice is to import your .obj inside a .blend file, put that mesh inside a collection, and only then you can dynamically link that collection in the other blend file.
@xXSepZXx4 жыл бұрын
@ Oh thanks! That's a great idea, I'll practice with that👌🏻
@crossman16112 ай бұрын
I know I'm 3 years late to the party but is there anyway to work with/bake particle hair from a linked character?
@JimmyGunawan3 жыл бұрын
2:36 Library Override
@eknight29044 жыл бұрын
How stable is linking nowadays? Some people recommend appending to avoid corrupted blendfiles. And can you link across versions? Thx a lot :-)
4 жыл бұрын
Very stable, I have used it in a massive project lately and it worked pretty well. Only thing is that I had to set blender's file paths to absolute in all the blends, otherwise blender can sometimes loses it's way, especially when you use the "Edit linked library" addon.
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
Pretty stable, but I still run into the odd issue every now and again but it's improving all the time. You should be able to link across versions as long as both versions support the same thing IE: Linking a collection from 2.79 - 2.8 may or may not work since collections weren't supported in 2.79 (it might link a layer instead though), but linking an object from 2.79 - 2.8 should work.
@martinngan5285 Жыл бұрын
I am new to blender. I wonder is there a function that I can create and edit object in a new scene, then link the collection of object to the main scene where the collection can move and displaced. I try to link the collection to the scene but it will copied the location. It does not happen when I duplicate linked in the same scene. Thank you.
@totheknee2 жыл бұрын
Every time I override a material, it gets reset when I reload the file. Even in Blender 3.0 and 3.1. Do you also have this problem?
@SuperElon3 жыл бұрын
nice!
@m_tth_w96472 жыл бұрын
Do assets in other scenes affect render times?
@pedrobello2305 Жыл бұрын
Can you edit a linked file in a new scene and have that be reflected in the original file? thank you... :D
@sonicboy1502 ай бұрын
I keep getting scene unconfigured error everytime i try to export to smd, can anyone help?
@darius555083 жыл бұрын
Thx :)
@thesufficientgatsby3 жыл бұрын
that spam animation lmao
@emileravenet2 жыл бұрын
does any1 know how to link pose libraries between blender files?
@arib87829 ай бұрын
Thanks for this video, it seems super important. I’ve just started learning about linking, and I think I’ve made a fundamental mistake - the thing is I have multiple Blender files going, one for each scene instead of having them as various scenes within the same single Blender file. I wanted to bring them all together into one master file for video editing but in a way that if I made changes to any of the other files, the one master file would reflect any of those changes. So I started learned about linking and I started linking to scenes and doing my video editing - but the scenes are each in their own Blender file. It kind of works, but I don’t think the master files reflects the updates to the scenes in the other individual files. I’ve already done so much video editing in the master file though - should I just append all these scenes into the video editing file, as separate scenes but all together in the master file? I’m really sort of at a loss
@maxismakingstuff3 жыл бұрын
Are these the library overrides that are meant to replace "make proxy" ? Ex: linking a collection with an armature and actually being able to animate it in another scene? Possibly... linking 2 of the same armature in the same scene?
@ZachHixsonTutorials3 жыл бұрын
I don't know about the armature thing, but I do know that Overrides are supposed to replace the old Proxy system
@maxismakingstuff3 жыл бұрын
@@ZachHixsonTutorials I forgot to follow up on this. It did work, I used object->relation->make library override to override everything in the linked collection. Previously when using the "make proxy" setting, the bug I encountered was if you had two links to the same file, the proxies would both recieve the same edits. So link two cubes, modify one, the other gets it too. The library override seems to allow individual edits per link, even if linking the same file. Thanks for this video.
@arthatamayusuf88482 жыл бұрын
i have encountered a problem in this subject. i wanted to link multiple objects from the same file. but it failed to do what i want. let me descibe it in details. i have a rigged character lets call it charA. and i want to animate that character in another file with a bg object. in that file i want to have multiple charA objects from the same source file but it always failed, those charA objects can only be controlled by a single proxy. how to solve this? to have multiple charA objects which controlled by their own proxy?
@macronchampion3 жыл бұрын
Can we overide rigs?
@Rxtxb52gee2 жыл бұрын
Video's Content: 0:22 Scenes 0:32 Scenes Explanation 0:46 Scenes Materials 0:51 Scenes Link 1:00 Scenes Link w/ Tweaks 1:07 Scenes Link in Compositing 1:41 Append Button 2:03 Link Feature 2:38 Library Overrides 2:52 Overriding Specific Parts 3:10 Managing Linked Data
@DonaldDrennan3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, this is helpful. But I'm working on something with one mesh that has like 2 million faces. It makes Blender slow to a crawl. Every little thing I do, even just selecting stuff, takes an enormous amount of time. There's a logo object that I want to edit without that huge mesh. Is there a way to just load a single mesh from that blend file and edit it separately ?
@3dlab334 Жыл бұрын
Hi, Link is not working propertly. Update never happen. :(
@dannyaustin843 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to append a collection that has already been linked and placed in a scene? I would use the term 'merge' coming from 3ds max but that has different connotations in Blender
@dannyaustin842 жыл бұрын
apparently it's not and the devs are aware of this as a 'bug'
@francomarianorojas84313 жыл бұрын
Excelente tutorial como estas? Sabes de que forma sacar la relacion entre objetos cuando comparten el mismo material? Porque use make link/materials y ahora no puedo hacer que cada objeto tenga un material distinto. Use clean parent y no funciona, igual que borrar el material. Saludos !
@ZachHixsonTutorials3 жыл бұрын
Las anulaciones de material llegarán pronto, pero aún no están aquí
@openroomxyz4 жыл бұрын
That's look cool but you have to be really careful when you do linking. You may forget it's linked somewhere and change it. You may think you don't need it and you delete it and it would break another project. I prefer to append things, as keeping track what is linked to what seems a mission impossible over time and HDD space is cheap complexity & time is expensive. Is there any way that i can get a warring don't mod read only / don't delete it's linked into some other project? Multiple Scenes in On File Sounds great, what if Blender corrupts the Blend File, you loose whole project, not just one Asset, you have been modeling, you definitely should have some version control of that file as 5 hours of work is not equal loosing 10 weeks of work.
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
I agree completely. I append generic things like furniture and random props as they definitely won't remain consistent over many projects. However, I'm working for a company right now that uses standard assets in all their animations, so linking really helps a lot.
@MichaelLuckhardt11 ай бұрын
I cannot for the life of me figure out how he moves objects after the library overdrive. All my stuff is stuck in place. (Also my object shifts in position once I add library overdrive?)
@MichaelLuckhardt11 ай бұрын
Figured it out.. If using Library Overdrive and you want to move elements around. File > Link > Find your Blender file > Collection (Uncheck Instanced Collections on the checkbox to the right). The linked file will import immovable. Now right click the Imported Collection > Make > Selected And Content. You should be able to move individual elements and the main object. (Blender version 3.6.0)
@AaronGwynaireGameDev3 жыл бұрын
Can you do these things in 2,79?
@jeric_synergy85813 жыл бұрын
1:06 "mesh data from other Scenes" -- that went by too fast, please elaborate.
@ZachHixsonTutorials2 жыл бұрын
Sorry about that, the contact I had was to make a short video under a certain timeframe so I had to rush through some thing. Of love to cover things in more detail at some point though
@ZachHixsonTutorials2 жыл бұрын
Each object has a separate "mesh," ossiciated with it. In the mesh tab you can swap between different meshes which are associated with the object, just like you can with materials. In short, if you have a mesh in one scene, you can tell an object in a different scene to use that mesh
@SinanAkkoyun3 жыл бұрын
tysm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@jesusaulloa1653 Жыл бұрын
Ong thank you
@enochliang70403 жыл бұрын
Anyone knows how to pack linked assets into a blend file?
@BsAnimation04 жыл бұрын
Thx
@BsAnimation04 жыл бұрын
First
@Illasera4 жыл бұрын
Should have spent at least 10 minutes on the library overrides feature [Even if undone as for the time of posting] , I guess that will do, I am grateful.
@ZachHixsonTutorials3 жыл бұрын
There's so much to talk about when it comes to overrides, I could probably make hours of content around it. I was just contracted for a 3-5 minute video, so that's what I made 🙂
@sh4dow2a4 жыл бұрын
AHH !!! VERY IMPORTANT !! When selecting what you want to link... UNTICK "INSTANCE COLLECTION", this option blocks you from "adding library override"
@ZachHixsonTutorials3 жыл бұрын
If you want to select and move the individual objects, then yes absolutely do this. There are a lot of reasons to want to import a collection as a solid chunk though (such as adding more objects in the future) in which case you wouldn't want to do that
@sh4dow2a3 жыл бұрын
@@ZachHixsonTutorials Also, adding overrides and editing the overrided object doesn't work, got a confirmation by a developer. The object data needs to be imported in the scene, but the object itself can stay in overrides.
@ZachHixsonTutorials3 жыл бұрын
@@sh4dow2a Yeah, they're reworking the depsgraph to allow for some of that stuff, but it's not there yet
@sh4dow2a3 жыл бұрын
@@ZachHixsonTutorials sad :(
@DavidJohnson-dc8lu3 жыл бұрын
Nice tips, but you didn't not show anyone how to operate them at all. If anyone hit append they aren't going to find objects in their current work files at all.
@ZachHixsonTutorials2 жыл бұрын
As I've mentioned in some other comments, the video I was contracted for was supposed to be under a certain time limit. I'd love to give deeper into these concepts sometime
@jkartz924 жыл бұрын
That was too fast, could have been a bit slower explaining stuffs in details in relation with an project!
@ZachHixsonTutorials4 жыл бұрын
I'd love to go into more detail in the future, but this was more of just an quick overview.
@Leukick3 жыл бұрын
It's been 4 more months of you using Blender. Now, this video should appear a lot slower to you ;)
@thenout3 жыл бұрын
Ahhh! Ctrl+L Thanks a bunch, good vid!
@X360DevNerd4 жыл бұрын
Idk how but i was unsubbed from here :(
@matteofalduto7663 жыл бұрын
2:58 My Grammar Nazi asks whether shouldn't it be "overridden"?
@ZachHixsonTutorials2 жыл бұрын
Haha, probably. Wouldn't be the first time my poor spelling/grammer has been imortalized on KZfaq 😅