Custom Icons for EnumProperty in Blender

We can use custom icons, icons loaded from external files, and not embedded in Blender libraries, for example, to add customization to operator call buttons in UI panels. However, it is not only buttons that may require custom icons. Using the Blender Python API, we can add customization to drop-down list items or switches that are created based on the EnumProperty type.

Enabling the Bloom effect in Blender 4.2

In Blender 4.1 and earlier versions, the diffuse glow effect for the EEVEE render engine was simply enabled by checking the special “Bloom” checkbox in the Properties panel on the Render Properties tab. In Blender 4.2, due to the upgrading to the new version of the EEVEE-Next render engine, this tab was removed, and now we can’t enable or disable the bloom effect with one button.

Control-net template images generator for creating AI images

Control-net is one of the tools for simplifying image creation using neural networks / AI image generators. Control-net allows specifying a source image, on the basis of which the neural network will create a new generative image, preserving the general form and content taken from the specified source. The “Character bones that look like Openpose” scene for Blender allows quickly create such source images for further use in the AI ​​generation workflows.