Blender

How to transfer settings and add-ons from an old to a new version of Blender

Blender is very dynamically developed, so new versions of the program appear regularly. However, having downloaded the next release from the Blender website, we always need to configure it in a convenient way.

In order not to manually reset all personal user settings and reinstall all add-ons, we can quickly transfer settings and add-ons from the previous version to the new version of Blender.

  1. When we start Blender for the first time, in the splash screen we can press the “Load 2.xx Settings” button.

How to download Blender LTS

LTS (Logn Time Support) – the version of Blender is intended mainly for studios, where the pipeline stability and compatibility are on the first roles, but new editor features and tools appearing is not so important. Each new LTS release only fixes found bugs, and no other changes are made to Blender in this version.

To download the last LTS version of Blender, open the official website blender.org in your browser, and in the main menu, click the “Download” button.

How to get the render pixels coordinates in compositing

When fine-tuning the finished render in “Compositing”, sometimes it is necessary to refer to the pixels coordinates of the processed image, for example, to apply effects distributed over the entire width or height of the image.

We can get the distribution factor of coordinates along with the height or width of the rendered image using texture nodes.