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It also helps blender is a competitor to Epic's Unreal
by onelovetwo 5y ago
It also helps blender is a competitor to Epic's Unreal
- Arelius 5y agoSort-of? They both compete in rendering, specifically for ArchVis. But otherwise they complement each other more than they compete. Likely why Epic is also a member of the Blender Development Fund.
- SXX 5y agoI guess you confuse Blender 3D editor with Godot game engine. Blender had built-in game engine, but it's been frozen and removed few years ago. Also Epic is sponsoring Blender Fund too.
- benjaminjackman 5y agoAnd Epic granted money to Godot: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epic-megagrant https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epi...
- Miraste 5y agoWhile it's great that Godot is getting better funding, that's about the worst insult I can think of. Epic is so confident that Godot will never be a serious competitor that they're giving them charity money. We'll see; there was a time when Autodesk viewed Blender as an also-ran too.
- shadilay 5y agoNot necessarily. While Epic has an interest in selling unreal they would also benefit from people selling godot games on their store.
- onelovetwo 5y agoI was thinking about Godot!
- potatolicious 5y agoWait, how so? Isn't Blender a pretty direct competitor to 3D modeling and rendering tools like Maya and 3dsmax? AFAIK you can't directly author 3D models in Unreal, if anything Unreal has a dependency on tools like Blender. There is some competitive overlap, but that seems mostly within the realm of real-time vs. offline render for producing video content?
- yissp 5y agoYou can do 3D modeling directly in Unreal, but it's very limited compared to something like Blender.
- dragontamer 5y agoThat's almost like saying Internet Explorer is a competitor to Microsoft Word because they both share text documents with pictures. Yeah, Blender and Unreal kinda-sorta do the same thing (3d rendering). But their applications are completely different... and you'd be more likely to see people use both tools together on one project rather than a competition between the tools.
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- schmorptron 5y agoEpic doesn't seem to think so, since they majorly funded it just two years ago. https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-foundation-with-1-2-million-epic-megagrant/ https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-fo... The only area I could see this in is in high-end movie production, like they did with The Mandelorian for the digital green screen stuff, but the distinction between real-time and non-real-time rendering seems pretty strong.
- Miraste 5y agoBlender does have a real-time engine called Eevee which is pretty powerful, although I don't think the use cases overlap enough to bother Epic.