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It also helps blender is a competitor to Epic's Unreal

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I 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.

And Epic granted money to Godot:

https://godotengine.org/article/godot-engine-was-awarded-epi...

While 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.

Not necessarily. While Epic has an interest in selling unreal they would also benefit from people selling godot games on their store.

I was thinking about Godot!

Epic doesn't seem to think so, since they majorly funded it just two years ago.

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.

Blender 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.

Wait, 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?

You can do 3D modeling directly in Unreal, but it's very limited compared to something like Blender.

That'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.

Sort-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.

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