# BlenderEverything — Updates and God Level Geometry Nodes
Welcome to BlenderEverything. Let's look at some Blender updates and god level Geometry Nodes, in case you missed it. Blender 5.2 is now in beta with a lot of new features.
**Mesh Bevel Node**
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Like the new Mesh Bevel node from Cartesian Caramel. No more sharp edges for models generated in Geometry Nodes—you can now round them off and use custom profiles just like the regular Bevel modifier. We just need a few more nodes like this and soon the whole modifier stack will be replaced with Geometry Nodes.
**Thin Walls**
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Another update we saw for Blender 5.2 was Thin Walls, a way to do translucency more accurately. Instead of mixing it in with the Translucent node, Thin Walls brings translucent materials directly into the Principled BSDF node. Bringing us closer to a one-node-for-all-materials setup.
**Sound and Smoke**
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Another new feature in Blender 5.2 is the Sample Sound node for Geometry Nodes. CGMatter shows us here how powerful it can be in the right hands—he uses it to emit smoke puffs as he plays the keyboard. He does this by isolating the frequencies and mapping them to velocities and forces, which he uses to run a smoke simulation. The Volume Advect node adds the velocities from the keystrokes to the smoke sim.
**Sample Sound Lip Sync**
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The Sample Sound node can also be used for lip syncing characters talking. Here's a great example by Jesse Miettinen—you can animate shape keys with isolated frequencies and split vocals to different animations. Makes talking characters that don't take years to animate.
**Bridge Generator**
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If you still doubt the power of Geometry Nodes, take a look at this destroyed bridge generator by Miettinen. You don't have to do much—just draw a curve, and Geometry Nodes handles the rest. It finds where the collapse is, adds broken chunks, materials, internal detail like rebar and metal cages, all in a procedural manner. Now let's wait for him to work on the animation part and we'll have a complete destruction workflow.
**Tree Generator**
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There are several tree generators out there, but few add fruits and growth animation like this one from Sergey Metelskiy. You can add apples to the tree branches, make them fall randomly, add wind animation, and more. Another great feature is you can isolate branches and focus on just one before applying the settings to the whole tree. Truly amazing.
**Geometry Nodes Course**
If all this Geometry Nodes content has left you wanting to make your own generators and procedural workflows, I have a course that teaches you the basics including creating a tree. It's not as detailed as Sergey's generator, but it will give you the foundation. If you want more than the basics, you can also give Houdini a try—all procedural workflows merge here, it's the next step from Geometry Nodes. A unified system for simulation, proceduralism, RBD, particles, and everything VFX. And I have a course just for that.
**Animation**
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Making animations like this in After Effects would require a billion layers and a million pre-compositions. In Blender, it's a few planes with a material, all rendered in real time. You never see that many people using Blender like this, yet it's much easier and more intuitive to make these animations in Blender than any other application.
**Shader Animation**
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Here's another animation by Zhako that you would normally do in After Effects. But with the new Compositor nodes and other tools available in Blender, it's easier and fits in more artists' workflows.
**NeXus Particles**
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Some new Blender updates from last week—NeXus by Insydium, the GPU-accelerated particle plugin that was Cinema 4D exclusive for years, is now available in Blender and has entered beta testing. If you want to test the addon, send them a message.
**Real Particles**
Links: https://esmiles.gumroad.com/l/enwry?a=742446579
Speaking of particles, have you tried Real Particles? It's a new addon for particles in Blender, my own baby, and I'm continuously working on her. Now adding custom forces for Pile particles so you can create guided particle animations that were simply impossible to do. On top of that, I'm continuing with optimization so you can use more particles and simulate them faster. Get it on Gumroad.
**Holomari**
Links: https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/1u1wdsw/i_made_a_blender_addon_and_webapp_for_realtime/
Your artwork is in 3D but your renders are 2D. You put in all that work, texture from all angles, light from all angles, all for your render to be seen from one angle where the camera is locked. Well, it doesn't have to be that way anymore. Holomari is creating an addon that lets users see your renders from any angle they want. And they don't need to be Blender experts who can use the 3D camera—they just move the tablet or phone to a different angle and that will reflect in the 3D viewer.
**Reaction Diffusion**
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Organic math-based animations create the most satisfying results. You can use them in a lot of ways to add complexity and interest to your renders. This one is 3D reaction diffusion, and Alex Martinlin created it in Geometry Nodes and has it available for free to anyone who wants it.
**Lazy Bones**
Links: https://superhivemarket.com/products/lazy-bones/?ref=311
If you hate rigging like me, then you'll find the Lazy Bones addon transforming. It can automatically figure out the right bone armature structure for any mesh with ease. You just give it the mesh and the addon produces the right skeleton.
**Community Roundup**
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And the community keeps pushing Geometry Nodes further. SmallzKillin has been dropping some wild ball physics setups. Tearing sims are getting more impressive by the day. FaustXins has both a tearing demo and a jacket simulation that show how far cloth has come. Bread baking in Geometry Nodes—because why not. Color visualization tools, curve guides, a fully procedural Rubik's cube, and yet another tree generator. The variety of stuff people are building in Geometry Nodes right now is honestly staggering.
**Blender for Advertising Masterclass**
Links: https://www.udemy.com/course/blender-for-advertising-masterclass/?couponCode=TOPCHANNEL2
If you want to turn all this into actual client work, I have the Blender for Advertising Masterclass. It teaches you how to create professional commercial animations from scratch—product visualization, studio lighting, material creation that actually looks good in a presentation, and how to deliver production-ready renders that clients actually pay for. It's the most viable niche for Blender artists right now and I've structured the course to get you there fast. You can grab it on Udemy and Superhive.
There's never been a better time to be digging into Blender. 5.2 beta is packed, the addon ecosystem is exploding, and Geometry Nodes is turning into something that genuinely rivals dedicated procedural tools. Between the new nodes, the third-party tools, and the courses available, you've got everything you need to take your work to the next level. Go build something.
