The Blender Foundation has released another significant update to its open source 3D software. New features include:
- The Cycles renderer offers improved Subsurface Scattering and faster SSS on GPUs, smoke/fire and Point Density support on GPU, support for rolling shutter, etc.
- Improvements to the UI
- Various modeling enhancements including an Edit-mode boolean tool
- Improvements to the Snake Hook brush that allow you to drag out long extruded segments, and rotate the brush using the new rake option
- Animation improvements including new interpolation method for constraints based on “Polar decomposition”, plus updated graph editor, dope sheet, armatures, etc.
- The Grease Pencil tool adds stroke sculpting capabilities, a proper “Edit Mode” in the 3D View, animation editing improvements including Copy/Paste and more advanced channel filtering, etc.
- OpenVDB caching for smoke/volumetric simulations
- Blend File Utils add-on offers the ability to pack blend files, including all their libraries and dependencies, into a self contained ZIP file
Plus bug fixes and many other improvements. More on Blender’s website.
another nice update to an already great 3d app.
Blender is simply amazing, getting better and better for every release.
It’s giving the big boys a good run for their money with each new release.