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posted by martyb on Thursday August 01 2019, @05:03AM   Printer-friendly
from the Will-it-Blend? dept.

"Blender is a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software toolset used for creating animated films, visual effects, art, 3D printed models, interactive 3D applications and video games."

If you had previously taken a look at Blender, but were put off by its nonconformist UI and right-click-select paradigm, well, that's all gone now:

The longest-awaited – and, arguably, the most significant – release in Blender’s history has finally been released. Blender 2.80 is now available for download, bringing with it a new interface, a new core architecture for the software, a new render engine, a complete new 2D animation system, and scores of new features affecting everything from modeling to simulation.

[...] The Blender 2.80 documentation lists seven major areas of development, each comprising scores of changes, plus over 30 smaller new features.

[...] The 2.80 release makes Blender look and act much more like other DCC software, adopting industry conventions like a dark UI theme, flat icon design, and left-click being the default way to select objects.

[...] Blender 2.80 replaces the software’s old system of 3D layers and layer groups with Collections, used to organise objects in a scene, instance groups of objects, and link groups across .blend files. The old system of render layers has also been expanded into a new system of View Layers, making it possible to create multiple versions of a scene during look development or shot layout, as well as to split a render into multiple layers for compositing.

[...] It’s also worth noting that Blender 2.80 is an API-breaking release, meaning that add-ons need to be updated before they will work with it. Many have already been updated: you can find community-compiled lists of compatible tools on BlenderArtists.org and Blender Addons.


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Dr Spin on Thursday August 01 2019, @06:03AM (2 children)

    by Dr Spin (5239) on Thursday August 01 2019, @06:03AM (#873886)

    If it is an API breaking release, why is it not called version 3.0?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01 2019, @06:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 01 2019, @06:26AM (#873887)

    Version numbers of large, public facing popular projects stopped meaning anything a long time ago.

    • (Score: 4, Touché) by FatPhil on Thursday August 01 2019, @08:24AM

      by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Thursday August 01 2019, @08:24AM (#873914) Homepage
      Yes - usually by racing forward with major numbers when there were only small cosmetic changes.
      This is the opposite direction.

      Both break the de facto understanding of the major.minor[.revision] numbering scheme, so both should be criticised.
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