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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: 2) by DannyB on Thursday August 01 2019, @09:16PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday August 01 2019, @09:16PM (#874261) Journal

    I wrote that line in the early 2000s as part of a longer . . .

    Our father, who art in Redmond,
    Microsoft be thy name.
    Thy monopoly come, thy will be done,
    Throughout the Earth as it is in the US.
    Give us this day, our daily license activation key.
    And forgive us our bug reports,
    As we forgive our system crashes.
    And lead us not into competition,
    But deliver us from innovation.
    For thine is the Control and the Power, and the Greed forever.
    Amen.

    --
    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
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