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Blender 2.35 Released

Posted by timothy on from the still-free dept.

meestaplu writes "After several months of development work, Blender 2.35, the latest version of an open source professional 3D modeling, rendering, and animation program has been released. The new version adds a full undo system, better mesh modeling, curve deformations, and many bugfixes. The program boasts an active user community at Elysiun.com, where new users are sure to find the help they need. Development happens at Blender.org."

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  1. Re:Blender is cool, but... by afd8856 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I was having the same problems with it. It's about the openGL acceleration of your video card. Blender's interface is generated with openGL, so if your card is slow at that, the interface will also be slow. Especially if you have a laptop, as they tend to support opengl poorly.

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  2. Re:Blender is cool, but... by mqRakkis · · Score: 2, Informative
    Also note, from the 2.35 ChangeLog:

    UI drawing

    Live updates of buttons and menus have been recoded to not use frontbuffer drawing anymore, resulting in substantial speedup...