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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. Curve deformations? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A.K.A. "biting shiny metal asses"? Oh, wait, you said Blender...

  2. Donations by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ya know, I'd love to give some money to this project, but I could never figure out which button actually submitted the donation.

  3. full undo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Finally....

    Now if only there was a way to switch it between windowed and fullscreen mode... from within blender. Well, actually, running it in windowed mode then letting the kde kwin window manager manage fullscreen works, but windowed mode should be the default.

    I work all the time with GIMP and Blender open at once, people don't even knoq you can do that half the time... because the windowed flag to blender on the command line is so obscure in this day and age of pointy clickiness.

    If you are eternally pissed off by blender's amiga-like-only-without-the-vital-ability-to-flip- screens-to-other-apps fullscreen interface.... just start it with -w.

    P.S. Blender people: why not put a "minimise" button in the top right hand corner even in fullscreen mode that switches off the screen grab and minimises the application in the usual fashion.

  4. aaaah. by thhamm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    blender. one hand on the mouse, the other one on the keyboard. fastest and easiest modelling ever. it just plain rocks.

    im currently using it with a simple self-written python script to export meshes (with animation) and load them in my opengl app. for free.

    never saw an easier and faster interface (if you get used to it) in any other package.

    i think im using it since version 1.25. sometime 1998 or something. and the original manual is a treasure :) hey i even had bought a C-key! and when they went broke, i got the tutorial book #1 for free, with the cd. mr basic et al.

    greetings ton :)

  5. my 'pinions by 5cameron · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I love blender. Although I don't really use it. I guess I love the idea of it.

    I'm all about Processing (http://www.processing.org/) these days. Not the same at all, but arguably neater.

  6. a real "undo" feature?? by Hex4def6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah.

    Real men don't need an undo feature -- the get it right the first time :)

    In all seriousness, I have been waiting too long for blender to include one -- I know it must have taken a good bit of programming to implement, so kudo's to all those involved with the project.

  7. Blender is cool, but... by Masa · · Score: 2

    I like Blender. And the user interface is so clever and easy to use after a bit of learning.

    My only gripe about the Blender is, that the user interface is so damn slow. I don't understand how it can be so slow. The UI is actually completely unusable in my 1700MHz laptop (with only 256 MB of RAM, I know it's not enough for real work, but still, I expect that the UI would be more responsive).

    Is there any way to speed the UI up, besides buying a faster machine and more memory?

    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...
  8. this is huge by michaelbuddy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I fell over when I saw the new features of this program. this is a huge release. you can see the improvements in rendering speed and quality even just rendering a cube. The internal rendering is outstanding with this.

    for anyone who has messed with it just a little but never got a grasp of using it, there are some great divx videos available on http://www.blender3d.org. With this, one can become extremely proficient, seeing somebody with skill actually use the program. 3D is hard to learn because so few people do it.

    IMO this is the best release they have had in a long time. Being able to UNDO, being able to render at this quality, and having video training, there's no excuse for any highschool not picking up graphics and 3D as an elective.

    Here's where this program takes off, mark my words.

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