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Blender 2.40 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-improved dept.

LetterRip writes "Googles Summer of Code has born fruit with the Blender 2.40 release. Thanks to their support and the hard work of the coders they supported Blender has fluid dynamics simulation done by Nils Thuerey, a powerful inverse kinematics system done by Brecht Van Lommel, and much improved boolean tools done by Marc Freixas. Of course Blender has had a huge number of improvements aside from the work supported by Google. The animation system got a complete rewrite by Ton Roosendaal, as well as other major improvements like flive UV unwrapping LSCM, and a Modifier stack system. It also has seen greatly improved ease of use since the last Slashdot announcement addressing all of the complaints raised- things like 3d manipulators, full undo system, etc. There is also a quick start guide for new users, and nice video and written tutorials on new features and a fairly up to date manual."

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  1. lots of new features, but... by Toaste · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...does the new Blender come with a kitchen sink?

    1. Re:lots of new features, but... by The+Shrewd+Dude · · Score: 2, Funny

      everything but

    2. Re:lots of new features, but... by /ASCII · · Score: 2, Funny

      Does it run on a toaster?

      Only if your toaster uses a Pentium4 heat element

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  2. Inverse kinematics?? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 3, Funny
    Does it run on Alcohol?

    Is it written in Old Fortran beer???

    If not, you can bite my shiny a... OH. BLENDER...

    Never mind...

  3. Re:Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can also fly a 747, decode Sanskrit, and map the human genome without reading a single manual!

  4. RTFS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    You sir, have taken /. posting to a new level! Not only didn't you skip the article, you skipped the end of the *summary*:

    ...It also has seen greatly improved ease of use since the last Slashdot announcement...


    My hat is off to you!

    -R
  5. Re:one of the few success stories of wikibooks? by FluffyWithTeeth · · Score: 2, Funny
    were one of the very few success stories out of the massive piles of junk [wikibooks.org] there.

    Junk? Dude, that's the coolest thing I've read for ages! You just made my day. Lemme find some toilet paper, I'll be back later...

  6. Grammar Nazi by Geoffreyerffoeg · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's a couple of errors in the post, but they're not important, except one whose rule many people don't know:

    has born fruit with the Blender 2.40 release.
    Borne fruit. "Borne" is the past tense of "bear". "Born" is a defective verb that's used as the passive voice of "give birth". Unless they went into labor before releasing their product, I'm pretty sure they meant "borne".

    1. Re:Grammar Nazi by Bingo+Foo · · Score: 2, Funny
      "Borne" is the past tense of "bear".

      And of course, "cub" is the future tense of "bear."

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  7. Re:Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I wouldn't call it better than 3dmax or any other modeller you can name,

    So essentially it's the worst interface available?

  8. bloated? by AvitarX · · Score: 3, Funny

    at 6MB isn't blender starting to get bloated?

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