Blender 2.40 Released

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."

Comments

Great...

[DavidHOzAu]

The Slashdot effect has blended the blender homepage.
You should've used Coral Cache, you insensitive clods!

General Annoyance

[pawonfire]

You know what would be nice, the submitter including a sentance on what the software did. Even half a sentance. It would help us who have no clue what Blender be interested (and maybe use/contribute to) a software project, instead of quickly skipping it. I will give the submitter credit, he/she included a link to the website. The link directs you to the download site, which also doesn't provide a hint as to what the software does. I am not bashing this post only. Many are like this. Please include a short description when linking to a not-worldly known product, it just might make it more popular.

Re:Volunteerism and private enterprise win again

[komodotoes]

I don't quite get it...

Although capitalism has a place in the world the same as socialism, I don't really see how this illustrates capitalism being more progressive than socialism. Even though Google contributed manpower through the Summer of Code, they ultimately were doing it for the benefit of the larger community, and not profiting themselves (at least not directly), which kind of goes against hard line capitalism.

In fact, you could look at it as if Google (a very large, well funded company) was taking on the role of a socialist entity by subsidizing open source development in much the same way that socialist states subsidize and control infrastructure companies (gas, electricity, telco), for the sole purpose of benefiting the community, even if it means forsaking profit or running at a loss.




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