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Blender 2.42 Has Been Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the makes-good-juice dept.

bartv writes "Blender 2.42 has been released. It features an impressive list of new features for professional users. The most important improvements are: a new render pipeline, node editors for compositing and materials, support for anisotropic materials, improved fluid simulation and new character animation tools. Most of these features are the result of the production of Elephants Dream, the first Open Movie. During this project, Blender's lead developer Ton Roosendaal was coding the features that were required by the artists to produce their movie."

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  1. Bite my shiny metal ass! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, I read that as Bender!

    1. Re:Bite my shiny metal ass! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That should be "Bite my shiny anisotrophically rendered metal ass!"

  2. Just maybe by suso · · Score: 2, Funny

    but why not have a mode for those who want instant gratification by using "expected" conventions

    Maybe its because those that want instant gratification only end up making shiny metal spheres on checkerboard planes.

    1. Re:Just maybe by SharkJumper · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah! You're familiar with my work!

  3. Open Moves bad for America by MarkByers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Watching so called 'Open Movies' is Communistic and hurts the American economy. In particular it hurts us. There's no such thing as a free lunch. You get what you pay for. Open movies contain viruses and trojans. Sharing open movies is illegal in most countries.

    Don't download this movie or we will sue you. We know you broke the law when you were 14 years old. We have it on record.

    Your friends,
    The MPAA.

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  4. Re:eh hem. by suso · · Score: 1, Funny

    There are plenty of things in this world that don't make any sense. Especially things people say. Honestly, I've heard people say it both ways.

    If all of you want to get stupidly technical about all this, then try this on. To say that necessity is the mother of all invention implies that necessity is an invetion, since its other invention's mother and all. Unless of course necessity copulated with another species of concept in order to create an new hybrid species to create a new one which we now call invention.

    Sound insane? I must be to keep posting my thoughts to slashdot.

  5. Re:What have they done for the UI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Every time I see a comment like this, I refer people to this link.

  6. Re:XSI by suckmysav · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is the seat leather upholstered or just some cheap material?

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  7. Re:"open-sourcier" by Deltaspectre · · Score: 2, Funny

    I hate to point this out to you, but $my_vocabulary was never declared!

    I jest :P

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