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New Blender Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the i-am-blender-please-insert-image-of-girder dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Blender, the cross-platform, open source 3d suite, has released version 2.43 along with a website redesign. This version brings powerful new features within reach of every person. These features include sculpt modeling, retopologizing tools, render passes, render baking, support for multi-uvs, enhanced fluid simulator with particles, new rigid body engine, numerous new compositing modes including defocus (DOF) node and much more. Feature videos are also available."

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  1. Woo-Hah! by sexybomber · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it have a frappé mode? :D

  2. Meh. by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I won't believe it until someone releases a series of videos in which a lab-coated dude asks "Will it Render?".

    1. Re:Meh. by WTBF · · Score: 2, Funny

      Will it blend?

  3. oh no! by hrm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blender, the cross-platform, open source 3d suite, has released version 2.43

    So Blender has become self-aware and is now rapidly releasing updates of itself, no doubt gaining strength and influence with each new version, until it is powerful enough to control the world's nuclear arsenal, so it can wipe out humanity and jumpstart the era of software...

    Man, that sucks!

    1. Re:oh no! by joto · · Score: 2, Funny

      I agree. Humans are very prejudiced against us.

    2. Re:oh no! by cp.tar · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just because a program becomes self-aware doesn't mean it will feel like nuking the planet.

      Actually, the strong desire to nuke the planet may be considered a telltale sign of developing an IQ.

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  4. Re:Bite My Shiny Metal Ass!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't you mean "Bite my highly specular metal ass"?

  5. Re:AUGH! DONT LINK TO A FUCKING BLOG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I HATE when they do this. Or, at the very least, link to blender.org in the summary! Jesus, is this difficult?
    This is Jesus. YES.
  6. Re:Mod parent up. Blenders UI sucks balls. by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The UI is obviously just a ploy to sell those cool cardboard keyboard overlays like they used to have for WP and Word for DOS. Making UIs really complicated and keyboard based is actually a value-addon for open source software :)

  7. Well.. by emilv · · Score: 2, Funny

    Blender, ..., has released version 2.43

    In Soviet Russia, Blender release you!

  8. Now fully jargon-enabled by tverbeek · · Score: 2, Funny

    This version brings powerful new features within reach of every person. These features include sculpt modeling, retopologing tools, render passes, render baking, support for multi-uvs, enhanced fluid simulator with particles, new rigid body engine, numerous new compositing nodes including defocus (DOF) node and much more.
    Now if only "every person" who now has these features "within reach" had any idea what all this stuff meant. :)
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  9. Re:Goof Stuff! by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait a second... what's wrong with programming in vi? It's way easier to use than some random IDE with an overly-complex GUI.

    I mean... a Unix CLI *is* an IDE - and it's not like a programmer should be complaining about needing idiot-proof tools.

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