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Blender 2.46 Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the lots-of-new-toys dept.

The Penguin Man writes to mention the latest release of Blender, the popular open-source 3D graphics suite was officially launched today. You can download it from Blender.org. The culmination of half a year's work has resulted in many new features including a new particle system, approximate AO, the new cloth simulation system, and much more!

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  1. Re:Looks like they've made some improvements. by Mordok-DestroyerOfWo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Major complaints were that the interface was very non-intuitive compared to Maya and Max. The main reason I'd switch over is I have about 20 spare machines I can build into a render farm. It would be substantially cheaper using Blender to render than it would using Maya or Mental Ray.

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  2. Re:Looks like they've made some improvements. by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A 3D suite isn't something that's really meant to simple anyway.

    While that is true for "real" use of it, if say a kid wanted to make a quick 3-D model of, say the solar system for a school project, they won't have time to learn all the interface commands. A "simple" view which lets someone create things, manage them, recolor them, and move them would be nice and an "advanced" view which would be the same or similar to the current layout which would allow you to do much more advanced things.
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  3. Re:Looks like they've made some improvements. by TheModelEskimo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And yet, not too many people have heard of the very intuitive software package Art of Illusion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Illusion

  4. Learning Blender by Thangalin · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Learning Blender can be slow; so I took notes along the way and wrote them up here:
    http://www.davidjarvis.ca/blender/

    An animated short using Blender:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvQbYXPmqiA