The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.72, relased Oct 4 2014. Cycles GPU rendering supports Volume and Subsurface Scattering now. The User Interface comes with optional Pie Menus now and the Tooltips have been improved. For Modeling, a new intersection tool has been added in Edit Mode. Blender Tutorial Guide – a quick way to master Blender written by Rob Schuddeboom This text will provide a guide through the many Blender tutorials which should familiarise. In my opinion the User Interface Tutorial and Navigating in 3D Space are a good place to start, but the Blender Windows tutorial isn’t very helpful. Blender 2.79 packs a bunch of new add-ons that greatly expand Blender’s functionality, allowing you to create architectural environments using parametric windows and walls, to make beautiful skies, or even meta-rigs to animate cats and horses!
Blender 3D. An alternative that is offered free for the modeling, animation and rendering in 3D. A complete tool with many features.
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Blender now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.
The built-in Cycles rendering engine offers: GPU & CPU rendering, Realtime viewport preview, HDR lighting support and Permissive License for linking with external software.
Photorealistic Rendering. Fast Modeling
Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.
Blender’s modeling tools include: Keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow, N-Gon support, Edge slide, collapse and dissolve, Grid and Bridge fill and Python scripting for custom tools and add-ons.
Animation toolset. Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender 3D allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations.
Blender’s animation feature set offers: Automated walk-cycles along paths, Character animation pose editor, Non Linear Animation (NLA) for independent movements, IK forward/inverse kinematics for fast poses and Sound synchronization.
Fast UV Unwrapping. Game Creation
Easily unwrap your mesh right inside Blender 3D, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model. Blender allows for: Fast Cube, Cylinder, Sphere and Camera projections, Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping (with edge seams and vertex pinning), Painting directly onto the mesh, Multiple UV layers and UV layout image exporting.
Included in Blender 3D is a complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right inside Blender.
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The game engine includes: Ability to port your models to any third-party game engine, Create or code your own game logic, Full Bullet Physics integration, Python scripting API for advanced control and AI.
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Support for all OpenGLTM dynamic lighting, toon shading, animated materials as well as Normal and Parallax Mapping, Playback of games inside Blender without compiling or preprocessing and 3D spatial audio using OpenAL.
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- Due to various issues with drivers for AMD GCN 1.0 architecture, those cards are no longer supported for Cycles rendering
- When using add-ons in Blender 2.79 that take advantage of the new data-block pointer properties, the resulting .blend files can’t be opened in earlier versions of Blender. Attempting to open such .blend files in Blender 2.78c and earlier may crash.
- Some Interface Themes may need to be reloaded to work properly.
- The text color contained in a layout.box() is now defined in User Preferences » Themes » User Interface » Box section
- Rig compatibility:
- Changes to IK snapping may affect rigs that use non-uniform IK scaling. (rigs created in the 2.78 builds.)
- During the 2.78 series: IK snapping was partly broken.
- This has been fixed for Blender 2.79
- Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.
- Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.
- When using the add-on Rigify, please note:
- Compatibility is broken for this release. There’s no guarantee rigs created in previous Blender versions will work correctly.
- Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.
- Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.
- Save your work before attempting upgrading your rigs.