Blender Development – BlenderNation

Discover Blender 4.0's New 'Base Point' Feature

Bart — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:18:57 +0000

Try out this new, super easy to use tool and see how it affects the way you work in Blender. The new Base Point feature lets you pick a specific snapping point on your model with just 1 keypress and a mouseclick - you can pick a vertex, or any place along an edge. Moving [...]

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Blender 4.0 Enters Beta and Gets a New Font

Mario Hawat — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:35:25 +0000

The wait for one of Blender's biggest releases in years is almost over: Blender 4.0 has just entered Beta, which means Blender 4.1 is now in alpha! Beta status means most of the new features Blender will have at release have already landed; what remains is a copious amount of bug fixing and stabilization for [...]

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Filmic's Successor: New AGX View Transform in Blender 4.0

Mario Hawat — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:35:32 +0000

The news from Blender's upcoming 4.0 milestone keep coming, cementing how the massive improvements this release will bring. The latest addition is the successor to the venerable Filmic view transform, AgX! Blender 4.0 will have vastly improved handling of saturated highlights, as "Filmic" is being replaced by "Agx" as the default View Transform. Sounds minor [...]

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Kuwahara Real-time Paint Filter in Blender 4.0

Mario Hawat — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:35:50 +0000

Blender 4.0 is in heavy development, with only a few short months separating us from its release. A lot of massive new features have already made it in, including this one: Blender's real-time compositor just got a great implementation of the Kuwahara Classic and Anisotropic filters, which are very well known for their "painterly" effect [...]

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Blender 3.6.2 LTS and Blender 3.3.10 LTS released

Mario Hawat — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:35:15 +0000

The Blender Developers have once again graced us with two simultaneous Blender LTS releases: Blender 3.6.2 LTS and Blender 3.3.10 LTS! Blender 3.3 LTS will be supported officially until September 2024, while the second and last LTS version of the 3.x series, 3.6 LTS, will be supported officially for two more years. ? Blender LTS [...]

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The Blender Foundation Annual Report 2022 is Out

Mario Hawat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 07:35:15 +0000

The Blender Foundation Annual Report for 2022 is now available for download. The 102-page-long PDF more than tripled the size of its 2021 predecessor, highlighting the technical and human work that was put into Blender over the last year. It showcases the work that has gone into Blender in 2022, the people behind it, notable [...]

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Design Proposal for Blender's New Animation System

Mario Hawat — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 15:55:08 +0000

The animation module held a new workshop at the Blender Institute as the animation 2025 project picks up steam, and in continuance to the workshops and meetings made October last year around the Blender Conference. Read the design proposal for a new animation system for Blender. #b3dhttps://t.co/kFMVXJxUQr — Blender Developers ? (@BlenderDev) July 18, 2023 [...]

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Node Groups as Operators in Blender 4.0!

Mario Hawat — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:55:56 +0000

Blender 4.0 development is in full swing, and all the awesome building blocks for next-gen Blender are falling into place. This unassuming commit has the potential to be massive for procedural artists and TDs in Blender, allowing to natively convert a Geometry Nodes node group into an operator accessible from the A few things are [...]

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Blender 3.6 LTS Enters Beta - Splash Screen Announced

Mario Hawat — Thu, 18 May 2023 07:35:48 +0000

Blender 3.6 LTS has just entered Beta! This means that no more new features are getting into the daily builds, and the focus now will shift to consolidating all the new features and ironing out the kinks before stable release late June. With this change Blender 3.6 LTS has officially moved into Beta stage! It's [...]

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Blender Roadmap Update: 2023 Q2

Mario Hawat — Tue, 09 May 2023 07:35:12 +0000

Dalai Felinto has just released an update regarding Blender's development roadmap for 2023 on the Blender Developers Blog. This comes a few months after a post in the beginning of the year outlining the big projects in store for Blender's development in 2023, funded by development grants thanks to the development fund. These are the [...]

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