Several addons have been added and updated, including Node Wrangler (aka Node Efficiency Tools) and a new Sketchfab Exporter addon Some notable new feature are normalized display for FCurves, derivative map baking, baking to vertex colors, better visualization of masks and control over mask filling, gravity option for sculpting, negative texture values to support vector displacement and a Lamp Data shading node to create more customized NPR shaders. Many small changes and features were done all over Blender.
The Freestyle Python API is an essential part that makes it a highly programmable NPR rendering engine. This can be useful for game developers to navigate levels as if in a game. For game developers, support for working with Photoshop PSD files has been added.Ī new view navigation walk mode has been added, which has a control scheme as typically found in first person shooter games. The Blender game engine now supports discrete level of detail for meshes. This is the first step in making the dependency graph in Blender more powerful.
This will be most noticeable with scenes that have many objects, or multiple objects with heavy modifiers. This means that object modifiers and constraints, among other things, can now be computed with multiple threads taking advantage of multicore processors. The bevel tool now offers more control over the bevel profile and results, and the knife tool was improved as well.Īn important change that happened under the hood is the threaded dependency graph. The boolean modifier now supports ngons, and there are improvements to the bevel, screw and triangulate modifiers. The Laplacian Deform modifier was added to pose a mesh while preserving geometric details of the surface, and a new wireframe modifier allows you transform your mesh into a wireframe representation. Other changes were done to improve lists, header menus, tooltips, buttons, menus and more. Transform tools now have a mode to enter expressions and units. Multiple buttons can now be edited at once, for example for XYZ axes or color channels. The toolbar now has tabs to organize tools in categories. Automatic feature detection was made more robust using a new detector algorithm. The plane track workflow was improved to be easier to control.
Trackers can now be weighted, to keep the result stable as feature disappear or become difficult to track.
Volume rendering can be used to render effects like fire, smoke, mist, absorption in glass, and many other effects that can't be represented by surface meshes alone.ĬPU rendering performance was improved, particularly for hair, textures and Open Shading Language. This is also the first release of the multithreaded dependency graph, which makes modifier and constraint evaluation faster in scenes with multiple objects.Ĭycles now has initial support for volume rendering including emission, absorption and scattering. The first results from the new user interface project are also in this release, with dozens of changes to make the interface more consistent and powerful. The game engine now supports object levels of detail. For mesh modeling there are new Laplacian deform and wireframe modifiers, along with more control in the bevel tool. The motion tracker now supports weighted tracks and has improved planar tracking. > See Also: Blender tutorialNew features include initial support for volumetrics in Cycles, and faster rendering of hair and textures. After two release candidates, the Blender Foundation has unveiled Blender 2.70
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