{"id":14670,"date":"2020-09-01T01:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=14670"},"modified":"2020-09-01T01:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:07:56","slug":"release-blender-2-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2020\/09\/01\/release-blender-2-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Release: Blender 2.90"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blender 2.90 has now been released<\/a>, as a final not a beta.<\/p>\n

Here’s six bits of new stuff that caught my eye in the Changelog…<\/p>\n

1. Rendering speed improvements…<\/p>\n

“Intel Embree is now used for ray tracing on the CPU. This significantly improves Cycles performance in scenes with motion blur. Scenes with high geometric complexity also benefit on average.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So that potentially benefits Poser’s SuperFly, eventually, as SuperFly is a slightly tweaked Cycles under another name. I assume that Poser 12 will plug in the latest Cycles. Though this change may only offer a bit of benefit, as the benchmark improvements are not that great over the previous Blender.<\/p>\n

2. Blender users “can use the denoiser interactively in the 3D viewport”, which you couldn’t before.<\/p>\n

3. A new filter to auto-smooth jaggies in shadows…<\/p>\n

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4. Lots of improvements to the sculpting tools, including “four types of cloth simulation.” A plug-in called Extended Sculpt Tools v2.0 has also just been released.<\/p>\n

5. Better and more logical\/readable layout and nesting style for the zillions of sub-menus and tick-boxes. Also a new Search, for finding commands, menus and buttons in what is still a vast and labyrinthine UI… <\/p>\n

“Ever wondered in which menu to find a certain operator? Wonder no more! The new search menu shows you that and more: See the menu and its hotkey; Add the operator to Quick Favorites …”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I’d rather have UI ‘skinning’ presets that radically simplify and aggregate\/iconize the UI just for particular tasks, but it’s welcome all the same.<\/p>\n

6. Grease Pencil improvements. Drag-and-drop to re-order a stack of Grease Pencil modifiers. There’s also what appears to be the ability to turn the edges of 3D geometry into Grease Pencil lineart<\/a>. At the moment it’s looking very basic, and won’t be challenging Sketchup or Poser any time soon. But’s it’s now in there, and fill-layer improvements are due in 2.91. A quite recent update, 2.83.4, also changed how Freestyle lineart works, so it’s possible that will also be new to you in 2.9.<\/p>\n

Overall, Blender is finally “getting there”. I can see myself taking a very in-depth look at Blender 3.0 when it arrives. Especially if it has really nice-looking and easy-to-use NPR by that time, either natively or via the BEER plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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