{"id":16219,"date":"2021-02-08T19:20:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=16219"},"modified":"2021-02-08T19:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:20:39","slug":"blender-2-92-key-new-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/blender-2-92-key-new-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 2.92 &#8211; key new stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blender 2.92 is around the corner.  What&#8217;s new and key?<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Geometry nodes, scatter and instancing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nodes can be used to change an object&#8217;s geometry in a more complex way than regular modifiers.&#8221; There&#8217;s a new node-based system for this, which &#8220;lays the groundwork&#8221; for the future but for now it has &#8220;object scattering and instancing&#8221; already enabled.  Could be useful for DAZ and Poser&#8230; scatter in Blender, save and use in Poser or DAZ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Primitives in a click.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Create primitives with two clicks.&#8221; Nice. It&#8217;s now probably a bit easier to set up a Synthwave picture by loading simple primitives to an Eevee scene, and then (see below) to get mattes for later compositing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>* Eevee Cryptomatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Create mattes from the scene, for compositing. This was already in Cycles, is now also in Eevee. A &#8220;new compositor node was also added to adjust the exposure of images&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Grease pencil<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edit grease pencil strokes using Bezier curves. Also a rather vital Grease Pencil menu, that was accidentally totally bjorked by 2.91, is back again.  Nice for the NPR crowd, but grease pencil is obviously one of Blender&#8217;s many &#8216;moving targets&#8217; with features and menus popping into and out of existence.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>* Cycles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Faster rendering on complex scenes. &#8220;Multithreaded export of geometry, to improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many mesh, hair and volume objects.&#8221; Also faster hybrid rendering. &#8220;GPU devices can now take over rendering of tiles that are currently being rendered by CPU threads, to improve hybrid rendering performance&#8221;. This looks like the main thing. <\/p>\n<p>Cycles getting power-ups is important, because these may well feed into Poser 12 at some point. In Poser, Cycles is &#8216;SuperFly&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Fluids<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Viscosity, so you can now do things like ice-cream cone twirls. Or er&#8230; doggie doings. Yum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/2021-02-08_185715.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/oldimages\/2021-02-08_185715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"287\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blender 2.92 is around the corner. What&#8217;s new and key? * Geometry nodes, scatter and instancing. &#8220;Nodes can be used to change an object&#8217;s geometry in a more complex way than regular modifiers.&#8221; There&#8217;s a new node-based system for this, which &#8220;lays the groundwork&#8221; for the future but for now it has &#8220;object scattering and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-poser","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}