{"id":17579,"date":"2021-09-08T10:59:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=17579"},"modified":"2021-09-08T10:59:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T10:59:25","slug":"blender-3-0-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2021\/09\/08\/blender-3-0-release-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 3.0 release date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blender 3.0 now has an official release-date, 1st December 2021. This will bring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z8EE6-V50FQ\">its asset browser<\/a>, aka a Content Library. It will also have many Freestyle and Grease Pencil improvements nailed down (as much as anything ever can be, in Blender), and the new Cycles X renderer. &#8220;X-what?&#8221;. Think normal Cycles but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* 2 to 7 times faster<\/p>\n<p>* apparently gets faster with the complexity of the scene<\/p>\n<p>* works like iRay, the speckled complete scene pops in and then the speckles are progressively refined. No more tiling squares running across the screen.<\/p>\n<p>* it overhauls the underlying render architecture, which should lead to further advances in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Poser 11 and 12 use Cycles (branded as &#8216;SuperFly&#8217;), and thus Cycles X seems likely in Poser at some point in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m guessing Cycles X is probably not going to be CPU \/ GPU agnostic, like iRay is. Contrary to all the NVIDIA marketing <em>ra-raa<\/em>, any recent version of iRay will run perfectly well on CPUs alone. If you have enough CPU cores\/threads for it. But it sounds to me like Cycles X will need a hefty and expensive GPU \/ graphics card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blender 3.0 now has an official release-date, 1st December 2021. This will bring its asset browser, aka a Content Library. It will also have many Freestyle and Grease Pencil improvements nailed down (as much as anything ever can be, in Blender), and the new Cycles X renderer. &#8220;X-what?&#8221;. Think normal Cycles but&#8230; * 2 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companion-software","category-spotted-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579","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=17579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}