{"id":18366,"date":"2021-12-03T19:12:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=18366"},"modified":"2023-05-21T16:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-21T16:37:57","slug":"blender-3-0-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2021\/12\/03\/blender-3-0-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 3.0 lands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blender 3.0<\/a> stable is out, and there’s also a 3.1 alpha. Mostly 3.0 seems to be about speed\/performance, UI changes, and the new Asset Browser. The multipage changelog for 3.0 is big and techie enough to stun a charging rhino, but here are some highlights I spotted…<\/p>\n

* Faster rendering on Cycles, “rendering between 2x and 8x faster in real-world scenes.” If… you have a hefty RTX graphics card. (That sounds like very good news for Poser 12, if it can be plugged in any time soon. Poser uses Cycles, but there it’s re-branded as SuperFly).<\/p>\n

* Auto tile-tweaking. This is about the tile-size that gets rendered when rendering. e.g. 128 pixels. “Previously tweaking tile size was important for maximizing CPU and GPU performance. Now this is mostly automated.”<\/p>\n

* Faster hair curves (not ribbons), but again only if… you have a fast NVIDIA OptiX card.<\/p>\n

* A less laggy viewport, and again… I suspect that having a fast shiny new graphics card will help there.<\/p>\n

* For the overall UI “the default theme got a refresh” and various changes.<\/p>\n

* It’s now faster to work with the UI, which is good because Blender needs a lot<\/em> of clicky-clicky work. The speed is due to things like faster text rendering, as panels spring into existence.<\/p>\n

* Not much this time around for Eevee, but… “Performance when editing a huge mesh is improved.”<\/p>\n

* New GreasePencil abilities with some new line modifiers (dashes, wiggles etc), and thus expanded lineart possibilities.<\/p>\n

* A major rework of the UI layout for Freestyle. I hear elsewhere that it’s a bit quicker now to load a previous set of lines.<\/p>\n

* .USD files can now be imported into Blender. This is the Pixar Universal Scene Description format.<\/p>\n

* AMD GPUs are now supported.<\/p>\n

* OpenCL rendering is removed. So is Branched Path Tracing. And the Rigify Legacy Mode is gone.<\/p>\n

* A new Asset Browser for: Objects; Materials; Poses and Expressions; Worlds. I assume it’s drag-and-drop.<\/p>\n

Blender 2.93 portable could run on Windows 7 with a small workaround. I assume there will also be enough demand to fix 3.0 for Windows 7. But until then, 3.0 is officially Windows 8 or higher. It will also refuse to install unless you have a sufficiently powerful graphics card.<\/p>\n

Update: Blender 3.51<\/a> for Windows 7 (early May 2023). Needing no installer, it will now launch! Hurrah.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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