Blender 2.90

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Post by makepanic » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 5:50 PM UTC

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by 91edec » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 5:58 PM UTC

Really happy with the direction Blender is going, more polish and better outreach. Just scrolling through and being able to see the before/after for new features is amazing, makes it really easy to share with friends who haven't checked Blender out before.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by bitbang » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 5:59 PM UTC

Well that was fast considering how long the 2.8 lts release series took...

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by zaphar » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

Blender is as far as I can tell one the best run and marketed Open Source projects out there. They seem to have a great way to pay for development. They are have a lot of industry invested in their success. They have a great focus on the end power user.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by ww520 » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

That's great news. Glad to see Blender keep moving forward.

One thing I wish they would add is to export the color information along with the vertices in the Wavefront OBJ file when exporting an model.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by checker659 » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

I wish there was support for Metal on macOS for EEVE.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by matsemann » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:07 PM UTC

The new search will be great for people like me that only use Blender sporadically. I often know what I want to do but don't use it often enough to remember where to find it or the shortcut. And even for regular people it can be great, I use "find action" in IntelliJ all the time just because writing the name of a seldom used feature is faster than navigating to it.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by seccess » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

"The new shadow terminator offset setting helps you to avoid shading artifacts with smooth normals on low-poly meshes."

THANK GOODNESS, man those shadows always looked so ugly. I primarily use EEVEE so this makes me happy.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by mikewhy » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

matsemann wrote: post #7

The new search will be great for people like me that only use Blender sporadically. I often know what I want to do but don't use it often enough to remember where to find it or the shortcut. And even for regular people it can be great, I use "find action" in IntelliJ all the time just because writing the name of a seldom used feature is faster than navigating to it.

Searchable menus should be standard at this point, they're so handy in macOS, and Unity had them while it was around.

Re: Blender 2.90

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Post by nyanpasu64 » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 6:13 PM UTC

I scrolled down a page or two...

> Meet Nishita, a physically based texture built-in Cycles.

I think the hyphen shouldn't have been added. The sentence doesn't parse with it present.