Blender 2.46 RC3 available to download

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Yes! Blender 2.46 RC3 is available to download, and it looks like a stable release is very close.

As usual, go here to download. And don`t forget to report any bugs. Have fun!

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    • tuttut89

      Awesome! I can’t wait to try it out!

    • TutTut89

      Awesome! I can’t wait to try it out!!

    • RNS

      Twins?

    • http://mpan3.homeip.net/optimizedblender mike

      Woot! time to hack together another optimized build.

    • http://shongshong.vze.com Kyle Dell’Aquila

      dont mean to be the squeaky wheel, but its a no go with the macbook, :(
      dont leave us behind!

    • Gopher

      The OSX intel version doesn’t seem to work at all on 10.4.x. I can’t even start it.

    • Easton

      Wicked! Seriously can’t wait till the full release!

    • http://www.blender3d.at carlinhos

      @gopher

      on my imac (osx tiger 10.4.11) it works perfectly.
      probably you have to update to python 2.5.

    • Gopher

      @carlinhos
      Indeed you’re right. I always just thought that python was only invoked when running scripts.

    • Dusty

      Woot!

    • Phoenix221

      I have all 3 off them now.
      First Rinky.
      Second Gamera.
      Third Frank.

      I download Blender 2.46 RC3 Yesterday.

    • oin

      yehaw!

    • Rakunko

      If anyone hasnt already seen theres a new “verse” option which totaly kicks ass go to http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/VerseIntegrationToBlenderUserDoc to read how to get it running. Think of remote assistance for blender…its really cool and runs fast on a LAN!!! Its great if your teaching someone or colab. its super fun!!! and easy to setup once you know what to do, dont forget to change your name in the settigs where the frame server options are also! WHY ISNT THIS A BIG CHANGE THIS IS SOOOO COOL!!! i do alot of teaching at my school and this makes everything much much easier, its alittle laggy for large models but no crashes so far!

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      Downloading now!

    • Bigkahuna

      Why isn’t there a build for OS-X Intel for Python 2.3? There was one for RC2. I’m sure there are other Mac users besides myself who still haven’t upgraded to OS-X 10.5.x (Leopard).

    • Marcus

      @Rakunko:
      I also plan to teach blender in classrooms.
      How do you use verse for teaching?

    • Drax

      @Rakunko
      I also used Verse and had a great fun! It really should be improved, still are problems with materials and modelling tools, modifers, bevel, etc.

    • ArtIsLight

      That’s great! I will prob. wait till the official build release instead of trying to learn how to get it compiled. ;) Verse sounds awesome, I want to use it someday.

    • http://http.//www.creamsurfer.de manuel

      The cloth solver seems to A LOT faster. And even cloth on cloth simulations work really well and fast. As with all blender versions I also suffer from slow program behavoir (clicking buttons in panels for example) with this version on my macbook. Will there ever be a solution for all those using a macbook. A solution that speeds up blender without any odd other side-effects!? Does anyone have a solution?

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      I am trying it out now but can’t find Retopo. Is it gone?

    • Aka

      Bigkahuna: U don’t have to upgrade your OS 2 upgrade python.

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      Sorry,
      I found Retopo.

    • http://www.allanbrito.com Allan Brito
    • Phoenix221

      It works fine to me.
      No any problem or bug.

    • pep

      Any reason why it doesn’t work on win 98?
      2.46 RC1 did – what changed so radically?

      I know win98 is obsolete, but is the last license i bought. While i happily run Linux, i still use a win machine to maintain contact with the rest of the world…

    • blendercross

      RC1 was fine and this one seems also working fine.
      Great work of the developer – can´t wait on the final!!!!!
      …..but safety (stability ) first!

    • http://drmad.org drmad

      It’s just me, or I see everything slower? :-P Even when I resize a viewport. I’m on Linux i386 with a NVidia

    • http://inkweaver-review.blogspot.com NathanKP

      Great!

      I certainly hope that this version is more stable than the first.

      NathanKP – Inkweaver Review

    • http://drmad.org drmad

      Yes, I’ve just tested on a medium-size proyect, and everything goes slower :(

    • Gryphon

      Hmm… there’s no “Tiles” texture. I thought that was official as of RC1…?

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      cool! when does the official version come out? Is there any chance that blender 2.46 will be released along with “big buck bunny” to the web?

    • http://www.martylog.com Martin

      The new cloth is brilliant: fast and more importantly intuitive! Can’t wait to put it to good use.

    • solhex

      Liking this, tried baking cloth…cool. And for everyone with problems i.e. it seems slower doesn’t like macbooks etc… I think this is called a “test” build, we know those nice folk at the Blender Foundation would never leave us hanging, well not for very long. I’ll bet they’re as keen as everyone to get it working across all platforms. but seriously, when can I get it for my psp?

    • deathblood

      I have a question that why I must adding children particles before baking simulation as softbody!
      If I forget adding children particles,I must do it again,:(

      sorry for my bad English

    • Dusty

      I like it! It rocks!

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      ManCandy is broken :’(
      Well not completely. But his eyes do not work properly and his jawbone.

    • Rakunko

      @marcus and drax
      ive tried using it for strictly modeling and help with normals, and issues. For example a ‘student’ (really a friend but iam teaching four people about blender) was workin on a car model and he was having a ‘double face’ issue and his faces were all over the place so while talking to him i showed him in real time which points would be connected best. i hope in the future they will add modifers and etc only issues i have come across is if the clients ‘undo’ it will loose the position and state of the object and will crash or will need to relaod the object (we were using a 24k tri model)

    • barbatron

      is it just me? or is te property’s window ( n ) in the video-editor totally gone ? Doe somebody know how to change the strip parameters nowadays ?

    • Chab

      @barbatron Yeah, it is now in Scene (F10) >> Sequencer buttons

    • Fire Angel

      Looks good so far. I tried a model with a little over 212000 polygons on my OS X system with 10.4.11 and no problems as far as I took it. I admit I don’t have the nerve to install for work, as I am coming up to finishing an important model, but I will have a play over the weekend.

      Even with over 212000 polygons I tried both 2.45 and the 2.46 RC3, and didn’t notice any great speed differences when handling modelling. I’ll try some timed rendering test over the weekend and compare the speeds.

    • http://www.qso.com/carlautta/colin/Beta/ Tynach

      I see RC4, but its only a Windows build!

    • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

      Yeah, why does windows get an RC4? Stability Issue?

    • tb0w

      Hey 2.46 RC4 Is out for windows users!!

    • http://johantri.deviantart.com johantri

      i dont know why there is blender 2.46 RC4 for windows, but i’m downloading right now

    • http://www.fantasyjam.net FJGamer

      I downloaded RC4, and it’s insanely slow compared to the latest release, 2.45. I didn’t try RC3 or anything else before RC4, so I can’t really confirm the speed difference, but I suggest waiting for a final build or something.

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