Blender 2.46 released!

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Yes! Blender 2.46 has been released, and you can download it from this link.

What`s new about this release? The full list can be found here.

Have fun!

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    • kram1032

      wohoo :D (Just after I started a probably more time consuming render :S xD)

    • http://www.redmoose3d.blogspot.com Matt

      Yippee!! Woot!! Many thanks to all the developers!!

    • solhex

      Thankyou ever so much to all at the Blender institute. Spending what feels like most of my life indoors without friends has never been so much fun. Now I have even more reason to burn the midnight oil.

    • Sephiroth the Bimbo Master

      Wooooooooo

      Thanks guys, you’re the best, I can’t wait to put my mouse-pointer on it’s new stuffs!!!!!!

    • The Last Rookie

      Absolutly fantastic!!!

      I never dreamed of one of those new features ever…
      It will take me till version 2.5 to even look after the half of the new functions!
      Now i’m sure that the money for BBB was at the right place.

      Many many thanks to all people involved to this gigantic piece of opensource!!

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      Simply….AWESOME!

      Too many features, you guys are working too hard. I can’t keep up learning how to use the new features fast enough! (that’s a good thing…)

    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Wow awesome!!! Can’t wait to get right into it and make really good use of some of the cool new features, especially the animation side of things.

      Thanks for the notification!
      Cuby

    • Mink

      keep it coming motherfuckers! blender 4 life

    • http://www.sznl.eu Jasper

      Hoera! Thanks to all the people who make the Big Blender!

    • Rakunko

      hehehehehehehhehehehehehehehehehheheheeheheheheeehheheheheh
      so much in one version i dont know what do do first!!!!
      *explodes*

    • vurentjie

      great scotts! this is best news all day, all week, all month, all year!! sanx

    • stratus26

      Ohhhh nnooooo !!! They did it again !!! Please let your competitor breath you b!^*# 3d industry revolution leader !!!

    • Brendan

      Wow–this is awesome!!!

      Thanks to all of the developers; I have tons of respect for what you do!

    • houari

      *just when i started to hang in quiet desperation…
      *bravo for everyone from devellopers to enthusiastic users…to all those who make the blender community happy today on planet earth…
      *i have a little suggestion…what is devellopers could provide newbies with a pdf sheet like the one called “blenderquickstart” just to show main graphic user interface changes occuring from one version to another…:very few lines so that we ‘ll know where to put our mouse’s cursor
      *another little suggestion…. for the future this one:can devellopers mix cloth proprietaries to those of particles systems like hair for instance…and make hair in wind…
      *thank you :after the ms case and the departure of bart…2.46 release is a wonderful timing…and bart can post everynow and then

    • Eddie

      luv it! but,settings and .b.blend In my document?, i dont really like it (to store something in my documents folder, i always keep it empty, and put my files on other partition). can i move it to blender (program) folder?

    • Born

      Thank-you, so much, Ton, all developers, and all who have contributed to the Blender community…. simply too many names to list, but you know who you are…. and, of course, the whole Blender community itself! Thank-you!

    • Tx_Rx

      Been playing with the Linux & Win32 Builds. Most impressive release yet. Well done to all the devs and many thanks for all your hard work. It’s up to us to help spread the 2.46 love out there. Goodness knows there’s some amazing new features worth shouting about!

    • http://home.deds.nl/~mp/ ysvry

      thx alot for the new version, many great new additions. good also that i can imediately download optimized versions from graphical.org too.

    • Tony

      Excellent. Thanks to all the devs!

    • Seikoh

      Cool! I am downloading it right now.
      But… Geez… Has the software grown! The first time I downloaded Blender (ver. 1.68, if I am not wrong) it was only 1.2MB. Now it is 10 times bigger…and 100 more functions, I believe :)

    • meltingman

      whaoo.. to become professional blender is the best !

      thank you for everything you do :-)

    • http://www.martineschoyez.com.ar Martín Eschoyez

      Just to say BIG THANKSSSSSSSSSSSS to all developers! ;)

    • gistro

      Best release ever! Thank you sooo much guys!

    • Someone44

      When will the OSX 10.5 Leopard version be available? Does anyone know?

    • http://nicknamfx.blogspot.com Nicknamz

      Wow!!… thanks a lot!!! ^^

    • MrNoodle

      Yahooooooo!Let ‘s counting the downloads!
      Sb post this on CGSociety!

    • http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/tripeace/video/x36ty0_tripeace_music dono

      A very very very big thank you for all developpers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s amazing !!! You made a incredible work !!!! :)

    • Ankit Pruthi

      thanks to all the developers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      downloading it right now…..
      cant wait to lay hands on new features!!!!!

    • http://www.lenwest.org Len

      Wow, wow and wow. I’ve been using the builds for a while now, but there’s so many other new features that I didn’t even know about!

      Amazing work guys! Thanks for all your efforts.

      THIS IS ONE KICK-ASS RELEASE! ROCK ON!!!!!!

    • Vassilios Boucer

      Thank you so much to all Blender Developers!!!!!!
      Amazing Release!
      I Already Installed the Windows version and there is no (Folders) and Scripts Folders created in the Blender Instalation Folder!???

      THANKS!!!

    • http://www.pyrosever.com pyrosever

      woo-hoo! (you have no idea how much I need this right now)

      Thanks!

    • Choi

      Thank you very much! Blender is the best!

    • stenosis

      One small step for a man … one giant leap for Blender.
      Thanks to all the Blender developers and this wonderfull community!!!

    • smokebox46and2

      @ Someone44 ~ the 10.4 and 10.5 release are one and the same… i’m using 2.46 on leopard 10.5.2 right now

      Incredibly dedicated work, Devs. Infinite thanks to you all and congrats on this vast release ;)

    • Marcus

      cant’t believe it’s only 9MB!!!!!!!!!
      just crazy…

    • Numbuhone

      12th post!!!

      Yaa!! blender is soo cool!!!

    • Dusty

      Woo hoo!

    • Vassilios Boucer

      I read the Release Notes for 2.46 Blender Version!
      …many New features are not there..will this added later!?

    • Grendies

      @Vassilios Boucer

      Assuming you’re using Windows…
      Had to do some searching around before I realized where it was: it’s tucked away in the Application Data folder now.

      I.E.
      C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Blender Foundation

      It will probably be somewhere other than the All Users folder if you selected “current user” during the installation.

    • http://bartius.crouch.googlepages.com/ Crouch

      Great! Time for some playing. (and the dvd release tomorrow!)
      By the way: did anybody already put up a digg link?

    • http://byronsdesigns.com ByronK

      To all developers, thanks for a wonderful new version. I hope you all get some well deserved rest and relaxation!

    • Vassilios Boucer

      Grendies: Yeah!
      i found it also after searching….
      Thanks!

    • Carlos

      Is anybody else having problems with Yafray? Blender keeps crashing every time I try to render with it.

    • fredpyo

      Wow… AMAZING feauture list! Can’t wait to tinker with it…
      Another great version of Blender! Thank you!!!

      (by the way, does someone know which game appears besides the “Game Engine improvements” link?)

    • Mystery

      Incredible update, thank you to all developers.

      Mystery

    • http://www.rock.sannet.ne.jp/lab1092/ manda

      Downloading now…
      (2:00AM now in japan, I’m sleepy)

      Thanks for developer!!

    • Vassilios Boucer

      Carlos:
      It crashes for me only when the “xml” button is disabled!

    • Anthony

      yehey! thanks blender devs!

    • http://www.lesiro.eti.br Leonardo S. R.

      Time to update gallery!

    • RNS

      No,script and plug in folder in my down load blender bindery.had to borrow and paste.any one same problem?

    • STart

      thanks it’s a good one :)

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

      Has anyone tried/have a macbook that got good results?
      it doesn’t work over here

      its as lame as the previous version

    • Zecc

      @gistro Something would be very wrong if this weren’t the best release yet :)

      Anyways, I can hardly wait to tried it out.

    • fred

      THANKS THANKS THANKS developers!

    • claas

      Carlos

      that seems to be an old memory problem.

      Do use xml for export and do not use the disabled
      xml button and it should work.

    • finty

      well done, super release

      bug:
      I notice that the bevel modifier still disbales uv-mapped textures

    • ArtIsLight

      Yeees! Praise God… ciao! Thanks so much, to all the blender developers and enthusiasts! Let’s see what this version has to offer…

    • Gwenouille

      Lovely.
      Thanks to all the developpers ! I wish i knew how to programm… Well done to all of you !
      And Welcome to 2.46, surely a great vintage !

    • VanPelt

      Damn cool release! Thank you guys!

    • http://www.arabblend.com samran

      Thanks for all development team good work – only one off day and tomorrow pleas start dev new blender ver 2.5 ^_^ thanks for all

    • skrammel

      Thanks a lot to all the devs!

      Is the MacBook/Mac mini and Leopard bug fixed? I can’t test it myself because I’m not at home right now.

    • NielsBlender

      Aha, my mind-transmission has new features :)

    • ArtWorks

      Congratulations with this new and awesome release. “Too many” options, I can’t keep up!! Thanks a lot!!

    • Serpentus

      Thanks a lot guys!!! And Congratulations on a new breakthrough.

    • http://www.makesweet.com/ dalekbell

      Wow! Hooray for the Bunny! I wish every movie brought such benefits…

    • grafixsuz

      Great stuff guys! Get some rest all you Devs.

    • RNS

      My computer detected another blender application from previously download and rewited and deleted some folder.It was Fix .Now, I can setup my new bang,bang Ubuntu computer and server for my project. Thanks to all developer and Ton.

    • blendman

      soon we will take over the world. Muhahahahaah haha ahaha ahah heh he…he.heeh. (cough) cough. Just kidding… but seriously… I’m not kidding.

    • MiiWiiRPG

      Am I the only one getting a server error?
      I really want to try out all the new features

    • MiiWiiRPG

      It’s working now :D

    • pictorali

      I’d like to extend my appreciation to the blender developers. I haven’t done any real work with Blender for a while (not enough time), but I still follow it very closely because it’s one of my all-time favorite apps. Nice work.

    • http://e2-productions.com/ Dion Moult

      Thank you all the devs!

      This has been one awesome release and this AAO and particle system is already making my mouth water.

      Congratulations! You did it again! (and just in time too for some of projects!)

    • Lucas Da Costa Dantas

      Great !
      One step that i don’t know about ..
      is all full documentation about how to build Blender
      by teach everyone to contribute the understand and build
      to new functions ,look utilities ,main objects() ,help files ,
      scene constructors ,… bring the ideas to program .

      A online school about all the maths,consepts,….
      and all development for Blender .

    • luke.xx

      Boids particals here i come!

    • Smelz

      The mac links don’t seam to have been updated but if you choose to download by clicking one of the countries it works.

    • Lasphere

      WhooohooO! Nice one!!!!

    • http://gr8effect.com gr8! (Dimitris Christou)

      Bravo to the devs and the Blender institute! Thank you all- wish you the best!

    • http://www.soulvector.com SoulVector

      At least a Million THANKS!!! :DD Sweetness!!

    • http://stevenchan.us Steven Chan

      I’m also interested in the bug on the Macbook + Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) combination has been ironed out for this Blender release. It’s a shame that it used to work under OS X 10.4.

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      A truly impressive amount of new features. I wonder why such a release doesn’t result in at least 2.45 -> 2.50 … I mean, other vendors would jump from 2.45 to 3.00 for such a huge number of features…

    • DiThi

      Spanish users:

      Menead esto, preferiblemente como usuarios registrados:

      http://meneame.net/story/blender-2.46-publicado-impresionante-lista-cambios

      (It’s a digg-like site)

    • http://indiworks.wordpress.com/ indiworks

      The Sequencer (video editing) is now even more interesting than before: I don’t know of any NLE – be it commercial or not – that runs on basically all platforms and offers high-end video editing with a feature set as complete as the blender VSE! Combine this with the power of the Compositing Nodes and you’ve got a very impressive and unique tool for video post production. (And that is before you’ve started exploring the possibilities that the 3D features – including the particle system – offer for visual works of all kinds…)

    • andrew shea

      Im getting a server error every time I try to download. Is there a mirror or can it be hosted (windows version) on a download site so I can get my sweaty desperate hands on it….ppppppllllllllllleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • bov

      This is great – I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed though. I’m just hoping some new video tutorials will appear to ease us into the new features. I really want to learn Blender.
      Cheers :)

    • Reaction

      Well I’m in the middle of three 2.45 “mission critical” animations at the moment – but what the hell – I can’t wait any longer for 2.46! >:)

      Fantastic work guys – it’s going to be one long ‘lunchbreak’ for me today…

    • Duranial

      OH YEAH! Just what I’ve been waiting for! An new and excellent version of Blender, in 10 minutes I made some animations with the cloth system, it’s awesome!! Thanks for all!!

    • xenon

      Do someone know when linux 64 bit version will be released?

    • http://redbirdiii.blogspot.com RedBirdiii

      Wow!! Great news!

      @xenon: you can find the linux 64 bit version here:
      http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender-64-bits/

    • TX_RX

      looks like the download link is toast.

    • madcello

      Thank you so much!
      It as so many new and usefull features!
      With each release, i always get amazed!

      Thank you once more for this piece of art!

    • Aka

      Anyone has some ideas for new features? xD

    • http://www.viseal.de sen

      yeah

    • xenon

      Approximate AO is really faster. I am impressed!

    • http://gustavthemushroom.deviantart.com GustavTheMushroom

      Had to get it from a mirror… Main download page is probably getting HAMMERED.

    • xenon

      We greatly appreciate Blender developers work.

    • Ja-Seen

      Wot a bunch of new features. They’ll have to update the wiki. Can’t wait to dive in a check out everything. Great work.

    • Darth Omnious

      Ton and all the other devs, keep up the phenominal ‘effin work with Blender. We really appreciate what y’all are doing for the artist community and giving up and comers a complete tool to learn on.

      VIVA LA REVOLUCION DE OSS!!!!

    • Master Danix

      Awesome,i liked specially the hair feauture,i can now be an hair artist in blender :D
      Soon,i will experiment clothing system

    • Xtra

      Slowly but surely Blender reaches a stage of professionalism that makes it hard to understand the tools. I don’t do 3D stuff for quite a while now (I’m back to my main interest: making musik) and visit this site from time to time because I’m still interested in Blenders development. With every new release I’m more impressed, but even if I would, I don’t want to learn this application again. So much features, such a steep learning curve. Anyway, great work!

    • Michel

      Hey! There is some rt easter eggs in this release. Read post #10 …

      http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=5162823#post5162823

    • http://www.planetblender.org Nathan Letwory

      For those who can’t seem to find their scripts: during install you can choose to view details. The log there tells you where .blender and .blender/scripts get installed.

      /Nathan

    • http://endike.blog.hu endi

      Bevel tool kills UVs and vertex colors and other datas… (I have posted it in bugtracker.)
      But I think this is a very bad thing in a final release… :(

    • fraek

      cool – thank you kindly ~`…

    • artistic_kelly

      Just be careful…there’s still bugs in the particle system in Blender 2.46.

    • Wim

      BIG thanks to all developers for your time & passion to make Blender an excellent 3D application!!!

    • koiku

      is there anyone who has problem with ‘undo’? it came to undo all change not per step for a clone object….

    • http://www.damix.it damix911

      Hi guys, I’m not sure I’m writing something new, however Firefox couldn’t find the word “Vista” on this page and I don’t have time to read all the thread, so I’m going to post it:

      C:\Users\Dario\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender\.blender\scripts

      This is, for some reason, my script folder under Vista. Hopefully this will be helpful to some people; I saw a lot of posts on the Internet wondering where the Blender script folder is!

      Bye ;-)

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