Blender 2.46 released!

Published by Allan Brito on May 19th, 2008 in 3D News

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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1 kram1032 May 19th, 2008 at 10:56 am

wohoo :D (Just after I started a probably more time consuming render :S xD)
2 Matt May 19th, 2008 at 11:00 am

Yippee!! Woot!! Many thanks to all the developers!!
3 solhex May 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am

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.
4 Sephiroth the Bimbo Master May 19th, 2008 at 11:17 am

Wooooooooo

Thanks guys, you're the best, I can't wait to put my mouse-pointer on it's new stuffs!!!!!!
5 The Last Rookie May 19th, 2008 at 11:29 am

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!!
6 RH2 May 19th, 2008 at 11:35 am

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…)
7 Cuby May 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am

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
8 Mink May 19th, 2008 at 11:48 am

keep it coming motherfuckers! blender 4 life
9 Jasper May 19th, 2008 at 1:01 pm

Hoera! Thanks to all the people who make the Big Blender!
10 Rakunko May 19th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

hehehehehehehhehehehehehehehehehheheheeheheheheeehheheheheh
so much in one version i dont know what do do first!!!!
*explodes*
11 vurentjie May 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm

great scotts! this is best news all day, all week, all month, all year!! sanx
12 stratus26 May 19th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

Ohhhh nnooooo !!! They did it again !!! Please let your competitor breath you b!^*# 3d industry revolution leader !!!
13 Brendan May 19th, 2008 at 2:17 pm

Wow–this is awesome!!!

Thanks to all of the developers; I have tons of respect for what you do!
14 houari May 19th, 2008 at 2:23 pm

*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
15 Eddie May 19th, 2008 at 2:38 pm

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?
16 Born May 19th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

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!
17 Tx_Rx May 19th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

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!
18 ysvry May 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

thx alot for the new version, many great new additions. good also that i can imediately download optimized versions from graphical.org too.
19 Tony May 19th, 2008 at 4:14 pm

Excellent. Thanks to all the devs!
20 Seikoh May 19th, 2008 at 4:15 pm

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 :)
21 meltingman May 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

whaoo.. to become professional blender is the best !

thank you for everything you do :-)
22 Martín Eschoyez May 19th, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Just to say BIG THANKSSSSSSSSSSSS to all developers! ;)
23 gistro May 19th, 2008 at 4:50 pm

Best release ever! Thank you sooo much guys!
24 Someone44 May 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

When will the OSX 10.5 Leopard version be available? Does anyone know?
25 Nicknamz May 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Wow!!… thanks a lot!!! ^^
26 MrNoodle May 19th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Yahooooooo!Let 's counting the downloads!
Sb post this on CGSociety!
27 dono May 19th, 2008 at 4:58 pm

A very very very big thank you for all developpers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's amazing !!! You made a incredible work !!!! :)
28 Ankit Pruthi May 19th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

thanks to all the developers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
downloading it right now…..
cant wait to lay hands on new features!!!!!
29 Len May 19th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

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!!!!!!
30 Vassilios Boucer May 19th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

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!!!
31 pyrosever May 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm

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

Thanks!
32 Choi May 19th, 2008 at 5:23 pm

Thank you very much! Blender is the best!
33 stenosis May 19th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

One small step for a man … one giant leap for Blender.
Thanks to all the Blender developers and this wonderfull community!!!
34 smokebox46and2 May 19th, 2008 at 5:28 pm

@ 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 ;)
35 Marcus May 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

cant't believe it's only 9MB!!!!!!!!!
just crazy…
36 Numbuhone May 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

12th post!!!

Yaa!! blender is soo cool!!!
37 Dusty May 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Woo hoo!
38 Vassilios Boucer May 19th, 2008 at 5:38 pm

I read the Release Notes for 2.46 Blender Version!
…many New features are not there..will this added later!?
39 Grendies May 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pm

@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.
40 Crouch May 19th, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Great! Time for some playing. (and the dvd release tomorrow!)
By the way: did anybody already put up a digg link?
41 ByronK May 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

To all developers, thanks for a wonderful new version. I hope you all get some well deserved rest and relaxation!
42 Vassilios Boucer May 19th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

Grendies: Yeah!
i found it also after searching….
Thanks!
43 Carlos May 19th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

Is anybody else having problems with Yafray? Blender keeps crashing every time I try to render with it.
44 fredpyo May 19th, 2008 at 5:59 pm

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?)
45 Mystery May 19th, 2008 at 6:00 pm

Incredible update, thank you to all developers.

Mystery
46 manda May 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

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

Thanks for developer!!
47 Vassilios Boucer May 19th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Carlos:
It crashes for me only when the "xml" button is disabled!
48 Anthony May 19th, 2008 at 6:05 pm

yehey! thanks blender devs!
49 Leonardo S. R. May 19th, 2008 at 6:06 pm

Time to update gallery!
50 RNS May 19th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

No,script and plug in folder in my down load blender bindery.had to borrow and paste.any one same problem?
51 STart May 19th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

thanks it's a good one :)
52 Kyle Dell'Aquila May 19th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

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

its as lame as the previous version
53 Zecc May 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

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

Anyways, I can hardly wait to tried it out.
54 fred May 19th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

THANKS THANKS THANKS developers!
55 claas May 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pm

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.
56 finty May 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm

well done, super release

bug:
I notice that the bevel modifier still disbales uv-mapped textures
57 ArtIsLight May 19th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

Yeees! Praise God… ciao! Thanks so much, to all the blender developers and enthusiasts! Let's see what this version has to offer…
58 Gwenouille May 19th, 2008 at 6:28 pm

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 !
59 VanPelt May 19th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

Damn cool release! Thank you guys!
60 samran May 19th, 2008 at 6:33 pm

Thanks for all development team good work – only one off day and tomorrow pleas start dev new blender ver 2.5 ^_^ thanks for all
61 skrammel May 19th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

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.
62 NielsBlender May 19th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

Aha, my mind-transmission has new features :)
63 ArtWorks May 19th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

Congratulations with this new and awesome release. "Too many" options, I can't keep up!! Thanks a lot!!
64 Serpentus May 19th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

Thanks a lot guys!!! And Congratulations on a new breakthrough.
65 dalekbell May 19th, 2008 at 6:58 pm

Wow! Hooray for the Bunny! I wish every movie brought such benefits…
66 grafixsuz May 19th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

Great stuff guys! Get some rest all you Devs.
67 RNS May 19th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

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.
68 blendman May 19th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

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.
69 MiiWiiRPG May 19th, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Am I the only one getting a server error?
I really want to try out all the new features
70 MiiWiiRPG May 19th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

It's working now :D
71 pictorali May 19th, 2008 at 9:42 pm

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.
72 Dion Moult May 19th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

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!)
73 Lucas Da Costa Dantas May 19th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

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 .
74 luke.xx May 19th, 2008 at 10:32 pm

Boids particals here i come!
75 Smelz May 19th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

The mac links don't seam to have been updated but if you choose to download by clicking one of the countries it works.
76 Lasphere May 19th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

WhooohooO! Nice one!!!!
77 gr8! (Dimitris Christou) May 19th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

Bravo to the devs and the Blender institute! Thank you all- wish you the best!
78 SoulVector May 20th, 2008 at 7:54 am

At least a Million THANKS!!! :DD Sweetness!!
79 Steven Chan May 20th, 2008 at 8:07 am

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.
80 Alexander Ewering May 20th, 2008 at 8:19 am

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…
81 DiThi May 20th, 2008 at 9:18 am

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)
82 indiworks May 20th, 2008 at 9:27 am

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…)
83 andrew shea May 20th, 2008 at 9:31 am

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
84 bov May 20th, 2008 at 9:33 am

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 :)
85 Reaction May 20th, 2008 at 10:05 am

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…
86 Duranial May 20th, 2008 at 10:53 am

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!!
87 xenon May 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am

Do someone know when linux 64 bit version will be released?
88 RedBirdiii May 20th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

Wow!! Great news!

@xenon: you can find the linux 64 bit version here:
http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender-64-bits/
89 TX_RX May 20th, 2008 at 3:14 pm

looks like the download link is toast.
90 madcello May 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm

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!
91 Aka May 20th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

Anyone has some ideas for new features? xD
92 sen May 20th, 2008 at 4:29 pm

yeah
93 xenon May 20th, 2008 at 5:20 pm

Approximate AO is really faster. I am impressed!
94 GustavTheMushroom May 20th, 2008 at 5:37 pm

Had to get it from a mirror… Main download page is probably getting HAMMERED.
95 xenon May 20th, 2008 at 7:17 pm

We greatly appreciate Blender developers work.
96 Ja-Seen

Blender 2.46 released!

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