The Blender Foundation has released the first test build of the upcoming Blender 2.71. This release is meant for testing and bug reporting only - if all goes well a Release Candidate will be next, followed by the final release.
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Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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Awesomeness! =)
I like so much release notes was almost ready before actual release ^^
Until now I did not spot any issues on my Win7 64 Bit System, but since I like to play around ^^ I tested it even in the 32 Bit version on a Win XP machine ;). But there I get a message "... is not a valid 32 Bit application", while the latest build from builder.blender.org is running on the same machine.
Will the support for Win XP drop with 2.71?
Win XP's getting kinda old, it may be getting dropped.
Sure, Win XP is old and it does not really bother me, since I don't usually work with 32 Bit (you have way too little memory^^), but it is strange this test build is even v2.70.5 (Hash 517094a, 2014-05-27, Branch: HEAD) and does not work, while the v2.70.5 (Hash 06a05e4, 2014-05-26) from builder.blender.org IS running on the same machine. (I tested this.)
Since there is also no longer official support for Win XP by Microsoft it wouldn't surprise me, but it would be nice to know if it's "a bug or a feature". ;)
If it is planned to drop support it should be communicated officially, since there may be users still working with XP machines.
Anyone able to get smoke working? I can see it in the viewport, but not when rendered. I even downloaded the test file and got nothing.
same here, i want to see smoke to appear in live rendering too but only cube is shown?
I figured it out shortly after, but can't remember what the problem was. What I did was look up this tutorial, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSiV5gg_lCs, and followed it. It didn't 'fix' the test file, but the quick smoke option works as expected.
If you're just seeing the box (domain), it might be that your material isn't applied/correct. Also, make sure your shaders are connected to the volume input and not the surface input.
Hope that helps.