The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.77.
The main points of this release are:
- Cycles Rendering has better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density, and a few other features and optimizations.
- User Interface has faster OpenGL rendering and better Anti-Aliasing, and other improvements
- Modeling now has an edit-mode boolean tool, better decimate modifier, selection tools
- Sequencer has a Gaussian Blur effect speedup, and other strip and modifier improvements
- Sculpting/Painting has better extruding and weight painting tools
- Animation has a new constraint interpolation method, and improvements in graph editor, dope sheet, armatures and motion paths
- Grease pencil now has stroke sculpting, and several other workflow improvements
- Library handling has been improved to better manage missing and deleted datablocks
- Game Engine has a few new small features
- A new Add-on supports packing .blend files and their dependencies, some other IO Add-on was improved, and Python was upgraded
- OpenVDB caching is now supported for smoke/volumetric simulations, multithreading is now massively supported, and also 2D stabilization node, Image editor, Cubemap and spotlights were improved
- Support for Windows XP was removed, and the SCons build system too.
- And, as usual, a massive bug fixing!
15 Comments
Plz open source code too, cant find it.
Blender is already Open Source.
See here: https://www.blender.org/get-involved/developers/
could the comment author refer to the source still missing here http://download.blender.org/source/ ? even the final tag is not yet there https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/tags/master/
Marco
2.77 sources are now in http://download.blender.org/source/
still missing the diffusion tag for final release
Marco
Fun Fact: The link for the features list leads to an error page; it is missing the "features" portion of the URL. Anyone want to edit the href to this? https://www.blender.org/features/2-77/
Not sure if it's just me getting this but the release notes may have changed URL to https://www.blender.org/features/2-77/ , and the old link doesn't work anymore!
Cheers,
Lee
Thanks Lee! I've updated the link.
Thanks! I was waiting cycles GPU support for smoke from a long time ago. Thank you very much!
Hi guies, awesome as usual.
BTW if some of you meet performance trouble with GPU TITAN X or GTX980ti, please let us know on https://developer.blender.org/T45093
We're trying to help the dev crew improving Gpu perf on these latest high end card wich have ununderstandable low performances with cycles.
The dev crew is also looking for anybody that owne one if these card and have some developement skills.
Thank you all
Yeah, it's Christmas in March, thank you developers! Now we just need the ability to reorder objects in the Dope Sheet editor... ;-)
ALL LINKS OFFLINK!!!!! WHAT'S AP???
...Never mind, someone got to it.
Nice work, devguys! Love you, lets beer:)
It doesn't open for me. Is it using another version of OpenGL?
Guess I'm stuck with 2.76 for now.
Hi Douglas, yes, it is so.
I create the release web pages, usually, taking the info from the wiki, but this time I started before this detail was added in the wiki page (https://wiki.blender.org/index.php?title=Dev%3ARef%2FRelease_Notes%2F2.77&action=historysubmit&diff=255583&oldid=255535), so I missed that. I'll update the release web page soon to reflect this change, it is important, I think.
See also https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:2.8/Source/OpenGL ("For Blender 2.77 we already require a minimum of OpenGL 2.1,"). Probably also the download page should state this new requirement clearly.
Sorry.