Blender 2.60 Released!
The Blender Foundation has just released Blender 2.60. Most notable in this release is 3D audio, UI translation, improved weight painting and a lot of animation system updates.
Ton Roosendaal says:To the one and a half billion new Chinese users we say “Ni Hao” and welcome on board!
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WoW! look at that splash!
Good job!
Fantastic! Now that it’s officially released I’ll download and enjoy!
One of the best splash screens we’ve ever had!
Agreed!
Agreeing as well !!!
Best Splash so far !!
Congrats !!! :-)
+1
Congratulations, Blender Team :)
YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!
Amazing, excellent, awesome, fantastic, wonderful. Blender is the best …
And the heavens opened, and behold! an angle choir sang out in chorus for God saw that it was good.
Yeeeeeeee—–haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa——-aaaaaaaaa!
Get ready for OpenCLed compositor and photoreal rendering with Cycles!!!
Даешь 3Д в массы!
Rock and Roll!
No Cycles?
Cycles isn’t near ready
Well..Cycles is going to be in the 2.61 release…
Remove the slightly overused lens distortion node, and the splash would have been perfect.
yeah! Thank for this hard word!
I’m happy for this new release, but I don’t see on timeline when BMesh will be merged.
So I’m a bit scared thinking of, until that moment, Blender still won’t have knife/bevel tools like in 2.49. :/
Hooooooray!
Nice splash screen.
Thanks to all the developers for their incredible work.
One and a half billion chinese users? I am not sure if EVERY SINGLE chinese uses Blender, but if that’s the case: “Ni Hao” from me as well! ;)
“No Cycles?”
Cycles comes in 2.61
That’s december.
“but I don’t see on timeline when BMesh will be merged.”
It’s hard to tell yet.
The actual plan is to get it into Blender 2.62
But no promises can be made.
We might even get lucky to get it at 2.61 if a miracle happens.
December is almost in another years. Velnias.
Blender is released every two months.
hoooray blender team!!!
Great Release and Splash!
Thanks to everyone involved!
Blender Rocks! ;)
this is so awesome and just as awesome as splash
bmesh & ngons?
~2.62
That’s four months away.
Execelente, saludos desde tiquicia!
BlenderNation
Good News, Every Day :D
I LIKE that slogan ;-)
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Thanks a lot blender teams !!!!!!!!!
Champagne !!!!
:)
are mouse gestures dead? (not asking for something new, just the old gestures in 2.4x to move, scale, rotate)
Probably.
But they can be implemented as an Add-on.
All you need is a programmer.
I hope that the bug I reported yesterday was fixed now… well let’s see !
one and a half billion? I suppose, you’re talking about potential users, right?
Or are you actually having statistics of one and a half billion downloads from chinese servers or something?
Yay, LOTS of amazing stuff going on here :D
Oh, and that splash is really one of the best ever!
It’s amazing!
Yeah!
Good job to all the developers! Nice splash too, simple but very well done and nice. When I saw that one appear on the Blenderartists thread I knew it would be chosen.
Thank you to all the hard working Blender developers who have created this great piece of software!
AmmEn!
Nice Splash Screen! :D
Awesome job devs. Thank you and also “Ni Hao” to all the new chinese blender users.
Blender download is very slow maybe some thing with one and a half billion new users ?
Everybody talks about cycles but what about the tracker from tomato branch? Will it be also impemented in the near future?
Big congrats! When do we see the new Blender in linux distros? This would be great for users that discover a whole new world of great softwares organized in a handy manner!
That’s also comming in 2.61.
December.
GREAT!
:-)
roooooooo :3
excelente trabajo Blender fundation.. excelent work!!! congratulation!!!
I’m SO EXCITED! Though to be honest, I think most of us are holding our breath until 2.61 (Cycles, tracking, compositer, what else do we need?).
Bmesh is way more important then the ones you’ve mentioned.
Fair enough. I’ll be honest, I haven’t looked into Bmesh much. I heard for a while that it was a dead project!
Congratulation to all people involved in Blender world!!!
What a disappointment. I still can’t pan while using my Space Navigator 3D mouse unless I hold down the shift key on my keyboard which is extremely awkward. I was hoping they would implement this feature for the 3D mouse in Blender 2.60, but the only thing that they gave us is the ability to invert the axis which I never needed anyway.
I was waiting the same feature.
I haven’t done much playing with the new animation systems. I’m going to have to give it a good going over soon. Anyone know any good tutorials/documentation for the 2.5+ animation systems?
Documentation is coming. For now, check out Algorith’s blog.
so good, so awesome… but will it blend?
ENORMOUS thanks to all the Blender Developers! You consistently supply the cg industry with one of the best fully-featured packages. It’s a tremendous honor to appear on the splash screen for 2.6! thanks for all the kind remarks =)
Wow, already?
Hi Ton, That’s very kind of you!
你好！你们好！（Ni hao! Ni Men Hao!)
*to Bart: Hey, man, it would be nice to change this line
‘This entry was posted in Blender 2.5 by Bart. Bookmark the permalink.’
to
‘Blender 2.6’
:)
Oh, Blender, our dear Blender, you matured yet again. ;)
To the Chinese community, Ni Hao!
To the Blender devs and artists, congratulations! Weee!
-Reyn
Indeed! I’ve changed it to ‘Blender Development’ – easier to keep up with the changes ;-)
No, it can’t be. I haven’t had enough time to enjoy 2.5 yet :D
So when do BSurfaces and Cycles get added?
read the previous comments.
Bsurfaces – Unknown.
Early version of Cycles – 2.61
Woot! Congrats Blender developers and Blender community, we made it to 2.6!
очень очень круто!!!
It sucks! i just messed with it for a few minutes and it already crashed on me nothing can compare itself to maya!
all i can say is i hope the next releases are better
What did you do to crash it?
I haven’t had a crash in months…
Don’t feed the troll, people.
excuse me i have freedom of speech so please back off
Hello, Maya dev!
Hooray!
Let’s blend even more.
And though I’m not from China, Xié Xié Ton and crew :)
3d sound !!! Good work!
Will there be a 2.X manual?
congrats!!
Yeeha, VSE Proxies :)
Excellent, off to download now!
Am I the only one wondering what that splash screen is supposed to be?
Great!!!
If development continue as planed, Cycles + motion tracking will be the best new year gift:)
Thanks for all the effort!
I’m sorry but I have to say that the Project Paint in Texture Paint mode does not work, create the image but does not open 2D editing application, in my case photoshop, in previous releases there was no problem.any idea?
Your right, there was a bug in 2.60 therefore project paint didn’t work even in 2.61 Blender doesn’t seem to work with Photoshop as an external editor. You need to use gimp, i also heard windows paint works. If you enter Photoshop as your external editor and then later change it back to gimp you may get an error saying external editor not set. you need to delete the path to your external editor and leave it blank then save blender preferences then quite blender then restart then set the path to a external editor.
thx blender !!
Thanks for the info. I was waiting for a new version of Blender 3d. Just downloading. :)
expect failure use the mesh tools where you subdivide etc and the whole program crashes have fun