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Blender 2.46 released!

Allan Brito · May 19, 2008

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!

Author Allan Brito
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108 responses

  1. kram1032
    19 May 2008 at 10:56

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

    Reply
  2. Matt
    19 May 2008 at 11:00

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

    Reply
  3. solhex
    19 May 2008 at 11:07

    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.

    Reply
  4. Sephiroth the Bimbo Master
    19 May 2008 at 11:17

    Wooooooooo

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

    Reply
  5. The Last Rookie
    19 May 2008 at 11:29

    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!!

    Reply
  6. RH2
    19 May 2008 at 11:35

    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…)

    Reply
  7. Cuby
    19 May 2008 at 11:36

    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

    Reply
  8. Mink
    19 May 2008 at 11:48

    keep it coming motherfuckers! blender 4 life

    Reply
  9. Jasper
    19 May 2008 at 13:01

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

    Reply
  10. Rakunko
    19 May 2008 at 13:02

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

    Reply
  11. vurentjie
    19 May 2008 at 13:12

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

    Reply
  12. stratus26
    19 May 2008 at 13:18

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

    Reply
  13. Brendan
    19 May 2008 at 14:17

    Wow–this is awesome!!!

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

    Reply
  14. houari
    19 May 2008 at 14:23

    *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

    Reply
  15. Eddie
    19 May 2008 at 14:38

    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?

    Reply
  16. Born
    19 May 2008 at 15:42

    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!

    Reply
  17. Tx_Rx
    19 May 2008 at 15:53

    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!

    Reply
  18. ysvry
    19 May 2008 at 16:03

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

    Reply
  19. Tony
    19 May 2008 at 16:14

    Excellent. Thanks to all the devs!

    Reply
  20. Seikoh
    19 May 2008 at 16:15

    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 :)

    Reply
  21. meltingman
    19 May 2008 at 16:35

    whaoo.. to become professional blender is the best !

    thank you for everything you do :-)

    Reply
  22. Martín Eschoyez
    19 May 2008 at 16:47

    Just to say BIG THANKSSSSSSSSSSSS to all developers! ;)

    Reply
  23. gistro
    19 May 2008 at 16:50

    Best release ever! Thank you sooo much guys!

    Reply
  24. Someone44
    19 May 2008 at 16:54

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

    Reply
  25. Nicknamz
    19 May 2008 at 16:54

    Wow!!… thanks a lot!!! ^^

    Reply
  26. MrNoodle
    19 May 2008 at 16:57

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

    Reply
  27. dono
    19 May 2008 at 16:58

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

    Reply
  28. Ankit Pruthi
    19 May 2008 at 17:04

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

    Reply
  29. Len
    19 May 2008 at 17:06

    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!!!!!!

    Reply
  30. Vassilios Boucer
    19 May 2008 at 17:14

    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!!!

    Reply
  31. pyrosever
    19 May 2008 at 17:19

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

    Thanks!

    Reply
  32. Choi
    19 May 2008 at 17:23

    Thank you very much! Blender is the best!

    Reply
  33. stenosis
    19 May 2008 at 17:25

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

    Reply
  34. smokebox46and2
    19 May 2008 at 17:28

    @ 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 ;)

    Reply
  35. Marcus
    19 May 2008 at 17:36

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

    Reply
  36. Numbuhone
    19 May 2008 at 17:37

    12th post!!!

    Yaa!! blender is soo cool!!!

    Reply
  37. Dusty
    19 May 2008 at 17:37

    Woo hoo!

    Reply
  38. Vassilios Boucer
    19 May 2008 at 17:38

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

    Reply
  39. Grendies
    19 May 2008 at 17:41

    @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.

    Reply
  40. Crouch
    19 May 2008 at 17:44

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

    Reply
  41. ByronK
    19 May 2008 at 17:50

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

    Reply
  42. Vassilios Boucer
    19 May 2008 at 17:53

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

    Reply
  43. Carlos
    19 May 2008 at 17:55

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

    Reply
  44. fredpyo
    19 May 2008 at 17:59

    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?)

    Reply
  45. Mystery
    19 May 2008 at 18:00

    Incredible update, thank you to all developers.

    Mystery

    Reply
  46. manda
    19 May 2008 at 18:01

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

    Thanks for developer!!

    Reply
  47. Vassilios Boucer
    19 May 2008 at 18:02

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

    Reply
  48. Anthony
    19 May 2008 at 18:05

    yehey! thanks blender devs!

    Reply
  49. Leonardo S. R.
    19 May 2008 at 18:06

    Time to update gallery!

    Reply
  50. RNS
    19 May 2008 at 18:11

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

    Reply
  51. STart
    19 May 2008 at 18:14

    thanks it’s a good one :)

    Reply
  52. Kyle Dell'Aquila
    19 May 2008 at 18:18

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

    its as lame as the previous version

    Reply
  53. fred
    19 May 2008 at 18:22

    THANKS THANKS THANKS developers!

    Reply
  54. Zecc
    19 May 2008 at 18:22

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

    Anyways, I can hardly wait to tried it out.

    Reply
  55. claas
    19 May 2008 at 18:24

    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.

    Reply
  56. finty
    19 May 2008 at 18:25

    well done, super release

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

    Reply
  57. ArtIsLight
    19 May 2008 at 18:28

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

    Reply
  58. Gwenouille
    19 May 2008 at 18:28

    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 !

    Reply
  59. VanPelt
    19 May 2008 at 18:30

    Damn cool release! Thank you guys!

    Reply
  60. samran
    19 May 2008 at 18:33

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

    Reply
  61. skrammel
    19 May 2008 at 18:39

    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.

    Reply
  62. NielsBlender
    19 May 2008 at 18:42

    Aha, my mind-transmission has new features :)

    Reply
  63. ArtWorks
    19 May 2008 at 18:46

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

    Reply
  64. Serpentus
    19 May 2008 at 18:49

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

    Reply
  65. dalekbell
    19 May 2008 at 18:58

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

    Reply
  66. grafixsuz
    19 May 2008 at 19:01

    Great stuff guys! Get some rest all you Devs.

    Reply
  67. RNS
    19 May 2008 at 19:04

    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.

    Reply
  68. blendman
    19 May 2008 at 19:39

    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.

    Reply
  69. MiiWiiRPG
    19 May 2008 at 20:39

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

    Reply
  70. MiiWiiRPG
    19 May 2008 at 21:01

    It’s working now :D

    Reply
  71. pictorali
    19 May 2008 at 21:42

    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.

    Reply
  72. Dion Moult
    19 May 2008 at 21:51

    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!)

    Reply
  73. Lucas Da Costa Dantas
    19 May 2008 at 22:29

    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 .

    Reply
  74. luke.xx
    19 May 2008 at 22:32

    Boids particals here i come!

    Reply
  75. Smelz
    19 May 2008 at 22:40

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

    Reply
  76. Lasphere
    19 May 2008 at 22:44

    WhooohooO! Nice one!!!!

    Reply
  77. gr8! (Dimitris Christou)
    19 May 2008 at 23:03

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

    Reply
  78. SoulVector
    20 May 2008 at 07:54

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

    Reply
  79. Steven Chan
    20 May 2008 at 08:07

    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.

    Reply
  80. Alexander Ewering
    20 May 2008 at 08:19

    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…

    Reply
  81. DiThi
    20 May 2008 at 09:18

    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)

    Reply
  82. indiworks
    20 May 2008 at 09:27

    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…)

    Reply
  83. andrew shea
    20 May 2008 at 09:31

    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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  84. bov
    20 May 2008 at 09:33

    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 :)

    Reply
  85. Reaction
    20 May 2008 at 10:05

    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…

    Reply
  86. Duranial
    20 May 2008 at 10:53

    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!!

    Reply
  87. xenon
    20 May 2008 at 11:01

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

    Reply
  88. RedBirdiii
    20 May 2008 at 13:52

    Wow!! Great news!

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

    Reply
  89. TX_RX
    20 May 2008 at 15:14

    looks like the download link is toast.

    Reply
  90. madcello
    20 May 2008 at 15:38

    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!

    Reply
  91. Aka
    20 May 2008 at 16:01

    Anyone has some ideas for new features? xD

    Reply
  92. sen
    20 May 2008 at 16:29

    yeah

    Reply
  93. xenon
    20 May 2008 at 17:20

    Approximate AO is really faster. I am impressed!

    Reply
  94. GustavTheMushroom
    20 May 2008 at 17:37

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

    Reply
  95. xenon
    20 May 2008 at 19:17

    We greatly appreciate Blender developers work.

    Reply
  96. Ja-Seen
    20 May 2008 at 21:08

    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.

    Reply
  97. Darth Omnious
    20 May 2008 at 21:42

    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!!!!

    Reply
  98. Master Danix
    20 May 2008 at 21:52

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

    Reply
  99. Xtra
    20 May 2008 at 22:21

    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!

    Reply
  100. Michel
    21 May 2008 at 03:25

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

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

    Reply
  101. Nathan Letwory
    21 May 2008 at 08:10

    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

    Reply
  102. endi
    21 May 2008 at 14:15

    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… :(

    Reply
  103. fraek
    21 May 2008 at 15:52

    cool – thank you kindly ~`…

    Reply
  104. artistic_kelly
    23 May 2008 at 02:01

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

    Reply
  105. Wim
    24 May 2008 at 19:14

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

    Reply
  106. koiku
    13 June 2008 at 18:43

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

    Reply
  107. damix911
    29 July 2008 at 20:41

    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 ;-)

    Reply

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