We've mentioned this before, but I think it's important enough to mention it again: the Blender 2.5 overview page contains everything you need to know about 2.5 except the release date. It is regularly updated so it's a great source of information.
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About the Author
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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Except the release date... I am waiting for this!
Head over to http://www.blendernation.com/bets and place your money on a releasedate!
Great joke, Bart:)
Hi, if you need anymore software testers include me in the loop.
regards Kevin Christy - Software Developer and Cad blokey
Good lord GOD!! How could anybody read those F-Curves?!?!
@Kevin Christy: There are SVN snapshot builds available at graphicall.org if you want to take 2.5 for a test drive. Its nowhere near complete yet, but my guess is if you experience a definite bug, you could give a heads up to the builder. Other than that, keep checking the news for the eventual release candidates (they could be years away, but at least its in the future ;-) ).
I place a bet on maybe the first RC by January with a full fledged miracle by February...
Looks great! But I'll be even more excited if it actually works. Version 2.49 works fine, but ever since they "improved" it with 2.49a it will not run on 3 out of 4 of my Windoze machines. (The fourth one is very old and slow.) Trying to run Blender 2.49a brings up a dialog box saying that the "application performed an illegal operation", etc I submitted a bug report, but I think they are ignoring it.... :( Keeping my fingers crossed!
Hehe,
Someone let the 3D dogs out and 2.5 is freshmeat!
The community can't wait another month, so we'd better have a 2.49b/c/d/e/f/g... if there's another 6months before 2.5! (Joke)
But it'd be v. cool if 2.5 comes out in 2010 - something kind of tributory to space odessey, progress of tech, etc.
I guess we will see betas/RCs leading up to 2.5, which could keep the dogs from ripping up this site.
Till then, every bone you throw us about 2.5, Bart, will only draw more howls, blood, and soak this site in saliva!
Be warned! =)
PS Anyone thought about my previously posted idea for the blender logo becoming a top-level buttons icon in 2.5? It could replace the Window Type chooser (where we choose between Outliner, 3D View, Script Editor, etc). The actual chosen window type could still have its own icon - but this could sit inside the 'eye' of the Blender icon button. But this may be too messy. This way the Blender logo becomes equated with blending - choosing window types - media types - blending.
A nice side benefit is that even if the user customises most of the interface (to look Maya-ish, etc), it's likely that this logo icon would always be visible, showing that it is Blender being used.
Arhgg! More features to try. I'm even at loss at the present state. That means I just had to play more for me to catch up =). Play, play, play.
ok I'll say....Saturday October 31st, for the release of the first 'gremlins' build.
but this candy is going to be so popular we'll need to disconnect the doorbell.
Well on the blender commiters mailing list they are discussing to release some kind of beta in October. However, as far as I understood it this won't even be API-frozen.
I'm hoping v2.5 is released in a couple months, but we can't expect it to be super speedy, because we don't pay for it. If anything, we pay for the DVDs (Durian, anyone?), and some unsuspecting noobs buy it from eBay for $5.
this very cool
This is sweeeeeeeeet
If you can't wait to give Blender 2.5 a go, try http://www.graphicall.org/
Cheers,
EaglesNestOne
dev guys, you really do a great, awesome job, i love u ;)
donation is on the way ^^
@FJgamer: Not to mention the only thing worse than no Blender 2.5 is a rushed and unstable Blender 2.5. A botched job helps nobody. If it takes a year to finish (it won't), I'll be happy as long as there need not be a Blender 2.5a released days later to fix problems that should have been removed in beta-testing.
Blender 2.49a (32 bit as well) requires the Visual C 2008 runtime (from the Microsoft site) to be installed, there used to be a link on the download page.
Regularly updated? Really? It's said "The first two phases are nearly complete, the third phase is about 70% done. The March-August period will be mostly devoted to steps 4 and 5" for over a year, even though the "march-august period" is practically over! Might want to update that percentage?
If you are getting errors running Blender 2.49a in Windows, try one of these:
x86 (32 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=A5C84275-3B97-4AB7-A40D-3802B2AF5FC2&displaylang=en
x64
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BA9257CA-337F-4B40-8C14-157CFDFFEE4E&displaylang=en