Blender 2.75 is now available for download
Blender Foundation and the blender.org developer community are proud to present the official Blender 2.75 release.
The main highlights of this release are:
- Blender now supports a fully integrated Multi-View and Stereo 3D pipeline.
- Cycles has much awaited initial support for AMD GPUs, and a new Light Portals feature.
- UI now allows font previews in the file browser.
- High quality options for viewport depth of field were added
- Modeling has a new Corrective Smooth modifier.
- The Decimate modifier was improved significantly.
- 3D viewport painting now supports symmetry and the distribution of Dynamic Topology was improved
- Video Sequence Editor: Placeholders can now replace missing frames of image sequences
- Game Engine now allows smoother LOD transitions, and supports mist attributes animation
- And: 100s of bug fixes and smaller feature improvements.
Great new Release!
Well, the stereo pipeline works kind of… But I can’t see any 3D in my Viewport or as a result even with View enabled and everything set up as described in the corresponding manual entry. Tried many different outputs, Fullscreen and not, but no luck – even not with anaglyph red-cyan, which should work with any monitor or row-interlaced (like my monitor should be able to display). I hope, they will fix this soon.
Apart from that so many useful new features. And finally some AMD support! Yay. Thanks a lot, developers. =)
3D in the view port is only visible in the Camera View.
(It is not meant to edit mesh in 3D, just preview it in Camera View)
To activate it, you just have to go in ‘Render Layers’ panel, and check the ‘Views’ checkbox at the bottom.
That’s what I did.. but no luck yet. I’ll investigate further.
You can edit mesh in stereo mode with view from camera. Just need to mark ‘Lock Camera to View’ on N-panel.
And for some of stereo modes blender window must be in full screen mode (Alt+F11)
Well, from camera view with Views enabled in the Render Layers Tab and from camera view with “Lock Camera to View” enabled it works to switch Left and Right in the properties Panel under Stereoscopy. But when I click on 3D, nothing changes, the view stays as with the last selected image (left/right). I can select Window->Set Stereo 3D and change settings there but nothing happens. No matter if I’m in fullscreen mode or not… and at least from the pictures in the documentation I would say, it should at least display something with anaglyph mode… But it doesn’t.
I get two images rendered with the correct suffixes like set in Views. But what am I missing? I think, it might be still buggy… can anyone confirm the “nothing happens” with my settings as well or does something work for others with this setup?
I’m yet to update the manual to include this, but you need to use Triple Buffer for multiview (which is the default in most computers, but not all of them)
Thanks a lot DALAI, that was the missing link…
Well, Tripple Buffer enabled brings me some very bad artifacts flickering around the screen when the view is being updated. Bet it is a problem with my internal Intel HD Graphics 4600 chip. I changed it to “Full” as this canceled those artifacts.
Crashed!
https://developer.blender.org/T45269
Mine did crash when I hit the “copy previous settings” button.
So now, how do I get my settings from version 2.74 to 2.75?
What is the file name I need to look for because I can’t find it and in which directory?
I have windows 8.1.
When you open the new installed version, you can click on “Copy previous settings” (or something like that) in the splash screen. (edit: Sorry, overlooked your first sentence)
But as far as I know it appears only the first time, afterwards the settings are taken from the new version. Anybody correct me if you know better. Maybe there are some files to copy in the program directories named like the old versions.
Each version of blender has own directory with configurations and scripts. In Linux it is, for example ‘~/.config/blender/2.75’. I do not know, where this folder is in Windows OS.
If directory for current version is not exist, blender adds button “Copy previous settings” to splash screen. If user press this button then it copies directory of preview version. If user do not press this button then blender makes new folder with settings.
If you want this button reappeared, remove the directory with the settings for the current version.
Or you can try to copy folder with settings of preview version by yourself and rename it to current version number name.
Windows 7 it’s: “C:\Users\name\AppData\Roaming\Blender Foundation\Blender” – just copy the 2.74 and name it 2.75 (overwrite if it’s still there). Afaik that’s all the “copy previous settings” button does.
why can not I install several addons that used in version 2.74?
I will return to the previous …
I had no problems using the “Copy previous Settings” method, it included all my addons from my earlier versions. Works great!
Welcome to why I have several different Blender versions installed–addons that stop working between new versions.
I wish more addon developers would make more initiative to updating their addons.
Have you reported these broken add-ons? Did they work in the test builds?
I’m talking about some of the Community-developed addons, not the main addons developed by the mainstay developers.
Some of them will work, but give an error message with some functions. Some of them don’t work at all with the newer builds.
Other people often report these issues or request an update, only that sometimes the developers don’t check their comments enough.
Hi! possible reasons usually are
* because something has changed internally.
* because something has broken internally.
this release RL states at least:
“The Baking-API now uses an object_id in the bake() function and in the pixel_array table.”
so if your addon uses the API, it could need to be updated to the new API.
reading the full RL on the wiki, I remember to have read something else (minor) that could break some ast compatibility…
Let’s hope the add-on author is already working on this, or you could notify him (or her) the issue
YAY! Can’t wait to give it a try! Though I have been waiting for a while for AMD support only to find my card is too old now :'( Oh well… Better buy a new computer! ;D