Blender Development

Blender 2.91 – Massive Performance Boost in UV/Image Editor

Mario Hawat ·

Blender Developer Jeroen Bakker authored a patch moving the current UV/image editor drawing to the draw manager.

This patch allows for a massive increase in performance when previewing large image files, as well as correctly displaying alpha and emission colors.

Twitter user @TheLapisSea demonstrates the leap in performance

This commit just landed in the latest Blender 2.91 experimental build, which you can download to test out the improvements right away!

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Author Mario Hawat
Mario Hawat is a Lebanese 3D artist, writer, and musician currently based in Paris. He is a generalist with a special focus on environments, procedural and generative artworks. Open to freelance work.
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