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Back in 2018, Blender removed game engine functionality, but thankfully UPBGE stepped in to fill the void, and just released UPBGE 0.3. Hot on the heels of the Blender 3.0 release, UPBGE 0.3 is built on top of Blender 3.0 and now contains support for the EEVEE real-time PBR based […]
The Blender Foundation have just released Blender 3, loaded with great new features. In addition to major updates like Asset Browser and Cycles X, Blender also contains hundreds of small UI and quality of life improvements. Key new features in Blender 3 include: Cycles X, an all new GPU accelearted
Blender added Geometry nodes back in Blender 2.92 and support has been steadily improving ever since. With Blender 3 and going into the future, Geometry Nodes are a becoming both more capable and more important. Geometry Nodes are special as they enable all kinds of procedural workflows without the need
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Love it or hate it, but NFTs are coming to the world of game development, or at least their money is. Open source game engines Phaser, Godot and Defold as well as Blender have just received a combined total of $300K USD in grants from the NFT themed company OP
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Of all the major corporations absent from the Blender Development Fund, Apple was always the most glaring omission. As of today that has changed as Blender have announced that Apple have joined the fund as a Patron level sponsor. There are minimal details on the Blender news page: The Blender
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AMD have just released a USD Hydra Renderer for the popular open source 3D package Blender. The USD or Universal Scene Description is an open interchange format developed by Pixar for moving data between 3D applications and game engines with minimal to no data loss. AMD is not the only
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Back in July, Adobe signaled their support of Blender by joining the Blender development fund as a Gold sponsor, then followed it up by releasing two addons for Blender, one for Mixamo and the other for Substance Designer. The Mixamo Add-on for Blender This add-on makes it easy to download
Adobe Release Mixamo and Substance Plugins for Blender Read More
Just one month after announcing their own 3D modelling application Substance 3D Modeler, Adobe have just joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold level sponsor. The Blender Development Fund is the primary mechanism of funding the paid developers working on the Blender team. The announcement is brief and to
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Blender 2.8x was a huge step forward from Blender 2.7x in almost every way. Almost. When it comes to mesh editing however there were some serious performance regressions (along with Boolean functionality, which was fixed in Blender 2.91). The Blender developers however were well aware of this and back in
Blender 3 Performance Improves — Canonical Support — More Read More
MagicaCSG is a recently released modelling application that uses signed distance fields to make it easy to create 3D models via boolean operations. MagicaCSG is from the same creator as the popular MagicaVoxel voxel based modelling application and just released version 0.0.1. The major new feature of the 0.0.1 release
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