Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Blender 4.0 Released For This Incredible Open-Source 3D Modeling Software

After a one week delay, Blender 4.0 is now available as the latest major update to this leading open-source and cross platform 3D modeling software...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.0-Released

[mirmirmir]

Finally base point transform 😭😭
It's my main complain for my precise modelling workflow. Although I already familiar without it, with this "new" feature simplify many of my unnecessarily tedious operations

Edit:
I haven't figured out to scale and rotate with base point. All manual and tuts out there only showing how to snap to a target point, while the base point is still on origin.

There's "A" key modifier to add snap point, maybe that answers my question. But I have no idea how to use it.

[nyanbinary]

Peak has released

[FuchtelJockel]

Cycles... Cycles... Cycles...

[Panix]

Cycles... Cycles... Cycles...

'Hope Michael (still?) has a 7900 XTX or even 7900 XT.... I want to see how bad/good the card is in Blender 4.0 (and whether HIP-RT works) - I'm looking for up-to-date info/scores compared to a 3090.

[rmfx]

Great release, but they still didn't clue in how a modern professional animation/vfx production works.

So many design decisions scream out loud the team never even spent 10 days at Pixar, Animal Logic, Weta or ILM to see what matters and what does not.

[mirmirmir]

Great release, but they still didn't clue in how a modern professional animation/vfx production works.

So many design decisions scream out loud the team never even spent 10 days at Pixar, Animal Logic, Weta or ILM to see what matters and what does not.

Your comment screams "I don't know what I'm talking about"

[jacob]

Great release, but they still didn't clue in how a modern professional animation/vfx production works.

So many design decisions scream out loud the team never even spent 10 days at Pixar, Animal Logic, Weta or ILM to see what matters and what does not.

Blender is mainly designed for game development, where it has been wildly successful, but it *is* used in movies as well. AFAIK Netflix and Amazon use it for their own productions and Pixar has recently released Renderman for Blender, so there.

[rmfx]

Your comment screams "I don't know what I'm talking about"

Yeah right….

[rmfx]

Blender is mainly designed for game development, where it has been wildly successful, but it *is* used in movies as well. AFAIK Netflix and Amazon use it for their own productions and Pixar has recently released Renderman for Blender, so there.

Give me one blockbuster made with Blender since it’s used everywhere ?

I can cite hundreds made with Maya, Houdini, Katana. As of 2023, the biggest prod ever made with Blender was Netflix’s Next Gen (and the studio bankrupt since then).