The visual style of the panels have been updated as well, and there are numerous smaller changes to the user interface to make Blender offer a high quality and consistent UI, as well as a well balanced workflow on all supported platforms.īlender 3.0 also adds support for 128 channels to the Sequencer, moves the Annotation Panel to new View tab in the Clip Editor, adds an ASC CDL color correction method and a transform overwrite mode, adds a new “Loose Edges” option to let you collapse only the edges without connected faces, adds support for flipping sides in mesh bisects, and there are several improvements to the Knife Tool.įor VR (Virtual Reality), the new release updates the VR Scene Inspection add-on with a new set of VR controller-based functionality, such as the ability to visualize controllers and navigate one’s way through a scene in VR using controller inputs.

blend files, and improves the performance when editing huge meshes.

The new Blender release refreshes the default theme to celebrate the 3.0 series, makes opening a blend file that links to thousands or more data-blocks from the same library faster, supports loading of Zstandard compressed.

Also, Blender’s Cycles received a major revamp that leads to significantly improved GPU rendering performance and interactivity in Blender 3.0. This is not yet available in the 3.0 release, but it will come in a future update in the 3.x series.Īnother big change in the 3.x series is the replacement of the BGL module with the GPU module. One huge change in this new series is the fact that Blender will use the Vulkan next generation graphics and compute API by default for better graphics performance with lower power consumption.

The Blender Foundation released today Blender 3.0 as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, open-source and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.īlender 3.0 is a massive update that introduces numerous new features and dozens of enhancements to the 3D modeling software.

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