Blender 2.42 Has Been Released

bartv writes "Blender 2.42 has been released. It features an impressive list of new features for professional users. The most important improvements are: a new render pipeline, node editors for compositing and materials, support for anisotropic materials, improved fluid simulation and new character animation tools. Most of these features are the result of the production of Elephants Dream, the first Open Movie. During this project, Blender's lead developer Ton Roosendaal was coding the features that were required by the artists to produce their movie."

Bite my shiny metal ass!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, I read that as Bender!

Just maybe

[suso]

but why not have a mode for those who want instant gratification by using "expected" conventions

Maybe its because those that want instant gratification only end up making shiny metal spheres on checkerboard planes.

Open Moves bad for America

[MarkByers]

Watching so called 'Open Movies' is Communistic and hurts the American economy. In particular it hurts us. There's no such thing as a free lunch. You get what you pay for. Open movies contain viruses and trojans. Sharing open movies is illegal in most countries.

Don't download this movie or we will sue you. We know you broke the law when you were 14 years old. We have it on record.

Your friends,
The MPAA.

Re:eh hem.

[suso]

There are plenty of things in this world that don't make any sense. Especially things people say. Honestly, I've heard people say it both ways.

If all of you want to get stupidly technical about all this, then try this on. To say that necessity is the mother of all invention implies that necessity is an invetion, since its other invention's mother and all. Unless of course necessity copulated with another species of concept in order to create an new hybrid species to create a new one which we now call invention.

Sound insane? I must be to keep posting my thoughts to slashdot.

Re:Just maybe

[SharkJumper]

Ah! You're familiar with my work!

Re:What have they done for the UI?

[Anonymous Coward]

Every time I see a comment like this, I refer people to this link [penguinpetes.com].

Re:XSI

[suckmysav]

Is the seat leather upholstered or just some cheap material?

Re:Bite my shiny metal ass!

[Anonymous Coward]

That should be "Bite my shiny anisotrophically rendered metal ass!"

Re:"open-sourcier"

[Deltaspectre]

I hate to point this out to you, but $my_vocabulary was never declared!

I jest :P