Download Blender 2.48a

Blender Foundation is developing Blender, an open source software package for 3d modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. The many features, enhanced with screenshots and examples, are available this page for interested readers to read. Blender was used, among other things, to produce the animated films Elephants Dream, which was released under the Creative Commons license. The developers have ironed out some bugs in the previous release and released the result as version 2.48a. The abbreviated announcement looks like this:

Blender 2.48a update:

A couple of important bugfixes has been done in Blender since the release, especially for using the Game Engine and GLSL.

• GE: Sensors could access removed objects via Scenegraph, causing crashes
• GLSL: ATI drivers crashed on “show pivot” for rigid body constraints
• GE: using Bullet could cause memory leaking
• UI: Panel cleanup in Constraints.
• Python: Additions and cleanup for missing python api docs (Joystick and RenderLayers apis)
• Python: better compatibility with Python 2.3 for some scripts.
• Python: on script errors, Blender objects didn’t get correctly cleared memory, causing crashes in the Game Engine and with BPy Scripts.
• Import: PLY files didn’t read vertex colors
• Import: Wavefront OBJ Import and Export have new user interfaces to make options less confusing.
• Export: VRML script didn’t export with images.
• Added X3D and VRML importer script.
• Armature edit mode: “Switch Direction” could cause infinite loop (hanging blender)
• SSS render: with render option SSS disabled, textures didn’t show up
• Added undo events for Vertex Group operations
• New option for pressing NumPad-0 didn’t work properly in all cases
• Animation: Pressing I-key (insert key) crashed when no Object was active