Download Blender 2.77

Version 2.77 of the open source and cross platform 3D program Blender has been released. This application is intended for 3d modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. More information about the extensive possibilities of Blender can be found at this page are being found. This program includes the short open source animation films Elephant’s Dream, Big Buck Bunny, cinder and Tears of Steel made. Last August, the ten-minute Cosmos Laundromat appeared and it is intended that this will eventually lead to a full feature film. Extensive release notes can be found on this page are found and these are briefly the main improvements:

Main highlights for this release:

• Cycles Rendering has better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density, and a few other features and optimizations.
• User Interface has faster OpenGL rendering and better Anti-Aliasing, and other improvements
• Modeling now has an edit-mode boolean tool, better decimate modifier, selection tools
• Sequencer has a Gaussian Blur effect speedup, and other strip and modifier improvements
• Sculpting/Painting has better extruding and weight painting tools
• Animation has a new constraint interpolation method, and improvements in graph editor, dope sheet, armatures and motion paths
• Grease pencil now has stroke sculpting, and several other workflow improvements
• Library handling has been improved to better manage missing and deleted datablocks
• Game Engine has a few new small features
• A new Add-on supports packing .blend files and their dependencies, some other IO Add-on was improved, and Python was upgraded
• OpenVDB caching is now supported for smoke/volumetric simulations, multithreading is now massively supported, and also 2D stabilization node, Image editor, Cubemap and spotlights were improved
• Support for Windows XP was removed, and the SCons build system too.
• And, as usual, a massive bug fixing!