Touchwood opened this issue on Sep 05, 2011 · 11 posts
Touchwood posted Mon, 05 September 2011 at 5:37 AM
Found this morning that Blenders SVN has been locked (since sometime after 03.00 GMT). Looks like 2.6 is just around the corner. . . . .
heddheld posted Mon, 05 September 2011 at 6:34 AM
any idea whats new ?? saw a couple of vids on the camera tracking (tomato?) was very interesting
Touchwood posted Mon, 05 September 2011 at 6:45 AM
The Pepper branch was integrated into trunk a week ago which includes Motion Tracking, 3D Audio, Collada improvements, Game engine animation improvements and a general brush up of the animation system in general.
Touchwood posted Mon, 05 September 2011 at 6:52 AM
You can look at a list of what is either under review, submitted or version due for submission here
http://code.blender.org/index.php/2011/08/google-summer-of-code-round-up/
heddheld posted Mon, 05 September 2011 at 10:08 AM
never was any good with veggibubbles lol ;-)
cant see me ever using the game engine, but hope the animation stuff makes it a bit easier for my lack of skills
pappy411 posted Mon, 05 September 2011 at 12:26 PM
Sure hope a good rendering engine is included. Any news if this is a possiblity soon?
Touchwood posted Tue, 06 September 2011 at 5:01 AM
Unfortunately, the new render engine will not be included until the end of the year at minimum. You can try it out though by getting a build from Graphicall.org. Search for Cycles builds.
pappy411 posted Tue, 06 September 2011 at 11:05 PM
Thank you. It is good to know a render engine will be included in a near future version.
Miss B posted Sun, 11 September 2011 at 11:40 AM
Quote - Thank you. It is good to know a render engine will be included in a near future version.
This is definitely good news. I look forward to a good render engine.
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Touchwood posted Sun, 11 September 2011 at 2:06 PM
According to an interview I heard with Campbell Barton, an alpha version of Cycles in trunk should be available from 2.63 onwards assuming everything goes to plan.
charlie43 posted Thu, 20 October 2011 at 11:06 PM
Downloaded 2.6 this afternoon. Have had it open but I'm working on a project in 2.59. The team is doing a fantastic job of upgrading and imporoving. I am in the hopes of learnng Blender well enough so that I can model clothes for Poser characters. Right now, getting the .obj into Blender is an issue for me. I know it will be fixed soon enough...
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