...is out.

http://www.blender.org/

Some pretty cool features in this release, including soft raytraced 
shadows for all lamp types, cubic diffuse shading, approximate ambient 
occlusion (reportedly fast), and others.

With YafRay support and all these new features, Blender sits atop the 
hill with other big-name 3D packages, only it's free and small in size. 
Gotta love the GNU Public License :)

Sam

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:52:05 -0700, stbenge wrote:

> ...is out.
> 
> http://www.blender.org/
> 
> Some pretty cool features in this release, including soft raytraced
> shadows for all lamp types, cubic diffuse shading, approximate ambient
> occlusion (reportedly fast), and others.
> 
> With YafRay support and all these new features, Blender sits atop the
> hill with other big-name 3D packages, only it's free and small in size.
> Gotta love the GNU Public License :)
> 
> Sam

Cool, need to see if the povray plugin works on it. :-)

Jim

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> ...is out.
>
> http://www.blender.org/
>
> Some pretty cool features in this release, including soft raytraced 
> shadows for all lamp types, cubic diffuse shading, approximate ambient 
> occlusion (reportedly fast), and others.
>
> With YafRay support and all these new features, Blender sits atop the hill 
> with other big-name 3D packages, only it's free and small in size. Gotta 
> love the GNU Public License :)

Also need to check if my 3D mouse works properly with it now (there was very 
buggy support before) - if so this will be a dream to use!

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> With YafRay support and all these new features, Blender sits atop the hill 
> with other big-name 3D packages, only it's free and small in size. Gotta 
> love the GNU Public License :)

Note that the Blender devs plan to remove YafRay support (due to the lack of 
maintenance) after this version and are looking for a replacement.
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/SundayMeetingAgenda/March_16th_2008
I'm not sure that POV-Ray could replace it at this stage though.

G.


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>> With YafRay support and all these new features, Blender sits atop the 
>> hill with other big-name 3D packages, only it's free and small in size. 
>> Gotta love the GNU Public License :)
>
> Also need to check if my 3D mouse works properly with it now (there was 
> very buggy support before) - if so this will be a dream to use!

Hmmm, seems not.  Even though the people at 3Dconnexion donated some 
hardware and a programmer to Blender, this version still doesn't have 
support.  Annoying, because I like Blender, it's just clumsy to use when 
you've forgotten how to rotate pan zoom using a normal mouse.

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