Blender is a powerful development tool to create 3D images and animations, whose main advantage regarding other similar tools like 3D studio or Maya is that this is a completely free application. In this release: Cycles: Built-in Denoising, Shadow catcher, Principled shader, AMD OpenCL optimizations.ĭownload Blender 2.78c. The user preferences now have a Display Scale setting in the Interface tab, to adjust the size of fonts and buttons relative to the automatically detected DPI.The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.79! Download the 2.79 Release. For X11, the DPI is based on Xft.dpi or xrandr -dpi, which is set for most desktop environments. On Windows multiple monitors with different DPI are supported as well. The interface is now automatically scaled with the system DPI. High DPI displays on Windows 8.1+ and X11 are now better supported.

An entire vector or color can now be copied and pasted using Ctrl+Alt+C/ Ctrl+Alt+V, instead of just a single value.

Cycling through tabs with Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab is now possible in the properties editor, tabbed tool shelves and user preferences ( 718bf8fd9d1).

Transform manipulator now allows pressing Shift before selecting the axis.

NDOF navigation can now be used during border and circle select.

Keying Set operators (Default shortcuts: K to add to Keying Set, Alt+K to remove from Keying Set).

Driver operators (Default shortcuts: Ctrl+D to insert, Ctrl+Alt+D to delete).

Keyframe operators (Default shortcuts: I to insert, Alt+I to delete, Shift+Alt+I to clear).

Eyedropper operator (Default shortcut: E).

Support for customizing shortcuts of button interactions.

( f68145011fd46)įor more details, see the application templates documentation.

Blender 2.79: User Interface Application TemplatesĪpplication templates are a feature that allows you to define a re-usable configuration that can be selected to replace the default configuration, without requiring a separate Blender installation or overwriting your personal settings.

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