* an easy-to-figure-out way to go into camera mode, move it like you'd usually use the screen, then go back out into regular viewport modeīut honestly it's the closest to perfect I've seen a 3D program be-and lots of those things sound like they're pretty easy to implement on my own. * having more extensive transformation options (a scale option where it scales less and less the farther away from the end of your selection it is) * having more extensive select options in the GUI (horizontal and vertical loop select) * being able to easily select multiple objects en masse in the outliner (shift click selects additional, it should be ctrl click for that) * customizable icon colours in the properties bar * being able to hold then drag the vertical tabs on the properties bar (modifiers, materials, etc.) Now, besides the crashes (which, admittedly, is probably because my computer is 10 years old and running out of storage) it's close to perfect. When a new release is prepared, the source is compiled, and an installer package is created. Before, I'd spend 30 minutes trying to manipulate a cube for a while and would give up. This Blender version used for this book is Blender 2.49. It was about as hard to learn the interface as Microsoft Word was. I've always wanted to use it but never could get over certain aspects of how the interface worked. I should really open another thread about the R9 200 series (R9 280x) rendering issue as well.

In this release you will find UDIM and USD support, MantaFlow fluids and smoke simulation, AI denoising, GPencil improvements, and much more Check the full release log. The official Blender 2.8 release date is due in July 2019. The second update of the Blender 2.80 milestone release is here With again over a thousand fixes and several important updates that were planned for the 2.8 series. I think I will wait for the fix to the ProRender plugin or change to Blender 2.8 or whatever the final fix is. I've tried to get into blender probably 10 times over the last 10 years. Cant activate ProRender Addon in Blender 2.8.