The Cycles rendering engine can now use a light tree when you have multiple light sources. The new GPU-based compositor is finally here, and it can show mesh overlays on top of compositing for editing. The Draw brush in the sculpting toolbox now supports vector displacement maps (preferably in the OpenEXR file format). The new system is currently usable in static scenes only, simulation will arrive later. It comes with an asset library of 26 hair assets: you can attach hair curves to surfaces, deform them into braids, frizz them etc. Here is askNK’s review:Īnd here are some of the release highlights.Ī new, modular hair system is based on geometry nodes. The new version of Blender delivers a huge amount of improvements well worth upgrading.

Pre-release that is likely to have a lot of bugs. The first alpha release of Inkscape 1.3 is out, you can grab the builds Source code to be published at some point later. Sure, it has limitations (no access to layers, 8-bit per channel only), but it’sĪ start. #b3d #blender #krita /ME6dia5ln1- vignedev March 26, 2023 Of a work-in-progress Blender add-on to open KRA files: Not much fancy development going on in Krita at the moment, but here is a demo I'll test it more and then submit for review. It turned out to be *really* easy to implement with the qoi.h library, so I put together a plug-in for 2.99 that can load and export this format. There was a request for QOI (Quite OK Image) format support. There was an earlierīy Piotr Fusik, that served as an inspiration. With lossless compression and faster encoding. Inkscape 1.3, new features in GIMP, FreeCAD, Ardour.ĬmykStudent added initial support for the QOI fileįormat that is intended to be a replacement for PNG

Week highlights: new releases of Blender, QCAD, Qtractor, first pre-release of

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