Blender 2.37 Released - Mei 31st 2005

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Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering,post-production, interactive creation and playback Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X under the GNU Public License.

Just released; a version with over 5 months of development on new features and fixes. The most noteworthy additions are the Soft Body system, the new incremental Subdivision Surface code, and the full recode of the internal Transformation system, allowing much more control and flexibility.

What's New<ul>[*]OSX XCode project files added in cvs
[*]BIG warning hunt with 100s of fixes.
[*]Cleanup of ImBuf code
[*]Added FTGL to extern/ modules
[*]Added texture draw support for icons, not used yet
[*]openEXR preparations were uncommitted and postponed to next release
[*]cleanup of wrong inclusion of BLI_winstuff.h in files. NOTE: BLI_winstuff.h was meant to be a wrapper around windows.h to handle undefining various crap that windows.h defines.
[*]Mesh drawing code now is abstracted with the DerivedMesh system. Check blenkernel/intern/.
[*]use the BLI_string functions! in blenlib/BLI_blenlib.h
[*]First implementation for dependency graph solving added. Now only used to sort the object list in Scenes, for correct order of evaluation.
[*]Makefile changes for future support of 64 bits compile, testing with SGI Prism.
[*]Makefile fixes for Windows Cygwin compiling. Improved dependency checking.
[*]Tests were done with adding the ZBlur option in render core. Results of this method are very limited and too unsatisfying. Was commented out, and will be moved as built-in option in the Sequencer. [/list]

Hidden stuff:<ul>[*]Code was added for testing the pickle matrix
[*]Try (Button in Render Buttons, Animation panel) to set "rt" to 52 before entering EditMode on subdivision subsurface
[*]Try rt=2 or 3... rotate manipulator goodies.[/list]

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I have tried my hands at blender earlier by following some tutorials. Its quite great to have such great software as open source.

Thanks for updating us with the letest release.
 
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