Release Notes

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Contents 1 介绍 2 动画系统 2.1 Overview 2.2 Rigging 2.3 Display 2.4 Skin weight 2.5 Deformation methods 2.6 Inverse Kinematics 2.7 Posing 2.8 IPO Curves 2.9 Actions and NLA 3 修改系统 4 粒子与仿真 4.1 Fluid Simulation 4.2 particle based animateable hair 4.3 improved softbody dynamics 5 界面 6 UV 工具 7 图形编辑 8 Mesh 编辑 8.1 Subdivide Tool 8.2 Ripping 8.3 Text 8.4 Booleans 9 移动转换 10 Python API 和 Scripts 11 游戏引擎 12 未归类链接 13 总结页面

介绍

After five and a half months of fast paced development we bring you Blender 2.40.

There have been a large number of improvements in Blender with amazing work being done by all of the coders.

动画系统

Overview

• The biggest changes have been the major improvements in Blenders Animation system (How Armatures Work) http://blender.org/cms/How_Armatures_work.634.0.html

Rigging

See the improvements in Armature Rig Editing (Bendy Bones, Mirroring)

• Rig Editing

Display

Armature Display (Draw Modes http://blender.org/cms/Armature_draw_modes.629.0.html , Ghosting , Animation Paths)

• Display

Skin weight

Skin weighting (Envelopes, Vertex Groups, and improved Weightpainting)

• Skin weight

Deformation methods

new and imporved defomation methods (Curve Deform, Lattice Deform, Shape Keys; Hook Deforms)

• Deformation methods

Inverse Kinematics

Improved Inverse Kinematics (Faster, easier to use; and new methods)

• Inverse Kinematics

Posing

Easier and faster posing methods; Better curve interpolation methods

• Posing

IPO Curves

New methods of IPO curve control and editing; IPO Drivers

• IPO Curves

Actions and NLA

Much improved editing of NLA and the Timeline (Action Strips and Dope Sheet).

• Actions NLA

修改系统

Another area of big change has been the addition of a modifiers system. Now things like mirroring, booleans, curves, and lattices, are modifiers which can be turned on or off; or applied.

• 修改堆栈

粒子与仿真

• Particles_and_Simulation
• We've also seen some amazing progress in Blenders particle and simulation systems. We have a fluid dynamics system

Fluid Simulation

http://blender.org/cms/Fluids_simulation.675.0.html

thanks to the Niels T and the support of GSoC;

particle based animateable hair

Hair Particles and a number of complementary particle improvements such as guides; vertex painted control of particle density and origin; and texture based control of particles.

http://blender.org/cms/Hair_Strand_Rendering.722.0.html http://orange.blender.org/blog/hairy-issues

Particle Options and Guides http://blender.org/cms/New_Particle_options_a.721.0.html

improved softbody dynamics

http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2005-August/004213.html

界面

The interface has undergone a major overhaul, improving the layout of buttons, menus, and improving access and visibility to a number of options.

• Interface

UV 工具

A number of nice small improvements to the uv tools such as mirroring, and improved selection, and the ability to use the manipulator.

• UV Editing

图形编辑

Some useful additions to the image tools - (mini gimp - what are the features??)

• Image

Mesh 编辑

There has also been a great deal of improvement in the mesh editing tools, a reorganization of the sudivide code

• Mesh Editing

Subdivide Tool

http://blender.org/cms/Subdivide_Tools.599.0.html

including additions such as edge and vertex slide, edgeloop deletion; an organic extrusion method; and a 'rip tool' as well

Ripping

http://blender.org/cms/Mesh_Ripping.712.0.html

Text

• Text tools - flush and justify; Unicode font support;
• Text

Booleans

. Also thanks to the support of Googles Summer of Code and the hard work of Marc we have greatly improved quality for the boolean tools.

移动转换

There have been some nice updates to the transform tools as well including a new tweak mode; additional constraint references; and a new orbiting option.

• Transforms

Python API 和 Scripts

Python API has recieved a huge number of improvements and additions - a new Mesh module that is a 'thin wrapper' around Blender Mesh data for much greater speed; General improvements in the IPO Module; a completely redone armature API to keep up with the changes above; and a large number of clean ups and consistency improvements.

• Python

游戏引擎

Finally we have had a large number of improvments to the Game Engine - of particular note is the new, fast, and stable Physics library Bullet; The ability to bake game physics to IPO curves more easily; and an update that allows using Blender texture system within the game engine.

• GameEngine

未归类链接

Armature Envelopes http://blender.org/cms/Armature_Envelopes.647.0.html

Inverese Kinematics http://blender.org/cms/Inverse_Kinematics.663.0.html http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/AnimationUpdate

Stride Bones http://blender.org/cms/Advanced_Stride_suppor.720.0.html

Shape Keys and Vertex Groups http://blender.org/cms/Shape_Keys.678.0.html

IPO Drivers http://blender.org/cms/Ipo_Drivers.680.0.html http://orange.blender.org/blog/licence-to-drive

Action and NLA Editor http://blender.org/cms/Action_and_NLA_editor.706.0.html

Animation Curve Handles http://blender.org/cms/Animation_Curve_Handle.717.0.html

Modifier System http://www.blender.org/cms/Modifier_System.681.0.html http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Modifiers

Radial Blend http://blender.org/cms/Radial_Blend_Type.677.0.html

Text Objects http://blender.instinctive.de/downloads/release/docs/textobject.txt

Tons update page http://www.blender.org/cms/Newsitem.607+M538b9526d7d.0.html

Summer of code list http://mediawiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/SummerOfCode2005

总结页面

• Text tools - flush and justify; Unicode font support;

• Bugs Fixed
• Animation (remaining is MISC, and TODO)
• Misc
• Coder Notes