Sunday, September 20, 2020

Interface


Novice and advanced users will love the ability to customize their layout completely. From simply splitting their viewport, to fully customizing it with python scripting, Blender works for you.

Blender’s interface also offers:

  • Consistency across all platforms
  • No disruptive pop-up windows
  • Crisp text, including support for hi-dpi/retina displays.

Unlike Blender 2.7 (where most keys were already assigned), Blender 2.8 comes with a minimal keymap, giving you more room to assign new shortcuts to speed-up your workflow.

Custom preferences can be set per keymap for special actions such as selecting with left or right click, which action to perform with Spacebar, pie menus, and more.

Introduced in Blender 2.80, the built-in Industry Compatible will make it easier than ever for you to jump between applications.

Simply select it from the splash screen the first time you start Blender, or from the Preferences > Keymap section.

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Scripting


With a large community of enthusiasts and developers, Blender comes loaded with a vast array of extensions that you can turn on or off easily.

Some existing extensions include:

  • Generators for trees, terrain, ivy and clouds.
  • Fracture Objects.
  • 3D Printing Toolbox.
  • Rigify meta-rigging system.
  • Import and Export format support for AfterEffects, DirectX, Unreal Game Engine and more!
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Video Editing


Blender comes with a built-in video sequence editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking or color grading.

The Video Editor includes:

  • Live preview, luma waveform, chroma vectorscope and histogram displays.
  • Audio mixing, syncing, scrubbing and waveform visualization.
  • Up to 32 slots for adding video, images, audio, scenes, masks and effects.
  • Speed control, adjustment layers, transitions, keyframes, filters and more!
Preview

Live preview, luma waveform, chroma vectorscope and histogram displays.

Audio Mixing

Syncing, scrubbing and waveform visualization.

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Pipeline


File Formats

Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different programs.

Including:

  • Image
    JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TARGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF
  • Video
    AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX).
  • 3D
    Alembic, 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO), Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D.

Alembic support through import/export operators and data streaming through cache constraints and modifiers.

Features include export of linked dupli-groups, sub-frame sampling, face-varying vertex colors, child hairs and empties.

  • Import– reads an Alembic archive and creates objects in the current Blender scene, supporting Camera, Curve, Empty, Mesh, Point object types
  • Export– creates an Alembic archive supporting Camera, Curve, Hair, Mesh, NURBS, Particles object types
  • Cache File Datablock – stores various properties related to cache files, to help keeping modifiers and constraints referencing Alembic archives in sync
  • Mesh Sequence Cache modifier supports meshes and curves data animations, file sequences
  • Transform Cache constraint, allows to stream animations made at the transformation matrix level
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Simulation


Simulations

Whether you need a crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction, Blender delivers great looking results.

Smoke & Fire

Billowing smoke with flames and scene interaction.

Fluids

Realistic water and fluid simulations.

Hair

Beautiful wafts of hair that blows in the wind and interacts with collisions.

Cloth

Amazingly realistic cloth simulations for clothing and environments

Rigid Bodies

Makes any object destructable and collidable.

Particles

For creating things like rain, sparks and shrapnel

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Visual Effects


Compositing

Blender comes with a fully fledged built-in compositor. This allows you to post-produce your renders without leaving Blender.

The compositor comes with:

  • Impressive library of nodes for creating camera fx, color grading, vignettes and much more
  • Render-layer support
  • Full compositing with images and video files
  • Ability to render to multiLayer OpenEXR files
  • Multi-threaded
Motion Tracking

Blender features production ready camera and object tracking, allowing you to import raw footage, track it, mask areas and reconstruct the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

The Camera and Object Tracker includes:

  • Automatic and manual tracking
  • Powerful camera reconstruction
  • Real-time preview of your tracked footage and 3d scene
  • Support for Planar tracking and Tripod solvers
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