He thought we were trying to assimulate or mold Blender to be more like Autodesk, and mentioned it – saying he didn’t want to start any wars with that – fair enough. A few new ones were added, and a few were removed.I went on the live and mentioned Bforartists.

Most add-ons for 2.79 are available for 2.80 as well. Addons and scripts will need to be updated, both to handle the new features and adapt to changes to make the API more consistent and reliable.

Improved unit system, cloth physics, background images and video editing cache system.Ī number of features that were no longer under active development or did not fit in the new design were removed.īlender 2.80 is an API breaking release. The core modifier and animation evaluation system was rewritten, to improve performance and pave the way for new features. There are improvements to COLLADA, Alembic and video import and export. The Khronos glTF 2.0 importer and exporter is now bundled with Blender. There is also new keyframe visualization, and improved NLA editor and easier driver editing. Many new constraint, modifier and bendy bone features were added for rigging. Multiple meshes can now be edited together in edit mode, along with improvements for custom normal editing, bevel and OpenSubdiv. The limited layer system has been replaced by collections, a more powerful way to organize and link objects. New volume and hair shaders, bevel and ambient occlusion shaders, along with many other improvements and optimizations. The 3D viewport was completely rewritten, to optimize it for modern graphics cards and add powerful new features.Ī powerful new 2D animation system was added, with a native 2D grease pencil object type, modifier and shader effects. It works both as a renderer for final frames, and as the engine driving Blender's realtime viewport for creating assets. The 3D viewport and UV editor have new interactive tools and gizmos, along with a new toolbar.Įevee is a new physically based realtime renderer. Blender 2.80 Release Notes User Interfaceīlender has a revamped user interface, to make it easier to discover and use its many features.

Blender 2.8 release date