You can find full details here.īlender 2.93: updates to library overrides and geometry nodesĪlthough the Blender Foundation’s blog post doesn’t give version numbers for all of the new features it covers, several are already listed in the work-in-progress release notes for Blender 2.93. Updated: The Blender Foundation has also just unveiled Cycles X, a major update to Blender’s main production renderer, due in Cycles 3.1. Ongoing work on the library overrides system, the new geometry nodes and the Grease Pencil toolset are due to roll out in Blender 2.93, currently scheduled for a stable release in late May.īlender 3.0, due in the third quarter of the year, features bigger structural changes, including a new USD importer, a new animation pose library, and a more general revamp of Blender’s character animation tools. The Blender Foundation has posted its public roadmap for 2021, previewing some of the features due in the two scheduled major releases of the open-source 3D software this year.

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