Blender branches to watch in 2016

[Bullit]

Pie menus



https://gumroad.com/l/modals_pie_menu#

[Bullit]

Boxcutter boolean tools for Blender. To be used with Hardops.

[Bullit]

From box cutter

[Bullit]

Bendy bones for Blender

[Bullit]

Grease pencil updated to V2 Beta

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/vv0wtn3bwczo ... kRtia?dl=0

[Draise]

Gosh, I can't wait for the Grease Pencil V2 official release. The greasepencil in a 3D space is really something else, really useful for animatics. I have used it quite a bit.

[Bullit]

Bastioni Lab by Manuel Bastioni

[Bullit]

Report on Siggraph https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/ ... 16-report/ from Blender perspective

Until the years end from the PDF linked in the page:

● OpenSubdiv
● Cycles point density
● Viewport speedup
● Text effects sequencer
● Cycles GPU support volumes
● OpenVDB
● Cycles OpenCL AMD render
● Restore missing data for lost links
● 1000s of bug fixes
(2.78)
● VR Rendering
● Cycles microdisplacement
● Alembic
● Grease Pencil 2.0

[Bullit]

For 2.8 version:

Viewport
- PBR shaders (Unreal E.)
- New Layers
- Engines
- Production render
- OpenSubdiv
Interface
- Minimal default
- Advanced config
- Button-less edit
- Blender 101
Assets & Data
- Linking, overrides
- Scenes, USD
- Interoperability
FBX, UDIM,
Alembic
Everything nodes
- Modifiers, constraints
- Particles, Hair
- Unified simulation
Interaction editing
- New Logic editor
- Logic part of anim system
- WebGL, VR
- glTF

[Hirazi Blue]

For 2.8 version:
(...)
Everything nodes
- Modifiers, constraints
- Particles, Hair
- Unified simulation
(...)

Sounds promising... ;)

[Bullit]

Noticed that too. 2.8 series only starts next year then will have a run for about 2-3 years i think.

[Bullit]

Some neat animation tools from a Softimage and others, user.

https://blenderartists.org/forum/showth ... enda-Tools

[Draise]

Those tools are exactly what put me off Blender! No offset keys but with this yes! Nice.

[Hirazi Blue]

That indeed is an impressive addon...;)

[Bullit]

Blender 2.78 out:





https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev: ... Notes/2.78

[Bullit]

Also was released a crowd simulation for Blender




http://jmroper.com/crowdmaster/docs/

Via:
http://cgpress.org/archives/crowdmaster ... ender.html