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Blender 2.93

Blender 2.93 LTS marks the end of a series 20+ years in the making,
paving the way for the next generation open source 3D creation pipeline.

Released June 2nd, 2021

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A total of 22 new nodes were added to the Geometry Nodes editor expanding the attribute system, sampling textures, support for volume data, improved usablity, mesh primitives, Cycles support for attributes, and much more.
Attribute Proximity
Sample Texture
Volume to Mesh
For each point in the input geometry, this node finds the closest position on the target. Learn more.
NOT SO PRIMITIVE
It is now possible to create mesh circles, cones, cubes, cylinders, grids, ico-spheres, uv-spheres, and lines without ever leaving the Geometry Nodes editor . Learn more about Mesh Primitives.

Mesh Primitives inside Geometry Nodes
PLUS THESE NODES
Attribute Clamp
Attribute Combine XYZ
Attribute Convert
Attribute Map Range
Attribute Remove
Attribute Separate XYZ
Bounding Box
Collection Info
Is Viewport
Points to Volume
String Input
Subdivide
Geometry Nodes allows you to create the most flexible modifiers. Download this file and play!

IMPROVED USER EXPERIENCE
Using Geometry Nodes is now much easier thanks to error reporting, search, and a new way to inspect your geometry.

SEARCH ATTRIBUTES
Find the attribute you are looking for!

Domain and Type are displayed for context
Hit Enter to add a new attribute
Supports Fuzzy Search
Results are cached from the latest evaluation for improved performance
HAPPY ACCIDENTS
“We don’t make mistakes, we have happy accidents.”

And it’s important to know when and why they happen. You will now see a notification icon on the nodes that can’t be processed properly.
MEET YOUR NEW BEST FRIEND
Ever wondered what was the exact value for a specific attribute?
The Spreadsheet Editor is here to help you inspect your mesh, instances, or even point clouds.

This is just the beginning. In the future the Spreadsheet Editor will play a key role when managing your scene.
Learn more in the manual.
Learn
Check out the user manual to read about the new nodes, attributes, and more.
Download Demo Files
Learn by example with these files, look out for notes in the Geometry Nodes editor.
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The community is already creating the impossible. Join the celebration!

NODES GALORE
For this releases’ splash, the author Erindale went all-in and made the entire thing pretty much using only Geometry Nodes.

Download the .blend file and watch the walk-through.

Blender 2.93 Splash
SCULPT EXPAND

It has never been easier to create, tweak, and expand Masks or Face sets as you sculpt.

Mask Loops & Patterns
Mask Textures
Flexible Face Sets
Preview patterns as you go, create loops, gradients, combine them with mesh filters for incredible results.
MASKS OUT OF THE BOX
Gone are the days of drawing masks from scratch. You can now create masks automatically by loose parts (geometry islands) or Face Sets.

Combine it with Filters for ultimate flexibility.

Read more

Mask based on face sets.
Sculpting on 96M vertices (1.5M per object)
SWITCH IT UP
Splitting complex figures into multiple objects is a quick way to significantly improve performance. In order to ease this workflow, there is a new way to quickly jump between objects while in Sculpt mode.

Simply mouse over an object and hit D.
HOLD THE LINE ART

Automatically generated Grease Pencil lines around your objects.

The Line Art modifier generates stylized lines on your scene, collections, or individual objects.
Learn more in the manual. Download this demo file.

LINE ART OUT IN THE WILD
INTERPOLATE
ANYTHING

The Interpolate operator is now a full-fledged tool!
Rewritten from scratch for a more flexible workflow.

Interpolation now supports multiframe editing to work faster than ever. Learn more.

GREASE PENCIL
IN AND OUT

Import SVG files as Grease Pencil objects.
Export Grease Pencil objects as vectors to use in Inkscape and other popular vector-based applications.
PDF export supports animation, creating one page per keyframe. Great for storyboards!
Reference for SVG and PDF

Grease Pencil Import Export SVG and PDF
WHAT A FILLING

Meet the new Fill tool. It’s faster, more precise, and smarter.

Stroke Extension
Multiframe Fill
Create temporary closing strokes on the fly. Adjuste the strokes dynamically using the scroll-wheel or Page Up/Down.
EVEN MORE GREASE PENCIL
Better Workflow with Autokey
New Multiframe Display
Dopesheet context menu re-organized
Opacity for Annotations
New Layer transform parameters
Multiframe support in Draw mode
Noise Offset parameter in Noise Modifier
Remove limitation to use only one Lattice modifier

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MORE THAN
MEETS THE EEYEE

The new Eevee looks so good you may want to re-render all your projects.

Volumetrics are now faster, more stable, support soft shadows and area lights.

EEVEE INFLUENCERS
Control how much the diffuse, specular, and volume components will contribute to the lighting.

All area shapes are now supported too!

The new Depth of Field handles close-ups and outlines much better.

VOLUMES + SHADOWS

Blender 2.93 puts the volume back in Volumetrics.

Volume shaders in Eevee now support Area Lights and Soft Shadows.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE

Reduced Flicker on Volumes
Ambient Occlusion Variable Distance
Glass BSDF Improvements
Reduced Light-leaking
Normal Maps Fixes
Subsurface Scattering Improvements
Reduced Noise in Screen-space Raytracing
Fresnel on Glossy Surfaces closer to Cycles
Better Reflection Cubemaps Probes

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-93/

Photorealistic Rendering
Blender now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.

The built-in Cycles rendering engine offers:

GPU & CPU rendering
Realtime viewport preview
HDR lighting support
Permissive License for linking with external software
Rendering in Blender with Cycles
Modeling in Blender
Fast Modeling
Blender’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.

Blender’s modeling tools include:

Keyboard shortcuts for a fast workflow
N-Gon support
Edge slide, collapse and dissolve
Grid and Bridge fill
Python scripting for custom tools and add-ons
Realistic Materials
With Blender’s new rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless.

Key features are:

Complete Node Support for full customization
Physically accurate shaders like glass, translucency and SSS
Open Shading Language (OSL) support for coding unique shaders
Materials in Blender
Rigging in Blender
Fast Rigging
Transforming a model into a posable character has never been easier!

Blender offers an impressive set of rigging tools including:

Envelope, skeleton and automatic skinning
Easy weight painting
Mirror functionality
Bone layers and colored groups for organization
B-spline interpolated bones
Animation toolset
Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations.

Blender’s animation feature set offers:

Automated walk-cycles along paths
Character animation pose editor
Non Linear Animation (NLA) for independent movements
IK forward/inverse kinematics for fast poses
Sound synchronization
rigging
Sculpting in Blender
Sculpting
Experience the joy of sculpting organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of Blender.

Sculpting in Blender includes:

20 different brush types
Multi-res sculpting support
Dynamic Topology sculpting
Mirrored sculpting
Fast UV Unwrapping
Easily unwrap your mesh right inside Blender, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model.

Blender allows for:

Fast Cube, Cylinder, Sphere and Camera projections
Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping (with edge seams and vertex pinning)
Painting directly onto the mesh
Multiple UV layers
UV layout image exporting
UV Unwrapping in Blender
Compositing in Blender
Full Compositor
Blender comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program.

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

Blender’s simulation tools include

Fluid – Realistic water and fluid simulations.
Smoke – Billowing smoke with flames and scene interaction.
Hair – Beautiful wafts of hair that blows in the wind and interacts with collisions.
Cloth – Amazingly realistic cloth simulations for clothing and environments
Rigid Body Physics – Makes any object destructable and collidable
Particles – For creating things like rain, sparks and shrapnel
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Blender Game Engine Screenshot
Game Creation
Included in Blender is a complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right inside Blender.

The game engine includes:

Ability to port your models to any third-party game engine
Create or code your own game logic
Full Bullet Physics integration
Python scripting API for advanced control and AI
Support for all OpenGLTM dynamic lighting, toon shading, animated materials as well as Normal and Parallax Mapping
Playback of games inside Blender without compiling or preprocessing
3D spatial audio using OpenAL
Camera and Object tracking
Blender now includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.

The Camera and Object Tracker includes:

Auto and manual tracking
Powerful camera reconstruction
Real-time preview of your tracked footage and 3d scene
Support for Planar tracking and Tripod solvers
Camera tracking in Blender
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Library of Extensions
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!
Plus many more that you can download here

Video Editing
Blender even comes with a built-in Video Editor.

The Video Editor allows you to perform basic actions like video cuts and splicing, as well as more complex tasks like video masking.

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.
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Exporting in Blender
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.
Flexible 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 (support for retina on OSX)