Monday, April 26th, 2021: 3D Community News
2021 will be a busy and exciting year for the Blender team as it will be working on the 2nd LTS release and on Blender 3.0, which includes a lot of new features. Additionally, it's the year of the 10th anniversary of Cycles.
There is specific planning, according to which there will be more emphasis on the modules as a way for everyone in the development community to get involved.
Projects
- Asset browser and pose library
- Library overrides
- Geometry nodes
- Vulkan
- Grease Pencil
- Blender 2.93 LTS
- Cycles development
- Animation character pipeline
- USD importer
- Blender 3.0 – user interface workshop
There are many other projects expected for 2021 that will be revealed during the year. The core team is to work on 6-8 week-long projects, hand them over to the modules, rinse and repeat.
Teasers
- Independent physics clock in viewports
- Mesh editing optimization
- Brush manager for painting and sculpting
- Snapping improvements
- Real-time viewport video compositor
- Collections settings for persistent I/O and baking
- Restrictive overrides
- Collection nodes
- Dynamic particles
For more details, visit Blender's Blog.
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