B3D Sneak Peek #24 - Point Density, Offset Nodes, Viewport and more
Channel: Plasmasolutions
Date: 2015-10-04

Blender 2.76 is coming - and a new sneak peek will help you to grasp most new features in the node editor, cycles renderer, viewport and the blenderplayer.. Share it!

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*In this episode*
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Viewport (0:37):
- Display optimizations (with a comparison to 2.75) 
- Pixars OpenSubdiv is in trunk (Animators: fun times ahead!) (2:33)

Blenderplayer (6:16):
* Allows sound playback for movies
* Allow play-pause with space button
* Allow displaying a position indicator with the I button

Nodes & Rendering (7:40):
- Point density texture support 
- Expose Clip image extension type (14:50)
- Auto-offset nodes on insertion (17:23)

*What's this all about*
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In this series I'll present new and (hopefully) useful features for all of you outside the Blender 3D development universe... all those features are brand new and are available in the official Blender version 2.76.

Greetings to all of you and thanks for all the encouraging comments and shares! 

*Downloads*
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The newest 2.76 release at http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.76/
Fresh builds at http://builder.blender.org (Attention: there will be bugs in it for sure!)

Happy Blending,
Thomas Beck & the Plasmasolutions Team