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Is it in Blender yet?

Not sure if that feature you’re looking for is in Blender yet? Here’s a list to help you out.

Last Updated: 24th April 2013

Yes, it’s already in Blender 2.66

Hair/Fur Rendering for Cycles
Dynamic Topology
Physics Integration
Cycles Material Preview
Matcap Viewport Preview

Yes, but only in the latest build

Python Nodes
SSS – Subsurface Scattering for Cycles
Freestyle Integration
Mesh Tools for 3D printing

No, although planned for future releases

Pie Menus (planned: v2.68)
Rigid Body Constraint Editing (planned: v2.68)
Ubershader (planned: v2.68)
Proper Subdivision/Displacement for Cycles (planned: v2.68)
Volumetric Rendering for Cycles (planned: mid-2013)
Voronoi Fracture Modifier (no release date set)
Texture Baking for Cycles (no release date set)
Particle Nodes (no release date set)
OpenCL support for Cycles (development on-hold due to current AMD driver limitations)

Past releases

2.65

Anisotropic Shading

Fire Simulation

Open Shading Language

Normal Map Support for Cycles

Motion Blur

Hair/Fur Rendering for Cycles

Dynamic Topology Sculpting

Cycles Material Preview

Matcap Viewport Preview

View the Cycles to-do list for a full comprehensive look at Cycles development. Join the Cycles Mailing list, Blender Mailing List or jump in #blendercoders IRC chat to listen directly to developers chat.

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  • fcreyer

    Andrew i’m building my first game. It is a Chess variant that I would like to place on the Web.i have a website hosted by Go Daddy but investigating requirements for exporting the game designed in Blender I’ve run into complications.I’m building the game interface in Blender but for the computer play i need a chess engine the good ones are built in C++. Secondly there is a GUI concern. the variant game includes two new pieces i will need to alter the engine to include this function. I’ve been referred to Fruit and Stockfish. I’m not sure which if any are the correct choice. I’ve thought about building the engine in Pygame. any help as to which direction i should take or were i can find information to assist would be greatly appreciated.

  • http://www.facebook.com/mcamalov Mehman Camalov

    why u d not update this info??

  • http://www.facebook.com/ZhongBii 黄中柏

    YO! Blender 2.67 released!

  • Matthias Shalom

    Hi there

    I search Blender Modules, which make the Game Creating more easy and read from one, that turns Blender in a Map Editor?

  • Randi Prasetyo

    Just wanna share my result,thanks for your tutorial Andrew :D

  • Randi Prasetyo

    I wonder when vray for blender is released,which 1 do you prefer for render engine?

  • http://www.facebook.com/jules.raimes.7 Jules Raimes

    Some sort of muscle modifier would be great, i know there is the shrinkwrap, but its not the same and i dont want to have all the work defining shapes and drivers to flex, then to apply cloth or soft bodies to the mesh, bah, it would be great guys. Thanks. Jules

  • Ejnar Rasmussen

    Hi A. Are you sure proper subdivision/displacement is still on for 2.68..? In the roadmap it seams only small fixes are planned before volumetrics…

  • rowsku

    Hey i have a very beginner question.

    How do you make a hole in a mesh with the shape of a different mesh?

  • Konrad Prodamski

    ya sss finally

  • Rio Force

    Is the UberShader going to be official released in 2.67?

  • shul

    SSS for cycles should be moved to
    Yes, but only in the latest test build

  • Shadowrom

    SSS is in SVN ;-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/muhammadiqrodarismith Muhammad Iqro

    I Hope Next Time..Cycles Support Volume material So We Can Make Fire That Emit Lights To Other Object Near It :/

  • Eli

    Fire & smoke in cycles…. when do we get that?

    • http://www.facebook.com/muhammadiqrodarismith Muhammad Iqro

      If Cycles Can Render Volume

  • Kelly

    How is it that LuxRender is able to work with AMD but Cycles is not? Of all the issues causing bottlenecks, this seems number one.

    • basroil

      “AMD/ATI

      You will need an HD 5000 series or newer card, or equivalent FirePro
      model. The HD 4000 series cards are not supported. This is not due to a lack of support from LuxRender, but rather a lack of proper driver
      support by AMD.”

      Blender had the same issue, and now the issue is that Cycles is too far in development to break everything all over again.

  • Mendoza

    A GPU accelerated unified simulation framework, like Autodesk Nucleus on steroids, would be great.

  • David Kearns

    Something I would love to see Cycles pick up is Light Groups. It is a feature from Luxrender that lets one set lights into groups and switch them on and off. Effectively you could light a day and night scene at the same time but turn the sun off and the street lights on and the lighting would be correct for each.

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