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Type: desktop-application
ID: org.blender.Blender
Package: blender
ProjectLicense: GPL-3.0
Name:
C: Blender
Summary:
C: Free and open source 3D creation suite
Description:
C: |-
<p>Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline
— modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing.</p>
<p>Blender is a public project, made by hundreds of people from around the world; by studios and individual
artists, professionals and hobbyists, scientists, students, VFX experts, animators, game artists, modders,
and the list goes on.</p>
Categories:
- Graphics
- 3DGraphics
Keywords:
C:
- "3d"
- cg
- modeling
- animation
- painting
- sculpting
- texturing
- video editing
- video tracking
- rendering
- render engine
- cycles
- python
Url:
translate: https://developer.blender.org/docs/handbook/translating/translator_guide/
donation: https://fund.blender.org/
help: https://www.blender.org/support/
faq: https://www.blender.org/support/faq/
contribute: https://www.blender.org/get-involved/
homepage: https://www.blender.org
bugtracker: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues?q=&labels=296
vcs-browser: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender
Icon:
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stock: blender
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- blender.desktop
Provides:
mediatypes:
- application/x-blender
Screenshots:
- default: true
caption:
C: Sculpt
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- caption:
C: Model
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height: 1080
- caption:
C: Animate
thumbnails:
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source-image:
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height: 1080
- caption:
C: Edit & Grade
thumbnails:
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height: 126
source-image:
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height: 1080
Releases:
- version: "5.0"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1763424000
description:
C: |-
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Completely overhauled color management pipeline now natively supports wide-gamut and HDR color
spaces</li>
<li>Cycles: unbiased volume rendering, multi bounce SSS</li>
<li>Video Sequencer: added a compositor strip modifier</li>
</ul>
<p>Enhancements:</p>
<ul>
<li>EEVEE: material compilation speed has been improved</li>
<li>Geometry Nodes: support for Bundles, Closures and new volume nodes</li>
<li>Grease Pencil: motion blur support</li>
<li>Rendering: new multiple scattering mode for Sky node and a new Radial Tiling node</li>
<li>Several improvements for virtual reality</li>
</ul>
- version: "4.5"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1752537600
description:
C: |-
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Vulkan backend with support for OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra and more</li>
<li>New Manifold boolean solver</li>
<li>New Geometry Nodes for mesh normals, file import, Grease Pencil and more</li>
</ul>
<p>Enhancements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Grease Pencil: Added a new supersampling anti-aliasing (SSAA) method for rendering</li>
<li>File I/O: New experimental FBX importer and improvements to USD, glTF, OBJ and SVG</li>
<li>Cycles: Improvements to Adaptive Subdivision, Bump Mapping and new custom cameras</li>
<li>Compositor: New nodes and most options are exposed as single value inputs now</li>
<li>Sculpt: Pen Tablet Tilt Support, brush and performance improvements</li>
</ul>
- version: "4.4"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1742256000
description:
C: |-
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Animation: The structure of Actions has changed, introducing the concept of Slots</li>
<li>Brushes: A new brush type, the Plane brush, has been added</li>
<li>Compositor: The CPU compositor was rewritten and should generally be faster</li>
</ul>
<p>Enhancements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Viewport: The overlays have been rewritten for better consistency and better extendability</li>
<li>Modeling: Improved Vertex and Edge Dissolve</li>
<li>UI: Improvements for Status Bar display, Tooltips and Window decoration</li>
<li>Video Sequencer: Improvements for text strips, performance and 10 and 12 bit/channel video support</li>
<li>Stability: More than 700 issues have been fixed that existed in Blender 4.3 or older</li>
</ul>
- version: "4.3"
type: stable
unix-timestamp: 1731974400
description:
C: |-
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Grease Pencil was rewritten to remove deeper limitations and improve overall performance</li>
<li>New Unwrapping Method "Minimum Stretch"</li>
<li>Cycles: hardware accelerated ray-tracing on Linux/AMD, new volume scattering phase functions</li>
</ul>
<p>Enhancements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Rendering: New Metallic BSDF and Gabor Noise texture</li>
<li>Sculpt / Paint: Brush Assets and many performance improvements</li>
<li>UI: New area docking, SVG icons for better resolution and more</li>
<li>Video Sequencer: The preview area now supports snapping, various performance improvements</li>
</ul>
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