Ya the new version of the 3D modeling software was published open source "Blender 2.81". In this new version includes a number of changes that many consider as good for the software. Since the developers have been working for more than four months on the features and improvements implemented in Blender.
This new version incorporates more than one hundred improvements, of which the addition of new tools, brushes, improvements to the engines, some interface changes, among other things stand out.
Main news in Blender 2.81
Among the most prominent changes, we can find that a new interface is proposed to navigate through the file system, implemented in the form of a pop-up window with a typical padding for file managers. Various display modes are supported (list, thumbnails), filters, dynamically displayed panel with options, trash deleted files, store modified settings.
Other changes that stand out is in a redesign of the sculpting tools, the cursor is aligned with normal geometry. The software displays the edges impacted by the brush. New brushes have been added: the «Pose» brush allows to create a deformation of the model according to its reinforcement. The «Elastic Deform» brush allows you to distort the model while maintaining the volume.
Also, in Blender 2.81 implements the function of renaming groups of elements in batch mode. If before it was possible to rename only the active element (F2), now this operation can also be performed for all selected elements (Ctrl F2).
When renaming, it supports features such as regex replacement, specification of prefix and suffix masks, character removal, and changing of upper and lower case.
Eevee now supports instantiated highlight and shadow wheels. The final distance of the sun's rays is now calculated automatically. Volumes are faster to calculate on modern GPUs. Bump mapping provides a more accurate result, thus approaching the results that can be obtained in Cycles.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- Improvements to the Poly Build design tool that makes warping and creating polygons much easier.
- Ray tracing support based on NVIDIA RTX technology in Cycles
- It is possible to preview the different rendering passes of Cycles
- The shaders used by Eevee and Cycles have been greatly improved
- Noise suppression using Intel's open image
- A better highlighter: you can now select multiple items in the hierarchy window and use the Shift or Ctrl keys to modify your selection
- A new file explorer with several types of views: a list view and a thumbnail view and a side toolbar for options. In addition, the dialog is now independent and closer to classic file selection windows
- New brushes have been added to the "Grease Pencil" tool. Performance and rendering quality have been improved.
If you want to know more about the details of this launch, you can consult them In the following link.
How to install Blender 2.81 on Linux?
Finally, for those who are interested in being able to install this new version of the software, they should know that developers provide easy installation method, which is through Snap packages. So to be able to install it on your system, you simply have to have the added support.
The installation will be carried out opening a terminal and typing in it the following command:
sudo snap install blender --classic
And ready. If you already have a previous version installed by this means, it will be updated to the new version.
Now for those who are Arch Linux users, Manjaro, Arco Linux or any other Arch-based distribution. You can install this new version directly from the Arch repositories.
Simply in a terminal they have to type the following command:
sudo pacman -S blender