Improve performance on modern CPUs and GPUs.Improve usability of viewport and batch rendering.Improve the architecture for future development.The Projectīroadly speaking, the goal of the project is to: Rather than finding quick fixes or optimizations that solve only part of the problem, we’re rethinking the architecture as a whole. To address that, Sergey and I started a research project named Cycles X, with the aim is to refresh the architecture and prepare it for the next 10 years. However some decisions made in the past are holding back performance and making it difficult to maintain the code. We’re keen to make bigger improvements to core Cycles rendering. We learned a lot in those 10 years, things that worked well, but also things that didn’t work well, or became outdated as rendering algorithms and hardware evolved. In the past decade Cycles has developed into a full-fledged production renderer, used by many artists and studios. The release note link is available as well in the download page.Today it’s been exactly 10 years since Cycles was announced. See What’s New in Blender 2.93 via YouTube Video:īlender offers official binary packages available to download at the link below. EEVEE’s implementation rewritten from scratch.New operators to Import SVG to grease pencil objects and export grease pencil objects in SVG and PDF format.

Update layouts for graph editor and NLA editor FModifiers.

New option Taper Mode to control how taper objects affect the effective radius of the spline.

It added a spreadsheet editor to display the values of attributes for mesh, point cloud, and instance data.Īnd there are tons of other changes, including: So to create mesh circles, cones, cubes, cylinders, grids, ico-spheres, uv-spheres, and lines without ever leaving the Geometry Nodes editor. The new release introduced 22 new nodes to the Geometry Nodes editor, as well as some new attributes available from Mesh Data. And the development of the next major 3.0 version began.

The free and open source animation creation software, Blender 2.93, was released a few days ago.īlender 2.93 is a long term support release (LTS) as the last major milestone of the 2.x series.

Blender 2.93 alpha