

it may not be really important for a lot of people, but I've been waiting for this update for a LONG while. See a Tutorial by Jay Anam about Bendy Bones here. but internally you can divide it into chunks that interpolate to form a curve very useful for complex (and organic) shapes! Well, Bendy Bones are also a huge improvement over the good old B-Bones. It's basically a HUGE improvement over the old Grease Pencil, which was just an annotation tool :) Bendy BonesĪre you not familiar with B-Bones? Basically, you have one bone, you weight one bone, you move one bone. I've already talked more about GO2.0 in this and this posts. This one is a breakthrough for being able to create 2D animation inside a 3D world in Blender.

Lots of stuff! Let's go through some of the most relevant ones :D Grease Pencil 2.0 Save your work before attempting upgrading your rigs.That's it! The new version of Blender has been officially released, and you can get it HERE.There’s no guarantee rigs created in previous Blender versions will work correctly. Compatibility is broken for this release.When using the add-on Rigify, please note:.Rigs created in Blender 2.77 may still work.Rigs created in Blender 2.78 may not be compatible with 2.79.During the 2.78 series: IK snapping was partly broken.Changes to IK snapping may affect rigs that use non-uniform IK scaling.The text color contained in a layout.box() is now defined in User Preferences » Themes » User Interface » Box section.Some Interface Themes may need to be reloaded to work properly.blend files in Blender 2.78c and earlier may crash. blend files can’t be opened in earlier versions of Blender. When using add-ons in Blender 2.79 that take advantage of the new data-block pointer properties, the resulting.Due to various issues with drivers for AMD GCN 1.0 architecture, those cards are no longer supported for Cycles rendering.
