{"id":15529,"date":"2022-06-12T16:51:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=15529"},"modified":"2022-06-12T16:51:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T14:51:10","slug":"blender-3-2-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/06\/12\/blender-3-2-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 3.2 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blender_logo_socket-1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/blender_logo_socket-1.jpg?resize=300%2C92&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9886\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New features and improvements include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Cycles:&nbsp;<strong>Light Groups<\/strong><\/li><li>Cycles:&nbsp;<strong>Shadow Caustics<\/strong><\/li><li>Cycles:&nbsp;<strong>Volume Motion Blur<\/strong><\/li><li>Support for&nbsp;<strong>Collections<\/strong>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<strong>Asset Browser<\/strong><\/li><li>New&nbsp;<strong>Curve Pen Tool<\/strong><\/li><li>New&nbsp;<strong>Paint<\/strong>&nbsp;Tool in&nbsp;<strong>Sculpt<\/strong>&nbsp;Mode<\/li><li>Vertex Colors refactored into generic&nbsp;<strong>Color Attributes<\/strong><\/li><li>New Duplicate Elements node in&nbsp;<strong>Geometry Nodes<\/strong><\/li><li>New&nbsp;<strong>Envelope Modifier<\/strong>&nbsp;in Grease Pencil<\/li><li>Enhanced&nbsp;<strong>Channels<\/strong>&nbsp;in Video Sequencer Editor<\/li><li><strong>Animation<\/strong>&nbsp;&amp; Rigging improvements<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>EEVEE shaders improvements, support for WebP image format, new experimental OBJ importer, VR, user interface and usability improvements, better multi-threading, node tree evaluation and reduced memory usage in Geometry Nodes, better performance and as always hundreds of bug fixes all across the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/releases\/3-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">release notes<\/a>\u00a0for an in-depth look at what\u2019s new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another great milestone achieved thanks to the Blender community and the over 2900 individuals and organizations contributing to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fund.blender.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Blender Development Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Blending!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.2! New features and improvements include: Cycles:&nbsp;Light Groups Cycles:&nbsp;Shadow Caustics Cycles:&nbsp;Volume Motion Blur Support for&nbsp;Collections&nbsp;in the&nbsp;Asset Browser New&nbsp;Curve Pen Tool New&nbsp;Paint&nbsp;Tool in&nbsp;Sculpt&nbsp;Mode Vertex Colors refactored into generic&nbsp;Color Attributes New Duplicate Elements node in&nbsp;Geometry Nodes New&nbsp;Envelope Modifier&nbsp;in Grease Pencil Enhanced&nbsp;Channels&nbsp;in Video Sequencer Editor Animation&nbsp;&amp;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2022\/06\/12\/blender-3-2-release\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blender 3.2 Release<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-15529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware-software","tag-blender","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}