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   2014-04-07 14:21:25 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (26) | Package removed
Log message:
Update to 2.70

Changelog:

New features include initial support for volumetrics in Cycles, and faster \ 
rendering of hair and textures. The motion tracker now supports weighted tracks \ 
and has improved planar tracking. For mesh modeling there are new Laplacian \ 
deform and wireframe modifiers, along with more control in the bevel tool. The \ 
game engine now supports object levels of detail.

The first results from the new user interface project are also in this release, \ 
with dozens of changes to make the interface more consistent and powerful. This \ 
is also the first release of the multithreaded dependency graph, which makes \ 
modifier and constraint evaluation faster in scenes with multiple objects.

Cycles Rendering

Cycles now has initial support for volume rendering including emission, \ 
absorption and scattering. Volume rendering can be used to render effects like \ 
fire, smoke, mist, absorption in glass, and many other effects that can't be \ 
represented by surface meshes alone.

CPU rendering performance was improved, particularly for hair, textures and Open \ 
Shading Language.

Motion Tracker

Trackers can now be weighted, to keep the result stable as feature disappear or \ 
become difficult to track. The plane track workflow was improved to be easier to \ 
control. Automatic feature detection was made more robust using a new detector \ 
algorithm.

User Interface

The toolbar now has tabs to organize tools in categories. Multiple buttons can \ 
now be edited at once, for example for XYZ axes or color channels. Transform \ 
tools now have a mode to enter expressions and units. Other changes were done to \ 
improve lists, header menus, tooltips, buttons, menus and more.

Modeling

The Laplacian Deform modifier was added to pose a mesh while preserving \ 
geometric details of the surface, and a new wireframe modifier allows you \ 
transform your mesh into a wireframe representation. The boolean modifier now \ 
supports ngons, and there are improvements to the bevel, screw and triangulate \ 
modifiers.

The bevel tool now offers more control over the bevel profile and results, and \ 
the knife tool was improved as well.

Threaded Dependency Graph

An important change that happened under the hood is the threaded dependency \ 
graph. This means that object modifiers and constraints, among other things, can \ 
now be computed with multiple threads taking advantage of multicore processors. \ 
This will be most noticeable with scenes that have many objects, or multiple \ 
objects with heavy modifiers. This is the first step in making the dependency \ 
graph in Blender more powerful.

Game Development

The Blender game engine now supports discrete level of detail for meshes. For \ 
game developers, support for working with Photoshop PSD files has been added.

A new view navigation walk mode has been added, which has a control scheme as \ 
typically found in first person shooter games. This can be useful for game \ 
developers to navigate levels as if in a game.

Freestyle NPR Rendering

The Freestyle Python API is an essential part that makes it a highly \ 
programmable NPR rendering engine. This API has been reorganized.

More Features

Many small changes and features were done all over Blender. Some notable new \ 
feature are normalized display for FCurves, derivative map baking, baking to \ 
vertex colors, better visualization of masks and control over mask filling, \ 
gravity option for sculpting, negative texture values to support vector \ 
displacement and a Lamp Data shading node to create more customized NPR shaders.

Feature Videos

For a visual demonstration of some of the new features in this release, check \ 
out the feature videos created during the development of this release.
Addons

Several addons have been added and updated, including Node Wrangler (aka Node \ 
Efficiency Tools) and a new Sketchfab Exporter addon

Bug Fixes

In addition to the new features, over 560 bugs that existed in previous releases \ 
have been fixed.
   2014-02-13 00:18:57 by Matthias Scheler | Files touched by this commit (1568)
Log message:
Recursive PKGREVISION bump for OpenSSL API version bump.
   2014-02-01 04:57:52 by Mark Davies | Files touched by this commit (6)
Log message:
Build on Linux.
   2014-01-10 21:06:46 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (22)
Log message:
Update to Blender 2.69. Add fixes for building with Clang, either from
upstream or submitted for upstream. Import changes:

A new hidden wire display option was added to help with retopology. Mesh
Bisect is a new tool to cut meshes in half. The Bridge, Edgenet fill,
Grid fill and Symmetrize tools were improved. New curve and lattice
editing tools were added too.

Hair rendering was improved with a new Hair shader and reorganized
settings. Subsurface scattering uses a new sampling algorithm and now
supports bump mapping and texture blurring. Sky rendering now uses a
more accurate sky model. New blackbody, vector transform and HSV nodes
were added. The non-progressive integrator was renamed to Branched Path
Integrator, and is now available for GPU rendering.

The Motion tracker now supports plane tracking, which can be used to
replace billboards, screens and other flat things in footage.

Lists in the user interface can now be resized, sorted and filtered.
Further there are small improvements for vertex parenting, empty
objects, the shrinkwrap modifier, mask editing, armatures, f-curves and
drivers.

FBX Import support has been added and FBX/OBJ can now export split
normals (without the need for the edge split modifier).

In addition to the new features, over 270 bugs that existed in previous
releases have been fixed.
   2013-12-27 02:59:43 by David A. Holland | Files touched by this commit (2) | Package updated
Log message:
Update plist for latest python33; it seems that some stuff called
"venv" is copied wholesale from the python33 install, I guess via
the wonders of scons, and one of the files went away in the last
python33 update.
   2013-11-20 21:04:40 by Adam Ciarcinski | Files touched by this commit (88)
Log message:
Revbump after updating devel/boost-libs
   2013-11-20 14:23:46 by OBATA Akio | Files touched by this commit (87)
Log message:
recursive bump from boost-lib shlib major bump.
   2013-10-13 00:11:00 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (11)
Log message:
Update to 2.68a

Changelog:
* New features
* Bugfixes
* Many improvements
   2013-09-01 14:14:07 by OBATA Akio | Files touched by this commit (33)
Log message:
recursive bump from hdf5 shlib major bump.
   2013-06-06 14:55:24 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1687)
Log message:
Bump PKGREVISION for libXft changes for NetBSD native X support on
NetBSD 6, requested by tron.

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