The week of the 'Blender Merger Hurricane'.

#1

So yes it’s getting ever closer to that major release a lot of us Blender users are waiting for drum roll, 2.61!

Just in case anyone isn’t aware this is what is planned to be merged in to trunk during this week;

  1. Tomato, camera/motion tracking
    monday, Sergey Sharybin
  2. Cycles render engine,
    tue/wed, Brecht van Lommel
  3. Dynamic Paint
    thu/fri, Miika Hamalainen
  4. Ocean Simulation (modifier)
    weekend, Lukas Toenne

Further information can be read here;
Blender developer mailing list

Good times ahead for the visual effects/ animation community :beer:

#2

Sounds real cool. What is this dynamic paint?

#3

Here are some videos which show/ explain it better than I can;

http://www.youtube.com/user/miikahweb#p/u/1/daJll9Do-bw

It’s very cool though!

#4

wow the stuff in that youtube section is amazing, now I am real excited about the next update. Thanks. :slight_smile:

#5
  1. Tomato, camera/motion tracking monday, Sergey Sharybin 2) Cycles render engine, tue/wed, Brecht van Lommel 3) Dynamic Paint thu/fri, Miika Hamalainen 4) Ocean Simulation (modifier) weekend, Lukas Toenne

OMG it’s like Christmas in November! I’ve been waiting for so long for these to get to trunk. Major props to the Blender developers man you guys are my heroes! :bowdown:

#6

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