Download Blender 2.45

The Blender Foundation is developing Blender, an open source software package for 3d modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. The many features, enhanced with screenshots and examples, are available this page to read for interested readers. Blender was among others used by the Orange Movie Project for the animation film Elephant’s Dream to produce released under the creative commons license.

Although there is no announcement of Blender 2.45 yet, it has been available for a few days via the official download page. Below we mention the announcement of the second release candidate of version 2.45 which already gives an overview of the changes made:

More bugfixes are going to make it in 2.45… so here’s another candidate for testing.

Blender 2.45 is going to be a bugfix release, to stabilize the 2.4x series. No new feature have been added, but serious effort has been put in tracking bugs and fixing them. Some performance issues have also been addressed.

The most important Bug Fixes in 2.45 are:

• SSS work with panorama render
• Remove artifacts with negative lights using SSS
• Disable SSS better for preview rendering, so it does not slow down other preview render at all.
• Fix error in Transform Constraint with planar constraints when the plane was perpendicular to the viewport.
• Fix a Vector blur error in “Ztransp” that produce black lines (on edges) appeared, which didn’t get blurred away.
• Fix an error in the Particle System that cause bad result in command line renders especially or in rendering first frame of animation.
• Fix Verse crashing in 64 bit Linux.
• Math node now has reflective behavior.
• Importing 3DS files with lamps failed.
• Bundled python modules were not included in 2.44 by accident, making some scripts fail in 2.44 that worked in 2.43 (Windows Only, when Python was not installed)

A complete list of bug fixes for this release can found here.