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I didn't really expect to see very much moving from 2.9 to 2.91, but I just keep on scrolling and there just keep on being more features when I scroll down. And
by danShumway 6y ago
I didn't really expect to see very much moving from 2.9 to 2.91, but I just keep on scrolling and there just keep on being more features when I scroll down. And they're substantial features, too! The sculpting tools and the holdout option for grease pencil look like they're going to be really useful.
And the release page is performant and pretty, and it works without Javascript but it still has all these great little diagrams and demo videos for each feature. Like, you can look at this page and even if you knew nothing at all about 3D modeling you'd still want to go download this thing immediately.
- KingFelix 6y agohahaha, great comments. Blender is so brilliant. I met Ton Roosendaal last year when conferences were still a thing. He is awesome. Those guys/gals are amazing. They got a huge grant from Unreal, its great to see software like this just crushing it.
- DonHopkins 6y agoAnd a huge grant from Unity: https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-a-patron-member https://www.blender.org/press/unity-joins-the-blender-develo... And a huge grant from Facebook: https://www.blender.org/press/facebook-joins-the-blender-development-fund https://www.blender.org/press/facebook-joins-the-blender-dev...
- jbay808 6y agoAwesome to see "commoditize your complements" in action here. I wish more companies caught on and supported free, open-source software like this.
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- pabs3 6y agoThe corporate patron rate seems like about 1-2 engineer salaries, so is huge the right way to describe these grants? https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/ https://fund.blender.org/corporate-memberships/
- pkaye 6y agoImagine if they got the funding level of the Mozilla Corp.
- john4532452 6y agoDefinitely not travel in first class and book exotic hotels i guess
- ingenieros 6y agoYou are thinking in bay area figures. The blender foundation is based in the Netherlands and engineers make far less in wages over in Europe. And lastly by open source standards those grants are quite significant.
- n4r9 6y agoFirst link says 100k euros per month supports 20 core engineers. That means 60k euros per engineer per annum, which is a decent salary in Europe.
- vaccinator 6y agoYet Chrome is at version 200 and its not any better then it was at version 3....
- ta988 6y agoI think you want to install version 3 and see for yourself.
- jobigoud 6y agoIs this even possible or will it instantly upgrade itself without asking?
- greggman3 6y agoIt's totally possible to install old versions of Chromium without them auto-updating. It's how you bisect to find when something broke I suspect it doesn't go back to version 3 though https://www.chromium.org/developers/bisect-builds-py https://www.chromium.org/developers/bisect-builds-py
- vaccinator 6y agoI wish I could do that with web apps too... AKA Google Search... year-2005 would be nice
- ta988 6y agoWith data from pre 2005 as well? If not maybe a simple greasemonkey style script could be enough.
- vaccinator 6y agoThe search algo is what I would like to see... Not how it used to look.