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Blender 3.0 Released With More New Features and Improvements 37

Posted by EditorDavid from the new-and-improved dept.
Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: The Free Open Source 3D production software Blender has been released in version 3.0 (official showreel) with more new features, improvements and performance optimizations as well as further improved workflows.

In recent years Blender has received an increasing rate of attention from the 3D industry, with various larger businesses such as Epic, Microsoft, Apple and most recently Intel joining the blender foundation and donating to its development fund. Blender has seen an increasing rise in usage in various industries, such as animated feature film production, architecture and game development.
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  • It hasn't even been two months...

  • One of the things I've been thinking about for a while, is that as software engineers retire there will be a bunch of talent freed up from corporate related work, that will be inclined to contribute a lot more effort to open source projects - especially ones with as high a visibility as Blender.

    So we could see a real boom in coming years as a ton of people working in the software industry start (or continue) to retire, producing not only more but also very high quality work.

    • As it has been pointed out to you many times, there is no shortage of open source programmers. There is no baglog of code that needs to be written.

      There is a line around the block of people who wish they were important enough to contribute to something! There is a long list of pull requests that will never be accepted, because if they agree to have the feature the existing team members will write it in a few hours.

      • Everything will go on. Everyone who is the current top expert in their field is replaceable. Every single one. They will all die or retire and be replaced, most will be replace immediately others after some time, but all will be replaced, building on what came before them. They only unreplaceable knowledge is that from those genius experts who never shared their work (and if they didn't share their work are they really all that smart?). But nobody would even be aware of that work anyway and what they disco

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          by drnb ( 2434720 )

          and if they didn't share their work are they really all that smart?

          Yes, so long as the binaries make it to the public. That the source remains corporate is of little concern. Most open source is corporate sponsored these days anyways. So the same people are calling the shots either way open source or closed.

      • There is no baglog of code that needs to be written.

        Are you sure? I can't really find a good overall analysis that would back up that statement. What I can see is a lot of projects that it seems like an extra hand addressing bug reports would be useful and help get releases out a little faster.

        In the real world projects often benefit from having other people work on bugs which frees up the project leaders to spend more time on architecting future improvements.

        There is a line around the block of people who

        • There is no baglog of code that needs to be written.

          Are you sure? I can't really find a good overall analysis that would back up that statement.

          You just got the analysis from an actual engineer who writes lots of software. Don't be an idiot. You're saying you don't know, so stop trying to simultaneously claim to know.

          Why do you think otherwise?

          Because I don't have to wonder, I'm there seeing it, every day.

          • You just got the analysis from an actual engineer who writes lots of software.

            So did you...

            Since we disagree on our anecdotally based opinions, does it not seem like some facts are in order?

            Because I don't have to wonder, I'm there seeing it, every day.

            I'm seeing a need for more open source programmers, every day as well.

            Log into GitHub, look at any open source project, do you see open bugs or not? Do you see a roadmap not yet complete or not?

            It sure seems like the evidences supports my hypothesis more tha

          • You don't know either, so stop claiming superiority over the other viewpoint. You made an extremely bold claim "there is no baglog of code that needs to be written", and call it an actual analysis while having no evidence to back your claim. You obviously haven't seen any of the projects crying out for more help, and you also fail to consider that a lot of these future retirees are already core contributers. Also, there's nothing stopping someone from being "important enough" to start a new project of one's

    • I've wondered that too. I personally do have a few ideas I want to implement, but haven't had time because of spending my energy to make money.

    • One of the things I've been thinking about for a while, is that as software engineers retire there will be a bunch of talent freed up from corporate related work,

      That corporate work is what does most of the open source work. It is no longer a hobbyist thing for the more important projects.

      • That corporate work is what does most of the open source work. It is no longer a hobbyist thing for the more important projects.

        Yes but even with corporations contributing, that doesn't mean extra people could not make it better faster (yes ha ha I have read The Mythical Man Month).

        In fact with retired software engineers doing some helping work on the side it would make them more likely they could contribute in a cohesive way with the core existing company teams, because the contributor would be used to wo

        • In fact with retired software engineers doing some helping work on the side it would make them more likely they could contribute in a cohesive way with the core existing company teams, because the contributor would be used to working with other corporate programmers.

          I can see retirement on the horizon. I understand that sentiment. However you need to consider how few software developers entered the field because they have an inherent internal "love" of software development. Most chose it, or were pushed towards it by parents or counselors, as a good career move. Those folks are unlikely to do much, if any, programming in retirement. It was just a job to them, it was just a way to pay the bills. Some small number of these may have done open source work during college or

    • Blenders one of those unicorns where really good community management has turned something that really did have all the worst sins of open source, bad UI, lobsided featureset, critical feature holes that prevent it being used in place of expensive proprietry alternatives, and turned it around in a way that has alienated nobody.

      Modern Blender actually has a pretty intuitive UI, oh sure its got a few headscratchers still, but compared to where it was even 3 years ago, and theres no comparison. I think the onl

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