Juicy new Blender
Looks like the team at Blender.org are getting close to releasing the latest version of the Blender open source 3D app. The new version, 2.46, adds a whole host of new functions to Blender, some of which are very exciting to me. One of the more lovely ones is a complete rewrite of the Blender particle system, and through that the addition of new particle behaviours. In 2.46 we should be able to model hair/fur particles that can be easily modified, and we should also be able to implement simple AI behaviours in particle systems, opening the possibility of crowd and flock simulation. There’s a lot more info on the next release over at Blender.
