Blender 2.43RC1 release!

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I just downloaded blender2.43RC1, has anyone else being playing with this release, please share your experience, any new feature you find interesting and so on.
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43rc/

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Problem so far :
Sculpt mode -
has intermitten brush frozen - if select other tool then reselected seem to slove problem- sometime.
Leave track of brush cursor
missing alpha brush feature :confused:
question: is multires work the same as subsurf? what the advantage of using multires?

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awesome, so many new features in this releaseā€¦

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In sculpt mode, I am subdividing a plane a few times, then trying to paint a voronoi texture onto it, and when in tile mode, as soon as I try ā€œpaintingā€ the texture onto the plane, blender crashes. Im using windows XP (zip version of blender) on a P4 2.8GHz with 1GB ram and an FX5600 nvidia card.

Someone else want to try this?

MicWit

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Youā€™re right.

Windows XP (zip version of Blender), P4 3GHz; 512 RAM; Radeon 9200se 128 MB

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question: is multires work the same as subsurf? what the advantage of using multires?

Itā€™s like subsurf except it lets you go up and down in resolution, and your sculpted changes are propagated to all levels. Thereā€™s a brief description of multires in the development section of the wiki.

Also from the wiki hereā€™s a quick guide to using sculpt mode from the developer, Nicholas Bishop. Report bugs in the bug-tracker by all means, but why not also send Nick some love to thank him for all his hard work on this.

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OK, same settings as before, but instead of tile, I tested 3D and Drag. 3D was fine, but Drag makes the screen go blank as you draw!!! This happen to you as well? Iā€™ll write up a bug report for these if it does.

Also, with multires, when you delete the multires, it doesnt deleat, but rather makes it perminant, I presume thats not what its supposed to do?

MicWit

BTW, where is the bug tracker again? had it in favā€™s but reinstalled.

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I get the same behaviors you describe in your posts.

WinXP; P4 2.4GHz; 1GB RAM; nVidia FX5500

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Hereā€™s the bugtracker.

http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=9&atid=125

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lol for some reason for me i cannot move the 3d cursor at allā€¦ it just stays thereā€¦

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vitaliy i had the same problem as well older releases

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Press N and unlock it.

I love this feature!

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Aardbei: 3D cursor lock is currently an experimental feature and hence it is not found in the CVS. This means it is not in the RC1 build. You may find it in custom builds though.

vitaliy: Do mouse gestures work for you as they should?

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I was playing with the new Image Painting, and first I must say, great improvements!

I think I may have found a bug however. Iā€™m using an Intuous3 on WinXP.
When I set the Pressure sensitivity option on with size, 90% of the time it will first make a dot, then start with a smaller low-pressure line. This also happens when I have Opacity and Size turned on, so the issue seems related to the size option only. Didnā€™t notice any problems with having just the opacity or the other options turned on.

Here is a shot of my settings and an image to show what I mean:

Anyone else have this problem?

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Itā€™s happening for me too. Same tablet & OS.

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Thanks for the confirmation, Iā€™ll put it up on the bug reports tracker.

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Bug: I use Wacom mouse on the tablet. I set it to mouse mode (relative position), but Blender uses it only and pen (absolute position). :frowning:

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Same here.

(BTW: I may not have time to do extensive testing, but confirming possible bugs reported by others is doable . . . and hopefully helpful.)

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I have tried the windows build from blender.org, and graphicall.org, and I cannot seem to get any results at all in sculpt mode. I read the tutorial, but cant figure out what I am doing wrong.

  1. use default cube
  2. add 4 or 5 multi res levels
  3. go into sculpt mode
  4. change some default brush settings
  5. draw on the object

I am not getting any change whatsoever in the geometry.

I tried
All of the brush settings - draw smooth pinch etc. Add subtract, full strength and I still donā€™t see any results.

I must be missing something - Win XP Pro 2ghz proc 2gb ram Nvidia Quatro FX G1000 128mb

What am I missing???

>>>EDIT<<<

Suddenly - it started working - after going into and out of vertex paint, then just as suddenly, it stopped again.

>>>>EDIT AGAIN<<<<

After stepping down the multi res, then back up it started working again!

>>>LAST EDIT<<<

Closed and restarted - unable to repeat the success I mentioned in the edit above

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Found a Crash issue

  • Chain.blend
    Open this file in 2.43 RC1 go to second layer and press ā€˜Pā€™ā€¦ blender crashes, well on my machine it doesā€¦

Loving this so far!! i love the physics!