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Feb 28, 2018 - Download Blender for Mac. Open source 3D modeling software. File sharing app that makes it simple to manage, protect and share files across email and the cloud. With direct support for Dropbox and Google Drive, powerful file protection and a legendary Zip.
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Blender is an open source software for 3D modeling, rendering, animation, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X.
Modeling
- A range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts (TrueType, PostScript, OpenType)
- 'Smooth proxy' style catmull-clark subdivision surfaces
- Boolean mesh functions
- Editing functions such as extrude, bevel, cut, spin, screw, warp, subdivide, noise, smooth Soft selection editing tools for organic modeling
- Python scripting access for custom tools
Animation
- Armature (skeleton) deformation with forward/inverse kinematics, auto skinning and interactive 3D paint for vertex weighting
- Non-linear animation mixer with automated walkcycles along paths
- Constraint system
- Vertex key framing for morphing, with controlling sliders
- Character animation pose editor
- Animatable lattice deformation
- 'Ipo' system integrates both motion curve and traditional key-frame editing
- Audio playback, mixing and editing support for sound synchronisation
- Python scripting access for custom and procedural animation effects
Realtime 3D/game creation
- Graphical editor for defining interactive behavior without programming
- Collision detection and dynamics simulation
- Python scripting API for sophisticated control and AI, fully defined advanced game logic
- Supports all OpenGL™ lighting modes, including transparencies, Animated and reflection-mapped textures
- Playback of games and interactive 3D content without compiling or preprocessing
- Audio, using the fmod toolkit
- Multi-layering of Scenes for overlay interfaces
Rendering
- Very fast inbuilt raytracer
- Integral support for the famous Yafray render engine
- Oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels
- Environment maps, halos, lens flares, fog
- Various surface shaders such as Lambert, Phong, Oren-nayar, Blinn, Toon
- Edge rendering for toon shading
- Procedural Textures
- Ambient Occlusion
- Radiosity solver
- Export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman (RIB), Povray, Virtualight
- UV texture editor with various mesh unwrap modes
Interface
- Flexible user configurable window layout
- Powerful object-oriented data system
- Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support
- Windows for animation curves/keys, schematic scene diagram, non-linear video sequence editing, character animation action editor, non-linear animation mixer, image/UV editing, file/image selection and file management
- Inbuilt text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts
- Consistent interface across multiple platforms
Files
- Save all scene data in a single .blend file
- .blend format supports compression, digital signatures, encryption, forwards/backwards compatibility and can be used as a library to link to from other .blend files
- Read / Write TGA, JPG, PNG, Iris, SGI Movie, IFF, AVI and Quicktime GIF, TIFF, PSD, MOV (Windows and Mac OS X)
- Native import and export for DXF, Inventor and VRML files, with python scripts available for many other 3D formats
- Create stand-alone executables containing interactive 3D content or play back with the 3d web browser plugin
Fire and Smoke
Fire simulation was added to the Smoke Simulator. The domain received major updates to improve performance and usability. Smoke can be emitted from mesh surfaces, without the need for a particle system. A smoke flow force field was added to improve interaction with other simulations. Colored smoke simulation and mixing is possible and the interaction of smoke with collision objects has been improved.
Mesh Modeling
The bevel tool now includes rounding and was otherwise much improved, preserving the requested bevel width more evenly and generating better topology. A new symmetrize tool was added to make mesh topology and data symmetric.
More Features
New features include: a tool transfer vertex weights from one mesh to another, antialiased viewport drawing, connected proportional editing in UV editor, improved DPX file read and write, more control over curve taper, collision masks in the game engine and improved camera title safe drawing.
Cycles Render
Support for writing custom shaders in the Open Shading Language is now available. Motion blur rendering was also added, to make moving objects and cameras appear blurry. There is also an anisotropic shading node, and BSDF nodes can now have different normals, which can be set using the new bump and normal map nodes.
Modifiers
The decimator was rewritten, and now preserves UV's and vertex colors, has an un-subdivide and a mode to dissolve vertices to create planar n-gons. A new laplacian smooth modifier can reduce noise or smooth the mesh while preserving edges and volume. A triangulate modifier was also added, which can be useful for creating game assets with baked normal maps.
Modeling
Improved bridge tool to bridge multiple loops at once, subdivision, surface blending and bridging face regions. New grid-fill tool filling a grid from edge loops, X mirror and projected proportional editing, snap to symmetry, face split option for dissolve, vertex connect cut across faces.
Cycles Rendering
Rendering performance has been improved on CPU and GPU and support for new GPUs was added. A new Mist render pass is available, Ray visibility is now supported for all light sources, and new Nodes have been added. Hair rendering on the GPU has been enabled as well.
Motion Tracker
Some new features and smaller improvements to existing ones were done for motion tracking. Main features are markers' position refining, which allows you to refine marker position after it was occluded by an object, and automatic keyframe selection, which tries to automatically find a best keyframe for the reconstruction.
Physics
Smoke has improved rendering quality avoid blockiness, and subframe simulation support to handle fast moving emitters. Particles can now be emitted from faces generated by modifiers that were not in the original mesh.
Usability
Improved weight painting tools, mask modifier for sequencer strips, 2D image paint more consistent with 3D painting, better key shortcuts display, quick enabling and disabling of multiple layers or visibility, auto indent for multi-line Python statements, and more.
Python Security
Auto-running Python scripts can now be controlled more securely.
What's New:
The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.71. Much awaited new features for Cycles renderer include deformation motion blur, fire/smoke and volume rendering and a baking API. User interface now allows for draggable popups and resizable preview widgets. Animation has new interpolation types with “easing equations” presets. Modeling now allows to “split normals” and Sculpting/Painting has new HSL color wheel and constant detail in dyntopo. Game development now allows deactivating logic bricks, multi-threaded animations, cast only materials and “unlimited” action layers. Freestyle NPR rendering has a new textured strokes feature, along with line sorting options.
Cycles Rendering
Cycles now includes support for rendering volume textures, fire and smoke, deformation motion blur, baking textures from cycles materials, more texture interpolation modes and a dedicated UV layer node.
Animation
More easing equations added to the IPO editor for better animation control, locking time to other windows is again possible, auto snapping is now independent from display type.
The user interface now offers more feedback, especially on errors, updates driver expressions automatically on editing, includes more icons and offers more editing tools.
New tools also include lasso selection support, non-linked duplication for strips, and setting preview range based on selected strips.
Modelling
The new per-face normals feature allows blender to display and export sharp edges correctly without geometry duplication.
In addition, selection tools offer more options.
Sculpting/Painting
New features include a HSL color wheel for color selection and tools to handle homogenous density in dynamic topology sculpting.
Dyntopo and matcap display for sculpt mode have also had performance optimizations.
Game Engine
UI to deactivate logic bricks, multi-threaded animations, shadows-only materials and more action layers are among the new features for the game engine
Freestyle NPR Rendering
Freestyle has been upgraded with textured stroke support. Textured stroke support makes it possible to apply patterns to the lines and simulate rough surfaces or different kinds of brush tips for the strokes themselves.
Line sorting also gives artists more control over the order of line drawing
User Interface
Interface features include new icons for texture painting, resizeable preview widgets and draggable popups.
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- Requirements:Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
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- Details:Blender for Mac 2019 full offline installer setup for Mac
Blender for Mac is a free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
Advanced users employ the app’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in the app’s future releases. Blender for Mac is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. The tool has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: the app is your own 3D software for Mac.
Features and Highlights
Photorealistic Rendering
The app now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.
Fast Modelling
the program’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.
Realistic Materials
With the app’s new rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless.
Fast Rigging
Transforming a model into a poseable character has never been easier!
Animation toolset
Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender for Mac allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations.
Sculpting
Experience the joy of sculpting organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of the tool.
Fast UV Unwrapping
Easily unwrap your mesh right inside the tool, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model.
Full Compositor
The app comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program.
Amazing Simulations
Whether you need a crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction, the software delivers great looking results.
Game Creation
Included in Blender is a complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right inside the app.
Camera and Object tracking
The program now includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.
Library of Extensions
With a large community of enthusiasts and developers, the tool comes loaded with a vast array of extensions that you can turn on or off easily.
Flexible Interface
Novice and advanced users will love the ability to customize their layout completely. From simply splitting their viewport, to fully customizing it with python scripting, the app works for you.
File Formats
Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different programs. Image: JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TARGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF. Video: AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX). 3D: 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO), Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D.
Also Available: Download Blender for Windows
Advanced users employ the app’s API for Python scripting to customize the application and write specialized tools; often these are included in the app’s future releases. Blender for Mac is well suited to individuals and small studios who benefit from its unified pipeline and responsive development process.
Blender is cross-platform and runs equally well on Linux, Windows and Macintosh computers. Its interface uses OpenGL to provide a consistent experience. The tool has no price tag, but you can invest, participate, and help to advance a powerful collaborative tool: the app is your own 3D software for Mac.
Features and Highlights
Photorealistic Rendering
The app now features a powerful new unbiased rendering engine called Cycles that offers stunning ultra-realistic rendering.
Fast Modelling
the program’s comprehensive array of modeling tools make creating, transforming and editing your models a breeze.
Realistic Materials
With the app’s new rendering engine the possibilities for materials are endless.
Fast Rigging
Transforming a model into a poseable character has never been easier!
Animation toolset
Whether it’s simple keyframing or complex walk-cycles, Blender for Mac allows artists to turn their still characters into impressive animations.
Sculpting
Experience the joy of sculpting organic subjects using the built-in sculpting feature set of the tool.
Fast UV Unwrapping
Easily unwrap your mesh right inside the tool, and use image textures or paint your own directly onto the model.
Full Compositor
The app comes with a fully fledged compositor built right in. That means no more exporting to third party programs, you can do it all without leaving the program.
Amazing Simulations
Whether you need a crumbling building, rain, fire, smoke, fluid, cloth or full on destruction, the software delivers great looking results.
Game Creation
Included in Blender is a complete game engine, allowing you to create a fully featured 3d game right inside the app.
Camera and Object tracking
The program now includes production ready camera and object tracking. Allowing you to import raw footage, track the footage, mask areas and see the camera movements live in your 3d scene. Eliminating the need to switch between programs.
Library of Extensions
With a large community of enthusiasts and developers, the tool comes loaded with a vast array of extensions that you can turn on or off easily.
Flexible Interface
Novice and advanced users will love the ability to customize their layout completely. From simply splitting their viewport, to fully customizing it with python scripting, the app works for you.
File Formats
Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different programs. Image: JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TARGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF. Video: AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX). 3D: 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO), Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D.
Also Available: Download Blender for Windows