Blender 2.7 is available for download

Great news. Blender foundation just released a test build for Blender 2.7. This release has a lot of improvements and additional features.

New features

Volume rendering is available for Cycles.

There are currently three shader nodes for rendering volumes:

• Volume Absorption: Absorbs light as it passes through the volume, can be used for colored glass absorption.

• Volume Scatter: Used for smoke, mist, etc. (when creating colored smoke, add to an Absoption shader of the same color)

• Emission: The old shader plugged into the Volume socket of the output node can be used to emit light.

Improved CPU rendering: more speed

OSL has been updated to version 1.4.x. This gives a 10-30% performance improvement and new features such as Simplex noise.

Weighted track is added for motion tracking, plus a lot of improvements for planar tracking

More functional and easy UI and tool bar

Laplacian Deform Modifier is added for modeling. The Laplacian Deform modifier allows you to pose a mesh while preserving geometric details of the surface

Improved Bevel modifier

Added wireframe modifier

Recoded Boolean modifier

Threaded dependency graph is added, means more speed for viewport navigation and rendering for complex scenes.

Photoshop PSD files can now be loaded in Blender

Read more about new features here

You can download the latest build from these links.

http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.70/

http://www.blender.org/press/blender-2-70-test-build/

http://builder.blender.org/download/

Pixie glow brush texture

Feel free to use this texture in your project. You can use it as a sprite image in Maya, as a brush texture in Photoshop or as texture/image in After Effects and other special effects programs. If you are using as sprite texture in Maya use the TIFF format instead of the PNG format.

Pixie Particle. TIFF

Also take our time and effort to create this texture in account and do not distribute in any form. You can share this post instead.

Pixie Particle.PNG

 For downloading, click on the image and right click and do save picture as.

How to add water droplets in Blender

In this tutorial you will learn to add static water droplets in Blender. You will learn to 

add particles

hair particles

instancing

instance scale and rotation settings.

Software used : Blender 2.70 64 bit

Difficulty        : Beginner

Download       : Start scene Finished scene

Adding static water drop in Blender is relatively easy in Blender. But if you need the dynamic water drops, it is very complicated. However I found a way to do that. May be in the next tutorial I will discuss that. Adding static water by particle instancing is the great way to achieve believable effect with less time. In this tutorial I just used a single sphere for instancing. For more realism you can use different shaped water droplets(you need to sculpt/model it). In order to use different models at a time for instancing you need to group it and use that group under particles instead object.

You can use the scene file and study the techniques.Hmm...It is very basic. 

Missed the beginning part?

http://www.fermicg.net/2013/09/glass-bottle-in-blender-modeling.html

http://www.fermicg.net/2013/10/studio-lighting-in-blender-for-product.html

http://www.fermicg.net/2013/10/adding-static-water-in-blender.html

http://www.fermicg.net/2013/10/fluid-effect-in-blender-tutorial.html

water drops in blender scene file

Ready to render Blender scene file. You can use this scene in your commercial and non commercial projects. However you are restricted to share it in any form. Consider our time and effort to make this scene file.

You can get a detailed tutorial for creating this effect in our tutorial section.

File format  : Blender 2.69 .blend file Cycles ready render. You need to change the render device to CPU if you are using a non CUDA Graphics card.

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Football 3d high quality free

December free give away. Download this awesome football 3d mesh with high detail. As usual we are giving a fully editable blender file and other standard formats. So other commercial software user can use this foot ball mesh in their project. Whether it is a commercial or non commercial project, you are free to use this mesh with out restriction. How ever you are prohibited to share it any form rather than sharing this page. Take our time and effort to create this mesh, and be nice.

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Foot ball.fbx
Foot ball.obj
Foot ball.3ds
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Audio visualization in Blender scene file free download

This free .blend Blender scene file contains sound baked instanced particles behaving with sound beat. You can use it in your production. We expect a credit and back link. However you are restricted to redistribute it in any form. You can reshare this post, or back link here.

This is fully animated, baked and properly lighted scene ready for final render. Recommended to cache the particles first before rendering.

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If you want you can create this scene from scratch. Just watch the tutorial here

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RBCs in bottle blender scene file free download

Hi, This is another free give away of this month from FermiCG.net. In this .blend file you can get a fully simulated,lighted RBCs inside a glass bottle. ready to render. Although this is already simulated you need to resimulate and recache everything from first frame. Due to limit the file size we didn't include the cache file. 

If you wish you can create this scene from scratch. Watch the detailed tutorial here

You can use this scene in your commercial works. We like to get a credit and link back if you are kind enough. This file is free of use how ever you are restricted to share it in any form. You can link to this page instead.

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The zip file contains fluid mesh.blend file. free blender scene file.

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water filling in bottle blender scene free download

Hi, This is another free give away of this month from FermiCG.net. In this .blend file you can get a fully simulated,lighted water filling fluiid effect ready to render. Although this is already simulated you need to resimulate and recache everything from first frame. Due to limit the file size we didn't include the cache file. Remember this is a very high quality simulation with a resolution of 300. Just take a look at the bake memory usage before simulating. If needed lower the resolution.

You can use this scene in your commercial works. We like to get a credit and link back if you are kind enough. This file is free of use how ever you are restricted to share it in any form. You can link to this page instead.

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