{"id":830,"date":"2015-04-03T04:43:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T04:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/?p=830"},"modified":"2015-04-03T04:43:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T04:43:40","slug":"blender-2-74-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"Blender 2.74  Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello guys the\u00a0blender foundation and online developer community released the new version of Blender.The latest version available is <strong>Blender 2.74<\/strong>, which has been recently released\u00a0last\u00a0march 31. 2-015, and \u00a0lots of changes,improvements and new features added on it.\u00a0In this article i will guide you to upgrade and install Blender 2.74 on Ubuntu and its derivatives.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blender2.74.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-831\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pir8geek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blender2.74.png\" alt=\"blender2.74\" width=\"552\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Blender 2.74 Release Improvements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cycles got several precision, noise, speed, memory improvements, new Pointiness attribute.<\/li>\n<li>Viewport has new cool compositing features, outliner now manages orphan datablocks better.<\/li>\n<li>Modeling now allows custom normals, and transferring data layers between meshes!<\/li>\n<li>Massive improvements to hair dynamics and editing tools: a big step forward with more to come\u2026<\/li>\n<li>A new tool \u201cCavity Mask\u201d was added to\u00a0 sculpting\/painting, along with other improvements.<\/li>\n<li>Great memory consumption optimization in Freestyle NPR stroke rendering.<\/li>\n<li>Grease pencil and Game engine improvements, and more\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more info about the changes and improvement visit the official website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/features\/2-74\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.blender.org\/features\/2-74\/<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n1. To install blender on ubuntu you can download the appropriate package for your platform. ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blender.org\/download\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download<\/a>)<br \/>\nSince its already available via PPA, All you have to do is add the PPA\u00a0to your system\u00a0and\u00a0update repository, you can simply install blender with the following command.<\/p>\n<pre>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex\/blender\nsudo apt-get update\nsudo apt-get install blender\n<\/pre>\n<p>2. To removed currently installed blender:<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt-get remove blender\n<\/pre>\n<p>Cyah&#8230;.Enjoi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello guys the\u00a0blender foundation and online developer community released the new version of Blender.The latest version available is Blender 2.74, which has been recently released\u00a0last\u00a0march 31. 2-015, and \u00a0lots of changes,improvements and new features added on it.\u00a0In this article i will guide you to upgrade and install Blender 2.74 on Ubuntu and its derivatives. Blender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,47,11,13],"tags":[392,293],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-application","category-how-tos","category-news","category-opensource","tag-3d-animation","tag-blender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jameseduard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}