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Blender 2.5: DNA and RNA

Development efforts on Blender 2.5 have been renewed with work on the Data API through RNA. This allows for automation of GUI building, and provides a solid basis for animatable properties throughout the database.

Brecht has done a great job in designing and implementing the RNA system, and works is being delegated in RNA-ifying our DNA (the very core of the Blender database and file format). I’ve started wrapping the Material and Nodetree datablocks in RNA.

As always, I’ll be doing regular screencasts of the progress of Blender 2.5 (if there’s anything visibly added or changed). I’ve … Continue Reading

Updated Wiki PDFs by Marco Ardito for Blender 2.48a

Again Marco Ardito has been working hard on getting new versions of his Wiki PDFs. After more tweaking, he has managed to drop the size of the manual pdf to 25MB. Compare that to the size of the first PDF he created, which was a whopping 86MB! Enjoy reading the new PDFs!