Developer sneak peek #27 - GLSL, freehand curves & the heat attribute

Interested in #b3d features that are currently in development? Get a glimpse on 4 brand new ones in the current episode of the Blender Developer Sneak Peek.

Video: youtu.be/IJktnMXPXfE

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In this episode

Cycles GLSL (0:49):

• Voronoi, Wave, Magic, Image, Noise, Gradient, Brick & checker texture
• Bump map support

Freehand curve (4:30):

• Draw Bezier / Poly curves
• Drawing tablets & tapering support

Cycles fire heat attribute (9:42)

• Cycles fire rendering on GPU
• Heat attribute to generate heat maps

What's this all about

In this series I'll present new and (hopefully) useful features for all of you outside the Blender 3D development universe... all those features are brand new and will be available in the official Blender version 2.78.

Greetings to all of you and thanks for all the encouraging comments and shares!

Downloads

The newest 2.77a release at download.blender.org/release/Blender2.77/ Fresh builds at builder.blender.org (Attention: there will be bugs in it for sure!)

Happy Blending, Thomas Beck & the Plasmasolutions Team