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Blender<\/a> is one of the biggest stars of the open source software scene. In the highly specialized niche of 3D software, Blender developed into a serious and well funded competitor for commercial software providers.<\/p>\n

Supported by a foundation, Blender is financed by sponsorship from well-known companies such as the games manufacturer Epic Games and the animation studio Ubisoft, but Intel, Nvidia and Meta are also partners, as was Microsoft for a time. These large corporations may not pay millions, but they do pay up to 240,000 dollars a year. This is enough to pay around 20 full-time developers. Above all, they have given Blender a huge development boost in recent years. Blender has been given a new user interface and, thanks to support for the latest graphics hardware (Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Apple Silicone), has reached a rapid increase in speed.<\/p>\n

The range of possible applications extends from the creation of animated films and game worlds to product design and the creation of objects for 3D printers. Blender offers a choice of two engines for real-time rendering: Cycles works out the lighting of scenes particularly accurately using path tracing, while Eevee rasterizes the images and is therefore particularly fast.<\/p>\n

Release policy<\/h3>\n

Blender publications are numbered with a number before and a number after the dot. The number before the dot indicates the series. A new series is released approximately every two years. The number after the dot is the version number. Individual versions are given the suffix LTS (\u201clong-term support\u201d) and are maintained for two years. Apart from that, the Blender developers always recommend the latest stable release.<\/p>\n

Installation<\/h3>\n

Blender can be installed in Ubuntu from the Universe repository:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install blender<\/pre>\n
This installs the last Blender version available before the release of an Ubuntu version, but no upgrades, which will not be enough for many users.<\/p>\n
The easiest way to always get the latest version is installing the snap maintained b ythe Blender Foundation.<\/p>\n
Documentation<\/h3>\n
Blender’s comprehensive documentation<\/a> is made available in several languages. The user manual can be viewed in a web browser or downloaded in HTML or Epub format. The links to the manual for older Blender versions can be found according to the following scheme: https:\/\/docs.blender.org\/manual\/en\/X.X\/ – where X.X is the version number, e.g. 3.6 for the LTS version from 2023. A developer manual and documentation for Blender’s Python API are also provided.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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