{"id":45961,"date":"2024-03-27T12:11:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45961"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:11:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:11:52","slug":"blender-4-1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/03\/blender-4-1-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 4.1 Released! New Nodes, Faster Performance and Python 3.11"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new 4.1 major release this Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Blender 4.1 introduced new geometry nodes, including Index Switch<\/code>, Musgrave<\/code>, Split to Instance<\/code>, Sort Elements<\/code>, Rotate Rotation<\/code>, Active Camera<\/code>. It replaces mesh “Auto Smooth” option with a modifier node group asset, adds support for Blackbody shader node, new Manage panel in Geometry Nodes modifier.
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Node tools are now supported in Object Mode. And, Extrude Mesh node, Shortest Edge Paths node, Face Group Boundaries node, Edges to Face Groups node are improved to be much faster than before.<\/p>\n

The new release can now save and load data from inside node groups, without recomputing. Support both still frames and animations as well as volume objects, with optimized file sizes.<\/p>\n

OpenImageDenoise is now GPU accelerated on supported hardware, including NVIDIA GTX 16xx, TITAN V and all RTX GPUs, Intel GPUs with Xe-HPG architecture or newer, and Apple Silicon with macOS version 13.0 and newer.<\/p>\n

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Other changes in Blender 4.1 include:<\/p>\n