Blender 2.91 Official Release is here!

[Ingmar Franz]

By the way: Blender 3.0 is planned for August 2021 😀! Blender 4.0 should follow in August 2023.

[kjcummings]

This feature is really handy. I was really pleased when I saw it was added

[kjcummings]

I’m wondering when they will introduce the functions for time traveling, teleportations and coffee brewing into Blender. I don’t need the first two but coffee brewing is a must 😉😁☕!

😂 Won’t be surprised if one day I hear them announce a new feature that cures cancer! I’d be like, yeah that sounds about right.

[Shawn Blanch]

Oh man how did I miss that! My beloved curves just got a lovely update! And text objects definitely were in need of a makeover for something like this.

So cool how much was released.

[Ingmar Franz]

Images added as “Reference Image” or “Background Image” can be traced with “Grease Pencil Strokes”, but only with one color (black per default):

If you want it with the colors preserved, you should trace it with Inkscape (freeware!) and import the saved “.svg” file into Blender as described here (scroll down a little bit to the post hightlighted with an orange frame) and extrude the separate curve paths with different thickness values (curves set to “2D” in order to get a filling):

[Ingmar Franz]

One really cool feature already introduced with Blender 2.91.0 Alpha is the “Face Set Extract Operator”:

It duplicates the faces of the selected “Face Set” as a separate object and adds a “Solidify Modifier” to it:

It reminds me of the “Sculpt Tools” addon function “Extract Mask” used by Kent here at 2:42 for the creation of a belt for the “Wrangler” character.

A video demonstration of the “Face Set Extract Operator” can be found here.

[Shawn Blanch]

Hey that is pretty nifty.

It reminds me of the curve extract operations on HardOps.

[sheila5]

mesh to volume ‘hologram’

[Ingmar Franz]

It’s amazing to see how the “Sculpt Brushes” have been developed since Blender 2.79.

1) Blender 2.79

2) Blender 2.80

3) Blender 2.91

[Ingmar Franz]

Experimenting with “Rigid Body Compound Shapes”:

A circle has been broken into separate objects consisting each of a single edge which have been set up as “Active Rigid Body” objects using “Convex Hull” as “Collision Shape” without any “Collision Margin” . These “Circle Piece Objects” – after having set their “Object Origins” to “Geometry” – have been parented to a “Cube” which has been set up as “Active Rigid Body” object using “Compound Parent” as “Collision Shape” without any “Collision Margin”.  The “Circle Piece Objects” now stop exactly at the surface of the “Cone” which has been set up as “Passive Rigid Body” object.

So, “Compound Parent” in Blender 2.91 works with an arbitrary number of “Children” objects as “Collision Shapes” which are (as their “Parent” object) “Active Rigid Body” objects. Before Blender 2.91 you could only parent an object to one object set up as “Active Rigid Body” object which served as  “Collision object”. The “Child” object was no “Rigid Body” object.

File is here.

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