A lot of other major modifications have been made

Jul 2, 2013 06:51 GMT  ·  By

Blender Foundation, the developer of Blender, an integrated 3D creation software suite, has announced that their software has reached version 2.68 RC1.

After a few releases in the stable branch of Blender, it seems that the developers are now pushing for a new development version

Highlights of Blender 2.68 RC1:

• Hair rendering is now available on the GPU; • A wireframe node has been added in order to get access to the Mesh wireframe data; • The Mist pass has been added, featuring start, depth and falloff control; • Ray visibility is now supported for all light sources; • A button has been implemented to easily apply a scale on scene solution; • The mesh editing tools have been improved.

A complete list of changes and updates can be found in the official changelog.

Download Blender 2.68 RC1 for Linux. Download Blender 2.68 RC1 for Windows. Download Blender 2.68 RC1 for Mac. Remember that this is a development version and it should NOT be installed on production machines. It is intended for testing purposes only.