blender/release/freedesktop/org.blender.Blender.appdata.xml

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<component type="desktop">
    <id>org.blender.Blender</id>
    <launchable type="desktop-id">blender.desktop</launchable>
    <name>Blender</name>
    <summary>Free and open source 3D creation suite</summary>
    <metadata_license>CC0-1.0</metadata_license>
    <project_license>GPL-3.0</project_license>
    <description>
        <p>
            Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports
            the entirety of the 3D pipeline — modeling, rigging, animation,
            simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video
            editing.
        </p>

        <p>
            Blender is a public project, made by hundreds of people from around the
            world; by studios and individual artists, professionals and hobbyists,
            scientists, students, VFX experts, animators, game artists, modders, and
            the list goes on.
        </p>
    </description>
    <url type="homepage">https://www.blender.org</url>
    <url type="help">https://www.blender.org/support/</url>
    <url type="bugtracker">https://developer.blender.org</url>
    <url type="donation">https://www.blender.org/foundation/donation-payment/</url>
    <screenshots>
        <screenshot type="default">
            <image>https://download.blender.org/demo/screenshots/blender_screenshot_1.jpg</image>
        </screenshot>
        <screenshot>
            <image>https://download.blender.org/demo/screenshots/blender_screenshot_2.jpg</image>
        </screenshot>
        <screenshot>
            <image>https://download.blender.org/demo/screenshots/blender_screenshot_3.jpg</image>
        </screenshot>
        <screenshot>
            <image>https://download.blender.org/demo/screenshots/blender_screenshot_4.jpg</image>
        </screenshot>
    </screenshots>
    <releases>
        <release version="2.82" date="2020-02-13">
            <description>
                <p>New features:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Grease pencil stroke</li>
                    <li>Custom bevel profiles and cutoff vertex mesh method</li>
                    <li>Custom render passes possible for Cycles</li>
                    <li>UDIM support</li>
                    <li>Basic USD export</li>
                    <li>Mantaflow integration</li>
                </ul>
                <p>Enhancements:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Improvements to rigging and animation tools</li>
                    <li>Many grease pencil improvements</li>
                    <li>Many sculpting tool improvements</li>
                </ul>
            </description>
        </release>
        <release version="2.81" date="2019-11-14">
            <description>
                <p>New features:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Many sculpt tools and poly build tool for retopology</li>
                    <li>Voxel remesh and quad remesh</li>
                    <li>Transform origins, new snapping, mirroring and auto merge options</li>
                    <li>Revamped shaders for texturing</li>
                    <li>Cycles denoising with OpenImageDenoise and NVIDIA RTX support</li>
                    <li>Library overrides to make local overrides to linked characters and other data</li>
                </ul>
                <ul>
                <p>Enhancements:</p>
                    <li>Eevee shadows, transparency and bump mapping redesigned</li>
                    <li>Viewport options for look development with Cycles and Eevee</li>
                    <li>Finer control over rotations and scale in bones, constraints and drivers</li>
                    <li>Outliner improvements, new file browser and batch rename</li>
                </ul>
            </description>
        </release>
        <release version="2.80" date="2019-07-30">
            <description>
                <p>New features:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Revamped user interface</li>
                    <li>Toolbar with tools and gizmos</li>
                    <li>Eevee - physically based realtime renderer</li>
                    <li>Modern 3D viewport</li>
                    <li>Full 2D animation and drawing system</li>
                    <li>New shaders for hair, sss, volumes, bevel and AO</li>
                    <li>Cryptomatte compositing</li>
                    <li>Collections system for organizing objects</li>
                    <li>glTF import and export</li>
                </ul>
                <p>Enhancements:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Multi-object editing</li>
                    <li>Animation and rigging improvements</li>
                    <li>Cloth simulation improvements</li>
                    <li>More powerful unit system</li>
                    <li>...And many more!</li>
                </ul>
            </description>
        </release>
        <release version="2.79b" date="2018-03-26">
            <description>
                <p>New features:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Denoiser</li>
                    <li>Filmic color management</li>
                    <li>PBR shader</li>
                    <li>Shadow catcher</li>
                    <li>Surface Deform modifier</li>
                    <li>More bundled add-ons</li>
                </ul>
                <p>Enhancements:</p>
                <ul>
                    <li>Faster OpenCL</li>
                    <li>Cycles improvements</li>
                    <li>Modeling tool improvements</li>
                    <li>Animation improvements</li>
                    <li>Grease Pencil improvements</li>
                    <li>Automatic scaling on high DPI displays</li>
                    <li>Alembic import and export improvements</li>
                    <li>...And many more!</li>
                </ul>
            </description>
        </release>
  </releases>
</component>