Blender v2.75a Portable

Blender, the open source software for 3D modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. Available for Windows, Linux, Irix, Sun Solaris, FreeBSD or Mac OS X. Blender has proven to be an extremely fast and versatile design instrument. The software has a personal touch, offering a unique approach to the world of Three Dimensions. Use Blender to create TV commercials, to make technical visualizations, business graphics, to do some morphing, or design user interfaces. You can easy build and manage complex environments. The renderer is versatile and extremely fast. All basic animation principles (curves & keys) are well implemented.

Interface

    Non-overlapping and non-blocking UI delivers unsurpassed workflow

    Flexible and fully configurable window layout with as many screen setups as you prefer

    Undo support on all levels

    Anti-aliased fonts with international translation support

    Any window space can be easily switched to any window type (curve editor, NLA, 3D view etc)

    Built-in text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts

    Graphical user interface for Python scripts

    Fully scriptable UI with custom themes

    Consistent interface across all platforms

Rigging

    Fast skeleton creation mode

    Interactive 3D paint for vertex weighting

    Fast envelope based skinning

    Automatic Skinning that really works (heat equilibrium based)

    Mirror editing (bone creation and weight painting)

    Double Quaternion deformation reduces shrinking and other bone deformation errors

    Volume deformer uses a mesh cage to deform complex meshes with great results

    Bone layers and colored groups for better rig organization

    B-spline interpolated bones; forget about elbow twists

    Constraint stack for IK solver setup and other constraints

    PyConstraints; if you need something not yet implemented code it in python with real time feed back, no compiling needed

Animation

    Armature (skeleton) deformation with forward/inverse kinematics with pole target support

    Auto IK allows posing FK chains easily

    Non-linear animation editor for mixing individual actions created in Action editor

    Automated walkcycles along paths

    Animated constraint system

    Vertex key framing for morphing, with controlling sliders

    Edit and create new blendshapes from existing targets

    Character animation pose editor

    'Ipo' system integrates both motion curve and traditional key-frame editing

    Audio playback, mixing and editing support for sound synchronisation

    Timeline offers fast acces to many playback functions, autokey, help markers

    Python scripting access for custom and procedural animation effects

UV Unwrapping

    Conformal and Angle Based unwrapping methods

    Interactive transform of UV maps by vertex pinning

    Proportional falloff editing of UV maps for smooth transformations

    Seam based unwrapping

    Cube, Cylinder, Sphere, View projections

    Catmull-Clark subdivition of UVs for less distortion

    Minimize stretch tool allows to reduce area distortion

    Multiple UV layers

Physics and Particles

    Particle system can be atached to any mesh object. Control methods include weight painting, textures, curve guides, wind and vortex effects. Particles can be deflected by moving geometry

    Hair strands can be created by a static particle system, supporting all particle control methods

    Fluid simulator with fully animated inflow, outflow, obstacle and fluid objects. Gravity and viscosity settings can also be animated. Supports vector blur and is integrated with the particle system

    Realtime soft body solver integrated in mesh, lattice, curve and text objects. Supports collision detection and particle field effects like Wind or Vortex, soft bodys can also be baked for faster playback/rendering

    Game engine rigid body physics can be easily baked into animation curves

Realtime 3D/Game Creation

    Graphical logic editor for defining interactive behavior without programming

    Collision detection and dynamics simulation now support Bullet Physics Library. Bullet is an open source collision detection and rigid body dynamics library developed for Play Station 3

    Shape types: Convex polyhedron, box, sphere, cone, cylinder, capsule, compound, and static triangle mesh with auto deactivation mode

    Discrete collision detection for RigidBody simulation

    Support for in-game activation of dynamic constraints

    Full support for vehicle dynamics, including spring reactions, stiffness, damping, tyre friction etc

    Python scripting API for sophisticated control and AI, fully defined advanced game logic

    Support all OpenGLTM lighting modes, including transparencies, Animated and reflection-mapped textures

    Support for multimaterials, multitexture and texture blending modes, per-pixel lighting, dynamic lighting, mapping modes, GLSL vertexPaint texture blending, toon shading, animated materials, support for Normal Maping and Parallax Mapping

    Playback of games and interactive 3D content without compiling or preprocessing

    Audio, using the SDL toolkit

    Multi-layering of Scenes for overlay interfaces

Modeling

    A range of 3D object types including polygon meshes, NURBS surfaces, bezier and B-spline curves, metaballs, vector fonts (TrueType, PostScript, OpenType)

    Very fast Catmull-Clark subdivision surfaces with optimal iso-lines display and sharpness editing

    Full multiresolution sculpting capabilities with 2D bitmap/3D procedural brushes (Paint, Smooth, Pinch, Inflate, Grab) supporting symmetry

    Modifier stack deformers such as Lattice, Curve, Armature or Displace

    Mirror modifier with middle vertices clipping and automatic deletion of inner faces

    Non destructive real time Boolean and Array modifiers

    Mesh modeling based on vertex, edge and/or face selection

    Smooth soft selection editing tools for organic modeling

    Python scripting access for custom tools

Rendering

    Fast inbuilt raytracer

    Oversampling, motion blur, post-production effects, fields, non-square pixels

    Tile-based and fully threaded

    Render layers and passes

    Render baking to UV maps and object to object baking (full render, ambient occlusion, normals, textures)

    Render engine tightly integrated with the node compositor

    Halo, lens flares and fog effects

    Vector motion-blur post-process effect (using node compositor)

    Realistic defocus (DOF) post-process effect (using node compositor)

    Edge rendering for toon shading

    Interactive preview rendering panel in any 3d view

    Ambient Occlusion

    Approximate Global Illumunination

    Export scripts available for external renderers such as Renderman, Povray, Virtualight, Lux, Indigo and V-Ray - See Resources for a full list.

Shading

    Diffuse shaders such as Lambert, Minnaert, Toon, Oren-Nayar, Lambert

    Specular shaders such as WardIso, Toon, Blinn, Phong, CookTorr

    Node editor for creating and mixing complex materials

    PyNodes: write your own Python shaders with realtime feedback, no need to compile

    Material previews rendered by main render engine

    Fast, realistic subsurface scattering

    Blurry reflections and refractions

    Tangent shading to give any shader an anisotropic effect

    Versatile procedural textures system

    Reflection maps

    Normal, displacement and bump maps

Imaging and Compositing

    Compositor tightly integrated and aligned with the rendering pipeline

    MultiLayer OpenEXR files allow to store and reuse raw renderlayer and passes data

    Complete list of composite node filters, convertors, color and vector operators and mixers including Chroma Key, Blur, RGB Curves, Z Combine, Color Ramp, Gamma Correct

    Preview panel to define the portion of interest. A composite then only happens on this part

    Threaded and memory efficient (up to 8 processors)

    Near realtime sequencer can edit hours of video

    Waveform and U/V scatter plots

    Open and write many audio & video file formats using ffmpeg

    Can render using frameserver-support directly into foreign applications

    Supports float images as well as regular 8 bits images

    Curves tool allows you to create a mapping from the float range to a displayable result (for HDR images)

Files

    Save all scene data in a single .blend file, even images, sounds or fonts can be packed for easy transportation

    Powerful built-in database system allowing instances, scene management, and dynamic linking multiple project files

    .blend format supports compression, digital signatures, encryption, forwards/backwards compatibility and can be used as a library to link to from other .blend files

    Read and write support for many other 2D and 3D formats

    2D

    TGA, JPG, PNG, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, Iris, SGI Movie, IFF, AVI and Quicktime GIF, TIFF, PSD, MOV (Windows and Mac OS X)

    3D

    3D Studio, AC3D, COLLADA, FBX Export, DXF, Wavefront OBJ, DEC Object File Format, DirectX, Lightwave, MD2, Motion Capture, Nendo, OpenFlight, PLY, Pro Engineer, Radiosity, Raw Triangle, Softimage, STL, TrueSpace, VideoScape, VRML, VRML97, X3D Extensible 3D, xfig export

Graphics card note: Blender runs on all Open GL compliant cards, although there are some issues with cheap onboard cards (Intel, Via). We therefore can't officialy support and guarantee that Blender works fine on those systems.

Operating Systems

    Windows XP, Vista or 7

    Mac OS X 10.4 and later

    Linux 

    FreeBSD 6.2 i386

Minimal specs for Hardware

    1 GHZ Single Core CPU

    512 MB RAM

    1024 x 768 px Display with 16 bit color

    3 Button Mouse

    Open GL Graphics Card with 64 MB RAM

Good specs for Hardware

    2 GHZ Dual Core CPU

    2 GB RAM

    1920 x 1200 px Display with 24 bit color

    3 Button Mouse

    Open GL Graphics Card with 256 or 512 MB RAM

Production specs for Hardware

    64 bits, Multi Core CPU

    8 GB RAM

    Two times 1920 x 1200 px Display with 24 bit color

    3 Button Mouse + tablet

    Open GL Graphics Card with 768 MB RAM, ATI FireGL or Nvidia Quadro

32Bit (Size: 92 MB)

64Bit (Size: 108 MB)