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How old is Blender?
Blender celebrates January 2, 1994 as its birth day, based on the timestamps from the first backup of the codebase. It was first used in production around 1 year later, in Q2 1995.
Refs: tweet from ...
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How to duplicate an object in 2.8 via the Python API
Make copies of ID data with ID.copy()
For blender data ID objects ie objects in bpy.data.objects meshes in ...
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Updating to latest Blender version
You can install Blender via Steam, which has a built in auto-update feature.
This should keep your Blender installation up to date automatically.
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How to run Blender through RDP on Windows Server 2008 R2 - opengl error
To run Blender on a machine without OpenGl support, you would need to:
Download the opengl32.dll or opengl64.dll from this
link: http://download.blender.org/ftp/sergey/softwaregl/
Copy and paste the ...
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Updating to latest Blender version
There is no automatic update feature inside Blender that I'm aware of. But getting the latest version is very simple - just go to the download page of Blender.org and download the latest version.
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What version have I installed
Blender 2.9x
There are four locations that show the version in varying level of detail.
Splash screen
Status Bar
About Blender
Export System Information
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Learn Blender 2.7 now or wait for the 2.8 Beta release?
Learn now, and it's ok to start with 2.8
Blender 2.8 makes many changes to some fundamental aspects of how we interact with the software and with each workflow. Most notably: layers are gone and the ...
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How to get my file back in 2.79 after saving with 2.80 series?
Restore your file from a backup. Check whether there is still a .blend1 or .blend2 next to your ...
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prevent add-on being enabled in lower Blender version than 2.8
Blender 2.80 already protects against enabling incompatible add-ons. If the Blender version in the bl_info is too low, it will display a warning in the preferences. ...
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Where is the render display mode setting in 2.8?
In 2.81 these settings have been moved to User Preferences > Interface > Editors > Temporary Windows:
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Custom Blender Builds: How do they work together?
In short: until both features are merged into the same build of Blender, you should treat those Blenders as two different applications.
I would suggest to use a file format like Alembic to bridge the ...
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Where to download older Blender versions? Namely Blender 2.80
Here you have all Blender versions
https://download.blender.org/release/
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Blender build for Raspberry Pi3?
The biggest hurdle to getting Blender running on the Raspberry Pi is the fact that the Pi has an ARM processor rather than one that uses the x86 instruction set, which means software has to be ...
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Blender build for Raspberry Pi3?
As of June 16 2018, the current Blender version available for Raspian Stretch via apt-get is 2.78a. This is behind the current Blender 2.79c for other platforms.
You can install it with:
sudo apt-...
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Why did Blender move from 2.83 straight to 2.9?
Blender foundation wanted to move to a more familiar version numbering system.
Can't find a reliable source to quote at the moment, but I believe I remember reading somewhere that Ton Roosendal ...
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What is the difference between Blender Version X.Y.0 and X.Y.1?
I use Blender casually since about v2.69, and more actively v2.79 so I can't speak for the past and I think the versioning before v3.0 was largely inconsistent.
However Blender 3.0 switched to ...
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Should I update Blender?
Blender as no builtin automatic update system at the moment, you always have to download and manually install new versions.
They are for the most part backwards compatible except for major versions ...
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What is the proper way to update a portable Blender installation while keeping user settings?
Running the new portable version (the zipped Blender file downloaded from blender.org) will fetch the user-pref from the
common roaming location of Windows so previous preferences and add-ons will be ...
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Will a book for blender 2.62 work for blender 2.78?
Most of the features and commands in 2.62 remain the same in 2.78. None of the most important features have changed drastically. Even for the features that have changed, the concepts and terminology ...
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Where can I download older versions of Blender?
Accordoing to the blender.org fortunately "Your old files are safe, every Blender release is available for download. Forever." Just go to the download site and look for previous versions at the bottom ...
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Updating to latest Blender version
If you're on a Mac and using Homebrew you can install/update Blender via:
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Should I update Blender?
You have to download the updated version from the website because there is not an in-software update function. And yes you will be able to edit old .blend files because it is a standard file extension ...
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Game development for 2.8
You can see a development spreadsheet what will change in 2.8 version. You can follow this to adjust on what to work on.
As you can see the only thing agreed on right now is removing the old particle ...
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Game development for 2.8
It is pretty much unknown at this point, development hasn't really started on 2.8 version
They are not even finished with the design phase yet, so we don't even know how things are going to be, let ...
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When is 2.8's release date and how to make it more stable
On the 13th August (2018) Blender 2.8 Alpha 2 was released. The Alpha status means that the software is still not stable, and a lot of effort is being put in dealing with crashes and instabilities, ...
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How to build Blender as Python module?
Ok, i managed to actually build it as a Python module.
It might appear strange to ask a question and immediately answer it. But i decided to
share my experience with this process.
In this way it ...
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Where is the render display mode setting in 2.8?
I think this is what you are looking for
Good LUck
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Unable to copy objects between versions
I just ran into what I believe is the same issue.
Check the Temp path in both versions' preferences. You probably changed it for the old version in the past but forgot to do this in the new ...
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Do I need to re download Blender?
Blender RC 3 and the official release of Blender 2.8 are not the same version. The last release candidate is a build based on commit 507ffee6e1f4 and the release version is based on commit ...
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