Blender 5.0 Release: New Sky Model and Radial Tiling Features for 3D Creation
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Summary
Blender 5.0 introduces significant new features including an improved sky model for accurate indoor reflections, a new Radial Tiling node for creating shapes and textures with rounded corners, and various enhancements to the free and open-source 3D creation software. The article provides an overview of these updates with contributions from multiple Blender experts and community members.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledThe new sky model works great for accurate reflections indoor too. The old 'Nishita' model is still available as 'Single Scattering'.
The new Radial Tiling node is a building block for creating shapes and tilings, including rounded corners.
Radial textures with ease.
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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