Blender 2.73 新功能

Blender 2.73 Release Notes Blender 2.73发布说明
" Work in progress release notes for Blender 2.73.
" List of missing notes: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.73/missing
Download the 2.73 Release Candidate 下载2.73候选发布版


Cycles Rendering Cycles渲染

" Volume Rendering:
" 体积渲染
o Rendering with cameras inside volume meshes is now supported
o 现在支持使用相机的内部网格体渲染
o Cubic voxels interpolation is a new option helping to avoid artifacts on low resolution smoke simulations
o 立方体插值一个新的选项帮助避免模拟低分辨率的烟雾的人工痕迹
o Faster rendering of homogeneous volumes
o 快速渲染均匀体积
" Support for GeForce 9xx GPUs
" 支持GeForce 9 xx系列的图形处理器
" Improved rendering with area lights
" 改进的区域光渲染
" Viewport specularity for the viewport is now also implemented for Cycles
" 视图的镜面反射现在Cycles也支持
" And more!
" 更多


User Inte***ce 用户界面

" A new fullscreen mode without any buttons or other "annoying" elements to improve the UI
" 一个新的全屏模式没有其它的任何按钮和其它的任何元素
" The 3D View got an option to display the world background right from the viewport
" 在3D窗口右边display栏有一个world background的选项



" Special UI feature: Chinese and Japanese complex character input:
" 特殊的UI功能： 中文和日文的复杂字符的输入：
o General support for Input Method Editors (IMEs) has been added
o 添加输入法编辑器的支持
o Only supported for text buttons for now
o 现在仅仅支持文本按钮
o Only supported on Windows and Linux for now
o 现在只支持Windows和Linux
o Supported is Sougou (Chinese), Bing (Chinese), QQ (Chinese) and Microsoft integrated (Japanese)
o 支持的是搜狗（中国） ，Bing（中国） ， QQ （中国）和微软集成（日语）
And now guess why we have a Chinese Splash!
o 现在你知道为什么我们有一个中文的闪屏！


" Pie Menus: Pie菜单：
o Confirm Threshold to confirm a pie menu without releasing the original key
o 确认阈值 确认Pie菜单没有被原始键释放
o Nested Pie Menus (a Pie Menu within a Pie Menu) are now supported
o 嵌套的Pie菜单（一个Pie菜单里有Pie菜单）
" And more!
" 更多
Modeling 建模

" Knife-tool: 切割刀
o Cuts can now be created using free-hand drawing
o 可以以手绘的形式自由切割
o Cut-loops can now be closed by double click
o 切割刀循环可以通过双击结束
" Selection: 选择
o A new selection method "Select Similar Regions" was added
o 添加了一个新的选择模式选择相似区域"Select Similar Regions"
o You can now skip adjacent faces while using the select more/less function
o 使用更多/更少选择功能你可以跳过相邻面
" And more!
" 更多


Sculpting/Painting 雕刻/绘画

" Texture Painting: 纹理绘画
o The Add Simple Uvs operator for texture painting now uses a simpler unwrap method for better quick UV layouts
o 添加简单的UV为纹理绘画现在使用一个简单的展UV方法有更快速更好的UV布局
o Face-mask edges are now hidden to give proper visual feedback while working with masks
o 面遮罩边缘现在已经被隐藏让你更好的工作
" Brushes: 笔刷
o Changing brush size, detail size and strength can now be done using numeric keyboard input
o 现在可以通过输入数字键来改变笔刷的尺寸，细节的大小和实力强度
o Brush strength can now also be changed for Grab and Snake Hook brushes
o 笔刷的强度现在也可以用于Grab和Snake Hook笔刷


Sequencer

" A Backdrop similar to Compositor is now implemented for the Sequencer as well
" 类似于合成器的背景幕现在实现了序列
" Strips:
o Strips can now be snapped to other strip's start- and endpoints
o Strips现在可以捕捉到其它带的起点和终点
o A new slip Tool allows moving content within the strip itself
o 一个新的slip工具允许在strip本身移动内容
" And more!
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Freestyle NPR Rendering

" Freestyle got a new SVG exporter, implemented as an add-on
" Freestyle现在有一个新的SVG导出，可以通过add-on实现
" View maps can now be cached
" View maps能够被缓存
" More options for chain selection and chain sorting were added
" 更多的chain选择和chain类型选项被添加



Animation 动画

" Grease Pencil (which got a major update): 蜡笔（其中有一个重大的更新）：
o It is now possible to edit and animate strokes (!!!)
o 现在可以编辑和动画笔触！！！
o New draw styles were added, e.g. filled stroke interiors, volumetric strokes, ...
o 添加了新的绘画风格，例如，filled stroke interiors, volumetric strokes, ...
o The Grease Pencil's user inte***ce (which is now completely defined via Python) has gotten a general overhaul
o 蜡笔用户界面大的修改（这是现在完全通过Python定义）
o Two quick access pie menus were added
o 添加了两个快速访问pie菜单
" Graph Editor: 图形编辑
o Revised the set of operators for showing/hiding curves from the keyframe area
o 从关键的区域修订了显示/隐藏曲线操作
o Circle selection for Curves was added
o 为曲线添加了Circle选择
" And more!
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Import/Export 输入/导出
" Collada Importer: Collada输入
o Blenders bone concept can now be converted to the Collada one's
o Blenders的骨头能够被转换成Collada
o Importing riggs previousely caused porblems with leaf bones (end bone of a bone chain) so a fix was created for that
o 导入绑定引起的问题leaf 骨骼（骨骼链末端骨）现在已经被修正
o Blender's bone connection system is now compatible to the one from Collada (which isn't aware of connected/unconnected bones)
o Blender骨骼连接系统现在兼容Collada


Add-ons 插件
" The FBX Add-on now uses some advanced handling/tweaking options for importing and exporting armatures
" FBX插件现在使用高级的handling/tweaking选项导入和输出骨架
To Add-on developers: Some changes were made to the Python API, make sure to check them out and update your Add-ons if necessary!
对插件开发者：Python API有一些改变，更新你的插件确保你检查出这些更新是必须的！


More Features 更多的特征
There are a lot more features that are new in Blender 2.73, so make sure to check them out!
Blender2.73有更多的功能是新的，所以一定要检查出来！

Feature Videos 视屏功能


Bug Fixes 解决的Bug
As for every Blender release, hundreds of bugs were fixed, thanks to the hardworking Blender developers.
对于每一个Blender发行版本，有数百个bug被解决，这要感谢Blender开发者的勤劳。