The modifier also supports chaining and the ability to use the mesh's vertex weight for more control over the style of generated strokes.Ĭheck out the introductory video below by the creator of the modifier himself:Ĥ. The LineArt modifier can generate accurate occlusion results from any geometry, and intersection lines can be generated and styled separately. The Line Art modifier generates the Grease Pencil lines from the scene and displays them in the viewport in real-time, after which they can still be manipulated and modified using the plethora of GP modifiers and tools available. Initially designed by Yiming Wu as a real-time Freestyle alternative, this latest iteration combines the power of LANPR's original line generation with the versatility of Grease Pencil. Line art demonstration render for a 727's cutaway drawing modeled in Blender and rendered using grease pencil line art modifiers. The Geometry Nodes development sprint was still in full swing for this release, bringing forward a slew of new features and capabilities, including a bunch of new nodes, access to more attributes, and the first iteration of the fabled spreadsheet editor.
Geometry Nodes made a huge splash in the previous release, even while being in its first "basic iteration". Here is a look at the five key features (and then some) that stood out to us in this newest release, but it's highly recommended to check out the release notes and the release overview for a full picture of all the awesome new features available now at our fingertips! 1. The 2.X era is certainly going out with a bang, with the fleshing out of Geometry Nodes into a fully-fledged toolset, the inclusion of the long-awaited LineArt modifier, massive performance improvements, and much more. This release has the extra credit of being the second LTS release since the launch of the eponymous program, making it the latest release of predilection to be used on many large-scale productions for the years to come.ĭiscover Blender 2.93 LTS, over 20 years in the making.īlender 2.93 LTS marks the final entry in the 2.X era, with the following "3.0" release being the first to change its first digit in around two decades. Each new Blender release is a moment of celebration for the Blender community, a culmination of thousands of man-hours by Blender Foundation developers and community contributors, and most importantly another step forward for the open-source industry up-ending behemoth.
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