download the last version for windows Blender 3D 3.6.1

Byte color attributes are now supported for point clouds and curves ( 5a86c4cc88).OSL: support for new standard microfacet closures from MaterialX ( dielectric_bsdf, conductor_bsdf, generalized_schlick_bsdf).

Loading curves can be 10x faster ( ae017b3ab7).Loading point clouds can be 9x faster ( aef0e72e5a).

Loading large meshes 4-6x faster, and mesh attributes are copied up to 10x faster (or even 60x faster for an extreme example with UV maps) ( 4bcd59d644, 8d0920ec6d).

Loading large geometries into Cycles is much faster, meaning rendering can start more quickly after geometry changes or switching to rendered view.

Light trees now use less memory and are faster to build, through instancing and multi-threading.

On Windows, when using drivers < 101.4644, embree on GPU may crash when rendering duration goes beyond 3 minutes.Īpple Silicon GPUs now support NanoVDB for Metal, reducing memory usage of volumes.

Improvements on this may come from future GPU drivers.

During their first use with oneAPI device, Ambient Occlusion and Bevel nodes will trigger a GPU binaries recompilation that will use around 9GB of memory and take several minutes.

Render time per sample on an Intel® Arc™ A770 GPU

Download the last version for windows Blender 3D 3.6.1