Blender 2.73 Release

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Hey, Blender 2.73 Release is published!

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.73

Cheers, mib

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Waiting for 2.73b, thank you.

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Sweet, the Mac OS X mirrors for the US and DE aren’t working, but the NL ones are :3

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Sorry, useless. :slight_smile:

Cheers, mib

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Windows links on the US servers are also not working.

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Windows link worked here in the Philippines.

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No reactor particles still?

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Very nice release, but I noticed a viewport FPS drop in same scenes in comparison with 2.72b version.

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Do you have VBOs turned on?

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Yes VBOs are turned on.

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Loop tools don’t work. Worked correctly in previous release candidate. I’m the only one or is a bug?

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I tried bridge, circle and loft and they work for me. But it was a contrived situation just to see if they would, so it may not be an indicator of anything except that they work under ideal conditions.

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I tried with VBOs on and off; no difference.

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Great, Thank you guys !

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Can someone explain the difference of VBOs on or off? Some of us make art with this

thing, and don’t tear the program apart.

EDIT: I filed a bug report, and someone told me to turn VBO off, which I have always done, so what does this mean?

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@VickyM72 basically VBO loads your vertex data into your VRAM instead of your system memory which speeds up the viewport immensely if your graphics card supports it.

EDIT: Wikipedia article (VBO)

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Holy crap. Did anyone notice how fast 2.73 does motion tracking? Apparently this predictive tracking really makes a huge difference. Go Sergey and Keir!

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For anyone who didn’t try himself:

It’s really super impressive. And not just faster, but more accurate and stable as well.
:slight_smile:

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@bls - please report a bug along with a testfile (re: OpenGL speed regression).

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I saw your video. I had already noticed that stuff tracked much faster, but I didn’t know why. I then saw the 2.73 release log, google the term predictive tracking and found your video. That solved the mystery! Thanks for the video btw.

Offtopic: I also watched your “Overtutorialized” video. That was super funny! I always wonder how it is to record training videos and to hear your own voice the whole time during editing. I guess now I know how it makes you feel Grin.