Blender 2.73 Release

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Well I’m glad they fixed a nuisance problem I was seeing with triangulation (ver. 2-70-2.72), but the rendering sure seems a lot slower than back in 2.69. Is it my imagination, or is the normal map making the mesh a lot darker now?

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Ok I reported the bug as OpenGl speed regression.
I can’t upload the example file it always failed.
There is another way to upload it somewhere else?

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Hi bls, file uploading in tracker work only with drag and drop.
Other good place is http://www.pasteall.org/blend/

Cheers, mib

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Yes I know I tried that but nothing happened. I’ll upload it on pasteall.org

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Ok I uploaded to pasteall.org because the file was a bit big. Here is the link : http://www.pasteall.org/blend/33811
Don’t know if I have to uploaded somewhere else.

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Hi bls, can you post the link from the bug tracker?
I cant find it.

Cheers, mib

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Hi mib, you mean this ? : https://developer.blender.org/T43233

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i was reporting that bug tooo the problem is with Nvidia optimus… and this bug is since 2.70

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2.73a available.

Still waiting for the b revision.

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Anyone notice that soft cuts are broken in the VSE? It used to be pressing k would do a soft cut to the selected strip, while shift+k would do a hard cut. Now both do hard cuts. Also, grabbing and dragging the handles of a strip used to behave like performing a soft cut at the location where you’ve moved the handle to, now it doesn’t.

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I don’t know if that’s my system that’s at fault, but I am unable to use CUDA on my GTX570.
2.73 and 2.73a keep crashing, even on the default cube/scene.
I run Win 7 64
2.72b works fine.

I’ll come back to tell you what the exact message is.

EDIT:
it says:
“CUDA error: Out of memory in cuLaunchKernel(cuPathTrace, xblocks, yblocks, 1, xthreads, ythreads, 1, 0, 0, args, 0)”

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It’s not broken it just works differently. To avoid visual clutter the offsets are not drawn anymore. But if you use the new Slip Tool (S), you will see that a soft cut is still a soft cut. Also, in the View menu you can enable “Show Offset” if you prefer the old behavior.

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Thanks for this great new version! But I noticed one thing: Now the connectors in node editor are straight lines. Before (in 2.72 - linux) they were curved. Is there a chance to get the curved ones back? I know thats a really minor thing but I kinda liked the way I could arrange things and still not cover lines.

@@Gwenouille

I had a similar problem with linux. Suddenly my card was not supporting cuda too. (although I was just changing blender versions)

I had to install the CUDA develper package to get it working again. Really strange. (cuda_6.5.14_linux_64.run) But I did not get an error message. My card was just not listed.

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By default (load factory settings) they are still curved.
Change the ‘Noodle Curving’ value in User Preferences / Themes

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Perfect. :slight_smile: Thanks a lot!

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Be sure your Feature Set is on Supported and not Experimental, in the Render panel.

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maybe a bit off topic, but is it possible (some workaround) to draw on surface with the greace pencile?

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Yes, in the Grease Pencil settings pane (press N-key) choose Surface.

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@William thank for answer,

but since the new greace pencil improvments their is no surface selection.

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Noticed that you can’t use color in lights with point or spot lights. Is this a bug or feature? The new free hand knife is nice. Edit: the version is 2.73a.