Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.74/More Features

Blender 2.74: More Features

.blend Files & Libraries

• You can now enforce generation (and hence saving) of previews for materials, textures, lamps, world and images datablocks (File → Data Previews → Refresh DataBlock Previews menu entry), useful for material lib files e.g. Note it can take a bit of time when using Cycles materials - and do not forget to save the file once done! (3027ff8b13fb29e)

Background images

• Background images can now be rotated and flipped.

Compositing

• Plane Track Deform compositor node now supports samples motion blur (1dddcfb). See Features Video for demo.
• Multilayer EXR nodes now have dedicated Alpha output calculated from the Combined pass (88efcdc).
• Memory usage optimization for the compositor, technical details. (35d3b63)

Sequencer

• Slip tool now supports numerical input
• Setting proxies is now done to all selected strips at once using a dialog in the proxy panel
• Preview individual strips by dragging the cursor over them (feature from Blender 2.4x), 8abdc89912e4a

Blender Internal Rendering

• Added gamma node support for Blender Internal (rB01c18)

MotionTracking

• Added operator to filter tracks based on how smooth their motion is (912b465)
• Copy Track Settings: copy track settings from active to selected tracks
• Tracking Pies: The official pie menus now also have pies to make motion tracking, solving and scene reconstructing easier

Small Improvements

• Increase max undo steps to 256 (fa9e42b57d9b4)
• On Windows, a popup that warns against deprecated versions of OpenGL was added (b5b359b48f7f3)
• Add backtrace support for windows in case of crashes (d58a15c0a603a)
• It is now possible to skip sequencer strip proxies from built if they're already exist (b675418)