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Blender 2.46

Well, this promises to be yet another leap forward. We have changes in just about every window and panel, more nodes, more options, more more more. Here's the list. we now have Developer|RELEASE NOTES.

Please add as you find more stuff to do. Comprehensive changes affecting many areas:

User Manual

This section is a specific task list for updates that need to be made to the User Manual. Install/Overview/General

done
Roger Release History
done
Roger 3D View Transform Orientations
done
Roger Image browser, useful in Append or Link

Mesh

to do
Manual/SculptMode sculpt brush, anchor as per [1]
to do
Manual/Cloth
to do
Manual/Bevel Modifier http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=118818
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_Dokumentation:_Bevel_Modifier
to do
Manual/Explode Modifier
to do
Manual/Mesh Deform Modifier
to do
Manual/Particle Instance Modifier
to do
Manual/Soft Bodies need jello and walking jello examples, pointcache update
to do
Manual/Shape_Keys VGroup and basis key selector

Lighting

to do
shadow adaptive sampling, this cubic thing
to do
Lamp, Area, Spot light now have many more options

Shading - Materials, Textures, UV unwrap

Particle Attributes selector on Map To panel - whole new set of options for particle system http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Textures/Options/Map_To

done
Roger Mirror Transp panel Ray Mirror options
to do
Mirror Transp panel Ray Transp options
to do
Texture Tiles
to do
UV Unwrap is now U in Edit mode, not a separate mode
to do
World AO Raytrace vs Approximate, panel changes, options
to do
Strand popup, Use Blender Units makes more closer to camera??

New Material Nodes:

to do
Camera Data node
to do
Extended Material input node
to do
Invert node
to do
HSV node
to do
Vector Curves node
to do
Math node
to do
Vector Math
to do
Squeeze node
to do
Separate/Combine RGB node
to do
Dynamic Python Shadernode
to do
Probably need to Nodes split page up

No more UV Face Select mode...so there is a whole section that needs to be revisited...

Compositing nodes

done
Roger Color Bright/Contrast
done
Roger Color Gamma
done
Roger Invert
to do
Color ToneMap
to do
Vector Normalize
to do
Filter Directional Blur
to do
Filter Bilateral Blur
to do
Filter Glare
to do
Distort Lens Distortion

Sequencer

to do
Render Buttons now has Sequencer subcontext. Provides everything you want to know about a strip and tons of great options. 4 panels for Reference/Panels/Scene/Sequencer
Select Handles and Strips to the Left/Right
to do
Histogram View
to do
Zebra Strips for Overexposed areas
to do
Title safe area display

Rendering

in progress 25%
Roger Render Layers panel
to do
Render Pipeline ZMask
to do
Render Passes Mist
to do
Render Passes Other...Rad??
to do

done
Render Stamp panel - overlays filename/date/timestamp- created Reference/Panels/Scene/Render/Stamp and refer to it on Manual/Rendering
to do
World settings is outdated, vague. Need examples of angmap etc

Physics and Particles

done
JimmyVolatile Tutorials/Particles-Fireworks - Complete and published.
in progress 25%
JimmyVolatile Sandbox/Particles
in progress 25%
JimmyVolatile Manual/Particles - Updating the manual to the new 2.47 particle system
Three engines, 4 panels, options galore. Dev seems to be working on good docs
- I'm working on the particle documentation, but my english really needs correction. --Soylentgreen 20:12, 5 February 2008 (CET)
Strand -impact on Material, rendering
in progress 75%
Roger Softbody revisions