

The Blender 2.93 Beta is also out, boasting a plethora of performance improvements and new tools, including a maturing Geometry Nodes module. The new release scheme revolves around having 4 releases per year per cycle (2.90 - 2.91- 2.92 - 2.93), with the last one being a Long-Term Support LTS version supported for 2 years. Ya llegamos!!! Blender 3.0 alpha #b3d #3point0 /Mv7OChemUQīlender has been iterating on 2.X versions for more than 18 years, however, thanks to the release schedule and naming scheme being rethought for the milestone 2.8 release, we are now fast approaching a 3.0 version due to be out this August. While for the moment this new 3.0 build is suspiciously similar to 2.93, the naming shift symbolizes the end of an era - and the start of a new one. Transparent (no alpha) areas will then show a checkered background.', but I cannot find these buttons anywhere.Intrepid Blender daily build users may have already noticed, but a few days ago, Blender 3.0 alpha appeared on the Blender experimental builds download page. In this link it mentions in the tip ' In order to see the effects of the Erase and Add Alpha mix modes in the Image Editor, you must enable the alpha channel display by clicking the Display Alpha or the Alpha-Only button. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I've set up a nodes 2.93.5 shader like this hoping it would work: ply file shows the vertices with the alpha set to zero: I have tried Workbench, Cycles and EEVEE as the renderers:Īn exported 2.93.5. Here's another blueish painted plane with the bottom two vertices with Erase Alpha applied. Trying to reproduce this in 2.93.5 doesn't work. The Renderer is set to Blender Render as per default.

Note that in 2.79c I'm using the default material and have done nothing more than start Blender, added the plane mesh and then applied the vertex paint and erase alpha. ply file shows the vertices with the alpha set to zero, (the rightmost value, the 'A' of the RGBA value):

In Blender 2.79c you can see the effects of Alpha transparency using the Erase Alpha brush mode on the bottom vertices:Īn exported 2.79c. The only attribute the vertices will have is an RGBA colour. Note: The meshes are to be used in a game engine with no textures or normals etc. I can see the alpha transparency in Blender 2.79c (nightly build) but not in 2.93.5. BlenderKit is preinstalled in Blender 2.80 - 2.93 so you can activate it easily. Blender 2.93 CPU 25 Samples: 46.14 seconds Blender 3.1 CPU 10 Samples: 48.93 seconds Blender 3.1 GPU+CPU 10 Samples: 34.42 seconds Blender 3.1 GPU+CPU 25 Samples: 50. I'd like to use Blender 2.93.5 for modelling vertex coloured meshes but I'm unable to see the effects of Erase Alpha in vertex paint mode.
