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========= Merge of the famous particle patch by Janne Karhu, a full rewrite of the Blender particle system. This includes: - Emitter, Hair and Reactor particle types. - Newtonian, Keyed and Boids physics. - Various particle visualisation and rendering types. - Vertex group and texture control for various properties. - Interpolated child particles from parents. - Hair editing with combing, growing, cutting, .. . - Explode modifier. - Harmonic, Magnetic fields, and multiple falloff types. .. and lots of other things, some more info is here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/Particles_Rewrite_Doc The new particle system cannot be backwards compatible. Old particle systems are being converted to the new system, but will require tweaking to get them looking the same as before. Point Cache =========== The new system to replace manual baking, based on automatic caching on disk. This is currently used by softbodies and the particle system. See the Cache API section on: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/PhysicsSprint Documentation ============= These new features still need good docs for the release logs, help for this is appreciated.
Welcome to the fun world of open source. For instructions on building and installing Blender, please see the file named INSTALL. ---------------------.Blanguages and the .blender directory--------------------- The .blender directory holds various data files for Blender. In the 2.28a release those are the .Blanguages file containing a list of translations, the translations themselves and a default ttf font. Blender checks for the presence of this directory in several locations: - the current directory - your home directory - On OSX, the blender bundle is also checked - On Windows, the installation dir is checked. If you get a 'File ".Blanguages" not found' warning, try to copy the .blender dir to one of these locations (your home directory being recommended). -------------------------------------Links-------------------------------------- Getting Involved: http://www.blender.org/docs/get_involved.html Community: http://www.blender3d.org/Community/ Main blender development site: http://www.blender.org/ The Blender project homepage: http://projects.blender.org/projects/bf-blender/ Documentation: http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=documentation&file=index Bug tracker: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?atid=125&group_id=9&func=browse Feature request tracker: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/?atid=128&group_id=9&func=browse