Blender 4.0 comes with revamped BSDF tool and a wealth of new features

The Blender Foundation has unveiled its next major release with the launch of Blender 4.0, its renowned open-source, cross-platform 3D creation suite. Highlights include more realistic shading effects, the ability to control the effect of lighting sources on specific objects in images and support for running Geometry Nodes without having Python installed. Blender 4.0 opens with a completely rewritten Principled BSDF shader that is described as 'more energy conserving, more efficient, and more flexible', but crucially also capable of producing more realistic effects. Part of the rewrite sees the various shading layers reordered to provide users with more flexibility when mixing between them… [Continue Reading]