RNS

blender performance slow down when higher setting is apply,
whether is particle smoke,or other regular basic function.
It eat up to much memory it cause my OS to crash.Now I have to upgrade to 16-24 mem with one gig graphic card.shit-I'm keeping the older version instead.It cheaper.2.50 is a elephant nightmare!

RayBlender

The renderer shows a strange effect in shadows. I used the default scene (so just starting the Blender build), applied a subsurf modifier to the cube and pressed F12. The render is a bit dark, but there is a clear 'cross' on the front of the cube with darker faces. If you increase the light intensity the cross becomes more visible. I can reproduce it in Blender 2.49 but using a higher subdivision level it disappears. I can not achieve the same in Blender 2.5. Perhaps something to do with the settings of the "smooth" tool?

Mal

Nice work - many thanks for spending the time to get this building on Windows!!!

silveryarr

@RaBlender
Check if it is an issue with normals

fdameronut

I like most of what I see so far. Loading a file from 2.49b works. The old path method does not work properly. When going through the animation, it repeats the path cycle instead of staying at the end. Also when viewing the constraints, sometimes the "constraints window" goes a bit haywire.

- Floyd

dail

Love the continuous grab. Don't really care how the mouse cursor wraps around. I guess I had in mind that the mouse would disappear or something. But very nice!

PeeBOY

YO BRO !!! Setting the mid mouse button to pan doesn't work !!! (32bit version) - FIX IT SOMEBODY PLS !!!

Anthony

I finally have a build that works on my PC.

Thanks.

RNS

material preview don't update. try again.

Larryboy

Thankyou for the 'Me' view.. saves me setting it up.

Cheers

Ignatz

Nice optimizations. This does render faster. Thank you.

Fab

Hello,

thank you for the build ! It's not working on my pc. no menus or buttons appears (except the "add tool" list)

I did a "format c:" yesterday, so I run with a very basic windows XP, no services pack were intalled. But should this affect something ?

Jacob

After working in Blender for a short amount of time, (about 5 min) the viewports and windows, and everything, turn to a solid gray color. what is going on?

jesterKing

I don't follow these comments often - it's better to comment and ask for help on my blog.

Anyway.

@Fab: you probably have an accented character in your path, like é or è. Extract Blender to a path that doesn't have any non-ascii character. That should fix your problem.

@Jacob: I'd guess driver problem here. Make sure you have the latest possible for your videocard. If that doesn't help, turn of any fancy stuff (using windows classics theme often helps there).

Jacob

@jesterKing Thanks! the drivers did it :) I thought i had the latest. btw i LOVE the self extracting archive :)

Bogey

By far the best win 32 2.5 build I have tried so far.
No bugs found yet, and amazing render speed up.
25% faster than non optomised.
Thanks jesterKing.

Eric

YES! That is the FIRST build that works in my computer! Fantastic!

Thank's jesterKing!

crackrat

first, thanks to JK for this build and to all for the general development of blender.

i haven't noticed any new bugs just the ones already noted, but due to holidays i hadn't had time to really put the screws to the application yet.

i did notice one thing with this build. in the opening splash screen there are 3 recently opened files listed that are nonexistent, most likely remnants from initial testing of the build. ill repost on your blog when it is updated to reflect this build. till then cheers - crackrat

jesterKing

@crackrat - I accidently left .Blog (and .Bfs) in the install directory after some testing. You can safely ignore the links - or just remove the .Blog file from .blender/

nuemoro

It does nto work for me, no menus are visible(file etc) only the viewports

jesterKing

Sorry everybody - the previous upload was missing .blender and its subdirs, resulting in either empty menus or even crashing Blender. It is fixed now.

plop

I downloaded this build but I still have empty menus :(