

It is possible to force Blender 3.0 to run on the Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu 22.04 by using the following override for Mesa, by running this on the command line: MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3. The source code for 2.79 can be downloaded from here: Using Bo圆4 emulator generate errors and the programs aborts.Ĭompiling Blender 2.79 from source (Blender 2.79 uses OpenGL 3.1 which is supported by the VideoCore VI on the Raspberry Pi 4), but there are no instructions on how to compile for ARM architecture. License: GPLv2 Version: 2.79 SHA-1 or SHA-256: 5465aefbb19c08204693f938583119cefa8a4c2c Type: zip Dependencies: Npackd Installer Helper 1.3. There are no Snap, Flatpak or AppImage for ARM64 Architecture (i.e. Read a full list of changes in Blender 2.I have the same problem, and with the results of extended searches I have found out that is not possible to run Blender on the Raspberry Pi at least not with current OS's like Ubuntu 22.04 (with Blender 3.0 in the repositories) or even Debian 11 Bullseye that comes with Blender 2.93. The reduction is specific to rendering on the GPU with Nvidia’s CUDA cards: CPU rendering and GPU rendering using OpenCL are not affected – an issue discussed in this blog post from The Pixelary last year.īlender 2.79a is available for Windows Vista+, Linux with glibc 2.19 and above and macOS 10.6+. The safest way to update to a new version is to: Restart Blender Uninstall previous version Restart. Before updating to a new version, you must first uninstall the previous version. It also improves performance, “mostly in threaded code”, with the release notes singling out mesh normal and tangent space calculation and the subdivision surface modifier as particular beneficiaries.Īccording to this tweet from Mike Pan, founder of animation studio The Pixelary, the update also cuts render times by around 10% when using Blender’s Cycles engine on Windows. This will ensure that all loaded scripts from the previous version are properly unloaded and do not cause any conflicts with the new version. Speed boosts with threaded code and when GPU rendering on WindowsĪlthough 2.79a doesn’t add any new features – the last major feature release was Blender 2.79 itself, which shipped last September – it does include over 200 fixes, “from real bugs to potential security issues”. The update is largely a bugfix release, but does improve performance quite significantly in some areas: tests suggest that the Cycles renderer now runs 10% faster on Windows when using CUDA GPUs.

The Blender Foundation has released Blender 2.79a, the latest version of the open-source 3D software.
