Blender 2.82 brings improved physics engines, support Pixar USD export, and more

Blender, the open-source modelling software package, released its latest update yesterday. Version 2.82 introduces quite a few new features, including a new physics engine, AI denoising, support for Pixar’s USD file format, and more.

Perhaps the biggest update is the inclusion of Mantaflow, a fluid simulation framework. Blender 2.82’s Mantaflow system offers improved smoke and fire simulations. Additionally, the new FLIP fluids solver introduced in this update allows creators to better simulate fluids.

Other updates include UDIM, a tile-based UV mapping system for creating and editing textures on surfaces, support for Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (USD) file format, support for AI-based denoising (for Nvidia RTX GPUs only), and improvements on the new sculpting system introduced in Blender 2.81.

There are a ton of new features in this update, all of which are detailed over at Blender’s website here.

Do you use Blender? Have you tried the new version? What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments.