Blender 4.3 Open-Source 3D Graphics App Introduces Experimental Vulkan Backend
Four months after Blender 4.2 LTS, the Blender 4.3 release introduces an experimental Vulkan backend on Linux and Windows systems to render the user interface. This can be enabled over the default OpenGL backend under Preferences > Interface > Developer Extras > System > Backend. However, there are some limitations like lack of support for GPU subdivision and OpenXR, and slower performance compared to the OpenGL backend.
The experimental Vulkan backend on Linux is supported on AMD Radeon RX 400 graphics series and later using the latest official drivers from AMD and on legacy AMD GPUs using the Mesa graphics drivers, on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 GPUs and later using the latest NVIDIA graphics drivers, and on Intel UHD, IRIS, and Arc based GPUs using the Mesa graphics drivers.
Update (by Roy)
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Blender 4.3 Brings Vulkan Backend, AMD Ray-Tracing to Linux
Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to!
Blender 4.3 is the latest stable release of the phenomenally powerful open-source 3D modelling software.
Its creators say the update builds on the Blender 4.2 LTS release earlier this year with “improvements to existing tools, performance enhancements, and the foundations that will shape the years to come.”
I’ll recap the key changes in a second, but first I want to highlight a couple of big things that Linux users will be interested to know…
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Blender 4.3 Release Delivers Ray Tracing Support For Linux Along with UI Upgrades
Blender is a powerful open source 3D creation suite used across many creative fields for the production of 3D models, simulations, animations, video games, motion graphics, and even movies.
Popular flicks like Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse have made use of Blender in various stages of production, with countless other projects being made possible by the platform.
After the loaded Blender 4.0 release last year, they haven't stopped adding new stuff to its point releases. So, let's dive in without further ado.
LWN:
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Blender 4.3 released
Version 4.3 of the Blender animation system has been released. "
Brush assets, faster sculpting, a revolutionized Grease Pencil, and more. Blender 4.3 got you covered.
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Blender 4.3 released with Experimental Vulkan UI, Hardware Ray-tracing on Linux | UbuntuHandbook
Blender, the popular free open-source 3D creation software, announced new major 4.3 release this Tuesday with many exciting new features and performance improvements.
In the new release, the real-time renderer EEVEE now supports Light Linking and Shadow Linking, which was previously available only in Cycles. It now has a new Metallic BSDF node in shader editor, and, new texture node that can create procedural Gabor noise for random interleaved bands with controllable direction and width.