{"id":1189,"date":"2007-05-14T13:07:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T12:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/blender-244-released-improvements-and-new-features\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:55:42","slug":"blender-244-released-improvements-and-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blender-244-released-improvements-and-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Blender 2.44 released &#8211; improvements and new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1191\" title=\"blendersplash_244.png\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2007\/05\/blendersplash_244.png\" alt=\"blendersplash_244.png\" align=\"right\" \/>Popular 3D modelling tool, Blender, has a new version out which includes not only the expected bug fixes but also a few interesting new features. The most significant additions are complete 64-bit compatibility and the brand new Subsurface Scattering material option which is designed to help with rendering of complex surfaces like skin or marble.<\/p>\n<p>Full list of additions and updates:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fully 64-bit compatible<\/li>\n<li>New modifers were added (&#8220;Smooth&#8221; and &#8220;Cast&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>A couple of composite nodes were added<\/li>\n<li>A revamp of the old mesh primitives was done<\/li>\n<li>Blender 2.44&#8217;s new long-awaited but unexpected feature: subsurface scattering (SSS) support!<\/li>\n<li>Bullet physics engine updated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popular 3D modelling tool, Blender, has a new version out which includes not only the expected bug fixes but also a few interesting new features. The most significant additions are complete 64-bit compatibility and the brand new Subsurface Scattering material option which is designed to help with rendering of complex surfaces like skin or marble. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/blender-244-released-improvements-and-new-features\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Blender 2.44 released &#8211; improvements and new features&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[3101],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-1189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionblender"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337690,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1189\/revisions\/337690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=1189"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=1189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}