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Blender 4.3

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239 points antome | 2 comments | 20 Nov 24 04:39 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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wolframhempel ◴[20 Nov 24 07:33 UTC] No.42191568[source]▶
Blender, in my view, is one of the best arguments to develop native desktop applications over web view wrappers like Electron. Everything is responsive and instant, you can open new 3D view windows by just sliding them open at 60 frames a second, performance is stable even with multiple windows open and the download size is a reasonable 334MB.
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1. cultofmetatron ◴[20 Nov 24 07:45 UTC] No.42191622[source]▶
> and the download size is a reasonable 334MB.

I remember when it was 2 MB!!

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2. ideasman42 ◴[20 Nov 24 08:15 UTC] No.42191761[source]▶
I remember downloading it from my library on a floppy disk (hoping the librarian wouldn't hear it the floppy drive working - since it wasn't allowed). :)

It's in fact still quite small if additional 3rd party libraries are disabled.

It's possible to make a much smaller download that removes OpenCollada, FFMPEG, OpenEXR, OpenImageDenoise, OpenVDB ... etc. However it's a hassle to distribute a second version at a time when the current size is manageable for most users.