With this release we met another milestone; all of Blender's functionality from the period the sources were closed now have been restored. Of course that means we can welcome the 2.25 game engine back!

Further the release is packed with new features, results of three months frantic coding by our development team. Enjoy!

Blender regression test files zip 2.9MB

Not only the game engine is back, here you can also find cool demo downloads and the full html reference from the Blender GameKit book.

The picture to the left is from the HardMashed demo, showcased by NaN on the Game Developers Conference, and one of the best productions of the NaN content team ever.

Ambient Occlusion is a more sophisticated ambient trick, which takes nearby faces into account by firing a hemisphere (cone) of shadow-rays around.

Combined with using "Spherical Light Probe" images very realistic results can be achieved.

The entire internal procedural texture system has been revised, allowing now much more control, and several new types which makes it a true Image Synthesiser.

Finally we've got a new team very active on improving features for assigning and calculating UV texture coordinates.

Check out the long list of new features here.