The Features section is being updated for the upcoming Blender 2.80 release. Information may change.
Pipeline
Integration with multiple pipeline tools is pivotal in many productions.
File Formats
Blender comes packed with import/export support for many different programs.
Including:
- Image
JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, TARGA, OpenEXR, DPX, Cineon, Radiance HDR, SGI Iris, TIFF - Video
AVI, MPEG and Quicktime (on OSX). - 3D
Alembic, 3D Studio (3DS), COLLADA (DAE), Filmbox (FBX), Autodesk (DXF), Wavefront (OBJ), DirectX (x), Lightwave (LWO), Motion Capture (BVH), SVG, Stanford PLY, STL, VRML, VRML97, X3D.
Alembic support through import/export operators and data streaming through cache constraints and modifiers.
Features include export of linked dupli-groups, sub-frame sampling, face-varying vertex colors, child hairs and empties.
- Import– reads an Alembic archive and creates objects in the current Blender scene, supporting Camera, Curve, Empty, Mesh, Point object types
- Export– creates an Alembic archive supporting Camera, Curve, Hair, Mesh, NURBS, Particles object types
- Cache File Datablock – stores various properties related to cache files, to help keeping modifiers and constraints referencing Alembic archives in sync
- Mesh Sequence Cache modifier supports meshes and curves data animations, file sequences
- Transform Cache constraint, allows to stream animations made at the transformation matrix level