Once installed, open the Blender app from Ubuntu Dash or Menu.For creative artists and 3D model’s designer, Blender 3D provides some extra built-in features. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thomas-schiex/blender Run the following commands in Terminal to install Blender 2.77a on Ubuntu Systems: Spotlights: now they can be scaled on one or several axis (Rectangle and ellipse shapes).Cubemap: world textures are now supported in the Blender Internal engine 3D viewport.Image Editor: now allows visualizing individual R,G and B channels.Compositing: new invert option to the 2D stabilization node, use mask name as mask node label, expose track velocity as an output of Track Position node, new option to extend image bounds when blurring.Better threading handling: Blender is now massively multi-threaded.OpenVDB caching: smoke/volumetric simulations can now be cached using OpenVDB as a back-end.Performance optimizations for large node shaders.Customizable motion blur position, support for rolling shutter.Smoke/Fire and Point Density support on GPU.Improved Subsurface Scattering, and faster SSS on GPUs.Better anti-aliasing for OpenGL renders.Support for multi-line text in tooltips, render stamps, frame nodes and meta data display.Progress bars got a complete design overhaul.And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!.Blender now requires OpenGL 2.1 minimum.Support for Windows XP and the SCons build system was removed.Improved extruding and weight painting tools for sculpting/painting.
Edit mode boolean tool, better decimate modifier.Reworked library handling to manage missing and deleted datablocks.OpenVDB caching for smoke/volumetric simulations.Grease pencil stroke sculpting and improved workflow.Cycles: Better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density.The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.77, released March 19th, 2016! The 2.77a update was done on April 6, with a number of important bug fixes.