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| author | Nick Samarin <nicks1987@bigmir.net> | 2011-05-17 00:30:59 +0400 |
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| committer | Nick Samarin <nicks1987@bigmir.net> | 2011-05-17 00:30:59 +0400 |
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diff --git a/release/text/readme.html b/release/text/readme.html index aa73a8cb512..1014d8ef80a 100644 --- a/release/text/readme.html +++ b/release/text/readme.html @@ -12,37 +12,35 @@ </style> </head> <body> -<p class="title"><b>Blender 2.56 Beta</b></p> +<p class="title"><b>Blender 2.57</b></p> <p><br></p> <p class="header"><b>About</b></p> -<p class="body">Welcome to Blender, the free, open source 3D application for modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, video editing and game creation. Blender is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and Irix and has a large world-wide community.</p> +<p class="body">Welcome to Blender, the free, open source 3D application for modeling, animation, rendering, compositing, video editing and game creation. Blender is available for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Solaris and FreeBSD and has a large world-wide community.</p> <p class="body">Blender can be used freely for any purpose, including commercial use and distribution. It's free and open-source software, released under the GNU GPL licence. The entire source code is available on our website.</p> <p class="body">For more information, visit <a href="http://www.blender.org">blender.org</a>.</p> <p><br></p> -<p class="header"><b>2.56 Beta</b></p> -<p class="body">The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.56 Beta. This release is the fourth official beta release of the Blender 2.5 series, and represents the culmination of many years of redesign and development work. <a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-256-beta/">More information about this release</a>.</p> +<p class="header"><b>2.57</b></p> +<p class="body">The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.57. This release is the first official stable release of the Blender 2.5 series, and represents the culmination of many years of redesign and development work. <a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-256-beta/">More information about this release</a>.</p> <p class="body">What to Expect:</p> <p class="body"> • Big improvements - This is our most exciting version to date, already a significant improvement in many ways over 2.49</p> <p class="body"> • Missing/Incomplete Features - Although most of it is there, not all functionality from pre-2.5 versions has been restored yet. Some functionality may be re-implemented a different way.</p> -<p class="body"> • Bugs - We've fixed a lot lately, but there are still quite a few bugs. This is beta software, we're still working on it!</p> <p class="body"> • Changes - If you're used to the old Blenders, Blender 2.5 may seem quite different at first, but it won't be long before it grows on you even more than before.</p> <p><br></p> <p class="header"><b>Bugs</b></p> -<p class="body">Blender 2.56 Beta is unfinished software. If you encounter a bug, please help us by posting it in the bug tracker or using Help → Report a Bug from inside Blender 2.56. If it wasn’t reported yet, please log in (or register) and fill in detailed information about the error. Please post detailed instructions on how to reproduce it or post a .blend file showcasing the bug.</p> +<p class="body">Although Blender 2.57 is considered a stable release, you may encounter a bug. If you do, please help us by posting it in the bug tracker or using Help → Report a Bug from inside Blender 2.57. If it wasn’t reported yet, please log in (or register) and fill in detailed information about the error. Please post detailed instructions on how to reproduce it or post a .blend file showcasing the bug.</p> <p><br></p> <p class="header"><b>Package Contents</b></p> <p class="body">The downloaded Blender package includes:</p> <p class="body"> • The Blender application for the chosen operating system.</p> -<p class="body"> • Scripts for importing and exporters to other 3d formats.</p> +<p class="body"> • Scripts for importing and exporting to other 3d formats.</p> <p class="body"> • Readme and copyright files.</p> <p><br></p> <p class="header"><b>Installation</b></p> -<p class="body"><b>Windows: </b>The download .zip contains a Blender folder. You may put this anywhere on your hard drive. To launch Blender, double-click on Blender.exe.<br> -Install scripts by putting them in the .blender/scripts folder next to the executable.</p> -<p class="body"><b>Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris: </b>Unpack the distribution, copy the .blender directory from it to your home directory. Then run the Blender executable.<br> -Install scripts by putting them in the .blender/scripts inside your home folder.</p> -<p class="body"><b>Mac OS X: </b>The downloaded package includes blender.app. Optionally copy this to your Applications folder, and add it to the dock by dragging it from there to the dock.<br> -Install scripts by putting them in the .blender/scripts inside your home folder. If the folder does not exist, you can create it manually.</p> +<p class="body"><b>Windows: </b>The download .zip contains a Blender folder. You may put this anywhere on your hard drive. To launch Blender, double-click on Blender.exe.</p> +<p class="body"><b>Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris: </b>Unpack the archive, Then run the Blender executable.</p> +<p class="body"><b>Mac OS X: </b>The downloaded package includes blender.app. Optionally copy this to your Applications folder, and add it to the dock by dragging it from there to the dock.</p> +<p></p> +<p class="body"><b>Installing Add-ons (all systems)</b> Add-ons can be installed from the user preferences addons section, download an addon as a .py or .zip file, then press the "Install Add-on" button and select the file to install it.</p> <p><br></p> <p class="header"><b>Getting Started</b></p> <p class="body">When opening Blender, you’ll see large 3D view in the center, a Toolbar on the left, a Properties area on the right and a Timeline at the bottom.</p> @@ -53,7 +51,7 @@ Install scripts by putting them in the .blender/scripts inside your home folder. <p class="header"><b>Links</b></p> <p class="body">Users:</p> <p class="body"> General information <a href="http://www.blender.org">www.blender.org</a> <br> - Full release log <a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-254-beta/">www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-256-beta/</a><br> + Full release log <a href="http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/">www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/</a><br> Tutorials <a href="http://www.blender.org/education-help/">www.blender.org/education-help/</a> <br> Manual <a href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual">wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual</a><br> User Forum <a href="http://www.blenderartists.org">www.blenderartists.org</a><br> |