2.80 The second update of the Blender 2.80 milestone release is here! With again over a thousand fixes and several important updates that were planned for the 2.8 series. In this release you will find UDIM and USD support, MantaFlow fluids and smoke simulation, AI denoising, Grease Pencil improvements, and much more! Blender Artists is an online creative forum that is dedicated to the growth and education of the 3D software Blender. Hi I am going to buy a laptop for video/photo editing and Blender. I would prefer a macbook pro 16, but from my understanding macbooks are not that good for Blender.
System Information
Operating system: MacBook Air - 1.8 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 - Intel HD Graphics 6000 1536 MB - macOS Catalina - version 10.15 - using an ordinary mouse.
Graphics card: ???
Blender Version
Broken (???): 2.80
Worked: ???
Short description of error
I have only begun to use Blender 2.80 for one day and it has already crashed my Mac once, and froze both my computer and Blender itself on two separate occasions, forcing me to turn my Mac on and off.
My Mac crashed (shut itself down) when it was put on stand-by mode (MacBook closed) for an hour, with Blender still turned on - I assume this happened because of Blender.
It says it installed, but it does not show up in the blender add on list. (I double checked and it did copy the folder to the correct location for add ons, it's just not being recognized at all after that) I am on a Mac, blender 2.8, intel gpu. Blender for Mac. In Blender, your imagination is the limit. You'll create characters, objects, cars and so much more by combining objects.
When both my MacBook or Blender itself froze, it happened when I was learning how to sculpt for the first time (see below).
Blender - and not my MacBook - presumably froze because I accidentally gave a brush to much strength (10.000* instead of, for example, 1.000*) and used it for just one left-click.
Then my entire MacBook froze - without any sign that it was even loading - as I was sculpting, for no good reason. I was only just learning how to sculpt for the first time, so I probably wasn't very efficient or clean with my strokes, but not to a degree where crashing or freezing seemed called for.
Exact steps for others to reproduce the error
I don't know... I'm not sure if I did anything wrong (messy/inexperienced beginner) or if Blender 2.8 just isn't ready for Mac yet. I just hope that either someone can tell me what I did wrong, or that this issue can de detected and resolved in a future update.
Sincerely,
Lorenzo
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