Reference/Release Notes/3.2/Pipeline Assets IO
< Reference | Release Notes | 3.2
Pipeline, Assets, IO
Asset System & Asset Browser
- Collection assets are now supported (rB253e4e7e)
- An automatic preview image is generated when using Mark as Asset (rB810e225c).
- Collection instancing can be toggled in the Adjust Last Operation panel after dropping to the 3D View (rBeb1ede56).
- Ability to drag materials (from Asset Browser for example) to Material slots in Properties editor. (fd2519e0b6)
Wavefront Obj I/O
New experimental OBJ importer. (rBe6a9b223, rB213cd39b)
The new importer is written in C++ and is much faster than the Python importer, while using less memory as well. Import time comparisons on several large scenes:
- rungholt.obj Minecraft level (269MB file, 1 object): 54.2s -> 5.9s, memory usage 7.0GB -> 1.9GB during import.
- Blender 3.0 splash scene (2.4GB file, 24000 objects): 4 hours -> 53s.
Experimental OBJ exporter: Speed improvements. (rB1f7013fb, rBe2e4c1da).
Export time comparisons between Blender 3.1.1 and 3.2:
- Suzanne, subdivided to 6th level (330MB obj file):
- Windows (32 threads): 6.0s -> 1.0s
- macOS (10 threads): 3.9s -> 1.2s
- Linux (48 threads): 6.2s -> 1.4s
- Blender 3.0 splash scene (2.4GB obj file):
- Windows (32 threads): 45.5s -> 3.9s
- macOS (10 threads): 27.2s -> 5.5s
- Linux (48 threads): 33.4s -> 4.4s
Media Formats
Blender now has support for the WebP image format which works similar to PNG but compresses faster and generates smaller file sizes. (rB4fd0a69d)