Yeah blender 2.5 is alpha and it rocks. I didnt like the one before its interface need an remake "Total Make over in 2.5" So now that I have Used it some things aren't there but im sure that will be fixed when it come out! Till then im stick to xsi and xsi mod tools

Quote:Original post by daviangel
Yeah I just started messing with the latest stable release of blender 2.49b and never knew how terrible the default renderer was at making use of multiple cores. It only uses like maybe 2.5 of my 4 cores at most on my quadcore machine.

The default settings on the renderer options have it using all your cores. It will give each core a section of the picture to render, and it has always worked for me.

I have 1,2, and 4 core machines, and the renderer has always rendered 1,2, and 4 sections. But those cores won't be very busy if you render a cube on an empty background. It doesn't take very long to fill in a section of pixels with a color.

The next alpha build will be out soon. The keymapper has already been improved too.