Blender 2.46 has been released with load of new features like; hair and fur combing and rendering, cloth, and lots and lots more. This version supports a new particle system with hair and fur combing tools, fast and optimal fur rendering, a mesh deformation system for advanced character rigging, cloth simulation, fast Ambient Occlusion, a new Image browser, and that’s just the beginning. Some of the Blender 2.46 feature includes;
– Hair and Fur
– Particle system rewrite
– Image Browsing
– Cloth simulation
– Glossy Reflections
– Approximate AO
– Render Baking
– Mesh Deform Modifier
– Physics caching and baking
– Armature Drawing and Armature Tools
– Action Editor improvement
– Constraint System
– QMC & Adaptive Sampling
– UV texture editing
– Soft Shadows and more Shading features….and much more!
The cross platform 3d tool for free, ‘Blender’ project has been started ways back in late 90’s comes off ages as refined and complete 3d & animation software. Blender Released under GNU Public License, is fully free to use and distribute within any educational, professional or commercial environment. For more blender information and full features list, please

Hair and Fur

Particle system rewrite

More release logs:

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-246/

Blender 2.46 (32bit)

Download:

Windows

Blender 2.46 Installer (9 MB)

Requires Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista

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Mac OS X

Blender 2.46, PowerPC (19 MB)

Requires Mac OS X 10.3+, Python 2.3
Suits PowerMac G5, Powerbook G4, iMac G5

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Linux x86-32

Blender 2.46, Python 2.4 (14 MB)

Requires glibc 2.3.6, includes FFMPG
Suits most recent Linux distributions

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More OS

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender/

Belender for 64bit OS

http://www.blender.org/download/get-blender-64-bits/

Enjoy!