Blender 4.5 beta is here and it brings one of the most exciting new and long awaited features, the Vulkan rendering backend!  That isn't it though, there are a ton of other features in this beta that we go hands-on with in this video.

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*Timeline*
0:00 Introduction to Blender 4.5 Beta
0:37 Deprecation of Intel Mac Support and COLLADA file format
1:30 Enabling Vulkan rendering backend
2:22 Horizontal mouse scrolling
3:20 Multi object UV display in UV Editor/Image Editor
5:00 Customizable Properties Windows Tabs
5:34 Remove all textures
6:00 Improved Asset Browser display
6:40 Multiple file instancing via Drag and Drop from File Browser
7:34 Geometry Node improvements (Framing, Import Files and more)
9:22 Scene Object to Mesh
10:47 Compositor Improvements
11:12 File export (FBX, GLTF, etc) improvements
12:12 Conclusion

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Blender 4.5 beta introduces Vulkan rendering support as its major feature, offering significant performance improvements but requiring manual activation. The release includes quality-of-life improvements like dual scroll wheel support for navigation, multi-object UV viewing without edit mode, customizable properties panel visibility, and enhanced geometry nodes with new import nodes and better organization tools. However, this version marks the end of Intel Mac support and removes Collada file format support, while adding improvements to glTF, USD, and FBX export capabilities.

Blender 4.5 - Vulkan Has Arrived!