Blender supports opening projects by drag and drop. You can hold the *.blend file with the mouse, drag it to the Blender window and choose: open the entire file (replacing the currently open project), add or link objects from the dragged file to the current project.
The panel with system disks list is collapsed in the “File Browser” window by default. But some times it is not convenient.
Not to expand it manually every time we can make a simple modification:
Blender developers announced that the recently released 2.80 version was the last with x32 architecture support. Blender 2.81 and latest will be developed only for x64-bit systems.
BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) updated to v.1.8.1.
There is a convenient opportunity in the Cycles render engine to render an object with shadows on a transparent background using material with the “shadow catcher” option. There is no such material in EEVEE render engine, however, in EEVEE we can make our own “shadow catcher” based only on nodes.
Completed “EEVEE Shadow Catcher” material you can get from the BIS library.
BIS (Blender Interplanety Storage) updated to v.1.8.0.
The “Bloom” effect in the EEVEE rendering engine looks very impressive but does not visible when rendering on a transparent background.
But this can be fixed.
To render only the shadow of the object in Blender Eevee:
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