RENDERING
El Rey Cast
The new Raycast node allows you to cast rays against scene geometry.
Similar to the existing Geometry Nodes node but now available for shaders in both Cycles and EEVEE.
This enables a wide range of effects, including NPR stylization integrated with scene shading. When using EEVEE, it is currently limited to screen-space tracing.
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Blender 5.1 delivers a major boost to animation playback performance.