Blender 5.1: Rendering

Shader Nodes

Raycast

The new Raycast node allows casting rays against the scene geometry. (f7f6bdac6e, Manual)

This allows for a wide variety of effects, including NPR stylization integrated with scene shading.

X-Ray Effect	Line Rendering
File by Cartesian Caramel	File By Miguel Pozo Original scene by the Blender Studio

Other

• Normal Map option to switch between OpenGL and DirectX conventions. (PR#149200)
• Join Bundle node. (55d5438142)
• Vector Math node option for element-wise rounding. (3ac918debf)

OpenColorIO

OpenColorIO was updated to 2.5, and for configuration authors the following new attributes are supported. The bundled Blender configuration was also updated to make use of these. (PR#151958)

• interop_id for identifying the color space and embedding in OpenEXR files.
• icc_profile to specify the ICC profile to be embedded when saving an image file.