Releases: Bforartists/Bforartists
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Bforartists 5 - Version 5.2.0
Cumulative Refinement Release ⚒️
This is a point release with much work on performance, stability and polish.
This is part of the latest from Blender 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 to the date - with 56 new features from us.
✨What's new in this release:
- Improved default size for the Node Minimap
- Geometry Nodes Mesh Bevel Node, Sort Lists node, Grease Pencil Read nodes, Closure to Lists node, and NURBS Order and Weight nodes
- Expose UV move on axis operators to top level
- Library operators to open preferences tab, open and clear download Cache
- Other refinements to Sequencer, Properties Editor, Outliner, Smart Delete, Compositor, and more
🧡 Top Usability Features from Blender 5.2 and 5.3:
From 5.2.0:
- Node-Based Physics (XPBD Solver) — Brand new procedural hair & cloth simulations with customizable constraints
- Mesh Bevel Node — Long-awaited procedural edge/vertex bevel control in Geometry Nodes
- Online Asset Libraries — Dozens of materials, HDRs, and node groups downloadable on demand
- EEVEE Screen Space Raytracing Overhaul — Backface tracing, reduced banding, faster GI, and major stability fixes
- Cycles Texture Cache — Automatic optimized textures, drastically reducing memory usage
- Grease Pencil Delaunay Fill — Exact geometry fill with gap detection, inverse filling, and faster performance
- Playback Loop Modes — Infinite, Stop at End/Start, Bounce, and Restore Frame modes
- Sculpt Add Primitive Tool — Drop cubes, cones, spheres directly into sculpts
- Compositor Gizmo Auto Keying — Transform gizmos auto-insert keyframes in backdrop & Image Editor
- Thin Wall Mode (Principled BSDF) — Physically accurate thin materials (paper, leaves, glass)
From 5.3.0 (Alpha):
- Vulkan Default Renderer — Vulkan backend now default on Windows & Linux; hardware ray traced shadows in Workbench
- Compositor Playback Caching — Interactive compositor caches playback; up to 2x faster GPU performance
- Sequencer Ripple Delete — Auto-close gaps when deleting strips (Shift+X)
- Sequencer Strip Thumbnails — Scene, Text, Mask and MovieClip strips now show thumbnails in timeline
- Sculpt Automasking in Vertex/Weight Paint — Topology, boundary, cavity, and normal masking support
- Animation Scrubbing Pauses Playback — Scrubbing now pauses playback, resumes on release
- Node Editor Link Highlighting — Highlight links through reroute nodes for clearer node trees
- Sculpt Transform Only Pivot — Control pivot placement with transform gizmo without affecting geometry
- Outliner Scroll to New Collection — Auto-scroll and auto-rename newly added collections
- Improved Brushes & Weight Paint Defaults — Updated essential brushes, better defaults, and Cut Curves hair brush
And many more bug fixes and more!
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Github Release
For Arch
📝 Release Notes:
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Belzunze, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
Thank you for using Bforartists while making art - and for sharing to this art community.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Shaley, Sean and all you arty people
💜 Join the official Discord server for weekly art challenges and live artist QnA interviews every now and then! And share your art.
Details
Bforartists 5.2.0
56 Tasks
Node Editors - Minimap size default should be smaller #6705
Essentials Asset - Curve to Mesh - Update to have "miter scale" #6681
Regenerate Theme #6673
Properties Editor - Object - Visibility - New Raycast Visibility toggle requires arranging the panels again #6633
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Utility - Grid Topology Boolean #6663
Geometry Nodes - Mesh - Operation - New Mesh Bevel Node #6644
Geometry Nodes - Utilties - Lists - New Sort Lists node #6627
Geometry Nodes - Grease Pencil - Read - New nodes #6654
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Lists - New Closure to Lists node #6645
Geometry Nodes - Curves - Read - NURBS Order and Weight nodes #6664
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Operrations - Deactivate Voxels node #6662
Smart Delete - Improve final vertice handling #6696
3D View - Toolshelf - Update icons for new Pose operators for Object mode #6641
Image Editor - UV Mode - UV - New Move on Axis Operators #5679
Properties Editor - Mesh Data - Geometry Data - Add icon to Reorder Mesh Spatially #6364
Project Editor - Add Icon to Save Project #6624
Outliner - Filter - Missing icons #6623
3D View - Armature - Edit Mode - New Duplicate and Rename operator #6576
Asset Browser - Make Asset Library Paths show in Library menu and point to Asset Libraries path #6686
Asset Browser - Add Open Cache and Clear Cache operators for the Online Assets #6688
Asset Browser - Expose "Download Asset" to header #6687
Asset Browser - New "Open File Location" operator needs icon #6636
Asset Browser - Library - New "Refresh Remote Library" needs icon #6637
Asset Browser - Context Menu - Add icon to "Download Asset" for online repositories #6467
Sequencer - Select - Cleanup "Select All by Trait" and add icons #6665
Compositor - Sidebar - Option - Make Cache Frames better with indents #6661
Regression: 3D View - Mesh - Edit Mode - Object - Transform - Shrink/Fatten missing icon #6642
Properties Editor - Render - Cycles - Bake panel is broken #6149
Hotkeys - Add S for extrude with Cycle on (since there are multiple ways to extrude) #6516
Console - Remove redundant Languages menu under "Edit" and add Python icon #6629
Top Bar - Project Editor - Improve icon and add Sepeartor #6625
Sequencer - Text Strip - Line Height "Use Absolute Line Spacing" property button and layout needs updating to the sidebar #6634
Revert: Sequencer - Hotkeys - Make gizmos work on press instead of drag, they currently don't work #6557
Hotkeys - Add Marker with M #6666
Asset Browser/Shelf - Library Override on collection without instance mode is broken #6655
3D View - Header - Overlay toggles - Add "Lock Object Mode" button #6652
Essentials Library - Add new Film Grain nodegroup from Blender #6539
Startup Blends - Update editors to have right editors #6646
Essentials Library - Update library from Blender 5.3 #6540
Sequencer - Color Strip - Add Width and Height to sidebar #6635
UI - Geometry Nodes - Nodegroups based modifiers layout adjustments #6648
Node Editor - Remove double "New Group" oeprator #6630
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Lists - New Closure to Lists #6628
Properties Editor - Camera - Viewport Display - Composition Guides broken #6631
Crash: Cycles on HIP-RT GPU mode #6617
File Browser - Expose hotkey only selection and walk operators to the header #6525
Outliner - Recent merge issues #6618
File Browser - Make a new operator to move to start or end of the folder with HOME / CTRL+HOME #6526
Ootliner - New Scroll to Active could collapse with indicator #6514
3D View - Edit Mode - Grease Pencil - Toolsystem > Separate panel - Rename "Separate Selected Strokes" to "Separate by Material" #6543
3D Viewport: Floor Grid Lacks Extra Subdivisions #6455
Hotkeys - Region Pie Menu on T for Bforartists Mac doesn't exist #6613
Text Editor - Expose "Save Autosave" operator #6537
UI - Themes out of sync #6610
3D View - Edit Mode - Toolsystem > UV Panel - Rename "Unwrap ABF" to "Unwrap Angle Based" #6527
3D View - Sculpt Mode - Mesh - Toolsystem > Sculpt tab - Rename "Meshfilter" panel #6545
Bforartists 5 - Version 5.1.2
The Nodes Minimap and Quick Favorites Upgrade Version 🔎
This minor point release has major features! With a new node editor minimap with customizatble size, coloring, ratio and position. This also comes with new materials ouf-of-the box, and a highly requested Quick Favorites menu with icons and order customizability.
This is part of the latest from Blender 5.1.2 and 5.2.0 to the date - with 46 new features, fixes and polish with another 15+ stability fixes from Blender.
✨What's new in this release:
- Customizable Node Minimap
- Customizable and Icononized Quick Favorites menu
- Compact toolshelf tabs with better column snapping
- Stacks button to open relevant Node Editors
- More out-of-the-box materials, including wood
- Power User Tools Select Grease Pencil Layer under Mouse operators
- Sequencer Compositor Assets button (like in Geometry Nodes)
- Fixed Smart Asset sidebar modifier options
🧡 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.2 and 5.2.0 series:
- Geometry Nodes Sample Sound Frequencies Node
- Geometry Nodes Merge Points and Cluster by Selected and Distance
- Geometry Nodes List Nodes and socket type
- Grease Pencil Dot texture randomization
- Compositor Rotation nodes
- Mesh Edit Mode Flatten and Space Edge Loops Evenly Operators
- Dopesheet Select All (keyframes) by Trait
- Blender Online Assets available in Asset Browser and Shelves when online
And many more bug fixes and more!
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Github Release
For Arch
📝 Release Notes:
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Krysidian and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) Team, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
Thank you again for using Bforartists, by making art with this - and sharing this to the art community. This wouldn't be possible without you.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Shaley, Sean and all you arty people
💜 Join the official Discord server for weekly art challenges and live artist QnA interviews every now and then! And share your art.
Release Notes
Bforartists 5.1.2
46 Tasks
Sequencer - Hotkeys - Make gizmos work on press instead of drag, they currently don't work #6557
Sequencer - Hotkeys - Expose Transform Select on Side to GUI #6558
Properties Editor - Strip Modifiers - Add a "quick open compositor window" to button/operator AND/OR make a Sequencer compoitor workspace already setup #6579
UI - Add Open Editors Temp Window Operators #6596
Properties Editor - Strip Modifiers tab - Split Modifier Assets like in Geometry Nodes Assets modifier stack #6573
Tools Region - Sub Menu Icons Small #6599
Sequencer - Text Strip - Style - New Line property #6572
Geometry Nodes - Instances - New Input Instance Bounds node #6519
3D View - Edit Mode - Grease Pencil - Toolsystem > Toggle Caps panel - Fix mismatch with "Set Caps" header menu #6544
3D View - Edit Mode - Toolsystem > Curve Panel > Remove double entries #6541
3D View - Mesh - Edit Mode - Transform - New Space Edge Loops Evently #6575
3D View - Edit Mode - Mesh - Transform - New Flatten operator #6515
UV Editor - Select all by Trait needs icons #6513
Dopesheet - Select Linked needs icon #6511
Compositor - Utilities - New Rotation group of nodes #6534
Sidebars - Compact Tabs option makes columns too thin, offsetting icons #6518
Geometry Nodes - Geometry- Operations- New Get Geometry Component node #6578
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Lists - New Filter List node #6577
Assets - multiple definitions of catalog warning #6571
Timeline - Remove double playback menu (one on left) #6512
Power User Tools - Select Grease Pencil Layer under Cursor #6569
Default Asset Library - Missing sidebar modifier properties #6556
Quick Favorites menu - Add Editor with Icons #6529
Render Menu - Improve operator labels #6549
Paint Mode - Advanced - Remove "Modes" panel #6536
Graph Editor & Dopesheet - Key - Mirror - Reorder and add separator #6535
Properties - Strip > Time panel - Remove duplicated "Show Retiming Keys" property #6565
Shader Editor - Node Minimap - General Fixes #6559
3D View - Armature Edit Mode - Toolsystem > Armature tab > Recalculate Bone Roll panel - Use subpanels for grouping #6551
VSE - Strip tab > Transform Panel - Improve layout of XY properties #6289
VSE - Strip tab - Movie Clip & Mask panel - Fix rpt_ not defined error #6293
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Field - New Cluster by Distance node #6533
Geometry Nodes - Mesh - Read - New Cluster by Connected #6531
Geometry Nodes - Geometry - Operations - New Merge Points node #6532
Geometry Nodes - New Lists nodes (x5) #6538
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Sound - New Sample Sound Frequencies node #6520
3D View - View Pie Menu - Swap Front and Back locations? #6547
Bug: Node Editors - Missing data management in Node groups #6528
Default Asset Library - Add stronger Blender versioning to back-port the default asset library modules #6524
Default Asset Library - Mesh Blend by Proximity collection socket wizard fails #6523
Default Asset library - Make updating assets more robust #6510
Default Asset Library - update thumbnails and add Curtis Holt's Community CC0 materials #6508
Bug: Properties Editor - Rotation socket animation property broken #6509
Consider having a position on LLMs, ideally a different one than blender #6506
Node Editors - Context Menu - Frame icons needs to be updated #6502
Compositor - Add Blank Image to sidebar #6500
Bforartists 5.1.1
49 Tasks
✨What's new in this release:
- Shader Raycast Edges asset
- Curve to Tube now supports Grease pencil colors
- Last Operator HUD panel now triggers from the Topbar
- New horizontal/Vertical View Nagigation gizmo toggle with background
- Asset refinement to thumbnails and default categories
- Connecting/Dsconnecting strips in the Sequencer is now contextual
- Mesh Blend by Proximity now has normal blur controls at intersections
- Fixed the brush sliders for some brushes like Weight Paint Gradient brush
- And much refinement to icons, interface stability and polish
🧡 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 series:
- Compositor String to Image Node
- Compositor String nodes
- Geometry Nodes Rename Attribute node
- New Input Properties for Compositor Modifiers in the Sequencer modifier stack
- Better HDR color scope support
UV Editor - Context Menu - Stitch missing icon #6486
3D View - Weight Paint - Missing gradient weight and strength sliders in header #6494
Compositor - New String to Image node #6483
Properties Editor - Particles tab - specials menu - add icon to convert to curves #6177
properties editor - object data properties with a point cloud - attributes panel, add icon #6202
Area Edge Options - Merge Edges needs an icon #6485
Compositor - Add the Utilities - Text into the sidebar #6489
Properties editor - Collection tab - Instancing panel - Instance offset menu - missing icons #5227
Geometry Nodes - New Rename Attribute node #6482
Properties Editor - Strip Modifiers - Non-Linear property is removed #6487
Shader Nodes - Glossy missing #6480
Default Asset Library - Add Raycast Shader Edges #6474
Properties editor - Collections tab - Instancing panel - instance offset menu - add icons #6154
Icon - Filter needs to be "inverted" when filter is a drop down #6473
3D View - Object Mode - Mesh - Context Menu - Join has no icon #6056
Graph Editor - new Smooth (Gaussian) modifier #6410
Cleanup: Sculpt - Header - Automasking property panel needs love #6469
Compositor - Sidebar > Options - Performance panel - Remove broken property "use_view_border" #6468
Defautl Asset Library - Normals asset needs thumbnail cleanup #6472
Warning: Console shows missing brushes (regression) #6450
Cleanup: Interface - Remove unused functions #6461
Properties editor - object properties with cycles - motion blur panel - missing decorator #6251
Default Asset Library - Child Addon doesn't have any version, won't update #6459
Default Asset Library - Refine Smart mesh blend to fix bug, thumbnail and intersection #6457
Grease Pencil - Draw mode - Expose "Add" line operators to top level with new icons #6403
Toolbar/Topbar - Manager Panel - Improve collapsible sections #6381
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Layout is broken #6454
Properties - Sequencer Strip - Transform - Mirror needs indent to new line #6437
Properties - Modifiers - Mirror - Improve layout #6451
UI - Core - Split boolean properties not expanding full space when in toggle mode #6447
Topbar/Toolbar - Add...
Bforartists 5 - Version 5.1.1
The UV Nodes Hotfix Version 🏁
This minor point release is focused on asset and interface polish with details that keep everything new from Blender in sync with the Bforartists interface philosophy.
This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 to the date - with 49 new features, fixes and polish with another 70+ fixes from Blender.
✨What's new in this release:
- Shader Raycast Edges asset
- Curve to Tube now supports Grease pencil colors
- Last Operator HUD panel now triggers from the Topbar
- New horizontal/Vertical View Nagigation gizmo toggle with background
- Asset refinement to thumbnails and default categories
- Connecting/Dsconnecting strips in the Sequencer is now contextual
- Mesh Blend by Proximity now has normal blur controls at intersections
- Fixed the brush sliders for some brushes like Weight Paint Gradient brush
- And much refinement to icons, interface stability and polish
🧡 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 series:
- Compositor String to Image Node
- Compositor String nodes
- Geometry Nodes Rename Attribute node
- New Input Properties for Compositor Modifiers in the Sequencer modifier stack
- Better HDR color scope support
And many more bug fixes and more!
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Github Release
For Arch
📝 Release Notes:
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Krysidian and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) Team, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
Thank you again for using Bforartists, by making art with it - and sharing this to the art community. This wouldn't be possible without you.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Shaley, Sean and all you arty people
💜 Join the official Discord server for weekly art challenges and live artist QnA interviews every now and then! And share your art.
Release Notes
Bforartists 5.1.1
49 Tasks
UV Editor - Context Menu - Stitch missing icon #6486
3D View - Weight Paint - Missing gradient weight and strength sliders in header #6494
Compositor - New String to Image node #6483
Properties Editor - Particles tab - specials menu - add icon to convert to curves #6177
properties editor - object data properties with a point cloud - attributes panel, add icon #6202
Area Edge Options - Merge Edges needs an icon #6485
Compositor - Add the Utilities - Text into the sidebar #6489
Properties editor - Collection tab - Instancing panel - Instance offset menu - missing icons #5227
Geometry Nodes - New Rename Attribute node #6482
Properties Editor - Strip Modifiers - Non-Linear property is removed #6487
Shader Nodes - Glossy missing #6480
Default Asset Library - Add Raycast Shader Edges #6474
Properties editor - Collections tab - Instancing panel - instance offset menu - add icons #6154
Icon - Filter needs to be "inverted" when filter is a drop down #6473
3D View - Object Mode - Mesh - Context Menu - Join has no icon #6056
Graph Editor - new Smooth (Gaussian) modifier #6410
Cleanup: Sculpt - Header - Automasking property panel needs love #6469
Compositor - Sidebar > Options - Performance panel - Remove broken property "use_view_border" #6468
Defautl Asset Library - Normals asset needs thumbnail cleanup #6472
Warning: Console shows missing brushes (regression) #6450
Cleanup: Interface - Remove unused functions #6461
Properties editor - object properties with cycles - motion blur panel - missing decorator #6251
Default Asset Library - Child Addon doesn't have any version, won't update #6459
Default Asset Library - Refine Smart mesh blend to fix bug, thumbnail and intersection #6457
Grease Pencil - Draw mode - Expose "Add" line operators to top level with new icons #6403
Toolbar/Topbar - Manager Panel - Improve collapsible sections #6381
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Layout is broken #6454
Properties - Sequencer Strip - Transform - Mirror needs indent to new line #6437
Properties - Modifiers - Mirror - Improve layout #6451
UI - Core - Split boolean properties not expanding full space when in toggle mode #6447
Topbar/Toolbar - Add Region Hud support #6445
BLI_Vector.hh - Set back to use default_inline_buffer_capacity #6443
Sequencer - Make Connect/Disconnect Strips contextual as a single operator and expose to Toolshelf #6303
Top Bar - Remove "Show/Hide" topbar button (redundant) #6438
Space Toolbar - Wrong align icon names #6441
uvedit_select.cc - move #include out of namespace #6432
3D View - New Navigation Gizmo Toolbar background #6422
Icons - Update new FILTER_FILLED icon to match Bforartists UI #6421
Linux - Wayland Icon : Replace blender's for Bforartists icon #6435
Essentials Assets - Improve Curve to Tube to work better with Grease Pencil #6429
Non Linear Animation - Make channels top padding rows better #6425
Toolbar - Align X and Y icons missing #6427
Toolbar - Manager Panel - Pressing ENTER disables toolbar sections #6383
Tools - Sidebar - Weird spacing in three-column layout #6418
Toolbar/Topbar - Python API - Toolbar-specific functions exposed for non-toolbar menus #6415
3DView - Viewport Shading - Improve Scene World disclosure icon position #6411
Preferences - When switching to OpenGL or Vulkan, it says to restart "Blender" #6406
Default Asset Library - Expose normal blur controlsa and fix the material override #6408
Presentation Slides - Remove the playback hook and let it use built in playback method #6407
Bforartists 5.1.0
134 Tasks
✨What's new in the 5.1.x series:
- New procedural UV Nodes assets for Geometry Nodes
- Grease Pencil pressure sensistive distance to radius when drawing on surfaces
- New Primitive Add gizmos mode operators exposed to a top level in the toolshelf in object and sculpt mode
- Updates to Grease Pencil asset thumbnails for consistency
- Major performance update and new features of the Smart Mesh Blend asset
- Major refactor for the Add Node sidebar to improve consistency and order
- Refactored Topbar customization and consistency settings panel pass for the Topbar editor, making this more accessible and usable and consistent
- Active Tool dropdown gets icons
- More tabbed toolshelf icons get an update, notably the Annoation icons
- Most Booleans checkboxes now dynamically float left, making these more consistent everywhere
- Sidebars have improved alignment of labels and properties accross the board
- Tabbed toolshelf has improved padding when in 3 columns mode
- Improved selected channel legibility in Animation editors
- Fixed Multi-GPU rendering hard crash
- More Shelf Regions pie menu refinement
Toolsystem - Sidebar - Fix non-square buttons when in three-column layout #6401
3D View - Sculpt Mode - Sculpt - New Set Vertex Color operator #6397
Node Editors - Improve tooltip to show you can copy and paste nodes between Bforartists instances #6241
Topbar - Workspaces - Double "Duplicate Workspaces" entry #6093
Compositor - new Mask to SDF Node #6151
3D View - Sculpt/Object Mode - Make Add Modal Primitive top level panel with updated icons #6321
UV Align Vertically/Horizontally icons are inverted #6314
Icon - Info Large icon needs better drawing #6365
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Text - New Trim String node #6366
Geometry Nodes - New Bundle Nodes #6237
Toolbar/Topbar - Manager Panel - Make different functions more distinguishable #6380
Add Icon for SDF Grid filtering #6249
Node Editors - New "Cut" node operator to paste later #6240
Add icons for new added Grid operation nodes #6253
Add Icon for Cube Grid Topology node #6250
Add Icon for Matrix SVD node #6248
Geometry Nodes - New Set NURBS Weight node #6363
Geometry Nodes - Add - Curve - Write - Set NURBS Order #6322
Node Editors - Add - Utilities - New Implicit Conversion Node #6318
Node Editor - Input - Constant - New "Menu" node needs icon and some tooltip love #6323
Node Editors - New Implicit Conversion Node #6307
Shader Nodes - Toolshelf - Fix incorrect toolshelf buttons for Closures #6368
Geometry Nodes - Add - Input - Constant - Font #6324
3D View - Mesh object - Edit Mode - Mesh - Transform - New To Circle #6325
Essentials Assets - Add "Blur" brush from Blender essentials #6152
Default Asset Library - Make Grease Pencil nodegroup color coding consistent #6332
Default Asset Library - Compositor - Make pixel based systems work in vertical resolutions. #6327
Default Asset Library - Improve compositor icons with better iconography #6331
Default Asset Library - Improve the Mesh Blend by Proximity performance and features for v2.0.2 #6330
Default Asset Library - Add UV Nodes #6334
Essentials Assets - Sync Geometry Nodes #6263
Hotkeys - Curves object - Sculpt Mode - X to radial control needs Confirm on Release #6329
Select menus, separator at the end of the menus #5126
3D View - Region Overlap on with Asset Browser off causes overlap glitch #5013
Plane Trim option not av...
Bforartists 5 - Version 5.1.0
The UV Nodes Version 🏁
This major point release is focused on new procedural UV Geometry Nodes assets that come out of the box, and much polish to the overall interface, keeping everything new in sync with the Bforartsits interface philosophy.
This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.1.0 and 5.2.0 to the date - with 131 new features, fixes and polish with much stability from Blender!
✨What's new :
- New procedural UV Nodes assets for Geometry Nodes
- Grease Pencil pressure sensistive distance to radius when drawing on surfaces
- New Primitive Add gizmos mode operators exposed to a top level in the toolshelf in object and sculpt mode
- Updates to Grease Pencil asset thumbnails for consistency
- Major performance update and new features of the Smart Mesh Blend asset
- Major refactor for the Add Node sidebar to improve consistency and order
- Refactored Topbar customization and consistency settings panel pass for the Topbar editor, making this more accessible and usable and consistent
- Active Tool dropdown gets icons
- More tabbed toolshelf icons get an update, notably the Annoation icons
- Most Booleans checkboxes now dynamically float left, making these more consistent everywhere
- Sidebars have improved alignment of labels and properties accross the board
- Tabbed toolshelf has improved padding when in 3 columns mode
- Improved selected channel legibility in Animation editors
- Fixed Multi-GPU rendering hard crash
- More Shelf Regions pie menu refinement
🧡 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.x and 5.2.x series:
- Animation: New Subframes visibility
- Animation: New Looping and playback modes
- Graph: New Smooth (Gaussian) modifier
- Shader: New raycast node
- Shader: Support for DirectX and OpenGL toggles in the Normal node
- Preferences: New Search
- Preferences: New abiliity to toggle Asset library visibilities
- Greasepencil: New Fills and Stroke mode with booleans
- Greasepencil: New primitive gizmos
- Grease Pencil: You can search in layers now
- Geometry Nodes: New Grid Nodes like Gird Mean, Grid Median, Grid Dilate & Erode, Trim String node, Set NURBS Weight and Order, new Matrix SVD
- Geometry Nodes: New Bundle orgnaization nodes in Geometry Nodes
- Geometry Nodes: UV Pack node and Strings to Curves node is better
- All Node editors: New Implicit conversion, and new consistent Input constant nodes, new Menu node
- All Node editors: New Cut Nodes to paste between sessions opertoar
- Weight Paint: New loop selections
- Edit Mode: New delimiters on loop selections
- Edit Mode: New "To Circle" operator
- Text Object: Better drawing
- Compositor: New Camera Info nodes and Integer Vectors, new Mask to SDF node
- Sequencer: Compositor modifier has GPU acceleration now
- Sculpting: New Scene Project brush, and Vertex Color operator
- Data: Better Remap User experience
- Outline: Scroll on rename has improved
- Core: Undo is 30% faster
- Core: Vulkan and Cycles Denoising is marginally much faster and stable, by leagues
- Core: Stability is highest it has ever been with over 350+ fixes
And many more features, bug fixes and more!
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Github Release
For Arch
📝 Release Notes:
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Krysidian and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) Team, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And finally! Thank you for using Bforartists, making art with it, and sharing this with the art community - this wouldn't be possible without you.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Release Notes
Bforartists 5.1.0
131 Tasks
Toolsystem - Sidebar - Fix non-square buttons when in three-column layout #6401
3D View - Sculpt Mode - Sculpt - New Set Vertex Color operator #6397
Node Editors - Improve tooltip to show you can copy and paste nodes between Bforartists instances #6241
Topbar - Workspaces - Double "Duplicate Workspaces" entry #6093
Compositor - new Mask to SDF Node #6151
3D View - Sculpt/Object Mode - Make Add Modal Primitive top level panel with updated icons #6321
UV Align Vertically/Horizontally icons are inverted #6314
Icon - Info Large icon needs better drawing #6365
Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Text - New Trim String node #6366
Geometry Nodes - New Bundle Nodes #6237
Toolbar/Topbar - Manager Panel - Make different functions more distinguishable #6380
Add Icon for SDF Grid filtering #6249
Node Editors - New "Cut" node operator to paste later #6240
Add icons for new added Grid operation nodes #6253
Add Icon for Cube Grid Topology node #6250
Add Icon for Matrix SVD node #6248
Geometry Nodes - New Set NURBS Weight node #6363
Geometry Nodes - Add - Curve - Write - Set NURBS Order #6322
Node Editors - Add - Utilities - New Implicit Conversion Node #6318
Node Editor - Input - Constant - New "Menu" node needs icon and some tooltip love #6323
Node Editors - New Implicit Conversion Node #6307
Shader Nodes - Toolshelf - Fix incorrect toolshelf buttons for Closures #6368
Geometry Nodes - Add - Input - Constant - Font #6324
3D View - Mesh object - Edit Mode - Mesh - Transform - New To Circle #6325
Essentials Assets - Add "Blur" brush from Blender essentials #6152
Default Asset Library - Make Grease Pencil nodegroup color coding consistent #6332
Default Asset Library - Compositor - Make pixel based systems work in vertical resolutions. #6327
Default Asset Library - Improve compositor icons with better iconography #6331
Default Asset Library - Improve the Mesh Blend by Proximity performance and features for v2.0.2 #6330
Default Asset Library - Add UV Nodes #6334
Essentials Assets - Sync Geometry Nodes #6263
Hotkeys - Curves object - Sculpt Mode - X to radial control needs Confirm on Release #6329
Select menus, separator at the end of the menus #5126
3D View - Region Overlap on with Asset Browser off causes overlap glitch #5013
Plane Trim option not available warning in sculpt mode with fill/deepen brush #4955
Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Add "sync" surface distance with brush radius #6336
File Browser to Sequencer Context menu - Add icons #5347
Default Theme - Make Channels differentiate between selected channels and others #6286
NLA - Sidebar - Active Strip Panel - Indent and large space issue #6287
3D View - Object - Animation - Add icon to Replace Action Animation operator #6259
3D View - GP - Vertex Paint Mode - Toolshelf - Missing Replace icon #6280
Update orient_type check from boolean to enum in transform operations #6353
Keymap - remove old tool region toggle and update macos keymap #6351
File Browser Keymap - Replace TOOL PROPS keymap with ~ (tilde key) #6345
Outliner - View - Pie Penu - Add icon #6317
3D View - Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Erase brush - Add icons to erase mode in header #6319
Import - Drag and Drop menu for SVG needs icons #6328
File Browser - Make the T key use the consistent pie menu #6339
3D View - Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint brush - Make sidebar mode collapse #6335
Node Editor - Sidebar - Node - Node Color - Special menu is empty #6340
OptiX not detecting GPUs in Linux #6341
3D View - Tool Settings - Add icons to "Active Tool" dropdown #6333
Properties editor - object properties with Eevee - Visibility panel - missing decorators #6252
VSE - blade tool - sidebar, tool, active tool settings - align props left #6090
VSE - Preview mode - Sidebar - View Tab - View Settings panel - align prop left #6092
Properties editor - Physics tab - Dynamic paint, Brush type, source panel with paint method particle system - align prop left #6182
Properties editor - Object Data Properties with armature - Inverse Kinematics panel, align prop left #6210
Compositor - File Output node - Sidebar - Node tab - Properties Panel - Images subpanel - align prop left #6295
3D View - GP - Paint Mode - Tint and Eraser mode could have icons (for consistency) #6281
Fix: Race Condition on close #6272
Tools update the brush icon #6306
User Preferences - Add icon to new Asset Libraries panel #6304
Preferences - Asset Libraries - Move Library buttons now broken when trying to move an Online Repository (Experimental) #6312
Fix: Addon missing manifest #6291
Default Asset Library - Registers wrong type of library now, needs to be robust #6310
3D View - Overlays - Indent new "Text" group, remove old Statistics #5994
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Bforartists 5 - Version 5.0.1
The Node Editor Upgrade Hotfix Version 🍝
This point version is a stablity and hotfix release focused on new Compositor assets that come out of the box, new smart asset updates and apply operators, and much much love to the node editors.
This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.0.1 and 5.1.0 to the date - with 53 new fixes and polish with much stability from Blender!
*.Blend File formats from this version onwards will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Blender 4.5.x or Bforartists 4.4.x. It's a one way trip!
What's new:
- Fixed the export/import unusable File dialogue when using the Bforartists hotkeys
- More Icons in data types in Geometry Nodes Selectors
- Fixed instancing options from the Asset Shelf drag and drop
- Fixed Dopesheet missing operators
- Fixed Hotkey dropdown icon
- Cleaned up the Node Editor Sidebars to be consistent with Add menu
- Cleaned up the Preferences NDOF settings
Additional Features from this Blender 5.0.x and 5.1.x series:
- New Bone Info node for Geoemtry Nodes
And many bug fixes more!
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Github Release
For Arch
📝 Release Notes:
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Bluenile3D, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And also, thanks again for all art, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today! Without your feedback and support, this wouldn't be possible
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Release Notes
Bforartists 5.0.1
53 Tasks
Compositor - Add Sidebar - Add "Creative" Tab and panel #6055
Compositor - Add Sidebar - Sync and fix Color group #6054
Properties Editor - Modifier tab - Geometry Nodes Modifier - Add keyframing decorator for menu inputs #6063
Properties Editor - Modifier tab - Geometry Nodes Expanded Menu - Missing label #6060
Geometry Nodes - Add Bone Info node to Add Sidebar #6023
Sequencer - Preview - Header - Add missing Snapping dropdown #5998
Preferences - Save & Load > Blend Files - Set Load UI to default off #6053
Preferences - Interface - Set Python Tooltips to default On #6036
Default Library Addon - Add better way to install/uninstall to fix not seeing it install libraries #6059
Presentation Slides Addon - Fix hard crash when dragging cursor to last frame #6058
Essentials Assets - Add versioning notes #5807
Default Library - Compositor Asset - Linear Gradient has a missing socket #6005
Fix: Crash with adding a color attribute in shader editor #6037
Fix: Crash with switching from radial to UV Map in the tangent node in the shader editor #6050
Sequencer - Effect Strips - Swap Effect menu could be pulled up and iconized #5113
Geometry Nodes - Store Named Grid node - Add socket icons to data type dropdown #6003
Geometry Nodes - Add socket icons to users of rna_enum_attribute_type_items #6047
Preferences - Extensions - Filter former filter panel missing, update new one #6022
Node Editor - Group Sockets UI - Make "New Item" popover more compact #6042
Geometry Nodes - Group Input/Output Node > Node > Properties - Fix unknown operator node.interface_item_new #6035
Refactor: Node Editor - Group Sockets UI - Port Python code to C++ #6041
Node Editor - Sidebar > Group > Group Sockets - Fix outdated UI on Panel Toggle subpanel #6043
Dopesheet - Action Editor mode - Remove redundant push Down Action and Stash Action #6039
Fix: Dopesheet - Action Editor Mode - Missing Action Layer Next buttons #6010
Preferences - Input - Hide inactive properties instead of greying it out #6032
Preferences - Input - Indent properties under Show Guides and Orbit Center #6033
Preferences - Input - Float checkboxes under NDOF left #5976
Preferences - Input - Various broken properties in NDOF panel #6031
Geometry Nodes - Sidebar > Group > Group Sockets - Hide unused properties instead of greying out when Layer Selection is active #6029
Node Editor - Sidebar > Group > Group Sockets - Align Layer Selection property left #6020
Geometry Nodes - Sidebar > Group > Group Properties - Hide Show Manage Panel instead of greying it out #6027
Node Editor - Sidebar > Group > Group Properties - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #6019
Fix: Preferences - Keymap - Dropdown arrow is the wrong icon #5993
Workspaces - Make the animation controls visible again #5711
Workspaces - Make the sequencer workspaces use the footer timeline as per default #5920
VSE - add hotkey T to show and hide the toolbar #2601
Properties Editor - Remove duplicated Scene and View Layer selector #6001
Image Editor - Sidebar > Image Tab > UDIM Tiles > Add Tile to Image dialog - Align Fill property left #5938
UV Editor - Header > UV > Move on Axis - Separate tooltips for Move on Axis operator #5960
Preferences - Navigation > Fly & Walk > Walk - Fix abnormally sized Horizontal Lock checkbox #6015
Outliner - Colored collection should default to ON #4817
Preferences - Default Node background colors to something discoverable #6011
Default Library - Make the library use a central library area to make future products better integrated #6009
Fix: 5.0.0 Export FBX "No asset in context" - Hotkey conflict with pose apply in File Browser context #5997
Default Library - Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity - Default to not use the material overrides out of the box #6008
Node Editor - Add icons to the "Drag Off" search menu #5978
Grease Pencil - New layer should have "Lights" turned off and make label more descriptive #5977
Fix: 3D View - Asset Shelf - Drag in as instance property no longer working #5984
UV Editor - Sidebar > Image > UV Vertex - Use split layout for UV vertex location #5962
Properties Editor - Workbench Renderer - View Layer > Passes - Align props left #5983
Node Editor - Sidebar - Group tab > Group Sockets > Vector socket type - Split labels for Min and Max properties #5990
Shader Nodes and Compositor - Sidebar - Group tab > Group Sockets - Align Optional Label property left #5989
Node Editor - Sidebar - Group tab > Group Sockets - Use split layout for enum properties #5991
Bforartists 5.0.0
242 Tasks
Workspace Layouts - hide the editor type menus #5927
Compositor, view menu - double menu entry Asset Shelf #5965
Remove Online Manual entry from the compositor context menu #5964
Build - make lite - missing function causes make lite to fail. #5969
Compositor sidebar , Node tab, Properties panel with File Output node - align props left #5972
User Interface - TreeView - Fix wrong icon for search dropdown #5945
Default Asset Library - New Compositor nodes #5867
UV Editor, Sidebar, View tab, 2D Cursor panel - put labels in front of sliders #5963
UV Editor, UV menu, Moven on Axis sub menu needs icons #5958
UV Editor, UV menu, Move on Axis submenu, add icons #5959
Image/UV Editor - Sidebar > Image tab - Use split layout for Seam Margin property #5951
Node Editor - Add & Swap Menu - Group Submenu - Fix missing icons #5943
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Tool tab > Texture - Use split layout for Random Value Property #5948
Image Editor - Mask Mode - Sidebar > View tab > 2D Cursor panel - Use split layout for numerical sliders #5939
Preferences - Editing - Node Editor - Use split layout for Node Color Blend property #5944
Image Editor - Sidebar - View tab > Annotations panel - Use split layout for numerical sliders #5940
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Mask Brush > Brush Settings > Advanced - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #5928
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Tool tab > Texture Map - Align Rake and Random props left #5933
Properties Editor - Modifiers - UV Project - Add UV label indentation #5022
3D View - Sidebar > Global Transform tab - Make tooltips unique for different paste operators #5906
Image editor , sidebar, Image tab - put label in front of seam slider #5937
Video Editing Workspace - Sequencer view type -Strip menu - double entry Change Effect Type #5273
Fix regression in image editor add menu - add back add feather vertex and slide #5922
Image editor, paint mode, sidebar, tool tab, stroke mask subpanel, two labels #5934
addon - Smart Delete - Optimize edges on high poly mesh #5936
Question: Flatpak Runtime Outdated #5921
Blender icon on Linux instead of BFA's #5741
3d view, sidebar, animation tab, fix to camera subtab, align props left #5905
workflow to write the automated manual issues has quit working #5802
Node Editors - Add an overlay to show "canvas center" #5915
Remove Timeline quick navigation and mode toggle + add timeline toggles to Power User Tools #5839
Particle mode with mesh object - missing background in sidebar in the tool tab #5734
3d view in quadview, sidebar, view tab, indent props in quadview panel #5901
Node Editor - Node menu - Add icons to Join Group Inputs and Join in Named Frame operators #5857
Geometry Nodes - New Points to Grid nodes #5684
Geometry nodes - New Grid Nodes out of experimental #5697
Geometry Nodes - Volume - ...
Bforartists 5 - Version 5.0.0
The Node Editor Upgrade + Compositor Assets v1 release🍝
⛔ This build may have asset shelf header properties broken.
To fix, close all editors with the broken asset shelf, respawn the editor and it will be fixed. Then save the startup.
This release is focused on new Compositor assets that come out of the box, new smart asset updates and apply operators, and much much love to the node editors.
This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.0.0 and 5.1.0 to the date - with 242 new tokens of love from us and a large chunk also from Blender!
*.Blend File formats from this version onwards will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Blender 4.5.x or Bforartists 4.4.x. It's a one way trip!
What's new:
- 99 new Compositor assets, including shapes, patterns, lens effects, color adjustments, filters and more
- New customizable colored backgrounds on nodes
- New icons in collapsed icon headers
- New customizable Node Editor Overlay for canvas center
- Enhanced Asset Shelf user experience: New packed mode, and love to context menu operators for Armature Pose assets
- Group Operators in Node Toolshelf: Node group operators moved to toolshelf for better accessibility
- New icons for frames with new frame operators
- New Apply operators: Apply with remesh, join, and boolean on selected meshes with one click
- Presentation Addon Enhancement: New Slides operator for presentations
- Interface Consistency Improvements: more robust columns for tabbed toolshelf
- Region Toggle Pie Menu: Added to T key and exposed in header
- Organized Node categories and groups for less bloat and better discoverability
- New Animation Timeline Footers and Dopesheet editor mode
- New quick toggle to Timeline with the Power User Tools
- Consistent paint curve dropdowns in header and sidebar for jitter and pressure settings
- Update to the Curves edit mode to be consistent with other modes
- Adopted the new Blender "Built-in" sequencer scene sync with our legacy 3D Sequencer system with timeline gizmos
- New Geometry Nodes assets and modifiers from Blender adopted to the Bforartists asset shelves
- Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity assets gets material blending, performance modes, and an improved wizard user experience
Additional Features from this Blender 5.0.x and 5.1.x series:
- Improved UV user experience with sync
- New Compositor Sequencer Mode: New Sequencer modifier with access to using compositor nodes with Sequence Info strip integration
- Minimized Theme Panel Visual Update
- Frame Jump is now built into the timeline with seconds and frames
- Geometry Nodes Improvements: Multiple new Grid, SDF, and Volume nodes
- Performance Optimizations: Improved tessellation, subdivision, and general performance
- New Radial Tiling vector node
- New Repeat Zone for Shaders (with bundles and closures)
- New & Updated MatCaps: optional specular lighting in MatCaps improves shading clarity, especially on dark surfaces.
- Dope Sheet Cache Visualization – Clearer feedback on cached frames for animation performance monitoring.
- Video Sequencer Overhaul: Dedicated Strip and Strip Modifiers tabs with drag-and-drop modifier stacks, icons, and search.
- Multi-Scene Sequencer Workflows – Sequencer can now reference different scenes, with Sync Scene Time for seamless editing.
- Grease Pencil Motion Blur: Adds natural blur to strokes with adjustable steps, enhancing animation quality.
- Grease Pencil Corner Types: Per-point corner styles (Round, Sharp, Flat) for more precise stroke design.
- Faster cycles and EEVEE
- Netter Subsurface scattering, volumetrics and multi-scattering
- New sky mode for environments
- Faster unwrapping and field evaluation in Geometry Nodes
- Better FBX, Alembix and USD compatibility
- Adaptive subdivision in Cycles now official
- Metallic Thin Film Iridescence for Cycles
And much much more
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
ℹ️ Mac builds are coming soon.
📥 Downloads:
https://www.bforartists.de/download/
🧡 Blender Launcher
https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2/releases
🪟 Windows App
https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PD5L5XBRMR0?ocid=pdpshare
📝 Release Notes:
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Bluenile3D, the latest winner of the Splashsscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And also, thanks again for all art, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today! Without your feedback and support, this wouldn't be possible
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Release Notes
Bforartists 5.0.0
242 Tasks
Workspace Layouts - hide the editor type menus #5927
Compositor, view menu - double menu entry Asset Shelf #5965
Remove Online Manual entry from the compositor context menu #5964
Build - make lite - missing function causes make lite to fail. #5969
Compositor sidebar , Node tab, Properties panel with File Output node - align props left #5972
User Interface - TreeView - Fix wrong icon for search dropdown #5945
Default Asset Library - New Compositor nodes #5867
UV Editor, Sidebar, View tab, 2D Cursor panel - put labels in front of sliders #5963
UV Editor, UV menu, Moven on Axis sub menu needs icons #5958
UV Editor, UV menu, Move on Axis submenu, add icons #5959
Image/UV Editor - Sidebar > Image tab - Use split layout for Seam Margin property #5951
Node Editor - Add & Swap Menu - Group Submenu - Fix missing icons #5943
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Tool tab > Texture - Use split layout for Random Value Property #5948
Image Editor - Mask Mode - Sidebar > View tab > 2D Cursor panel - Use split layout for numerical sliders #5939
Preferences - Editing - Node Editor - Use split layout for Node Color Blend property #5944
Image Editor - Sidebar - View tab > Annotations panel - Use split layout for numerical sliders #5940
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Mask Brush > Brush Settings > Advanced - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #5928
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Tool tab > Texture Map - Align Rake and Random props left #5933
Properties Editor - Modifiers - UV Project - Add UV label indentation #5022
3D View - Sidebar > Global Transform tab - Make tooltips unique for different paste operators #5906
Image editor , sidebar, Image tab - put label in front of seam slider #5937
Video Editing Workspace - Sequencer view type -Strip menu - double entry Change Effect Type #5273
Fix regression in image editor add menu - add back add feather vertex and slide #5922
Image editor, paint mode, sidebar, tool tab, stroke mask subpanel, two labels #5934
addon - Smart Delete - Optimize edges on high poly mesh #5936
Question: Flatpak Runtime Outdated #5921
Blender icon on Linux instead of BFA's #5741
3d view, sidebar, animation tab, fix to camera subtab, align props left #5905
workflow to write the automated manual issues has quit working #5802
Node Editors - Add an overlay to show "canvas center" #5915
Remove Timeline quick navigation and mode toggle + add timeline toggles to Power User Tools #5839
Particle mode with mesh object - missing background in sidebar in the tool tab #5734
3d view in quadview, sidebar, view tab, indent props in quadview panel #5901
Node Editor - Node menu - Add icons to Join Group Inputs and Join in Named Frame operators #5857
Geometry Nodes - New Points to Grid nodes #5684
Geometry nodes - New Grid Nodes out of experimental #5697
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Operations - New SDF/Grid nodes #5880
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Write - New grid nodes #5879
Geometry Nodes - New UV Tangent Node #5840
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Sample - New grid nodes #5878
Mesh - Modifiers - Vertex Weight modifiers - Fix issues in "Influence" sublayout #5898
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Vertex Weight Mix - Add proper indentation to Vertex Groups and Weights #5020
Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Brush Settings > Advanced > Jitter - Make curve properties consistent in header and sidebar #5607
Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Brush Settings > Advanced > Jitter - Make curve properties consistent in header and sidebar #5894
Mesh - Particle Edit Mode - Sidebar > Tool Tab > Options panel - Shorten labels of props under "Preserve" sublayout #5889
Sequencer + Compositor - New "Sequencer" mode with Sequencer Info strip #5806
3D View/Window - Add Region Toggle pie to T, and expose to header #5495
Switching the bone while weight paint #5886
Compilation - Missing enumerator for spaces #5883
Geometry Nodes - Mesh -Operations - New Mesh to Density/SDF Grid #5877
Geometry Nodes - Point - New Point to Grid/SDF nodes #5876
Properites Editor - Modifiers - Geometry Nodes - Square sockets are horizontal/misaligned instead of vertical #5870
Node Editor - Node menu - Move new Swap submenu to header #5856
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Geometry Nodes - Fix misaligned keyframe buttons for Vector & Rotation inputs #5871
Mesh - Particle Edit mode - Sidebar > Tool > Options panel - Fix name regression for X Mirror #5735
3D View & Properties - Tool tab - Workspace panel - Filter Add-ons list - Move checkboxes left #5834
Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Draw Menu > Cleanup > Reproject Strokes - Align prop left in Adjust Last Operator panel #5707
Geometry Nodes & Compositor - New Enable Output node ...
Bforartists 4 - Version 4.5.2
Bforartists 4 version 4.5.2 - The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade - Hotfix
This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.5.2 and 5.0.0 to the date - with 29 new pieces of love from us and another 111 fixes from Blender
*.Blend File formats from this version onwards will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Blender 4.5.x or Bforartists 4.4.x. It's a one way trip!
What's new:
- Fixed *.blend file thumbnail generation
- Fixed Properties Editor pose bone color toggles
- Fixed grid display properties
- Fixed asset shelf hotkeys for pose assets (Double click to apply, ALT+LMB drag to blend)
What's new in this series:
- New Asset Shelf mode import properties
- Add asset with overrides automatically
- New Default Assets:
- Blend Normals by Proximity
- Inherit Smoothness
- Inherit Material
- Mesh Lines and Silhouette
- Object/World Normal
- Group operators in the node editors are now in the toolshelf
- Cleanup and Refactor for the Node Editors sidebar add panels
- New Granular display of nodegroups in the sidebar
- Presentation Addon New Slides operator
- Node Group socket interface and operators got UX love
- Interface Updates
- More robust columns for the tabbed toolshelf
- Theme panel visual updates
- Updated default Hotkeys
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x and 5.0.x series:
- New Closure and Bundle Geometry Nodes - New Playhead Header submenu
- Sculpt Modes - New Mask to Geometry operators
- New Color Jitter in Brushes now exposed to side bar also
- Built In attributes now show in header of Spreadsheet
- Point Cloud Edit mode is getting love
- Light properties have new settings and consistenty layout
- Exposure and Temperature
- Consistency with Cycles
- Collada removed (but we may have another in development)
- New Compositor nodes
- Image Coordinates
- Relative to Pixel
- Texture Nodes
- Input sockets
- Changes to color correction nodes
- Shader
- New Volume Coefficient Shader
- Grease Pencil Antialiasing made more explicit
- New Animation Timeline Footers
- Scenes can be saved as assets now
- Compositor Node Trees are a thing now
- New Grease Pencil operators
- Split
- Remove Fill Guides
- Outline
- Convert to Curve type
- Mask above and below
- New relocate linked asset operator
- Per Bone type visibility
- Shape Key copying
- Camera OSL scripts included
- Performance in tesselation, subdivision, and more
- Grease Pencil Fill Guide indicators
- Vulkan Backend
- Sequencer HDR support
- Sequencer slip improved
- Drag and drop collections to surfaces
- Cursor rotation for snapping
- Asset Screenshots
- Gizmos in the Compositor
And much much more
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2.
📥 Download for Free today! Let us know what you think of this big release!
🌍 Official Website
Website Download Link
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Blender Launcher v2 Download
📄 Release Notes:
Release Notes on Website
🖥️ Source Code
Github Repository
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Prashan Subsinghe, the latest winner of the Splash Screen competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And also, thanks again for all artwork, much love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community that much better!
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Release Notes
Bforartists 4.5.2
29 Tasks
Keymap - 3D View - Asset Shelf - Applying a pose asset mouse UX needs love #5467
3D View - Viewport Overlays - Display Grid is broken #5466
Theme Editor - Common Subpanel Icon #5462
UV Editor - Missing adjust last operator for unwrap #5396
Sculpt Mode - Cavity Sliders #5458
Sculpt Mode - Capitalize Cavity Inverted #5459
Fix - Mask from Cavity #5460
Material Properties - Align Labels Left #5456
Fix - Align Left Typo #5455
Properties Editor - Armature - Bone Viewport Display - Missing Colors #5454
Properties Editor - Mesh - Shape Keys Panel - Special Menu Needs Iconography and Updates #5452
Node Editor - Add Shelf Has a Group Bug #5453
Geometry Nodes - New Closure and Bundle Nodes #5451
Properties Editor - Render - Volumes Panel - Float Unbiased Left #5446
Properties Editor - Cycles - Experimental Features - Subdivisions - Float Labels Left #5447
Fix - CMP Corner Pin #5442
Fix - CMP Displace #5441
Cleanup - Transforms to Delta Description #5431
Cleanup - Remove Redundant Editor Type Menu #5432
Mesh in Edit Mode - Mesh Edit Mode Overlays - Remove Double Buttons, Align Props #5430
Nodes - Change Single Socket #5404
Thumbnails Issue #5400
Collapsed Node Icon #5425
UV Unwrap - Align Props Left #5395
Edit Mode - Curve Delete #5398
Sequencer - Align Prop Left #5389
Text Styling - Hotkeys #5368
Fix - Mesh Face Menu Double Separator #5394
Shade Auto Smooth - Align Left #5383
Bforartists 4.5.1
34 Tasks
Mesh in edit mode. Mirror, adjust last operator, align props left #5391
Default Workspaces - Missing timelines controls #5392
Compositor - View tab has missing property #5361
3D View - Tool Shelf Tabs has scroll bar on tabs #4987
Mesh in edit mode. Bevel, adjust last operator, align props left #5390
3D View - Parent Floating menu missing icons #5367
Asset Library/Shelf - Library Override also double and links collection after doing the override #5345
Crash on Swap Areas in Texture Paint mode #5370
Bug - Explorer Thumbnails no-longer draw #5334
Edit Mode - Mesh Edit - Mesh Tools Addon - Draw "Set Dimensions" operator as icon depending on panel width #5373
Edit Mode - Grease Pencil - Tool Panels - Rename "Gpencil" category to "Grease Pencil" #5375
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Add comments to the code file for better maintainability #5322
Edit Mode - Grease Pencil - Tool Panels - Clean Up - Add missing "Remove Fill Guides" Operator #5374
Object Mode - Object - Apply - Add Missing operator text for "Visual Geometry to Object" in tool tabs #5378
Header, right click menu at tabs - remove menu item Reset Panel zoom #5365
MacOS - 4.5.0 builds - config location set wrong #5364
Sequencer - Hard crash on draging retiming hotkeys #5344
3D Sequencer - Master scene no-longer pins #5362
Smart Delete - Make deleting loops more robust #5363
Asset - Blend Mesh Proximity finetine #5358
Assets - Update the Mesh Silhouette to be tidier as a UX #5357
Bforartists 4.5.0 Official Release #5304
Sponsorlink at Github page leads to Blender fund #5351
Theme - Blender Dark Theme - Blank entries #5349
Theme - Blender light theme is completely broken #5343
Panel Context Menu - Expose "Flip to other side" operator #5331
Asset Shelf - Thumbnail sizes need consistency with defaults #5335
Asset Browser - Column Mode - Add quick size buttons #5336
Bug - Missing column operators for grease pencil layer panels #5339
Presentations Slides - Make slide camera and frame range more robust #5337
Node Editor - Group Sockets - Add Specials menu and arrange operators for panel toggles #5184
Addon - Presentations Slides - Improve the new scene framerange system to bump from end of last scene #5333
Area Context Menu - Inconsistent Join Right and Left icons, regression #5199
UV Editor - Edit Mode - Dynamic Select Similar menu needs to be in Header #3204
Bforartists 4.5.0
169 Tasks
Missing icons for right click menu #5321
Grease Pencil , Draw mode, Fill tool - make Fill Guide discoverable #5208
3D View - Sculpt mode - Mask - New mask operators needs iconography #5305
Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Mesh - Read - is Edge Smooth typo #5282
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Panel registration order inconsistent with Add Menu #5316
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Missing entries within the Add panels #5289
Compositor - Removed nodes API: Color Ramp + Value - Update sidebar Add panels #5103
Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Deprecated - Depreacated Typo in Rotate Euler entry #5276
Grease pencil object in edit mode - Properties editor - Data tab, align Auto Normalize left. #5308
Sculpt Mode - Missing mask and slice properties #5303
Grease Pencil - Paint Mode - Fill brush advanced panel - Needs love (float things left #5164
Grease P...
Bforartists 4 - Version 4.5.1
The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade Hotfix Release
This is a stability update to the release that has brought us much much love to the Asset Shelves usability with many new accumulated details and features from Bforartists and Blender.
This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.5.1 and 5.0.0 to the date - with 34 new pieces of love from us and another 89 and some fixes from Blender
*.Blend File formats from this version onwards will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Blender 4.5.x or Bforartists 4.4.x. It's a one way trip!
What's new:
- Fixed the library override also linking when using the Libary Override mode from the Assetshelf/Browser
- Fixed many small details like checkboxes floating left
- Updated the Blend Normals by Proximity asset to be more robust, predictable and also set ground work to material blending also
- Documentation is has started to be refactored and updated
- Blender themes fixed
What's new in this series:
- New Asset Shelf mode import properties
- new add asset with overrides automatically from shelf/browser
- New Default Assets:
- Blend Normals by Proximity
- Inherit Smoothness
- Inherit Material
- Mesh Lines and Silhouette
- Object/World Normal
- Group operators in the node editors are now in the toolshelf
- Cleanup and Refactor for the Node Editors sidebar add panels
- New Granular display of nodegroups in the sidebar
- Presentation Addon New Slides operator
- Node Group socket interface and operators got UX love
- Interface Updates
- More robust columns for the tabbed toolshelf
- Theme panel visual updates
- Updated default Hotkeys
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x and 5.0.x series:
- New Playhead Header submenu
- Sculpt Modes - New Mask to Geometry operators
- New Color Jitter in Brushes now exposed to side bar also
- Built In attributes now show in header of Spreadsheet
- Point Cloud Edit mode is getting love
- Light properties have new settings and consistenty layout
- Exposure and Temperature
- Consistency with Cycles
- Collada removed (but we may have another in development)
- New Compositor nodes
- Image Coordinates
- Relative to Pixel
- Texture Nodes
- Input sockets
- Changes to color correction nodes
- Shader
- New Volume Coefficient Shader
- Grease Pencil Antialiasing made more explicit
- New Animation Timeline Footers
- Scenes can be saved as assets now
- Compositor Node Trees are a thing now
- New Grease Pencil operators
- Split
- Remove Fill Guides
- Outline
- Convert to Curve type
- Mask above and below
- New relocate linked asset operator
- Per Bone type visibility
- Shape Key copying
- Camera OSL scripts included
- Performance in tesselation, subdivision, and more
- Grease Pencil Fill Guide indicators
- Vulkan Backend
- Sequencer HDR support
- Sequencer slip improved
- Drag and drop collections to surfaces
- Cursor rotation for snapping
- Asset Screenshots
- Gizmos in the Compositor
And much much more
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Download for Free today! Let us know what you think of this big release!
🌍 Official Website
Website Download Link
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Blender Launcher v2 Download
📄 Release Notes:
Release Notes on Website
🖥️ Source Code
Github Repository
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Prashan Subsinghe, the latest winner of the Splash Screen competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And also, thanks again for all artwork, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today!
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Release Notes
Bforartists 4.5.1
34 Tasks
Mesh in edit mode. Mirror, adjust last operator, align props left #5391
Default Workspaces - Missing timelines controls #5392
Compositor - View tab has missing property #5361
3D View - Tool Shelf Tabs has scroll bar on tabs #4987
Mesh in edit mode. Bevel, adjust last operator, align props left #5390
3D View - Parent Floating menu missing icons #5367
Asset Library/Shelf - Library Override also double and links collection after doing the override #5345
Crash on Swap Areas in Texture Paint mode #5370
Bug - Explorer Thumbnails no-longer draw #5334
Edit Mode - Mesh Edit - Mesh Tools Addon - Draw "Set Dimensions" operator as icon depending on panel width #5373
Edit Mode - Grease Pencil - Tool Panels - Rename "Gpencil" category to "Grease Pencil" #5375
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Add comments to the code file for better maintainability #5322
Edit Mode - Grease Pencil - Tool Panels - Clean Up - Add missing "Remove Fill Guides" Operator #5374
Object Mode - Object - Apply - Add Missing operator text for "Visual Geometry to Object" in tool tabs #5378
Header, right click menu at tabs - remove menu item Reset Panel zoom #5365
MacOS - 4.5.0 builds - config location set wrong #5364
Sequencer - Hard crash on draging retiming hotkeys #5344
3D Sequencer - Master scene no-longer pins #5362
Smart Delete - Make deleting loops more robust #5363
Asset - Blend Mesh Proximity finetine #5358
Assets - Update the Mesh Silhouette to be tidier as a UX #5357
Bforartists 4.5.0 Official Release #5304
Sponsorlink at Github page leads to Blender fund #5351
Theme - Blender Dark Theme - Blank entries #5349
Theme - Blender light theme is completely broken #5343
Panel Context Menu - Expose "Flip to other side" operator #5331
Asset Shelf - Thumbnail sizes need consistency with defaults #5335
Asset Browser - Column Mode - Add quick size buttons #5336
Bug - Missing column operators for grease pencil layer panels #5339
Presentations Slides - Make slide camera and frame range more robust #5337
Node Editor - Group Sockets - Add Specials menu and arrange operators for panel toggles #5184
Addon - Presentations Slides - Improve the new scene framerange system to bump from end of last scene #5333
Area Context Menu - Inconsistent Join Right and Left icons, regression #5199
UV Editor - Edit Mode - Dynamic Select Similar menu needs to be in Header #3204
Bforartists 4.5.0
169 Tasks
Missing icons for right click menu #5321
Grease Pencil , Draw mode, Fill tool - make Fill Guide discoverable #5208
3D View - Sculpt mode - Mask - New mask operators needs iconography #5305
Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Mesh - Read - is Edge Smooth typo #5282
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Panel registration order inconsistent with Add Menu #5316
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Missing entries within the Add panels #5289
Compositor - Removed nodes API: Color Ramp + Value - Update sidebar Add panels #5103
Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Deprecated - Depreacated Typo in Rotate Euler entry #5276
Grease pencil object in edit mode - Properties editor - Data tab, align Auto Normalize left. #5308
Sculpt Mode - Missing mask and slice properties #5303
Grease Pencil - Paint Mode - Fill brush advanced panel - Needs love (float things left #5164
Grease Pencil Edit mode - Stroke menu - Simplify Stroke #5310
Compositor - Remove "Use Nodes" from the header #5313
Compositor - Add - Utilities and Vector update to Toolshelf #4981
Add - Empty Image - Remove from Image menu #5102
Properties Editor - Modifiers - UVMap- Add UV label indentation #5021
3D View - Brush menu in sculpt mode has no operators #4970
Mesh object, Weight Paint mode, select menu. Remove the term select from the select linked operator #5127
Animation Editors - Header - Playhead menu needs love #5162
UV Image Editor - Select menu - put More & Less into a sub menu #5267
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - New Grease Pencil outline operator #5163
Missing/ update envelope weight paint assign operator #5301
3D View - Vertex Paint - Sample Color and duplicate #5292
Theme - Make Image editor background darker grey #5279
Properties Editor - Modifier - Mirror - Add UV label indentation #5018
blender_theme_as_c.py adds path to the theme to the userdef_default_theme.c #5294
Dopesheet - Move new view Cache properties to the header Options #5154
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Array - Add UV label indentation #5019
Blender Render View vs Bforartists Render View - missing Paint mode? #5298
Asset - Mesh Blend by Proxim...
Bforartists 4 - Version 4.5.0
The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade
This is a major feature update with much love to the Asset Shelves usability with many new accumulated details and features from Bforartists and Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.5.0 and 5.0.0 to the date - with 169 new pieces of love from us.
*.Blend File formats from this version onwards will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Blender 4.5.x or Bforartists 4.4.x. It's a one way trip!
What's new:
- Asset Shelf mode import properties
- Add asset with overrides automatically
- New Default Assets:
- Blend Normals by Proximity
- Inherit Smoothness
- Inherit Material
- Mesh Lines and Silhouette
- Object/World Normal
- Group operators in the node editors are now in the toolshelf
- Cleanup and Refactor for the Node Editors sidebar add panels
- New Granular display of nodegroups in the sidebar
- Presentation Addon New Slides operator
- Node Group socket interface and operators got UX love
- Interface Updates
- More robust columns for the tabbed toolshelf
- Theme panel visual updates
- Updated default Hotkeys
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x and 5.0.x series:
- New Playhead Header submenu
- Sculpt Modes - New Mask to Geometry operators
- New Color Jitter in Brushes now exposed to side bar also
- Built In attributes now show in header of Spreadsheet
- Point Cloud Edit mode is getting love
- Light properties have new settings and consistenty layout
- Exposure and Temperature
- Consistency with Cycles
- Collada removed (but we may have another in development)
- New Compositor nodes
- Image Coordinates
- Relative to Pixel
- Texture Nodes
- Input sockets
- Changes to color correction nodes
- Shader
- New Volume Coefficient Shader
- Grease Pencil Antialiasing made more explicit
- New Animation Timeline Footers
- Scenes can be saved as assets now
- Compositor Node Trees are a thing now
- New Grease Pencil operators
- Split
- Remove Fill Guides
- Outline
- Convert to Curve type
- Mask above and below
- New relocate linked asset operator
- Per Bone type visibility
- Shape Key copying
- Camera OSL scripts included
- Performance in tesselation, subdivision, and more
- Grease Pencil Fill Guide indicators
- Vulkan Backend
- Sequencer HDR support
- Sequencer slip improved
- Drag and drop collections to surfaces
- Cursor rotation for snapping
- Asset Screenshots
- Gizmos in the Compositor
And much much more
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Download for Free today! Let us know what you think of this big release!
🌍 Official Website
Website Download Link
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Blender Launcher v2 Download
📄 Release Notes:
Release Notes on Website
🖥️ Source Code
Github Repository
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Prashan Subsinghe, the latest winner of the Splashs Screen competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And also, thanks again for all artwork, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today!
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Release Notes
Bforartists 4.5.0
169 Tasks
Missing icons for right click menu #5321
Grease Pencil , Draw mode, Fill tool - make Fill Guide discoverable #5208
3D View - Sculpt mode - Mask - New mask operators needs iconography #5305
Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Mesh - Read - is Edge Smooth typo #5282
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Panel registration order inconsistent with Add Menu #5316
Toolshelf - Node Editors - Missing entries within the Add panels #5289
Compositor - Removed nodes API: Color Ramp + Value - Update sidebar Add panels #5103
Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Deprecated - Depreacated Typo in Rotate Euler entry #5276
Grease pencil object in edit mode - Properties editor - Data tab, align Auto Normalize left. #5308
Sculpt Mode - Missing mask and slice properties #5303
Grease Pencil - Paint Mode - Fill brush advanced panel - Needs love (float things left #5164
Grease Pencil Edit mode - Stroke menu - Simplify Stroke #5310
Compositor - Remove "Use Nodes" from the header #5313
Compositor - Add - Utilities and Vector update to Toolshelf #4981
Add - Empty Image - Remove from Image menu #5102
Properties Editor - Modifiers - UVMap- Add UV label indentation #5021
3D View - Brush menu in sculpt mode has no operators #4970
Mesh object, Weight Paint mode, select menu. Remove the term select from the select linked operator #5127
Animation Editors - Header - Playhead menu needs love #5162
UV Image Editor - Select menu - put More & Less into a sub menu #5267
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - New Grease Pencil outline operator #5163
Missing/ update envelope weight paint assign operator #5301
3D View - Vertex Paint - Sample Color and duplicate #5292
Theme - Make Image editor background darker grey #5279
Properties Editor - Modifier - Mirror - Add UV label indentation #5018
blender_theme_as_c.py adds path to the theme to the userdef_default_theme.c #5294
Dopesheet - Move new view Cache properties to the header Options #5154
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Array - Add UV label indentation #5019
Blender Render View vs Bforartists Render View - missing Paint mode? #5298
Asset - Mesh Blend by Proximity - Improve the wizard notice #5291
Missing icon in Select menu in edit mode with a mesh object #5125
Top Bar - Pointcloud api missing #5290
Properties Editor - Light - Float Normalize property left #5110
Text editor - edit menu regression #5269
File/Top bar - FBX lost it's icon #5256
Topbar / Topbar Editor - Remove collada #5101
Shader Nodes - Ray Portal BSDF node has no icons #5286
Extensions/Addons - Tags broken #5263
Exporters/Importers - Float Properties check boxes Left #4221
Code marked as unreachable has been executed. Please report this as a bug. #5268
UV Editor - Overlays - New Display slider label indentation #4997
Outliner - ID Data - New linked data "Relocate" operator #5000
Default Library - Add Smart Primitives #5008
Default Library - Blend Normals by Proximity Asset #5222
Point cloud object in edit mode - tool shelf, add select hotkeys to the select group #5281
Pointcloud - Edit Mode - new mode, new operators, needs icons #5147
Compositor - Missing node icons for Image Info and Image Coordinate nodes #5274
Sequencer - Preview - New Animation operators exposed to header, add icons #5155
Sequencer - Preview - Remove doubles in zoom operators #5158
Sequencer - Preview - Strip - Exposed Show/Hide menu, make consistent #5156
Video editing workspace - Image Menu - Transform - missing icon #5270
Compositor - Add Texture add group to the Add sidebar #5005
Preferences - Interface - NewSubpixel Anti-aliasing property #5264
Preferences - Editing - Sequencer - Remove use_sequencer_simplified_tweaking #5262
Default Asset Categories - Rename Grease Pencil Tools to Grease Pencil #5261
Particle in Particle Edit mode. Select menu. put More / Less into a sub menu at the end of the select menu #5130
Asset Browser: Make drop to origin button consistent #4984
Toolshelf - Missing Envelope modifier #5259
Shader editor: Procedural Material: Subtractmath #5238
Animation workspace - animation toolbar is off #5206
Point cloud in edit mode - update transform hotkeys #5235
Keymap File Browser - File Browser Main - investigate POSELIB_OT_apply_pose_asset_for_key entry #5243
Keymap - 3d view - 3d view global - wrong hotkey NDOF Roll CCW #5236
Keymap NLA Editor - Hotkey S for Scale #5240
Keymap 3d view - Primitive tool modal map uses grs navigation #5239
Keymap - Clip - Clip Dopesheet Editor - Delete track - change from X to DEL #5248
Keymap - Grease Pencil - Grease Pencil Weight Paint - Select Extended vs Select #5252
Keymap - Transform Modal Map - red entries #5253
keymap - text - text global - find and replace double entry #5247
Keymap File Browser - File Browser Main - double entry Apply Pose Asset #5245
Video editing Preview window , view menu - put auto zoom option into the options #5231
Video editing Preview window, View menu, double entries Zoom #5233
Keymap - Stencil Controls in Vertex and Image Editor need secondary #5242
Default Libary - Boolean method needs to be FLOAT not FAST #5251
Default Library - Handler condition...
Bforartists 4 - Version 4.4.3
Bforartists 4 version 4.4.3 - Smart Primitives + Hotfix Update
This is a stability hotfix release with many showstopper fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4.3 and 4.5 to the date - with 15 new pieces of work from us.
What's new:
- New Smart Primitive assets and operators, with UVs, Gizmos and presets!!!
- New Asset Library reorder buttons
This 4.4.x series additionally includes:
- New quick "tag" assignment to show nodegroups in the relevant Asset Shelves
- New Quick Viewers for the compositor exposed to the header
- Default hotkey updates
Included new features from Blender:
- New Manifold (fastest) Boolean mode
- New Compositor Image Info node
- New Compositor Vector nodes and sockets
- New EEVEE Shadow Terminator
- New Geometry Nodes: Field Average, Min & Max, Field Varience, Grease Pencil Color/Opacity, Grease Pencil Layer Dpeth, Instance Bounding Box, Camera Info, and Mesh Normal Nodes
- New Visual Geometry to Objects operator
- New Import nodes
- New Antialiasing for Grease Pencil
- New Horizontal list for the Asset Browser
- Individual tabs for Properties Editor
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x series:
- New Glare node
- CPU compositor rewrite and performance update
- Much refinement to the UI
- New "disable" of properties in nodes and modifiers
- New editor snapping
- New sculpt plane brush
- New Select by Pole Count and Topology Influence
- Relationship Overlays improved
- Rigging got love
- New Fcurve noise modifier
- New Animation Slots to assign multiple objects to the same Action Clip
- And much much more
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Download Free
🌍 Official Website
🪟 Windows App
🧡 Blender Launcher
*Windows builds coming soon
📝 Release Notes
https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🧰 Source Code
https://github.com/Bforartists/Bforartists
Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Andres Stephens, one of the core developers.
Thanks again for all love, feedback and art and help!
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Details
Bforartists 4.4.3
15 tasks
Preferences - File Pather - Re-order library with buttons #4867
Linux - Bforartists Thumbnail is crashing builds on Linux #4993
Interface - Glitchy border theme issues #4992
Crash when exiting Bforartists #4916
Restore dropping asset instance collection to scene origin #4975
Power User Tools - Add an operator to open folder of current blend file #4983
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Expose Grease Pencil operators to toolshelf #4979
3D View - Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Stroke header menu - Missing icons #4971
3D View - Wireframe Mode - Viewport Shading dropdown - Show Object Outline float left #4972
Properties editor - Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Missing icon in right click menu #4964
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Select menu - hide operators that don't work in Stroke Select mode #4743
Hotkeys - Mac OS needs reverting #4976
Properties editor - Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - right click menu - crash to desktop with merge group #4966
Asset Browser - Only show header properties based on collection asset types #4978
Asset Browser - Regression - The header props are in a sub-menu when exposed to top level with icons. #4977
Bforartists 4.4.2
Skipped Release
Bforartists 4.4.1
Skipped Release
Bforartists 4.4.0
33 Tasks
Bug - Asset Shelf context and legacy GP1 #4969
Hotkeys - Compositor - Hotkeys for Fast Preview, make discoverable #4923
Properties editor - Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Specials menu - same tooltip for duplicate tools # 4967
Inconsistency in Layer panel with grease pencil object # 4963
Properties editor - Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Isolate Layers - same tooltip, same name #4968
3D View - Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Active Tool float props left #4962
Node editor, new Utility nodes #4949
Asset Shelves - Tags - Add "quick" method to assign a node group to an asset shelf #4960
3D Viewport Tool shelf - enum "ERASE_DISCPLACEMENT" not found #4954
Asset Shelves - Node Editors - Remove blanket inclusion of nodegroups (that would show regardless of tag or editor type) #4959
Hotkeys - Add CTRL/ALT+F to outliner and properties editor to toggle outliner search focus, add to tooltip #4316
Sequencer - Bug: no strip selected retiming panel check throws errors #4927
Default Assets - Update assets to use tags instead of prefixes #4581
Power User Tools - Update the way it registers the addon #4958
Properties editor - Object data properties with grease pencil - Layers panel - specials menu - add missing icons # 4957
3D Viewport - Sidebar - Tool Tab - Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Advanced subpanel, make the brushes dropdown box read only #4951
Hotkeys - Update GP3 hotkeys to GP2 hotkeys #4601
Some tooltip content in the tool shelf does not show with Bforartists keymap #2102
Update / rewrite Building_Bforartists_with_Cmake_and_VS_2019_on_Windows.pdf #4921
AMD HIP - Cycles Failed to build BLAS #4912
Keybinds / Shortcuts missing from Lattice Edit Mode #4944
Sequencer - Preview - Duplicate operator now possible from the preview mode #4888
Need to remove VIEW3D_PT_shading_cavity from properties_render.py #4945
Need to remove VIEW3D_PT_shading_cavity from properties_render.py #4945
3D View - Workbench Overlays - Float depth of field left #4935
Compositor - Sidebar - Add tab - Keying - Chroma Key in icon only mode does nothing #4938
3D View - Workbench Overlays - Show collapsed indicator for Cavity #4936
Missing Icon (View_Camera_Unselected) #4934
Compositor - Float Output node Save as Render toggle #4933
Preferences - Interface - Line width prop is no-longer working #4937
Cycles - Re-enable HIP graphics cards gfx1150, gfx1151 and gfx1152 #4932
3D View - Set Parent to Vertex needs icon #4928
Text Editor - Float search properties left #4929
What's Changed
- Sync blender main - Week 16 by @Draise14 in #4990
- Sync blender main znight - Merge Week 18 - take 2 by @Draise14 in #4991
- Linux - Bforartists Thumbnail is crashing builds on Linux by @Draise14 in #4994
- Preferences - Add operator for reordering asset library paths by @Quackarooni in #5009
Full Changelog: v4.4.0...4.4.3
