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0.9.0
3 Mar 2017
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Bforartists 0.9.0

Blender 2.78c features come to Bforartists.

Blender 2.78c

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Convert rotation mode for animation

Convert keyframes between rotation modes with Ctrl R.

Convert rotation mode for animation

Geometry Nodes for volumes and curves

Rasterize Points, Poisson Solver and Construct Curves.

Geometry Nodes for volumes and curves

EEVEE lighting nodes and panoramic cameras

Toon shading and lighting effects, plus equirectangular, fisheye and mirror ball cameras.

EEVEE lighting nodes and panoramic cameras

Compositor effects stack and Bundle nodes

Effects organised as a stack, with grouped data handling.

Compositor effects stack and Bundle nodes

Smarter scene strips

Scene strips update their length on their own, and many datablocks drop straight onto the timeline.

Smarter scene strips

OpenTimelineIO

Import and export edits to and from other editing software.

OpenTimelineIO

Ripple editing in the Sequencer

Ripple, Shuffle and Overwrite overlap modes (R, S, V), Ripple Trim and Ripple Delete.

Ripple editing in the Sequencer

Comment node

Annotate node trees, with Markdown formatting.

Comment node

Custom Outliner sorting

Arrange objects anywhere in the Outliner.

Custom Outliner sorting

Sidebar Search

Find any property or operator in any editor's sidebar, add-on tabs included.

Sidebar Search

Easier extensions

Legacy pre-downloaded extensions install and uninstall in fewer clicks, and the Asset Libraries filter has an icon.

Easier extensions

Clearer themes

Node highlights stand out more, and curve handle colours are easier to read.

Clearer themes

Cleaner menus

Double entries are gone (Import FBX, Link to Scene, Snap, Implicit Conversion). Pose and Weight Paint get Show/Hide submenus, and tool shelves follow the Add menu order.

Cleaner menus

30+ new node icons

New Geometry Nodes, Shader light nodes and Compositor nodes get icons and tool shelf entries: Comment, XPBD Solver, Construct Curves, Rasterize Points, Grid Solve Poisson, Combine List and the Bundle nodes.

30+ new node icons

Ripple Delete, lasso select and tidy footers

  • Ripple Delete closes the gap when a strip goes.
  • Lasso select uses the same hotkeys as the other editors.
  • Keyframing tools sit together in the Timeline footers, with matching frame range icons.
Ripple Delete, lasso select and tidy footers

Edit scene strips right in the Dopesheet

Scene strips get gizmos in the Dopesheet: drag their edges to change the frame range, without opening the Sequencer.

Edit scene strips right in the Dopesheet

Roll the view from the navigation gizmo

Drag left or right on the navigation gizmo to roll the view. An angle readout follows the drag, so a tilt is easy to undo.

Roll buttons and a hotkey sit in the 3D View sidebar too.

Roll the view from the navigation gizmo

Version 0.9.0 brings the features of Blender 2.78 C to Bforartists. Wich is a big step towards version 1.0. Just some minor changes and rearrangements are missing now at the software. The biggest part will be documentation. And there is a ton of work waiting here.

The merge with Blender 2.78 makes the very most issues in the release note. It was necessary to go through nearly every formerly implementation. So don't wonder that the release log is this huge. Fingers crossed that not too much is broken by the merge.

But we also have some changes here and there. The hotkey map gots a few new entries from Blender 2.78. I still have to find out what is what, if those new entries are really necessary. And i have to fix the manual part for the keymap. Another bigger issue is that the toolbar uses internally now the AddonPreferences of an addon to store its props. Which means that you now have to save the user preferences instead of saving the startup file to store the changes. The former implementation made trouble with loading a file. The toolbar gots reset by that.

The binary download can be found in the download section: http://www.bforartists.de/content/download

More info can be found in the Release Note: http://www.bforartists.de/wiki/bforartistsreleasenotev090

And many thanks to the team :)

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