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0.9.4
15 Sep 2017
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Bforartists 0.9.4

Denoiser, PBR shader and Filmic from Blender 2.79, plus a showstopper fix.

Blender 2.79

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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

Bforartists 0.9.4 is out. You can grab it in the download section: https://www.bforartists.de/content/download

For the changes please have a look at the Bforartists 0.9.3 release note. Version 0.9.4 was an emergency release because of a showstopper, and fixes just one bug. The release notes can be found here: https://www.bforartists.de/wiki/release-notes

This new version brings all the goodies from Blender 2.79. Like Denoiser, PBR Shader, Shadow Catcher, Flimic Color Management, etc. . Please have a look at the Blender 2.79 release note at the Blender page for the new features. Important is the compatibility note. Blender 2.79 is not fully backwards compatible to earlier version anymore. And this affects of course Bforartists 0.9.4 too.

The changes in Bforartists itself since the last version sums up to over 100 changes again, but are each rather small. The last weeks and months were in big parts spent at documentation and tutorials. Unbelievable how time consuming this chapter is. That's why Bforartists 0.9.3 brings mainly fixes and some small changes and cleanup operations. And we had some inconsistencies in the hotkeys again. F2 to call the console is removed since it conflicts with Linux build. The Properties sidebars now all opens with Ctrl T, not longer with N. And we have readded the hotkey to Loopcut and Slide, since it is a fundamental modeling tool, and often used.

Have Fun

Reiner

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