Bforartists 2.8.0
Node editor tabs, orbit around selection and a grid toggle, with Blender 2.92.
Blender 2.92
Convert rotation mode for animation
Convert keyframes between rotation modes with Ctrl R.
Geometry Nodes for volumes and curves
Rasterize Points, Poisson Solver and Construct Curves.
EEVEE lighting nodes and panoramic cameras
Toon shading and lighting effects, plus equirectangular, fisheye and mirror ball cameras.
Compositor effects stack and Bundle nodes
Effects organised as a stack, with grouped data handling.
Smarter scene strips
Scene strips update their length on their own, and many datablocks drop straight onto the timeline.
OpenTimelineIO
Import and export edits to and from other editing software.
Ripple editing in the Sequencer
Ripple, Shuffle and Overwrite overlap modes (R, S, V), Ripple Trim and Ripple Delete.
Comment node
Annotate node trees, with Markdown formatting.
Custom Outliner sorting
Arrange objects anywhere in the Outliner.
Sidebar Search
Find any property or operator in any editor's sidebar, add-on tabs included.
Easier extensions
Legacy pre-downloaded extensions install and uninstall in fewer clicks, and the Asset Libraries filter has an icon.
Clearer themes
Node highlights stand out more, and curve handle colours are easier to read.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hello Friends,
There is a new Blender version available. And so there is also a new version from us.
Bforartists 2.8.0 brings the new features and fixes from Blender 2.92. Bforartists 2.8.0 is already based at Blender 2.93 Alpha.
In Bforartists we have fixed the usual things to adopt the updates in Blender to Bforartists, like aligning new ui content left, and adding new icons to the new tools. Zhe number of changes is rather small in this release since we had a release before a month already. But there are some interesting highlights.
In the image editor and with a render result selected you don't see the tools anymore that you can't use. The node editors are now connected by tab buttons, like we did with the animation editors before. So that you can switch from shader editor to compositor editor with one mouse click. Orbit around selection is now the default rotation behaviour. You can now show and hide the groundgrid with one button, and for all views. You can now lock the rotation. Useful for working in the 2d animation template where you can easily accidentally rotate the viewport. We have also removed some old mistakes. The radial hotkey menu entries are removed since they did not show the hotkeys in all cases. You can now read the hotkey in the tooltip of the brush sliders. The new geometry nodes editor receives permanently new nodes, which requires us to create new icons and add them to the sidebar too. The Align Views addon has been expanded to include some of the most frequently used overlay settings, so that, for example, the 3D cursor or the ground grid can be switched on and off directly in the header. Optional of course. Customization is one of the goals of Bforartists.
Many thanks to the team and everybody involved. Have fun with the new version - Reiner
- Bforartist-v280-Linux.tar.xz
- Bforartists-v280.deb
- bforartists2_280.zip
- Install_Bforartists2_280.exe