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2.9.0
11 Jun 2021
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Bforartists 2.9.0

Tool shelf tabs return, with features and fixes from Blender 2.93 LTS.

Blender 2.93

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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

Hello Friends,

There is a new Blender version available. And so there is also a new version from us.

Bforartists 2.9.0 brings the new features and fixes from Blender 2.93 LTS. Bforartists 2.9.0 is already based at Blender 3.0 Alpha. We have fixed the usual things to adopt the updates in Blender to Bforartists, like aligning new ui content left, human understandable tooltips, and adding new icons to the new tools. And the new editors in Blender 2.93 needed updates to fit to our UI philosophy too.

Bforartists 2.9.0 brings back the tool shelf tabs, which was one of the main works for this release. Most of the content from the header menus can now be found in the tool shelf too, as icon buttons. To show this tool shelf content is optional. You can turn it off if not needed. Another big ongoing project is to separate the tooltips in a proper way. The nodes now have each an icon in the viewport. The add menu content in the geometry nodes editor is also available in the sidebar in panels, with icon buttons if wanted. Which was the second big project in this release, and is still ongoing. And we have the usual small tweaks and changings. All in all we have over 280 changes in this release.

Many thanks to the team and everybody involved. Have fun with the new version - Reiner

  • Bforartists-2.9.0-Linux.tar.xz
  • bforartists-2.9.0.deb
  • bforartists2_290.zip
  • Install_Bforartists2_290.exe

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