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21 Nov 2019
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Bforartists 2 Alpha 0.8.0

Icon cleanup and the usual small steps toward a consistent UI.

Blender 2.82 Alpha

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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,

We have the next version of Bforartists 2 ready. Bforartists 2 Alpha 0.8.0

And the release note is here: https://www.bforartists.de/wiki/bforartists2releasenotev080

Again we did lots of changes and improvements and cleanup work at the icons. Some icons looked too washy or ugly, so we updated them.

Besides that it was the usual minor fixes and tweaks. Like removing a confirmation dialog in the image editor, or adding some hotkey only functionality to the menus. We catched some bugs. It was for example impossible to rotate the view while in knife mode. We have added the Blender hotkey here now, MMB. We found and fixed some more menus with missing icons. Some context menus did not show, they are now also all iconized. Linux builds did have some wrong paths, which could collide with a Blender installation. And we have of course catched and removed a few double menu entries. All in all it was the usual little small steps to make the UI more consistent and user friendly.

Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3d software Blender. The primary goal of Bforartists is to deliver a better graphical UI and a better usability. Bforartists 2 Alpha 0.8.0 is based at Blender 2.82 Alpha. And is of course free.

Have fun with the new version - Reiner

  • bforartists2_alpha_080.zip
  • Install_Bforartists2_Alpha_080.exe

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