29 Nov 2024

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Bforartists 4.3.0

The Colored Collection Rows Release

The Colored Collection Rows release.

Blender 4.3 and 4.4

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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.

This is an exciting release with all the latest from Blender 4.3 and 4.4 to the date - with a chunk of 130 pieces of love from us!

New Colored Collection Rows highlights
New Grease Pencil Nodegroups in the Default Library
New Silhouette toggle for the 3D View with the Power User Tools
New Asset Shelf category defaults and tag filtering, with additional thumbnail quick size buttons
Refined Grease Pencil 3 interface and UX
General maintenance, details, tooltips and refinement to everything new coming in from Blender

Included new features from Blender are:

New Geometry Nodes "For Each" zone, Grease Pencil nodes, and much more
New method to swap and resize areas
New Metal BSDF
Videos can now render in 10bit
New Animation Slots to assign multiple objects to the same Action Clip
And much more.

Thanks again for all your artwork, feedback and love! And a very special thanks to the community and developers for working this project.

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130

tasks and fixes

3D View

Asset Shelf - Filter geometry nodes to another tag "3D View" #4819
Overlays - Material mode is really Viewport Color mode #4324
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Make operators show in the correct context and header menus #4551
Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint mode - Update color swatches in sidebar #4772
Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint mode - Expose color swap to header #4773
Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint mode - Split color selector in header #4774
Brush Assets - Tool tab - Make "unsaved" indicator a little better #4770
Brush Assets - Context menu is tied to specials, so needs to be decoupled #4771
Brush Asset Shelf - Default to Active Brush filter #4765
Edit Mode - Select by trait - New Select by Pole Count operator #4738
Asset Shelves - Add the ability to see GN node groups too #4673
Header - Overly toggle on icon is wrong #4681
Animation - Update Bake Grease Pencil Animation to GP3 #4678
Grease Pencil - Edit mode - New (old) reset UV operator need iconography #4686
Grease Pencil - Weight Paint mode - Add icons to new (old) operators #4685
Grease Pencil - Edit mode - remove Weight menu from the Grease Pencil header menu #4687
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Update Cleanup operators #4688
Grease Pencil - show corect vertex draw menu (shows legacy) #4676
Gizmos - Collapse hidden (instead of dissappear) #4492
Object Header - missing icons in modifiers menu #4255
Text Object - Text - Special Character - Euro icon missing #4637

Grease Pencil

Draw Mode - Brush Settings panel regression #4522
Edit mode - Stroke - New Join operators #4739
Edit Mode - New Duplicate (move) operator #4741
Edit Mode - Select Grouped needs updating to GP3 #4742
Edit Mode - Select - Select Similar menu - add icons #4744
Edit Mode - Grease Pencil menu - Interpolate sequence regression, missing icon #4745
Edit Mode - missing Tools #4748
Draw Mode - Header - Update swap color toggle to GP3 #4728
Weight Paint mode - missing header menu #4640

Properties Editor

Make Bone transform properties the same as the Sidebar #4268
Armature - Edit and Pose mode - Bone - Viewport Display panels needs consistency #4679
Grease Pencil - Grease pencil layer menu shows wrong icon for group #4654
Modifiers - View toggle has wrong icon when on #4629

Dopesheet

Action Editor mode - Improve Action Slots icon #4778
Action Editor mode - Add icons to new Action header menu #4768
Grease Pencil Object - Grease Pencil track theme bug #3240
Drop down icon in Channels is the wrong icon #4680

Geometry Nodes

Curves - Operations - New Grease Pencil nodes #4671
New Integer Math node #4683
Output - New Warning node #4634
Utility - Math - New Hash Value node #4636

Default Library

Geometry Nodes - Add new Grease Pencil utilities #4785
Update Screen Space Radius for curves to allow layers #4749
Geometry Nodes - Grease Pencil - New Screen Space Radius node #4672

Outliner

Add a user toggle to turn collection color block highlights on or off #4788
Colored collection rows #4779
Grease Pencil filter needs to be indented #4623

Asset Shelf

Add thumbnail quick size toggles for consistency #4258
Default to filtering by Active Brush #4736
Add view pre-set sizes for thumbnails #4670

Sequencer

Text Effect - New alignment features needs labels and indents #4764
Connect/Disconnect strips needs iconography #4735
Select linked missing #4734

Power User Tools

Remove Grease Pencil bake operator #4816
Button to toggle viewport silhouette #4729

Node Editors

Add SHIFT+CTRL+LMB to connect to preview node to header #4323
Pin node tree icon has wrong icon when activated #4628

Icon

Update Geometry Set icon #4557
Folder icon in file browser is offset again, goes over text. #4726

Shader Nodes

Hint Shader AOV output from Cycles and realtime compositor #4630
New Metallic BSDF node #4633

Icons

New info bar keyboars icons, update to our system #4559
File Browser Folder icon could be improved #4635

Keymap

Trackpad scrolling on UIlists #4746
Add forward and back mouse buttons to File Browser #4653

3d view header

consolidate overlay grease pencil options panel #4664
overlay grease pencil options panel has no title in the tooltip #4665

Hotkeys

Add wheel scroll to User Interface for UI Lists #4696
Add GP3 context menus #4643

Other

Crash to desktop with switching to another editor type #4821
Check space_toolbar.cc for needed updates #4822
View > Area menu, horizontal and vertical split and its icons #4797
RNA_boolean_get: OperatorStrokeElement.pen_flip not found. #4796
Preferences, Editing, Video Sequencer panel, align props left #4794
Grease Pencil Trim Tool #4776
Update userdef_default_theme #4782
Show Toolshelf Tab property C code, change NULL to nullptr #4789
Texture painting, tool panel, Brush settings, Texture mask subpanels, align content left #4783
Grease Pencil, Drawmode, cleanup options #4758
GP in Edit mode, multi frame options, hide instead of grey out #4760
3D View, view menu, pie menus, fallback pie menu not active #4752
Change SWAP_AREAS icon name back to AREA_SWAP #4731
Lib folder differences between Bforartists and Blender #4473
3D view + UV Editor, UV menu, add icon to new unwrap method Minimum stretch #4701
3D view + toolbar, add unwrap method Minimum Stretch to toolbar and toolshelf #4705
3D View, Edit mode, UV menu, hotkey for clear seam not displayed in menu #4708
Edit Mode, 3D view + UV Editor UV menu, last operators Unwrap, align content left #4700
Grease Pencil in draw mode, Guides setting not in Blender #4454
Hip binary kernel not found #4537
Mesh object, Edit mode, Mirror buttons squished #4721
Grease Pencil in draw mode, double entries in header #4719
3D view + UV Editor, UV menu, fix tooltip for unwrap operators #4702
warning: "/*" within comment [-Wcomment] during compile #4692
Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Layers panel, masks subpanel. add icons to specials menu #4661
Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Add Extra menu - move otpions out of the menu #4656
Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Add Extra menu - missing icons #4655
Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Grease pencil layer menu, add group operators to Add Extra menu #4658
Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Grease pencil layer menu, missing icons #4657
Asset Shelves - Expose default more categories #4818
Grease Pencil in Draw mode - sidebar - tool tab - brush settings panel - collapse curves into sub-panels like with GP #4810
Regression - Selected Pose Bones should keyframe single channel while holding ALT with the keyframe prop #4607
Asset Browser - Display panel - Add a "Sort By" label to the properties there #4815
Goo Engine - Option to disable Material Icon rendering. #4808
Appdir Caching - moving to our own folder name. #4812
Goo engine - Copy Rotation constraint: Add Invert all option. #4802
Outliner_draw.cc - Missing declarations for calculate_hierarchy_depth and calculate_children_height #4799
Brushes - update Brush asset panel #4792
General - When creating a "new" item, it duplicates. Update icon and tooltip to reflect. #4367
Default Addons - X3D is back to core, meaning pull from Legacy addons #4403
Grease Pencil Layer panel - missing icons in Specials menu #4762
Secondary Window label - Change to "Bforartists" #4697
Grease pencil in draw mode - legacy Layer prop #4619
File - External Reserouces - Unpack menu needs iconography #4642
UV Image Editor - current value 3 matches no enum in SpaceImageEditor #4754
Topbar - Primitives - Image category operator hidden in the general version #4596
Edit mode - Grease pencil menu - remove double menu entries #4753
Batch Renamer - Add icons to the wall of text #4751
VSE - Preview - assign W E R hotkeys to the tool shelf tools #2709
Core Addon - Remove 3D Viewport pie menus and include in legacy #4531
Image Editor, 3D View - New UV Unwrap Minimum Stretch mode #4682
Properties Editor Grease Pencil - Layers - Expose "move to top/bottom" as operators #4675
Hair object in sculpt mode - Mirror buttons, Button labels text instead of icons #4723
Topbar toolbar - rna_uiItemO: unknown operator 'object.vertex_group_fix' #4709
Unwrap Operators - Better tooltips #4684
Top Bar - Edit Group - Object Clear sub-group missing in global settings #4620
User Preferences - Extensions - Uninstall Operator keep always active #4649
Object menu in 3D View - move modifiers sub menu to the modifiers panel in Properties editor. #4646
Object menu in viewport - put move to collection into the collection sub menu #4647
Preferences - Hotkeys - Dropdown icon is wrong icon #4631

Splashscreen is kindly provided by Ethan Avila, an honorable runner up up of the last Splashscreen competition hosted in the Discord server.

Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters