Bforartists 4.3.1
Hotfix for the Colored Collection Rows Release
Hotfix for the Colored Collection Rows release.
Blender 4.3 and 4.4
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 a hotfix release with 9 bug fixes including a critical showstopper. Highly recommend updating to this version!
This is part of 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 this cycle.
Thanks again for all your artwork, feedback and love! And a very special thanks to the community and developers for working this project.
What's new with the 4.3 series!
From Bforartists:
- 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:
- Bforartists-4.3.1-Linux.tar.xz
- Bforartists-4.3.1-Mac-Intel.dmg
- Bforartists-4.3.1-Mac-Silicon.dmg
- Bforartists-4.3.1-universal.dmg
- Bforartists-4.3.1-Windows.zip
- Bforartists-4.3.1-x86_64.AppImage
- bforartists_4.3.1.deb
- Install_Bforartists4_431.exe
- releasenote_bforartists4_431.txt
Grease Pencil in Draw mode
- Box tool in toolshelf errors #4836
- Brush settings - align props left #4835
- Sidebar - align props left #4838
Power User Tools
- 3D View - move silhuette out of the Xray toggle so it won't "disable" #4831
- Update grease pencil insert and remove keyframe operators #4825
Other
- Brush asset panel specials menu - Edit Metadata - add OK to the ok button #4833
- Goo Engine - Add 'Hide in Outliner' option to pose bones and new outliner #4806
- Hard Crash when editing a text object in the official release #4827
- Important Hotkeys addon dysfunctional #4829
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