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15 Feb 2025
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Bforartists 4.3.3

Hotfix for Colored Collection Rows Release

Hotfix for the Colored Collection Rows release.

Blender 4.3 and 4.4

Splash art by
Ethan Avila

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

This is a hotfix and commulative stability release with 7 show-stopper bug fixes, including the missing Last Operator panel, HIP support, and theme saving.

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 176 pieces of love from us this cycle.

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

What's new with the 4.3 series!

Additionally includes:

  • Horizontal walk navigation lock
  • Smarter Smart delete in Mesh Edit mode (removes isolated geometry now)
  • 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 editing of Text Strips in the Preview of the Sequencer editor
  • New Geometry Nodes: Find in String, Collection and Object Input
  • 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
  • And much more.
  • Bforartists-4.3.3-Linux.tar.xz
  • Bforartists-4.3.3-Mac-Intel.dmg
  • Bforartists-4.3.3-Mac-Silicon.dmg
  • Bforartists-4.3.3-universal.dmg
  • Bforartists-4.3.3-Windows.zip
  • Bforartists-4.3.3-x86_64.AppImage
  • bforartists_4.3.3.deb
  • Install_Bforartists4_433.exe
  • releasenote_bforartists4_433.txt

tasks and fixes

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

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