Bforartists 4.4.0
Feature and Stability Update
Feature and stability update with over 700 fixes from Blender.
Blender 4.4 and 4.5
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 stability release with over 700 fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4 and 4.5 to the date - with a 33 pieces of love from us.
Additionally includes
- New quick "tag" assignment to show nodegroups in the relevant Asset Shelves
- New Quick Viewers for the compositor exposed to a top level
- Default hotkey updates
Included new features from Blender are
- New Glare node
- CPU compositor rewrite and performance update
- Much refinement to the UI
- New "disabled" mode of properties in nodes and modifiers
- New editor snapping
- New sculpt plane brush
- New Select by Pole Count and Topology Influence
- Relationship Overlays improved
- Rigging got love
- New Fcurve noise modifier
Thanks again for all your artwork, feedback and love! And a very special thanks to the community and developers for working this project.
- Bforartists-4.4.0-Linux.tar.xz
- Bforartists-4.4.0-Mac-Intel.dmg
- Bforartists-4.4.0-Mac-Silicon.dmg
- Bforartists-4.4.0-Windows.zip
- Bforartists-4.4.0-x86_64.AppImage
- bforartists_4.4.0.deb
- Install_Bforartists4_440.exe
- releasenote_bforartists4_440.txt
3D View
- Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Active Tool float props left #4962
- Workbench Overlays - Float depth of field left #4935
- Workbench Overlays - Show collapsed indicator for Cavity #4936
- Set Parent to Vertex needs icon #4928
Hotkeys
- Compositor - Hotkeys for Fast Preview, make discoverable #4923
- Add CTRL/ALT+F to outliner and properties editor to toggle outliner search focus, add to tooltip #4316
- Update GP3 hotkeys to GP2 hotkeys #4601
Properties editor
- Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Specials menu - same tooltip for duplicate tools # 4967
- Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Isolate Layers - same tooltip, same name #4968
- Object data properties with grease pencil - Layers panel - specials menu - add missing icons # 4957
Asset Shelves
- Tags - Add "quick" method to assign a node group to an asset shelf #4960
- Node Editors - Remove blanket inclusion of nodegroups (that would show regardless of tag or editor type) #4959
Sequencer
- Bug: no strip selected retiming panel check throws errors #4927
- Preview - Duplicate operator now possible from the preview mode #4888
Compositor
- Sidebar - Add tab - Keying - Chroma Key in icon only mode does nothing #4938
- Float Output node Save as Render toggle #4933
Other
- Inconsistency in Layer panel with grease pencil object # 4963
- Node editor, new Utility nodes #4949
- Some tooltip content in the tool shelf does not show with Bforartists keymap #2102
- Update / rewrite Building_Bforartists_with_Cmake_and_VS_2019_on_Windows.pdf #4921
- Keybinds / Shortcuts missing from Lattice Edit Mode #4944
- Need to remove VIEW3D_PT_shading_cavity from properties_render.py #4945
- Missing Icon (View_Camera_Unselected) #4934
- Bug - Asset Shelf context and legacy GP1 #4969
- 3D Viewport Tool shelf - enum "ERASE_DISCPLACEMENT" not found #4954
- Default Assets - Update assets to use tags instead of prefixes #4581
- Power User Tools - Update the way it registers the addon #4958
- 3D Viewport - Sidebar - Tool Tab - Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Advanced subpanel, make the brushes dropdown box read only #4951
- AMD HIP - Cycles Failed to build BLAS #4912
- Preferences - Interface - Line width prop is no-longer working #4937
- Cycles - Re-enable HIP graphics cards gfx1150, gfx1151 and gfx1152 #4932
- Text Editor - Float search properties left #4929
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Andres Stephens, one of the core developers.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters