Bforartists 4.4.3
Smart Primitives + Hotfix Update
Smart Primitives, plus showstopper fixes from Blender.
Blender 4.4.3 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 hotfix release with many showstopper fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4.3 and 4.5 to the date - with 15 new pieces of work from us.
What's new:
- New Smart Primitive assets and operators, with UVs, Gizmos and presets!!!
- New Asset Library reorder buttons
This 4.4.x series additionally includes:
- New quick "tag" assignment to show nodegroups in the relevant Asset Shelves
- New Quick Viewers for the compositor exposed to the header
- Default hotkey updates
Included new features from Blender:
- New Manifold (fastest) Boolean mode
- New Compositor Image Info node
- New Compositor Vector nodes and sockets
- New EEVEE Shadow Terminator
- New Geometry Nodes: Field Average, Min & Max, Field Varience, Grease Pencil Color/Opacity, Grease Pencil Layer Dpeth, Instance Bounding Box, Camera Info, and Mesh Normal Nodes
- New Visual Geometry to Objects operator
- New Import nodes
- New Antialiasing for Grease Pencil
- New Horizontal list for the Asset Browser
- Individual tabs for Properties Editor
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x series:
- New Glare node
- CPU compositor rewrite and performance update
- Much refinement to the UI
- New "disable" 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
- New Animation Slots to assign multiple objects to the same Action Clip
- And much much more
*Windows builds coming soon
Thanks again for all love, feedback and art and help!
- Bforartists-4.4.3-Linux.tar.xz
- Bforartists-4.4.3-Mac-Intel.dmg
- Bforartists-4.4.3-Mac-Silicon.dmg
- Bforartists-4.4.3-universal.dmg
- Bforartists-4.4.3-Windows.zip
- Bforartists-4.4.3-x86_64.AppImage
- bforartists_4.4.3.deb
- Install_Bforartists4_443.exe
- releasenote_bforartists4_443.txt
Grease Pencil
- Edit Mode - Expose Grease Pencil operators to toolshelf #4979
- Edit Mode - Select menu - hide operators that don't work in Stroke Select mode #4743
3D View
- Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Stroke header menu - Missing icons #4971
- Wireframe Mode - Viewport Shading dropdown - Show Object Outline float left #4972
Properties editor
- Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Missing icon in right click menu #4964
- Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - right click menu - crash to desktop with merge group #4966
Asset Browser
- Only show header properties based on collection asset types #4978
- Regression - The header props are in a sub-menu when exposed to top level with icons. #4977
Preferences
- File Pather - Re-order library with buttons #4867
Linux
- Bforartists Thumbnail is crashing builds on Linux #4993
Interface
- Glitchy border theme issues #4992
Power User Tools
- Add an operator to open folder of current blend file #4983
Hotkeys
- Mac OS needs reverting #4976
Other
- Crash when exiting Bforartists #4916
- Restore dropping asset instance collection to scene origin #4975
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