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Bforartists 2.8.0 brings the new features and fixes from Blender 2.92. Bforartists 2.8.0 is already based at Blender 2.93 Alpha.

In Bforartists we have fixed the usual things to adopt the updates in Blender to Bforartists, like aligning new ui content left, and adding new icons to the new tools. Zhe number of changes is rather small in this release since we had a release before a month already. But there are some interesting highlights.

In the image editor and with a render result selected you don't see the tools anymore that you can't use. The node editors are now connected by tab buttons, like we did with the animation editors before. So that you can switch from shader editor to compositor editor with one mouse click. Orbit around selection is now the default rotation behaviour. You can now show and hide the groundgrid with one button, and for all views. You can now lock the rotation. Useful for working in the 2d animation template where you can easily accidentally rotate the viewport. We have also removed some old mistakes. The radial hotkey menu entries are removed since they did not show the hotkeys in all cases. You can now read the hotkey in the tooltip of the brush sliders. The new geometry nodes editor receives permanently new nodes, which requires us to create new icons and add them to the sidebar too. The Align Views addon has been expanded to include some of the most frequently used overlay settings, so that, for example, the 3D cursor or the ground grid can be switched on and off directly in the header. Optional of course. Customization is one of the goals of Bforartists.

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Release Note Bforartists 2 version 2.8.0 - 27.02.2021

Image Editor - hide disfunctional tools and settings for render result #2142
Motion Tracking - sliders with text in the slider #1866
File browser - append - sidebar - make the options more compact #2193
Compilation warnings #2207
Grease pencil modifiers - put apply into the header #2185
Node Editors - Add quick toggles to the different node editors #2245 - added toggles between compositor, shader and geometry node editors
3D View Overlays, hide Origins (All) prop when inactive #2258
3D View - Quick Toggles for Grid, Wireframe and decorations #1652 - optimized layout
3D View - Quick Toggles for Grid, Wireframe and decorations #1652 - added further most used overlay elements
3D View - Quick Toggles for Grid, Wireframe and decorations #1652 - added the groundgrid button to the align view buttons addon
Radial Control hotkeys not longer showing in the text menu items #2250 - Removed UI entries, added hotkey hint to the tooltips
Make Orbit around Selection the default #2239
Geometry nodes - add new node String to the sidebar, add icon to header #2252
Grease Pencil in Draw mode, new interpolate tool - Active tool settings UI layout problem #2254
Dopesheet in Grease Pencil mode - key menu - rework merge changes #2253
Grease Pencil menu in edit mode - Interpolate Sequence needs icon #2251
Keymap - Update the brush to confirm on release #2249
Ctrl (oskey) + s to save does not work #2248 - removed double, removed repeat true
Ctrl (oskey) + s to save does not work #2248
Viewport Overlays - make Grid checkbox work for all views, not just orthographic #1479 - axes fix
Viewport Overlays - make Grid checkbox work for all views, not just orthographic
Grease Pencil - Layer dropdown - specials menu - add icon to Duplicate empty Keyframes #2196
3D View - Hidden Lock Rotation operator add to UI #1584
Video Sequencer - View Waveform options missing #2241 - removed double entry cache menu
Add new geometry nodes to the sidebar #2240
Grease Pencil draw mode with fill tool - Advanced panel - align props left #2238
Typoe in Neighbor Rejection tooltip #2236
Eevee depth of field panel - align props left #2235 - more compact layout
Keymap conflict with F5 #2234
Eevee depth of field panel - align props left #2235
3d view - object menu - relations - add icon to convert proxy to override #2197
Bevel - Adjust last operation panel - middle aligned props #2051
Shader Editor - missing icons, missing entries in the sidebar #2186
More buttons indicator missing from Tweak button #2206
Adjust last operation convert to - align keep original prop left #2216
Geometry nodes editor - add new nodes to the sidebar, add icons #2212 - fixed wrong named icons
Geometry nodes editor - add new nodes to the sidebar, add icons #2212
Remove white background from the resize icon #2229
Image Editor - Image menu - missing icons #2226
Force Field - align Affect Location left #2227
Add tools - Tool tab in sidebar - indent base and height content #2228
old changes shadowing newer changes introduced by Blender #2224 - removed redundant code parts
Context menus - changed order, double entries, changed tool names #2214
Geometry Nodes Editor - Attribute Sample Texture - change Unlink Data Block to Remove Texture #2213
Text editor - fill line with holding down key doesn't work #2155
Add Object tool in toolshelf - tool settings - align auto axis prop left #2211






