Bforartists 4 version 4.3.2 - Cumulative Hotfix for Colored Collection Rows Release This is a hotfix and commulative stability release with 37 bug fixes, features and updates - including a few critical showstopper bugs. 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 **139** pieces of love from us this cycle New: - Horizontal walk navigation lock - Smarter Smart delete in Mesh Edit mode (removes isolated geometry now) Additionally includes: - 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 Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2 Downloads: https://www.bforartists.de/download/ Blender Launcher https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2/releases Windows App https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PD5L5XBRMR0?ocid=pdpshare Release Notes: https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/ Splashscreen is kindly provided by Ethan Avila, an honorable runner up up of the last Splashscreen competition hosted in the Discord server. Thanks again for all your artwork, feedback and love! And a very special thanks to the community and developers for working this project. Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters -------------------- Bforartists 4.3.2 37 Tasks File Browser - Folder icons are offset and too transparent #4882 Sequencer - strip tag update #4904 User Preferences - Turn off Load UI as a default #4902 3D View - Interactive Light Track should be in Object Context Menu #4213 Preferences - Turn on Developer Extras and Python Tooltips per a default for discoverability #4903 Dopesheet - Action Editor mode - Improve Tooltip about slots #4769 Smart Delete - Add feature to know when to delete single vertices or edges #4900 Hotkey overriding modal key in loop cut operation #4840 Hotkeys - Sequencer - Text Object - Double click to edit + ESC to exit #4890 Official Release - Bforartists 4.3.1 #4846 Addon - Default Library - Register default asset shelf categories to use the Default Library categories #4582 Sequencer - Text strips can now edit, update operators and hotkeys #4889 Hotkeys - Sequencer Preview - Add hotkeys to use the Edit text #4891 Outliner - Exclude checkbox tooltip could be more explicit #4843 Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Text - New Find in String node #4892 3D View - Panel Right Click menu - Expose the "reset zoom" operator #4855 3D View - Set Parent Menu context missing labels and icons #4897 Node Groups - Sidebar - Boolean default float left #4894 3D View - Rename 'Frame Selected' Menu operator to 'Frame Last Stroke' to be more explicit #4893 Topbar - Creating torus doesn't use Cursor position when triggered from another editor #4841 Node Editors - Nodegroups now have two header icons #4883 Geometry Nodes - New Collection and Object input nodes #4886 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - New Set Start Point #4885 Sequencer - Add "Remove Gaps (All)" to sidebar #4884 Update Windows Github actions script to be relative #4848 Topbar - Toolbar primitive images are greyed out and don't work #4844 Error in space_node.py #4876 Navigation - Add horizontally locked game like navigation as an opt-in #4849 macOS build missing icon #4874 Cycles - Point Light has missing shadow properties #4864 3D View - Grease Pencil - Draw mode - Vertex Color mode - Wrong sized swap and pin operatorsion header #4866 Timeline Editor - Autokey on frame has wrong icon #4865 Bforartists About shows wrong version number #4863 3D View - Header overlays - Toggle ground grid only toggles ortho grid #4854 Animation Tab does not Obey Tool Shelf Tabs Toggle when Armature is in scene #4856 3D View - Drawing primitives from the toolbar fails #4850 Launching Bforartists from the provided command scripts are only for Blender #4842 Blender Release Notes https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/ https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.3/ -------------------- Bforartists 4.3.1 9 Tasks Brush asset panel specials menu - Edit Metadata - add OK to the ok button #4833 Grease pencil in draw mode - sidebar - align props left #4838 Grease Pencil in Draw mode - Box tool in toolshelf errors #4836 Grease Pencil in Draw mode - Brush settings - align props left #4835 Goo Engine - Add 'Hide in Outliner' option to pose bones and new outliner #4806 Important Hotkeys addon dysfunctional #4829 Power User Tools - 3D View - move silhuette out of the Xray toggle so it won't "disable"#4831 Power User Tools - Update grease pencil insert and remove keyframe operators #4825 Hard Crash - When editing a text object in the official release #4827 -------------------- Bforartists 4.3.0 130 Tasks Crash to desktop with switching to another editor type #4821 Check space_toolbar.cc for needed updates #4822 3D View - Asset Shelf - Filter geometry nodes to another tag "3D View" #4819 Asset Shelves - Expose default more categories #4818 Grease Pencil in Draw mode - sidebar - tool tab - brush settings panel - collapse curves into sub-panels like with GP #4810 Power User Tools - Remove Grease Pencil bake operator #4816 Default Library - Geometry Nodes - Add new Grease Pencil utilities #4785 Regression - Selected Pose Bones should keyframe single channel while holding ALT with the keyframe prop #4607 Asset Browser - Display panel - Add a "Sort By" label to the properties there #4815 Goo Engine - Option to disable Material Icon rendering. #4808 Appdir Caching - moving to our own folder name. #4812 Properties Editor - Make Bone transform properties the same as the Sidebar #4268 Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Brush Settings panel regression #4522 3D View - Overlays - Material mode is really Viewport Color mode #4324 Goo engine - Copy Rotation constraint: Add Invert all option. #4802 outliner_draw.cc - Missing declarations for calculate_hierarchy_depth and calculate_children_height #4799 View > Area menu, horizontal and vertical split and its icons #4797 RNA_boolean_get: OperatorStrokeElement.pen_flip not found. #4796 Brushes - update Brush asset panel #4792 Outliner - Add a user toggle to turn collection color block highlights on or off #4788 Preferences, Editing, Video Sequencer panel, align props left #4794 General - When creating a "new" item, it duplicates. Update icon and tooltip to reflect. #4367 Grease Pencil Trim Tool #4776 Update userdef_default_theme #4782 Show Toolshelf Tab property C code, change NULL to nullptr #4789 Outliner - Colored collection rows #4779 Node Editors - Add SHIFT+CTRL+LMB to connect to preview node to header #4323 Default Addons - X3D is back to core, meaning pull from Legacy addons #4403 Dopesheet - Action Editor mode - Improve Action Slots icon #4778 Icon - Update Geometry Set icon #4557 3D View - Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Make operators show in the correct context and header menus #4551 Texture painting, tool panel, Brush settings, Texture mask subpanels, align content left #4783 3D View - Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint mode - Update color swatches in sidebar #4772 3D View - Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint mode - Expose color swap to header #4773 3D View - Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint mode - Split color selector in header #4774 Dopesheet - Action Editor mode - Add icons to new Action header menu #4768 Asset Shelf - Add thumbnail quick size toggles for consistency #4258 3D View - Brush Assets - Tool tab - Make "unsaved" indicator a little better #4770 3D View - Brush Assets - Context menu is tied to specials, so needs to be decoupled #4771 Sequencer - Text Effect - New alignment features needs labels and indents #4764 3D View - Brush Asset Shelf - Default to Active Brush filter #4765 Shader Nodes - Hint Shader AOV output from Cycles and realtime compositor #4630 Grease Pencil Layer panel - missing icons in Specials menu #4762 Grease Pencil, Drawmode, cleanup options #4758 GP in Edit mode, multi frame options, hide instead of grey out #4760 Geometry Nodes - Curves - Operations - New Grease Pencil nodes #4671 Secondary Window label - Change to "Bforartists" #4697 Grease pencil in draw mode - legacy Layer prop #4619 File - External Reserouces - Unpack menu needs iconography #4642 3D View - Edit Mode - Select by trait - New Select by Pole Count operator #4738 UV Image Editor - current value 3 matches no enum in SpaceImageEditor #4754 Topbar - Primitives - Image category operator hidden in the general version #4596 Grease Pencil - Edit mode - Stroke - New Join operators #4739 Edit mode - Grease pencil menu - remove double menu entries #4753 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - New Duplicate (move) operator #4741 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Select Grouped needs updating to GP3 #4742 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Select - Select Similar menu - add icons #4744 3D View, view menu, pie menus, fallback pie menu not active #4752 Icons - New info bar keyboars icons, update to our system #4559 Batch Renamer - Add icons to the wall of text #4751 Dopesheet - Grease Pencil Object - Grease Pencil track theme bug #3240 Default Library - Update Screen Space Radius for curves to allow layers #4749 VSE - Preview - assign W E R hotkeys to the tool shelf tools #2709 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Grease Pencil menu - Interpolate sequence regression, missing icon #4745 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - missing Tools #4748 Keymap - Trackpad scrolling on UIlists #4746 Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Header - Update swap color toggle to GP3 #4728 3D View - Asset Shelves - Add the ability to see GN node groups too #4673 Asset Shelf - Default to filtering by Active Brush #4736 Sequencer - Connect/Disconnect strips needs iconography #4735 Sequencer - Select linked missing #4734 Change SWAP_AREAS icon name back to AREA_SWAP #4731 Core Addon - Remove 3D Viewport pie menus and include in legacy #4531 Lib folder differences between Bforartists and Blender #4473 Power User Tools - Button to toggle viewport silhouette #4729 3D view + UV Editor, UV menu, add icon to new unwrap method Minimum stretch #4701 3D view + toolbar, add unwrap method Minimum Stretch to toolbar and toolshelf #4705 Image Editor, 3D View - New UV Unwrap Minimum Stretch mode #4682 3D View, Edit mode, UV menu, hotkey for clear seam not displayed in menu #4708 3D View - Header - Overly toggle on icon is wrong #4681 Edit Mode, 3D view + UV Editor UV menu, last operators Unwrap, align content left #4700 Properties Editor Grease Pencil - Layers - Expose "move to top/bottom" as operators #4675 Properties Editor - Armature - Edit and Pose mode - Bone - Viewport Display panels needs consistency #4679 3D View - Animation - Update Bake Grease Pencil Animation to GP3 #4678 Grease Pencil in draw mode, Guides setting not in Blender #4454 Icon - Folder icon in file browser is offset again, goes over text. #4726 Hip binary kernel not found #4537 Hair object in sculpt mode - Mirror buttons, Button labels text instead of icons #4723 Mesh object, Edit mode, Mirror buttons squished #4721 Grease Pencil in draw mode, double entries in header #4719 Shader Nodes - New Metallic BSDF node #4633 3d view header - consolidate overlay grease pencil options panel #4664 Geometry Nodes - New Integer Math node #4683 3d view header - overlay grease pencil options panel has no title in the tooltip #4665 Topbar toolbar - rna_uiItemO: unknown operator 'object.vertex_group_fix' #4709 Unwrap Operators - Better tooltips #4684 3D view + UV Editor, UV menu, fix tooltip for unwrap operators #4702 3D View - Grease Pencil - Edit mode - New (old) reset UV operator need iconography #4686 3D View - Grease Pencil - Weight Paint mode - Add icons to new (old) operators #4685 Hotkeys - Add wheel scroll to User Interface for UI Lists #4696 Dopesheet - Drop down icon in Channels is the wrong icon #4680 warning: "/*" within comment [-Wcomment] during compile #4692 Asset Shelf - Add view pre-set sizes for thumbnails #4670 3D View - Grease Pencil - Edit mode - remove Weight menu from the Grease Pencil header menu #4687 3D View - Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Update Cleanup operators #4688 3D View - Grease Pencil - show corect vertex draw menu (shows legacy) #4676 Default Library - Geometry Nodes - Grease Pencil - New Screen Space Radius node #4672 Geometry Nodes - Output - New Warning node #4634 Geometry Nodes - Utility - Math - New Hash Value node #4636 Properties Editor - Grease Pencil - Grease pencil layer menu shows wrong icon for group #4654 Keymap - Add forward and back mouse buttons to File Browser #4653 Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Layers panel, masks subpanel. add icons to specials menu #4661 Top Bar - Edit Group - Object Clear sub-group missing in global settings #4620 Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Add Extra menu - move otpions out of the menu #4656 Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Add Extra menu - missing icons #4655 Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Grease pencil layer menu, add group operators to Add Extra menu #4658 Properties editor with greasepencil - Object Data Properties, Grease pencil layer menu, missing icons #4657 3D View - Gizmos - Collapse hidden (instead of dissappear) #4492 Hotkeys - Add GP3 context menus #4643 3D View - Object Header - missing icons in modifiers menu #4255 User Preferences - Extensions - Uninstall Operator keep always active #4649 Object menu in 3D View - move modifiers sub menu to the modifiers panel in Properties editor. #4646 Icons - File Browser Folder icon could be improved #4635 Object menu in viewport - put move to collection into the collection sub menu #4647 3D View - Text Object - Text - Special Character - Euro icon missing #4637 Properties Editor - Modifiers - View toggle has wrong icon when on #4629 Node Editors - Pin node tree icon has wrong icon when activated #4628 Preferences - Hotkeys - Dropdown icon is wrong icon #4631 Grease Pencil - Weight Paint mode - missing header menu #4640 Outliner - Grease Pencil filter needs to be indented #4623