Bforartists 4 version 4.4.3 - Smart Primitives + Hotfix Update 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 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 Andres Stephens, one of the core developers. Thanks again for all love, feedback and art and help! Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters -------------------- Bforartists 4.4.3 Preferences - File Pather - Re-order library with buttons #4867 Linux - Bforartists Thumbnail is crashing builds on Linux #4993 Interface - Glitchy border theme issues #4992 Crash when exiting Bforartists #4916 Restore dropping asset instance collection to scene origin #4975 Power User Tools - Add an operator to open folder of current blend file #4983 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Expose Grease Pencil operators to toolshelf #4979 3D View - Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Stroke header menu - Missing icons #4971 3D View - 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 - Edit Mode - Select menu - hide operators that don't work in Stroke Select mode #4743 Hotkeys - Mac OS needs reverting #4976 Properties editor - 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 Asset Browser - Regression - The header props are in a sub-menu when exposed to top level with icons. #4977 -------------------- Bforartists 4.4.2 _Skipped Release_ -------------------- Bforartists 4.4.1 _Skipped Release_ -------------------- Bforartists 4.4.0 33 Tasks Bug - Asset Shelf context and legacy GP1 #4969 Hotkeys - Compositor - Hotkeys for Fast Preview, make discoverable #4923 Properties editor - Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Specials menu - same tooltip for duplicate tools # 4967 Inconsistency in Layer panel with grease pencil object # 4963 Properties editor - Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Isolate Layers - same tooltip, same name #4968 3D View - Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Active Tool float props left #4962 Node editor, new Utility nodes #4949 Asset Shelves - Tags - Add "quick" method to assign a node group to an asset shelf #4960 3D Viewport Tool shelf - enum "ERASE_DISCPLACEMENT" not found #4954 Asset Shelves - Node Editors - Remove blanket inclusion of nodegroups (that would show regardless of tag or editor type) #4959 Hotkeys - Add CTRL/ALT+F to outliner and properties editor to toggle outliner search focus, add to tooltip #4316 Sequencer - Bug: no strip selected retiming panel check throws errors #4927 Default Assets - Update assets to use tags instead of prefixes #4581 Power User Tools - Update the way it registers the addon #4958 Properties editor - Object data properties with grease pencil - Layers panel - specials menu - add missing icons # 4957 3D Viewport - Sidebar - Tool Tab - Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Advanced subpanel, make the brushes dropdown box read only #4951 Hotkeys - Update GP3 hotkeys to GP2 hotkeys #4601 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 AMD HIP - Cycles Failed to build BLAS #4912 Keybinds / Shortcuts missing from Lattice Edit Mode #4944 Sequencer - Preview - Duplicate operator now possible from the preview mode #4888 Need to remove VIEW3D_PT_shading_cavity from properties_render.py #4945 Need to remove VIEW3D_PT_shading_cavity from properties_render.py #4945 3D View - Workbench Overlays - Float depth of field left #4935 Compositor - Sidebar - Add tab - Keying - Chroma Key in icon only mode does nothing #4938 3D View - Workbench Overlays - Show collapsed indicator for Cavity #4936 Missing Icon (View_Camera_Unselected) #4934 Compositor - Float Output node Save as Render toggle #4933 Preferences - Interface - Line width prop is no-longer working #4937 Cycles - Re-enable HIP graphics cards gfx1150, gfx1151 and gfx1152 #4932 3D View - Set Parent to Vertex needs icon #4928 Text Editor - Float search properties left #4929