# Bforartists 4 version 4.5.0 - The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade This is a major feature update with much love to the Asset Shelves usability with many new accumulated details and features from Bforartists and Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.5.0 and 5.0.0 to the date - with **169** new pieces of love from us. Warning: *.Blend File formats from this version onwards will not be backwards compatible with earlier versions of Blender 4.5.x or Bforartists 4.4.x. It's a one way trip! ## What's new: - Asset Shelf mode import properties - Add asset with overrides automatically - New Default Assets: - Blend Normals by Proximity - Inherit Smoothness - Inherit Material - Mesh Lines and Silhouette -Object/World Normal - Group operators in the node editors are now in the toolshelf - Cleanup and Refactor for the Nodeshelf add panels - New Granular display of nodgroups in the sidebar - Presentation Addon New Slides operator - Node Group socket interface and operators got UX love - Interface Updates - More robust columns for the tabbed toolshelf - Theme panel visual update ## Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x and 5.0.x series: - New Playhead Header submenu - Sculpt Modes - New Mask to Geometry operators - New Color Jitter in Brushes now exposed to side bar also - Built In attributes now show in header of Spreadsheet - Point Cloud Edit mode is getting love - Light properties have new settings and consistenty layout - Exposure and Temperature - Consistency with Cycles - Collada removed (but we may have another in development) - New Compositor nodes - Image Coordinates - Relative to Pixel - Texture Nodes - Input sockets - Changes to color correction nodes - Shader - New Volume Coefficient Shader - Grease Pencil Antialiasing made more explicit - New Animation Timeline Footers - Scenes can be saved as assets now - Compositor Node Trees are a thing now - New Grease Pencil operators - Split - Remove Fill Guides - Outline - Convert to Curve type - Mask above and below - New relocate linked asset operator - Per Bone type visibility - Shape Key copying - Camera OSL scripts included - Performance in tesselation, subdivision, and more - Grease Pencil Fill Guide indicators - Vulkan Backend - Sequencer HDR support - Sequencer slip improved - Drag and drop collections to surfaces - Cursor rotation for snapping - Asset Screenshots - Gizmos in the Compositor 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 Prashan Subsinghe, the latest winner of the Splashs Screen competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you! And also, thanks again for all artwork, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today! Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters -------------------- Bforartists 4.5.0 169 Tasks Missing icons for right click menu #5321 Grease Pencil , Draw mode, Fill tool - make Fill Guide discoverable #5208 3D View - Sculpt mode - Mask - New mask operators needs iconography #5305 Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Mesh - Read - is Edge Smooth typo #5282 Toolshelf - Node Editors - Panel registration order inconsistent with Add Menu #5316 Toolshelf - Node Editors - Missing entries within the Add panels #5289 Compositor - Removed nodes API: Color Ramp + Value - Update sidebar Add panels #5103 Geometry Nodes - Toolshelf - Deprecated - Depreacated Typo in Rotate Euler entry #5276 Grease pencil object in edit mode - Properties editor - Data tab, align Auto Normalize left. #5308 Sculpt Mode - Missing mask and slice properties #5303 Grease Pencil - Paint Mode - Fill brush advanced panel - Needs love (float things left #5164 Grease Pencil Edit mode - Stroke menu - Simplify Stroke #5310 Compositor - Remove "Use Nodes" from the header #5313 Compositor - Add - Utilities and Vector update to Toolshelf #4981 Add - Empty Image - Remove from Image menu #5102 Properties Editor - Modifiers - UVMap- Add UV label indentation #5021 3D View - Brush menu in sculpt mode has no operators #4970 Mesh object, Weight Paint mode, select menu. Remove the term select from the select linked operator #5127 Animation Editors - Header - Playhead menu needs love #5162 UV Image Editor - Select menu - put More & Less into a sub menu #5267 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - New Grease Pencil outline operator #5163 Missing/ update envelope weight paint assign operator #5301 3D View - Vertex Paint - Sample Color and duplicate #5292 Theme - Make Image editor background darker grey #5279 Properties Editor - Modifier - Mirror - Add UV label indentation #5018 blender_theme_as_c.py adds path to the theme to the userdef_default_theme.c #5294 Dopesheet - Move new view Cache properties to the header Options #5154 Properties Editor - Modifiers - Array - Add UV label indentation #5019 Blender Render View vs Bforartists Render View - missing Paint mode? #5298 Asset - Mesh Blend by Proximity - Improve the wizard notice #5291 Missing icon in Select menu in edit mode with a mesh object #5125 Top Bar - Pointcloud api missing #5290 Properties Editor - Light - Float Normalize property left #5110 Text editor - edit menu regression #5269 File/Top bar - FBX lost it's icon #5256 Topbar / Topbar Editor - Remove collada #5101 Shader Nodes - Ray Portal BSDF node has no icons #5286 Extensions/Addons - Tags broken #5263 Exporters/Importers - Float Properties check boxes Left #4221 Code marked as unreachable has been executed. Please report this as a bug. #5268 UV Editor - Overlays - New Display slider label indentation #4997 Outliner - ID Data - New linked data "Relocate" operator #5000 Default Library - Add Smart Primitives #5008 Default Library - Blend Normals by Proximity Asset #5222 Point cloud object in edit mode - tool shelf, add select hotkeys to the select group #5281 Pointcloud - Edit Mode - new mode, new operators, needs icons #5147 Compositor - Missing node icons for Image Info and Image Coordinate nodes #5274 Sequencer - Preview - New Animation operators exposed to header, add icons #5155 Sequencer - Preview - Remove doubles in zoom operators #5158 Sequencer - Preview - Strip - Exposed Show/Hide menu, make consistent #5156 Video editing workspace - Image Menu - Transform - missing icon #5270 Compositor - Add Texture add group to the Add sidebar #5005 Preferences - Interface - NewSubpixel Anti-aliasing property #5264 Preferences - Editing - Sequencer - Remove use_sequencer_simplified_tweaking #5262 Default Asset Categories - Rename Grease Pencil Tools to Grease Pencil #5261 Particle in Particle Edit mode. Select menu. put More / Less into a sub menu at the end of the select menu #5130 Asset Browser: Make drop to origin button consistent #4984 Toolshelf - Missing Envelope modifier #5259 Shader editor: Procedural Material: Subtractmath #5238 Animation workspace - animation toolbar is off #5206 Point cloud in edit mode - update transform hotkeys #5235 Keymap File Browser - File Browser Main - investigate POSELIB_OT_apply_pose_asset_for_key entry #5243 Keymap - 3d view - 3d view global - wrong hotkey NDOF Roll CCW #5236 Keymap NLA Editor - Hotkey S for Scale #5240 Keymap 3d view - Primitive tool modal map uses grs navigation #5239 Keymap - Clip - Clip Dopesheet Editor - Delete track - change from X to DEL #5248 Keymap - Grease Pencil - Grease Pencil Weight Paint - Select Extended vs Select #5252 Keymap - Transform Modal Map - red entries #5253 keymap - text - text global - find and replace double entry #5247 Keymap File Browser - File Browser Main - double entry Apply Pose Asset #5245 Video editing Preview window , view menu - put auto zoom option into the options #5231 Video editing Preview window, View menu, double entries Zoom #5233 Keymap - Stencil Controls in Vertex and Image Editor need secondary #5242 Default Libary - Boolean method needs to be FLOAT not FAST #5251 Default Library - Handler conditional error #5250 Icons - Add icon for Volume Coefficients node #5237 3D View - Object - Apply - Visual Geometry to Objects #4986 Sequencer - Warn tool not found #5244 3D Sequencer: Error in addon code #4985 Editors - Tabbed Toolshelf - Width is not changing when on #4853 Sequencer - View - Add icon to Frame to Scene Range #5157 Point Cloud in Edit mode - Point Cloud Menu - Delete uses hotkey X #5229 Point cloud in edit mode - missing icons in the Select menu #5121 Point cloud in edit mode - Select menu - remove term Select from Select random #5230 Properties Editor - Collection - Float View Layer visibilty props left #5220 Remove the term Blender from the translation files. #5219 Animation Editors - Footer - Context menu - remove footer toogle #5215 Overwrite startup file - Blender will ... #5210 Name inconsistency in footer menu #5214 View menus in animation editors - double menu entry Channels #5218 Animation Editors - Footer - Context menu has a missing icon #5198 Toolbar Editor - Toolbar Manager broken #5212 Properties Editor - re-enable the Tools tab #5205 Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Cleanup - New Fill Guides and Reproject operators #5165 Grease Pencil in Edit mode - Grease Pencil menu - Snap sub menu misses icons #5207 Properties editor, tab area, right click context menu , missing icon #5204 Texture painting - add image slot dialog - Align props left #5200 3d view - sidebar - item tab in edit mode - middle aligned label #5201 Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Fields - New Field "get info" nodes #5004 Properties Editor - Output - Add social media dimensions presets (and remove doubles) #5188 Remove double menu entries on left #5168 New Format String node #5109 Group Sockets, align Hide Value left #5173 Adjust last operator, align Generate UVs left #5175 Crash with adding a greasepencil stroke #5122 Default to append #5114 Online Python Reference needs an icon #5189 New Instaces Bounds node #5003 Open Drives Editor missing icon #5190 New Image Info node #4980 Brush resize secondary properties need updating #5186 Lists require a hotkey to use #5185 Relocate non-add operators in Group submenu #5170 Bit Math #5169 Snapping offset broken #5180 Update Offline Icon #5179 Texture paint select menu missing #5129 Add Color Randomization #5106 Brush properties not found #5178 Grease pencil trace operator missing #5177 Remove double "Final" property #5160 Update Bforartists drawing #5132 Add icons for new Screenshot operators #5105 Point Density update sidebar #5104 Drag and drop confusion between asset browser and asset shelf #5148 3D View - Default tool mode should be "Active Tool" - #3073 Properties Editor - Light - Collapse temperature settings when disabled - #5111 Feature - Initial add exposed asset shelves for 3d viewport and node editor - #4584 Properties Editor - Output Properties - Color management - align prop left - #4839 Window - Expose window operators - #5036 Blender messing with our repo at pull request - #5124 Spreadsheet - Move Built-in Attributes property to header (and remove double editor switch) - #5107 Crash - Dragging in a Compositor nodegroup asset to the compositor will crash - #5137 Properties Editor - Light - Add radius slider back - #5112 Theme - Make node headers more legible (darken colors) - #5108 Addon - Presentation Slides - Add operator to make a new "slide" - #5133 3D View - The camera icon is offset - #5139 Compositor - Update node Add tab with Utility and Vector nodes - #5006 Bforartists-Launcher on linux is pointing to the wrong executable - #5136 Theme - List Item - Remove outline - #5100 Theme - Panels have lost their color, revert - #5099 Node link for error state is invisible - #5092 Theme - Overwriting warning color is bright red, make it less bright - #4973 Theme - Toolbar Editor - Flashing line may need a fix - #5098 Select menus, remove redundant term "Select" from the operators - #5097 [Bug // 4.3.1] Transformation Values Set in an Object/Bone (w/ Child Of Constraint) Won't Save into Added Keyframes when Transformations of Parent Object are Applied - #5094 Properties Editor - Render Tab - Grease Pencil - Clarify the SMAA cryptic labels and tooltips - #5037 Preferences - Interface - New Border Width slider needs label - #4998 Properties Editor - Modifiers - Code Cleanup - #5073 UI - Grip Icon needs updating - #5086 Properties Editor - Material Tab - Add icons to material operator buttons #5015 Properties Editor - Modifiers - Envelope/Outliner icon #5084 Refactor: Move Repetitive Property Indentation Code into Dedicated Function? #5077 Geometry Nodes - Grease Pencil - Write - New Grease Pencil Color and Depth nodes #4995 Sculpting - Sidebar - Brush Settings - Stretch/Move Cloth Brush - align Lock Rotation checkbox left #4956 Add Node operator: separate label #2454 Geometry Nodes - Group Tab - Group Sockets - Float panel toggle toggle left #5076 Node Editors - Group Sockets - Add the Node Socket operator to the panel add panel #5040 Asset Shelf - Add options to add as instance if on collection like in asset browser #4668 Asset Shelf - Add set to world origin toggle like in asset browser #4669 Asset Shelf - Add options to link or append options from asset shelves line in asset browser #4667 Asset Browser/Shelf - Add auto-library override on drag and drop #5072 Modifier layouts shot down #5048 Crash, Blender has stopped working ... #5063 Geometry Nodes - Mesh - Write - New Set Mesh Normal node #4996 Geometry Nodes - Input - Scene - New Camera Info Node #5002 Geometry Nodes - New Import File nodes #4560 Default Library - Make shaders "materials" to fit the default tab #5068 Node Editors - Migrate and update Node tooltips to relevant documents #4989