# Bforartists 5 version 5.0.0 - The Node Editor Upgrade Version

This release is focused on new Compositor assets that come out of the box, new smart asset updates and apply operators, and much much love to the node editors.

This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.0.0 and 5.1.0 to the date - with **242** new tokens of love from us and a large chunk also from Blender!

⚠️ **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:
- 99 new Compositor assets, including shapes, patterns, lens effects, color adjustments, filters and more
- New customizable colored backgrounds on nodes
- New icons in collapsed icon headers
- New customoizatble Node Editor Overlay for canvas center
- Enhanced Asset Shelf user experience: New packed mode, and love to context menu operators for Armature Pose assets
- Group Operators in Node Toolshelf: Node group operators moved to toolshelf for better accessibility
- New icons for frames with new frame operators
- New Apply operators: Apply with remesh, join, and boolean on selected meshes with one click
- Presentation Addon Enhancement: New Slides operator for presentations
- Interface Consistency Improvements: more robust columns for tabbed toolshelf
- Region Toggle Pie Menu: Added to T key and exposed in header
- Organized Node categories and groups for less bloat and better discoverability
- New Animation Timeline Footers and Dopesheet editor mode
- New quick toggle to Timeline with the Power User Tools
- Consistent paint curve dropdowns in header and sidebar for jitter and pressure settings
- Update to the Curves edit mode to be consistent with other modes
- Adopted the new Blender "Built-in" sequencer scene sync with our legacy 3D Sequencer system with timeline gizmos
- New Geometry Nodes assets and modifiers from Blender adopted to the Bforartists asset shelves
- Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity assets gets material blending, performance modes, and an improved wizard user experience

## Additional Features from this Blender 5.0.x and 5.1.x series:
- Improved UV user experience with sync
- New Compositor Sequencer Mode: New Sequencer modifier with access to using compositor nodes with Sequence Info strip integration
- Minimized Theme Panel Visual Update
- Frame Jump is now built into the timeline with seconds and frames
- Geometry Nodes Improvements: Multiple new Grid, SDF, and Volume nodes
- Performance Optimizations: Improved tessellation, subdivision, and general performance
- New Radial Tiling vector node
- New Repeat Zone for Shaders (with bundles and closures)
- New & Updated MatCaps: optional specular lighting in MatCaps improves shading clarity, especially on dark surfaces.
- Dope Sheet Cache Visualization – Clearer feedback on cached frames for animation performance monitoring.
- Video Sequencer Overhaul: Dedicated Strip and Strip Modifiers tabs with drag-and-drop modifier stacks, icons, and search.
- Multi-Scene Sequencer Workflows – Sequencer can now reference different scenes, with Sync Scene Time for seamless editing.
- Grease Pencil Motion Blur: Adds natural blur to strokes with adjustable steps, enhancing animation quality.
- Grease Pencil Corner Types: Per-point corner styles (Round, Sharp, Flat) for more precise stroke design.
- Faster cycles and EEVEE
- Netter Subsurface scattering, volumetrics and multi-scattering
- New sky mode for environments
- Faster unwrapping and field evaluation in Geometry Nodes
- Better FBX, Alembix and USD compatibility
- Adaptive subdivision in Cycles now official
- Metallic Thin Film Iridescence for Cycles

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 Bluenile3D, the latest winner of the Splashsscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!

And also, thanks again for all art, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today! Without your feedback and support, this wouldn't be possible

Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters



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Bforartists 5.0.0

242 Tasks

Workspace Layouts - hide the editor type menus #5927
Compositor, view menu - double menu entry Asset Shelf #5965
Remove Online Manual entry from the compositor context menu #5964
Build - make lite - missing function causes make lite to fail. #5969
Compositor sidebar , Node tab, Properties panel with File Output node - align props left #5972
User Interface - TreeView - Fix wrong icon for search dropdown #5945
Default Asset Library - New Compositor nodes #5867
UV Editor, Sidebar, View tab, 2D Cursor panel - put labels in front of sliders #5963
UV Editor, UV menu, Moven on Axis sub menu needs icons #5958
UV Editor, UV menu, Move on Axis submenu, add icons #5959
Image/UV Editor - Sidebar > Image tab - Use split layout for Seam Margin property #5951
Node Editor - Add & Swap Menu - Group Submenu - Fix missing icons #5943
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Tool tab > Texture - Use split layout for Random Value Property #5948
Image Editor - Mask Mode - Sidebar > View tab > 2D Cursor panel - Use split layout for numerical sliders #5939
Preferences - Editing - Node Editor - Use split layout for Node Color Blend property #5944
Image Editor - Sidebar - View tab > Annotations panel - Use split layout for numerical sliders #5940
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Mask Brush > Brush Settings > Advanced - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #5928
Image Editor - Paint Mode - Sidebar > Tool tab > Texture Map - Align Rake and Random props left #5933
Properties Editor - Modifiers - UV Project - Add UV label indentation #5022
3D View - Sidebar > Global Transform tab - Make tooltips unique for different paste operators #5906
Image editor , sidebar, Image tab - put label in front of seam slider #5937
Video Editing Workspace - Sequencer view type -Strip menu - double entry Change Effect Type #5273
Fix regression in image editor add menu - add back add feather vertex and slide #5922
Image editor, paint mode, sidebar, tool tab, stroke mask subpanel, two labels #5934
addon - Smart Delete - Optimize edges on high poly mesh #5936
Question: Flatpak Runtime Outdated #5921
Blender icon on Linux instead of BFA's #5741
3d view, sidebar, animation tab, fix to camera subtab, align props left #5905
workflow to write the automated manual issues has quit working #5802
Node Editors - Add an overlay to show "canvas center" #5915
Remove Timeline quick navigation and mode toggle + add timeline toggles to Power User Tools #5839
Particle mode with mesh object -  missing background in sidebar in the tool tab #5734
3d view in quadview, sidebar, view tab, indent props in quadview panel #5901
Node Editor - Node menu - Add icons to Join Group Inputs and Join in Named Frame operators #5857
Geometry Nodes - New Points to Grid nodes #5684
Geometry nodes - New Grid Nodes out of experimental #5697
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Operations - New SDF/Grid nodes #5880
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Write - New grid nodes #5879
Geometry Nodes - New UV Tangent Node #5840
Geometry Nodes - Volume - Sample - New grid nodes #5878
Mesh - Modifiers - Vertex Weight modifiers - Fix issues in "Influence" sublayout #5898
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Vertex Weight Mix - Add proper indentation to Vertex Groups and Weights #5020
Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Brush Settings > Advanced > Jitter  - Make curve properties consistent in header and sidebar #5607
Mesh - Sculpt Mode - Brush Settings > Advanced > Jitter  - Make curve properties consistent in header and sidebar #5894
Mesh - Particle Edit Mode - Sidebar > Tool Tab > Options panel - Shorten labels of props under "Preserve" sublayout  #5889
Sequencer + Compositor - New "Sequencer" mode with Sequencer Info strip #5806
3D View/Window - Add Region Toggle pie to T, and expose to header #5495
Switching the bone while weight paint #5886
Compilation - Missing enumerator for spaces #5883
Geometry Nodes - Mesh -Operations - New Mesh to Density/SDF Grid #5877
Geometry Nodes - Point - New Point to Grid/SDF nodes #5876
Properites Editor - Modifiers - Geometry Nodes - Square sockets are horizontal/misaligned instead of vertical #5870
Node Editor - Node menu - Move new Swap submenu to header #5856
Properties Editor - Modifiers - Geometry Nodes - Fix misaligned keyframe buttons for Vector & Rotation inputs #5871
Mesh - Particle Edit mode - Sidebar > Tool > Options panel - Fix name regression for X Mirror #5735
3D View & Properties - Tool tab - Workspace panel - Filter Add-ons list - Move checkboxes left #5834
Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Draw Menu > Cleanup > Reproject Strokes - Align prop left in Adjust Last Operator panel #5707
Geometry Nodes & Compositor - New Enable Output node #5848
Geometry Nodes - New Join Bundle node #5849
Hair Curves - Edit Mode - Context Menu - Change Extrude Curve and Move label for consistency #5837
Hair Curves - Edit Mode - Header > Control Points Menu - Change Extrude Curve and Move label for consistency #5850
Geometry Nodes - Add & Swap Menu - Remove Group Input & Output double entries #5689
Compositor - Add & Swap Menu - Remove Group Input & Output double entries #5847
Text Editor - Remove redundant redo/undo operators #5683
Node Editors - Group Sockets - Structure - Add icons to Structure dropdown #5257
Icons - Modal Toolshelf - Create and compile Weight paint icons #5836
Set Dimensions addon - add addon back to all the other primitives in edit mode #5698
Relation line for IK chain length #5732
Mesh with Hair curves in sculpt mode - missing icons in tool shelf #5739
Compositor - Sequencer Mode - Unsupported Inputs icon needs to be made consistent #5805
Asset - Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity 2.0 - Update files #5811
Compositor - Sidebar - Update Utilities to reflect add menu #5804
Geometry Nodes - Sidebar Toolshelf - Fix inconsistent name for vector Map Range #5828
Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Point Menu - Set Corner Type - add missing icons #5703
Mesh - Edit Mode - Face Menu - Intersect Boolean - Align properties left in adjust last operator #5691
Hair Curve - Edit Mode - Curves Menu - Remove Set Handle Type menu, double entry #5736
Hair Curve - Edit Mode - Context Menu - Add missing icons #5694
Toolshelf in 3d view, add primitive tool, active tool settings in sidebar, missing snap to default value #5737
3D View - Overlays - Wireframe conditional borken #5820
Workspaces - Shader - Move he "color" sidebar panel down to the correct order #5816
3D View - Armature - Pose - Bone Display - Add icons #5821
3d View - Pose - In-Betweens - Remove missing operators and update sidebar #5822
Asset Shelf/browser - Armature Pose Asset - New operators in context menu, expose also to header #5427
3D View - Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Remove one of the curve dropdown methods #5677
NameError: name 'derow' is not defined #5817
Shader Editor - Sidebar - Consolidate the "Converter" group #5814
Shader Node Editor- Add Utility group of nodes to the sidebar #5596
3D View - Add Menu - Lattice submenu for "Lattice Deform Selected" now missing #5757
Sequencer - Toolshelf - Delete selected retiming context is not robust #5810
Animation Editors - Dopesheet/Footer - New Timeline and footer with double entries #5808
Bezier curve in edit mode, curve pen tool, tool settings, align prop left #5762
Video Editing, Properties Editor, new Strip Properties tab, new Strip Modifers tab, align props left #5795
Nodes - Add icon to radial tiling node #5620
Preferences - Default Editor handle and arrows to ON #5746
Sequencer - Sidebar - Retiming panel is broken #5702
Mesh with Hair curves in sculpt mode, hair curve modifiers - align props left #5738
Update bforartists-softwaregl script to allow run in vm #5763
Sequencer Modifier Tab - Copy to Selected menu needs icons #5744
Grease pencil in edit mode, Pen tool, active tool settings, add label in front of dropdowns #5765
Bezier curve in edit mode, draw tool, tool settings, align prop left. #5761
Grease pencil in edit mode, Interpolate tool, Active tool panel, align prop left. #5766
Sculpt Mode - Trim Tool group - Make enum labels have more room #5756
Sculpt Mode - Mesh Filter - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #5776
Sculpt Mode - Cloth Filter - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #5777
Sculpt Mode - Color Filter - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #5778
Sculpt Mode - Mask By Color tool - Use split layout for Threshold #5784
Sculpt Mode - Edit Face Set - Make enum labels have more room #5779
Edit Mode - Shrink/Fatten tool - Use split layout for Drag popover #5781
Edit Mode - Poly Build tool - Use split layout for Drag popover #5780
Edit Mode - Rip Region tool - Float Fill property left #5773
Curve Edit Mode - Curve Pen - Float Close Spline property left #5789
Default Library - Make apply not store duplicates and remesh reliably #5796
Properties Editor - Color Management Use White Balance - Split labels from properties #5540
Essential Assets - Migrate system to "Bforartists essentials" #5651
Toolbar Manager - Fix various mixed case typos #5381
Sculpt Mode - Lasso Mask - Hide props when inactive #5753
Edit mode with a mesh object. Polygon tool, tool settings in the sidebar, align prop left. #5747
Missing Geometry Transform Constraint in menu #5748
Sequencer - Put scene selecter to the center to be consistent with other selectors #5745
Sequencer - Modifiers tab now legacy, remove from Sequencer #5682
Pose mode, pose menu, create pose asset saves in a Blender folder #5733
Asset - Mesh Blend by Proximity - Add opt-in to use relative position #5488
Asset - Blend Normals by Proximity - Add material blend to wizard #5388
Grease Pencil in Draw Mode - Missing essentials brush #5709
Power User Tools - Remove time jump operators, expose delta timejump to top level #5718
3D View - Asset Shelf - Dragging in materials only goes to "packed" mode instead of others properties #5720
Preferences - Close Menu on Leave float left #5716
3D View - Missing Grease Pencil Snap pie menu #5723
Splashscreen - Clamp version number #5719
Error opening a window in Bforartists #5359
Power User Tools - Make the frame jump operators show up in the footers also #5434
3D View - Sculpt Mode - Sidebar - Stroke - Float Adjust Strength for Space left #5609
Outliner - Colored collection icons broken #5717
Properties Editor - Material - Missing shadow properties need to be removed #5715
Node Editor - Missing "interface_item_new" #5710
3D View - View - Missing operator "Render Viewport Keyframes" #5713
Asset - Mesh Blend by Proximity 2.0 #5693
Sequencer - New sequencer overlay #5704
Warning: property value not found #5699
Grease Pencil drawing broken #5708
Keymap - Curves object - Expose Context Menu for edit menu #5652
Image Editor - UV Mode - UV - Cleanup menu #5680
Icon - Add the Save UV icon #5685
geometry nodes, bake, sidebar, node tab, fix properties/bake items panel #5673
Icons - Modal Toolshelf Icons consistency - Transform Icons #5658
Icons - Modal Toolshelf Icons consistency - Edit mode - Bevel #5120
Addon - Export UV Layout - now a default addon, add icon to operator #4999
Edit mode, vertex menu, blend from shape, adjust last operator, align prop left #5667
Properties editor, Data tab, Shapekeys panel, align prop left #5669
Mesh menu in edit mode - normals - icons for sub menus #5621
Update Readme in repository #5135
3D View - Assets - Make icon consistent for Markign Assets #5615
Recreate VFX preset blend #5664
Keymap - UV Editor - 4 for island mode is broken #5653
Color Nodes Backgrounds - Add to preferences #5618
3D View - Curves + Grease Pencil Edit mode - COrrect the Spline Type (convert) Consistent and Expose Align operators in Context menu #5654
3D View - Curve/Curves/Greasepencil - Edit mode - Set Handle Type should be in center group #5612
Edit mode, Mesh menu, double menu entry Limited Dissolve #5645
Edit mode, mesh menu, weights, greyed out legacy items #5626
Nodes Editor - Node Group indicator improvement #5627
Mesh in Edit mode, Mesh menu, Cleanup, adjust last operator panel, align props left #5644
Auto Smooth - Loads the wrong smooth asset #5646
Asset - Geometry Nodes - Index Mask #5647
Edit Mode, Mesh menu, Normals, Point Normals to target, align props in last operator left. #5624
Node Editors - Add icons to the new Swap Node editor #5628
Keymap - Node Editors - Add double click to enter node groups #5636
3D View - Header View menu - Double render viewport #5629
Theme - Sequencer - Add channel text to white #5639
"All groups are locked" error when no vertex groups are locked #5625
Asset shelf - Add packing import method to the asset shelf UI #5623
Timeline - Double properties #5633
3D View - Curves - Sculpt mode - Add tabs and tools to tool shelf #5611
3D View - Painting Mode - Make sidebar strength and radius control buttons consistent #5606
3D View - Curves - Edit mode - Add tabs and tools to tool shelf #5608
Theme - Node Editor - Make Scrfipt header color what it used to be #5586
Properties - Modifiers - Change idname of Add Modifier menu #5602
3D View - Brush Paint modes - Regression: Collapse brush sensitivity curves #5575
Object menu in 3d view - parent sub menu - missing entries #5538
Hidden props in the timeline header #5590
Movie Clip Editor - Change default theme for timeline text to white #5496
Default Assets - Move Shaders and Compositor nodegroups to own library #5585
bforartist Sculpting mode for Mac M4 #5589
3D View - Object > Animation - Add missing "Bake Object Transform to Grease Pencil" operator #5570
Mesh Edit Mode - Mesh > Transform - "Set Dimensions" addon operator throws error #5591
3D Viewport - Object > Clean Up - Add icon for "Remove All Materials" operator #5588
Preferences - Add icon to Developer Tools #5578
Adjust last operator Mirror - align props left #5309
Compositor - New "Convolve" and "Convert to Display" node #5502
Top Bar Editor - Image Group - Missing operator #5577
3D View - Vertex Paint - Jitter panel has a bug #5574
Preferences - Theme - New Regions common settings: needs an icon and an update #5561
Shader Nodes - Use Nodes in Object shader mode deprecated (and double) #5563
Status Bar/Splashscreen/About - Show "Sub Versions" in easier addon and Blender compatibility #5355
Brush Settings - Fix inconsistency in drawing `use_locked_size` property #5568
Overwrite Warning - Add explicit versioning information about Bforartists and Blend files (not "Blender") #5356
Sequencer - Hard crash when switching to the sequencer (timeline grid can't draw due to bad scene context) #5565
compiling -  change oneapi ocloc path to the official install directory #5562
Various Modes - Brush Settings - Align boolean properties left #5556
Grease Pencil Edit mode - Stroke menu - expand Simplify Stroke in tool shelf, add it to toolbar #5318
Geometry nodes - lots of missing tooltips in add menu #5288
3D Sequencer - Migrate current system to the new Blender official system #5474
Grease pencil in vertex paint mode - missing brush settings #5401
Outliner - Filter Panel - Refactor how indentation is handled #4627
Grease Pencil Edit mode - Stroke menu - Simplify Stroke - separate tooltips #5314
Disable Material icon rendering causes crash through asset shelf #5554
Create manual issue workflow fails #5543
Sequencer - Sidebar - Strip - Sound Panel - Hide greyed out props #5544
Sequencer - Sidebar - Strip - Time Panel - Fix alignment in "End" labels #5550
Sequencer - Preview mode - Strip - Animation - Remove delete confirmations dialogues #5539
Geometry Nodes - New "String to Value" node #5503
Node Editors - Draw icon in header when nodes are collapsed #5421
Properties Editor - Scene - Add icons to panel buttons #5516
Sequencer - Preview mode - Strip - New "Delete Keyframes" and "Clear Keyframes" operator #5436
Properties Editor - Output -  Color Management Panel - Use Curves float left #5514
Preferences - Interface - New Accesibility toggle Reduce Motion, float left #5507
Preferences - Default numerical values to ON #5508
Preferences - Default Corner Handles to ON #5510
Sequencer - Strip Panel - Fix Indentation for "Annotation" and "Transparent" properties #5528
Top Bar - Workspaces Context Menu - New Remove workspaces operator #5435
Sequencer - Sequencer mode - Strip - New Duplicate Linked operator #5438
Areas - Top Left Corner Menu - Add icons and expose the toggle #5509
Workspace Template - Add "Color Balance" to "All" #5473
Texture Node Editor - Update Node Add shelf to the modern consistent method #3764
Animation Editors - Move Playhead snapping to the right (options) #5506
Sequencer - Header - Shuffle could have iconography #5161
Dopesheet - Grease Pencil - Delete breakdown Keyframes #5167
Properties Editor - Scene - Simulation - Increase split between simulation range label and toggle #5515
Sequencer - Remove double Snapping menu #5513
Sequencer - Sound Strip - Sidebar - Sound - Float Mono left #5511
Sequencer - Cache Settings - Adjust split spacing in Display Cache subpanel #5517
Week 36 Extra: VSE api deprecation #5501
Icon - Scale Action icon up #5497
Collection tab in properties editor , tab vanishes with a fatal click at Include #5226
Outliner - Blender File mode could be "Blend File" #5482
Grease Pencil in sculpt mode, header, Double entry auto masking #5491
Grease pencil in object mode - Grease Pencil Overlays - missing X Y labels #5481
Compositor - Output - Group Output is "unknown" in sideshelf #5483
Compositor - Filter - Remove Sunbeams #5484
Compositor - Remove "Sunbeams" from sidebar #5437
Mac - Missing function causing crash again #5476
Grease pencil in object mode - Grease Pencil Overlays - double entry and false indention #5426
Shader Editor - World Shader - Use Nodes toggle has been removed #5475