## Bforartists 5 version 5.1.1 - The UV Nodes Hotfix Version 🏁 This minor point release is focused on asset and interface polish with details that keep everything new from Blender in sync with the Bforartists interface philosophy. This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 to the date - with **49** new features, fixes and polish with another 70+ fixes from Blender. ### ✨What's new in this release: - Shader Raycast Edges asset - Curve to Tube now supports Grease pencil colors - Last Operator HUD panel now triggers from the Topbar - New horizontal/Vertical View Nagigation gizmo toggle with background - Asset refinement to thumbnails and default categories - Connecting/Dsconnecting strips in the Sequencer is now contextual - Mesh Blend by Proximity now has normal blur controls at intersections - Fixed the brush sliders for some brushes like Weight Paint Gradient brush - And much refinement to icons, interface stability and polish ### 🧑 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.1 and 5.2.0 series: - Compositor String to Image Node - Compositor String nodes - Geometry Nodes Rename Attribute node - New Input Properties for Compositor Modifiers in the Sequencer modifier stack - Better HDR color scope support And many more bug fixes and more! Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2 **πŸ“₯ Downloads:** https://www.bforartists.de/download/ **πŸͺŸ Windows App** [Windows App Store](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9P3PLMNRD4SC?hl=en-us&gl=CO&ocid=pdpshare) **🧑 Blender Launcher** [Github Release](https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2/releases) [For Arch](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender-launcher-v2-bin) **πŸ“ Release Notes:** https://www.bforartists.de/release-notes/ πŸ—’οΈ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/ Splashscreen is kindly provided by **Krysidian and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) Team**, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you! Thank you again for using Bforartists, by making art with it - and sharing this to the art community. 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And share your art. -------------------- # Bforartists 5.1.1 ## 49 Tasks UV Editor - Context Menu - Stitch missing icon #6486 3D View - Weight Paint - Missing gradient weight and strength sliders in header #6494 Compositor - New String to Image node #6483 Properties Editor - Particles tab - specials menu - add icon to convert to curves #6177 properties editor - object data properties with a point cloud - attributes panel, add icon #6202 Area Edge Options - Merge Edges needs an icon #6485 Compositor - Add the Utilities - Text into the sidebar #6489 Properties editor - Collection tab - Instancing panel - Instance offset menu - missing icons #5227 Geometry Nodes - New Rename Attribute node #6482 Properties Editor - Strip Modifiers - Non-Linear property is removed #6487 Shader Nodes - Glossy missing #6480 Default Asset Library - Add Raycast Shader Edges #6474 Properties editor - Collections tab - Instancing panel - instance offset menu - add icons #6154 Icon - Filter needs to be "inverted" when filter is a drop down #6473 3D View - Object Mode - Mesh - Context Menu - Join has no icon #6056 Graph Editor - new Smooth (Gaussian) modifier #6410 Cleanup: Sculpt - Header - Automasking property panel needs love #6469 Compositor - Sidebar > Options - Performance panel - Remove broken property "use_view_border" #6468 Defautl Asset Library - Normals asset needs thumbnail cleanup #6472 Warning: Console shows missing brushes (regression) #6450 Cleanup: Interface - Remove unused functions #6461 Properties editor - object properties with cycles - motion blur panel - missing decorator #6251 Default Asset Library - Child Addon doesn't have any version, won't update #6459 Default Asset Library - Refine Smart mesh blend to fix bug, thumbnail and intersection #6457 Grease Pencil - Draw mode - Expose "Add" line operators to top level with new icons #6403 Toolbar/Topbar - Manager Panel - Improve collapsible sections #6381 Properties Editor - Modifiers - Layout is broken #6454 Properties - Sequencer Strip - Transform - Mirror needs indent to new line #6437 Properties - Modifiers - Mirror - Improve layout #6451 UI - Core - Split boolean properties not expanding full space when in toggle mode #6447 Topbar/Toolbar - Add Region Hud support #6445 BLI_Vector.hh - Set back to use default_inline_buffer_capacity #6443 Sequencer - Make Connect/Disconnect Strips contextual as a single operator and expose to Toolshelf #6303 Top Bar - Remove "Show/Hide" topbar button (redundant) #6438 Space Toolbar - Wrong align icon names #6441 uvedit_select.cc - move #include out of namespace #6432 3D View - New Navigation Gizmo Toolbar background #6422 Icons - Update new `FILTER_FILLED` icon to match Bforartists UI #6421 Linux - Wayland Icon : Replace blender's for Bforartists icon #6435 Essentials Assets - Improve Curve to Tube to work better with Grease Pencil #6429 Non Linear Animation - Make channels top padding rows better #6425 Toolbar - Align X and Y icons missing #6427 Toolbar - Manager Panel - Pressing ENTER disables toolbar sections #6383 Tools - Sidebar - Weird spacing in three-column layout #6418 Toolbar/Topbar - Python API - Toolbar-specific functions exposed for non-toolbar menus #6415 3DView - Viewport Shading - Improve Scene World disclosure icon position #6411 Preferences - When switching to OpenGL or Vulkan, it says to restart "Blender" #6406 Default Asset Library - Expose normal blur controlsa and fix the material override #6408 Presentation Slides - Remove the playback hook and let it use built in playback method #6407 -------------------- # Bforartists 5.1.0 ## 134 Tasks ###✨What's new in the 5.1.x series: - New procedural UV Nodes assets for Geometry Nodes - Grease Pencil pressure sensistive distance to radius when drawing on surfaces - New Primitive Add gizmos mode operators exposed to a top level in the toolshelf in object and sculpt mode - Updates to Grease Pencil asset thumbnails for consistency - Major performance update and new features of the Smart Mesh Blend asset - Major refactor for the Add Node sidebar to improve consistency and order - Refactored Topbar customization and consistency settings panel pass for the Topbar editor, making this more accessible and usable and consistent - Active Tool dropdown gets icons - More tabbed toolshelf icons get an update, notably the Annoation icons - Most Booleans checkboxes now dynamically float left, making these more consistent everywhere - Sidebars have improved alignment of labels and properties accross the board - Tabbed toolshelf has improved padding when in 3 columns mode - Improved selected channel legibility in Animation editors - Fixed Multi-GPU rendering hard crash - More Shelf Regions pie menu refinement Toolsystem - Sidebar - Fix non-square buttons when in three-column layout #6401 3D View - Sculpt Mode - Sculpt - New Set Vertex Color operator #6397 Node Editors - Improve tooltip to show you can copy and paste nodes between Bforartists instances #6241 Topbar - Workspaces - Double "Duplicate Workspaces" entry #6093 Compositor - new Mask to SDF Node #6151 3D View - Sculpt/Object Mode - Make Add Modal Primitive top level panel with updated icons #6321 UV Align Vertically/Horizontally icons are inverted #6314 Icon - Info Large icon needs better drawing #6365 Geometry Nodes - Utilities - Text - New Trim String node #6366 Geometry Nodes - New Bundle Nodes #6237 Toolbar/Topbar - Manager Panel - Make different functions more distinguishable #6380 Add Icon for SDF Grid filtering #6249 Node Editors - New "Cut" node operator to paste later #6240 Add icons for new added Grid operation nodes #6253 Add Icon for Cube Grid Topology node #6250 Add Icon for Matrix SVD node #6248 Geometry Nodes - New Set NURBS Weight node #6363 Geometry Nodes - Add - Curve - Write - Set NURBS Order #6322 Node Editors - Add - Utilities - New Implicit Conversion Node #6318 Node Editor - Input - Constant - New "Menu" node needs icon and some tooltip love #6323 Node Editors - New Implicit Conversion Node #6307 Shader Nodes - Toolshelf - Fix incorrect toolshelf buttons for Closures #6368 Geometry Nodes - Add - Input - Constant - Font #6324 3D View - Mesh object - Edit Mode - Mesh - Transform - New To Circle #6325 Essentials Assets - Add "Blur" brush from Blender essentials #6152 Default Asset Library - Make Grease Pencil nodegroup color coding consistent #6332 Default Asset Library - Compositor - Make pixel based systems work in vertical resolutions. #6327 Default Asset Library - Improve compositor icons with better iconography #6331 Default Asset Library - Improve the Mesh Blend by Proximity performance and features for v2.0.2 #6330 Default Asset Library - Add UV Nodes #6334 Essentials Assets - Sync Geometry Nodes #6263 Hotkeys - Curves object - Sculpt Mode - X to radial control needs Confirm on Release #6329 Select menus, separator at the end of the menus #5126 3D View - Region Overlap on with Asset Browser off causes overlap glitch #5013 Plane Trim option not available warning in sculpt mode with fill/deepen brush #4955 Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Add "sync" surface distance with brush radius #6336 File Browser to Sequencer Context menu - Add icons #5347 Default Theme - Make Channels differentiate between selected channels and others #6286 NLA - Sidebar - Active Strip Panel - Indent and large space issue #6287 3D View - Object - Animation - Add icon to Replace Action Animation operator #6259 3D View - GP - Vertex Paint Mode - Toolshelf - Missing Replace icon #6280 Update orient_type check from boolean to enum in transform operations #6353 Keymap - remove old tool region toggle and update macos keymap #6351 File Browser Keymap - Replace TOOL PROPS keymap with ~ (tilde key) #6345 Outliner - View - Pie Penu - Add icon #6317 3D View - Grease Pencil - Draw Mode - Erase brush - Add icons to erase mode in header #6319 Import - Drag and Drop menu for SVG needs icons #6328 File Browser - Make the T key use the consistent pie menu #6339 3D View - Grease Pencil - Vertex Paint brush - Make sidebar mode collapse #6335 Node Editor - Sidebar - Node - Node Color - Special menu is empty #6340 OptiX not detecting GPUs in Linux #6341 3D View - Tool Settings - Add icons to "Active Tool" dropdown #6333 Properties editor - object properties with Eevee - Visibility panel - missing decorators #6252 VSE - blade tool - sidebar, tool, active tool settings - align props left #6090 VSE - Preview mode - Sidebar - View Tab - View Settings panel - align prop left #6092 Properties editor - Physics tab - Dynamic paint, Brush type, source panel with paint method particle system - align prop left #6182 Properties editor - Object Data Properties with armature - Inverse Kinematics panel, align prop left #6210 Compositor - File Output node - Sidebar - Node tab - Properties Panel - Images subpanel - align prop left #6295 3D View - GP - Paint Mode - Tint and Eraser mode could have icons (for consistency) #6281 Fix: Race Condition on close #6272 Tools update the brush icon #6306 User Preferences - Add icon to new Asset Libraries panel #6304 Preferences - Asset Libraries - Move Library buttons now broken when trying to move an Online Repository (Experimental) #6312 Fix: Addon missing manifest #6291 Default Asset Library - Registers wrong type of library now, needs to be robust #6310 3D View - Overlays - Indent new "Text" group, remove old Statistics #5994 Files imported from Blender don't work correctly #6193 NLA - Strip menu - Remove delete tracks #6285 NLA - Action header - New Replace Action operator needs icon #6296 Animation layout, toolbar - all toolbar types on #6274 VSE - Strip tab with text object - Style panel - Double content Shadow, Outline, Box #6089 3d view, object menu, Animation submenu - Replace action needs icon #6297 Properties Editor - Camera - Background Images panel > Movie Clip - Use split layout for non-boolean properties #6216 Add icons to new Grease pencil fill workflow operators #6258 NLA Editor - Sidebar - Strip Tab - Put checkbox in front of Strip name and icon #6262 Video Sequencer & Properties - Strip Tab - Put checkbox in front of Strip name and icon #6276 NLA Editor - Header - Fix display of Isolate property when Tweak is enabled #6273 NLA Editor - Header - Put separator between Tweak and Isolate #6261 Compositor - Asset Shelf - Reassign default asset librarie categories in versioning #6212 Startup - Animation tab saved has default. #6269 Animation workspace - remove unused toolbar #6233 Sequencer - When Active scene is not the Pinned Sequencer scene, the Retiming panel fails #6222 Toolbar - Toolbar manager in old version - Animation, Edit and Misc not chooseable #6138 3D View - Sidebar - Item Tab - Put axis labels in front of Dimensions property #6247 3D View - Edit mode - Select Edge Loop is broken #6265 Sequencer - Crash with navigation in VSE with Thumbnails turned on #6082 Default Asset Library - Blend Normals by Proximity - Default to a Default Target Collection #6244 Default Asset Library - Smart Mesh Blend - Improve some UX issues #6255 Toolbar Editor - Make preferences the same as the fixed Topbar Toolbar #4142 Asset warnings in console at startup #6245 Fix: Hotkeys - Brush Paint - Warnings on startup due to no erase and smooth set correctly #6205 Default Library - Toolshelf - Update the Wizard Handlers #6242 GitHub actions failing after recent Blender precompiled libraries update #6207 Crash when rendering with Cycles using Optix with both CPU and GPU #6007 Properties Editor - Bone Properties tab - Viewport Display panel - Custom shape subpanel - indent and hide properties #6227 Properties Editor - Bone Properties tab - Viewport Display panel - Custom shape subpanel - Error in console #6226 Properties Editor - Image tab - Image or Movie - Image panel - Sampling subpanel - put label in front of slider #6225 Preferences - Interface tab - order of checkboxes #6224 Spreadsheet editor - double entry Show Internal Attributes #6235 File browser - Display settings - double label Sort By #6234 User Preferences - move show hidden #6218 Error in space_statusbar.py #6204 Movie Clip Editor - no adjust last operator #6108 Properties editor - Physics modifier Explode - remove double content #6170 Fix: Error in bfa_default_library addon #6198 Properties editor, Constraints tab - Limit rotation constraint - Could not find button with matching property to decorate #6190 Fix: Critical warning during build #6184 Properties editor - Constraints tab - Geometry Attribute constraint , align property left #6191 Default Asset Library - Improve unregistry and manifest #6181 Console messages at startup #6186 3D View - Header - Selectatbility and visibility icon broken #6183 Preferences , Extensions - online versus built-in addons #5061 Default Asset Library - Cleanup code and functionality #6153 Properties editor - Modifiers - Grease Pencil - Lineart modifier - Occlusion subpanel - align prop left #6175 3D View, Item tab, Transform panel - refactor Mode property #6158 Solidify modifier - indent Only Rim, hide Factor #6164 Outliner - Scene tab - Keying sets - align props left #6148 Getting a frequent crash when editing a mesh in edit mode #6140 Default Hotkeys - Make snap to cursor also use rotation #5016 Sequencer - Effect Strips context and operators needs updating #5001 Default Addons - include as system scripts #4386 Properties editor - object properties - line art panel - remove double, hide greyed out prop, put checkbox in front #6157 Properties editor - object properties with cycles - motion blur panel, align prop left #6155 Properties editor - Object properties with Eevee - Visibility panel - indent props #6156 Freestyle Modifiers - align props left #6147 NLA Editor - Sidebar > Strip > Active Strip - Make properties follow BFA conventions #6133 fix: Blender - Unsupported Graphics Card Configuration #6142 Graph Editor - View menu - remove double menu entry Channels #6123 NLA Editor - Sidebar > Strip > Active Clip - Add missing label and align Sync Action Length property #6134 Driver editor - no Key menu content #6129 UV Editor - Select - Make "double" menu entry shortest path more explicit #5941 Dope sheet editor - quick navigation elements vanishes in submodes #6113 Graph Editor - View menu - View in Graph Editor #6124 Fix: Graph Editor - Key menu content does not show #6125