Bforartists 5 version 5.1.0 - The UV Nodes Version 🏁 Bforartists 5 1 0 - Splash Large Bforartists 5 0 1 Screenshot This major point release is focused on new procedural UV Geometry Nodes assets that come out of the box, and much polish to the overall interface, keeping everything new in sync with the Bforartsits interface philosophy. This is part of all the latest from Blender 5.1.0 and 5.2.0 to the date - with 131 new features, fixes and polish with much stability from Blender! ℹ️ Linux and Mac builds are cooking and will come soon ✨What's new :

• New procedural UV Nodes assets for Geometry Nodes bforartists_ijdY7L6cEw
• 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 568167306-be6b571a-9b2b-4d6f-9a9d-a885b3684013
• Updates to Grease Pencil asset thumbnails for consistency bforartists_I90XQOsTza
• 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 566774956-577abdf3-41d5-4f56-9466-37d0da6d3cd6
• 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 🧡 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.x and 5.2.x series:
• Animation: New Subframes visibility
• Animation: New Looping and playback modes
• Graph: New Smooth (Gaussian) modifier
• Shader: New raycast node
• Shader: Support for DirectX and OpenGL toggles in the Normal node
• Preferences: New Search
• Preferences: New abiliity to toggle Asset library visibilities
• Greasepencil: New Fills and Stroke mode with booleans
• Greasepencil: New primitive gizmos
• Grease Pencil: You can search in layers now
• Geometry Nodes: New Grid Nodes like Gird Mean, Grid Median, Grid Dilate & Erode, Trim String node, Set NURBS Weight and Order, new Matrix SVD
• Geometry Nodes: New Bundle orgnaization nodes in Geometry Nodes
• Geometry Nodes: UV Pack node and Strings to Curves node is better
• All Node editors: New Implicit conversion, and new consistent Input constant nodes, new Menu node
• All Node editors: New Cut Nodes to paste between sessions opertoar
• Weight Paint: New loop selections
• Edit Mode: New delimiters on loop selections
• Edit Mode: New "To Circle" operator
• Text Object: Better drawing
• Compositor: New Camera Info nodes and Integer Vectors, new Mask to SDF node
• Compositor/Sequencer: Now compositor
• Sculpting: New Scene Project brush, and Vertex Color operator
• Data: Better Remap User experience
• Outline: Scroll on rename has improved
• Core: Undo is 30% faster
• Core: Vulkan and Cycles Denoising is marginally much faster and stable, by leagues
• Core: Stability is highest it has ever been with over 350+ fixes And many more features, bug fixes and more! Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2 📥 Downloads: https://www.bforartists.de/download/ 🪟 Windows App Windows App Store 🧡 Blender Launcher Github Release For Arch 📝 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 Krysidian and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) Team, the latest winner of the Splashsscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you! And finally! Thank you for using Bforartists, making art with it, and sharing this with the art community - this wouldn't be possible without you. Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters Release Notes Bforartists 5.1.0 131 Tasks 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