This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.5.2 and 5.0.0 to the date – with 29 new pieces of love from us and another 111 fixes 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:
- Fixed *.blend file thumbnail generation
- Fixed Properties Editor pose bone color toggles
- Fixed grid display properties
- Fixed asset shelf hotkeys for pose assets (Double click to apply, ALT+LMB drag to blend)
What’s new in this series:
- 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 Node Editors sidebar add panels
- New Granular display of nodegroups 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 updates
- Updated default Hotkeys
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x and 5.0.x series:
- New Closure and Bundle Geometry Nodes – 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.
ℹ️ Mac builds coming soon
📥 Download for Free today! Let us know what you think of this big release!
🌍 Official Website
Website Download Link
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Blender Launcher v2 Download
📄 Release Notes:
Release Notes on Website
🖥️ Source Code
Github Repository
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Prashan Subsinghe, the latest winner of the Splash Screen competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And also, thanks again for all artwork, much love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community that much better!
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters