Bforartists 5 version 5.1.0 – The UV Nodes Version 🏁
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 Mac builds are cooking and will come soon
✨What’s new :
- 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
🧡 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:
www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
Windows App Store
🧡 Blender Launcher
Github Release
For Arch
📝 Release Notes:
www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🗒️ Blender Release notes now merged and updated into Bforartists:
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