
Smart Primitives + Hotfix Update
This is a stability hotfix release with many showstopper fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4.3 and 4.5 to the date – with 15 new pieces of work from us.
What’s new:
- New Smart Primitive assets and operators, with UVs, Gizmos and presets!!!
- New Asset Library reorder buttons
This 4.4.x series additionally includes:
- New quick “tag” assignment to show nodegroups in the relevant Asset Shelves
- New Quick Viewers for the compositor exposed to the header
- Default hotkey updates
Included new features from Blender:
- New Manifold (fastest) Boolean mode
- New Compositor Image Info node
- New Compositor Vector nodes and sockets
- New EEVEE Shadow Terminator
- New Geometry Nodes: Field Average, Min & Max, Field Varience, Grease Pencil Color/Opacity, Grease Pencil Layer Dpeth, Instance Bounding Box, Camera Info, and Mesh Normal Nodes
- New Visual Geometry to Objects operator
- New Import nodes
- New Antialiasing for Grease Pencil
- New Horizontal list for the Asset Browser
- Individual tabs for Properties Editor
Additional Features from this Blender 4.4.x series:
- New Glare node
- CPU compositor rewrite and performance update
- Much refinement to the UI
- New “disable” of properties in nodes and modifiers
- New editor snapping
- New sculpt plane brush
- New Select by Pole Count and Topology Influence
- Relationship Overlays improved
- Rigging got love
- New Fcurve noise modifier
- New Animation Slots to assign multiple objects to the same Action Clip
- And much much more
Downloads available from both Github, the official Website, Windows store and Blender Launcher v2
📥 Download Free today! And enjoy, let us know what you think of this release!
🌍 Official Website
🪟 Windows App
www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9PD5L5XBRMR0?ocid=pdpshare
🧡 Blender Launcher
github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2/releases
📄 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 Andres Stephens, one of the core developers.
Thanks again for all love, feedback and art and help!
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters