The Nodes Minimap and Quick Favorites Upgrade Version 🔎
This minor point release has major features! With a new node editor minimap with customizatble size, coloring, ratio and position. This also comes with new materials ouf-of-the box, and a highly requested Quick Favorites menu with icons and order customizability.
This is part of the latest from Blender 5.1.2 and 5.2.0 to the date – with 46 new features, fixes and polish with another 15+ stability fixes from Blender.
✨What’s new in this release:
- Customizable Node Minimap
- Customizable and Icononized Quick Favorites menu
- Compact toolshelf tabs with better column snapping
- Stacks button to open relevant Node Editors
- More out-of-the-box materials, including wood
- Power User Tools Select Grease Pencil Layer under Mouse operators
- Sequencer Compositor Assets button (like in Geometry Nodes)
- Fixed Smart Asset sidebar modifier options
🧡 Additional Features from this Blender 5.1.2 and 5.2.0 series:
- Geometry Nodes Sample Sound Frequencies Node
- Geometry Nodes Merge Points and Cluster by Selected and Distance
- Geometry Nodes List Nodes and socket type
- Grease Pencil Dot texture randomization
- Compositor Rotation nodes
- Mesh Edit Mode Flatten and Space Edge Loops Evenly Operators
- Dopesheet Select All (keyframes) by Trait
- Blender Online Assets available in Asset Browser and Shelves when online
And many more 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 Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
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