{"id":734,"date":"2025-11-30T12:33:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T11:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haizytiles.reinerstilesets.de\/?p=734"},"modified":"2025-12-02T08:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T07:27:31","slug":"bforartists-5-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haizytiles.reinerstilesets.de\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/bforartists-5-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Bforartists 5 released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hey my friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As some of you might know, i am the founder of the Bforartists project. Bforartists is a fork of the popluar open source 3D software Blender. With the goal to improve the graphical UI and usability. And is, like Blender, open source and free to use. And i am still involved into the project. So it is me a pleasure to tell you that we have a new version of Bforartists ready. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bforartist 5 comes with all the massive changes from Blender 5. Plus lots of changes and improvements from our side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The binary downloads can as usual also be found in the download section of the official webpage. https:\/\/www.bforartists.de\/download\/<br>The sourcecode can be found at Github. https:\/\/github.com\/Bforartists\/Bforartists\/releases\/tag\/v5.0.0<br>And the release note is here: https:\/\/www.bforartists.de\/release-notes\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What&#8217;s new:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>99 new Compositor assets, including shapes, patterns, lens effects, color adjustments, filters and more<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New customizable colored backgrounds on nodes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New icons in collapsed icon headers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New customizable Node Editor Overlay for canvas center<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enhanced Asset Shelf user experience: New packed mode, and love to context menu operators for Armature Pose assets<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Group Operators in Node Toolshelf: Node group operators moved to toolshelf for better accessibility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New icons for frames with new frame operators<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Apply operators: Apply with remesh, join, and boolean on selected meshes with one click<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Presentation Addon Enhancement: New Slides operator for presentations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Interface Consistency Improvements: more robust columns for tabbed toolshelf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Region Toggle Pie Menu: Added to T key and exposed in header<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Organized Node categories and groups for less bloat and better discoverability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Animation Timeline Footers and Dopesheet editor mode<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New quick toggle to Timeline with the Power User Tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consistent paint curve dropdowns in header and sidebar for jitter and pressure settings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update to the Curves edit mode to be consistent with other modes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adopted the new Blender &#8220;Built-in&#8221; sequencer scene sync with our legacy 3D Sequencer system with timeline gizmos<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Geometry Nodes assets and modifiers from Blender adopted to the Bforartists asset shelves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity assets gets material blending, performance modes, and an improved wizard user experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Features from this Blender 5.0.x and 5.1.x series:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Improved UV user experience with sync<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Compositor Sequencer Mode: New Sequencer modifier with access to using compositor nodes with Sequence Info strip integration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minimized Theme Panel Visual Update<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frame Jump is now built into the timeline with seconds and frames<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Geometry Nodes Improvements: Multiple new Grid, SDF, and Volume nodes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Performance Optimizations: Improved tessellation, subdivision, and general performance<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Radial Tiling vector node<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New Repeat Zone for Shaders (with bundles and closures)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New &amp; Updated MatCaps: optional specular lighting in MatCaps improves shading clarity, especially on dark surfaces.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dope Sheet Cache Visualization \u2013 Clearer feedback on cached frames for animation performance monitoring.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Video Sequencer Overhaul: Dedicated Strip and Strip Modifiers tabs with drag-and-drop modifier stacks, icons, and search.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Multi-Scene Sequencer Workflows \u2013 Sequencer can now reference different scenes, with Sync Scene Time for seamless editing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grease Pencil Motion Blur: Adds natural blur to strokes with adjustable steps, enhancing animation quality.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Grease Pencil Corner Types: Per-point corner styles (Round, Sharp, Flat) for more precise stroke design.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faster cycles and EEVEE<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Netter Subsurface scattering, volumetrics and multi-scattering<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>New sky mode for environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faster unwrapping and field evaluation in Geometry Nodes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Better FBX, Alembix and USD compatibility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adaptive subdivision in Cycles now official<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Metallic Thin Film Iridescence for Cycles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Splashscreen is kindly provided by Bluenile3D, the latest winner of the Splashsscreen submissions competition hosted in our Discord server! Thank you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And also, thanks again for all art, love, feedback and help for making the Bforartists community what it is today! Without your feedback and support, this wouldn&#8217;t be possible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have fun with the new version. 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