👀 New Nodegroup granular accessibilty icons in the Relations tab of the Node Editor, you can see and add your node groups with new icon indicators to see what node groups are assets, force saved, or overridden or linked. Click to add and drop to the node tree.

🖥️ Development has brought Icons on collapsed nodes. A dream come true! Coming Soon™ to Bforartists 5.0.0. And square collapsed nodes! From Blender 5.0!

🏛️ Bforartists 4.5.1 – Officially Released!.The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade hotfix. This is a stability update to the release that has brought us much much love to the Asset Shelves usability with many new accumulated details and features from Bforartists and Blender 4.5.1.

📰This means we are cooking a new build for you too! With a chunk of polish to you too. Bforartists 4.5.1 Coming soon!.

🐰Another new asset is the Mesh Lines and Silhouette nodegroup - where you can get some tried and true inverse hull Geometry Nodes. Features:.- Color and width controls.- Randomization.- Poligonization.- Weight Paint controls for width.- Flattening of silhouttte.- Intersections

📄 And this is Fully documented and with tooltips. Available as a default asset now! Drag and drop from the Asset Browser or Asset Shelf under the Normals category. .

💜New asset! Blend normals by proximity on a collection of objects, for "fake SDF". Features:.- Wizard to select your collection + auto-toggle the collection to wireframe controls.- Intersection displacement controls.- Normal blend size and blur controls.- Material overrides

📺 Official Release Video - 🏛️ The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade! The video covers core features adopted from Blender, new features added to the fork, and the artwork that played! Hope you enjoy!.

Bforartists is based on the Main Trunk of blender, meaning all official release fixes and the future of Blender 5.0 is part of this release, with 6 weeks differences from the official branch of Blender! . ⚠️Test, report, help us polish!

🖼️ The default Presentations Slides addon has a new operator to make new slides! They are scenes with some presets, frame duration and sequential insertion to make slides. easier than ever!. Scenes are very powerful!

🖥️This is the kind of thing that's perfect for a little wizard, drag, drop, it just works! Hmmm!!!!!.

🎁 What makes this release special is the Geometry Nodes Mesh Lines and Silhouette and Blend Normals by Proximity asset that does "fake SDF" blending on a collection of objects. Drag and drop from the asset shelf or browser to scene to use. 🧙‍♂️

This one is very much thanks to @quackarooners for the incredible work and attention to detail!.

🩺What makes a great release is the sum of details! Blender 4.5 and 5.0 interface polish and a complete nodeshelf refactor here, with new usability refinement, make building node trees that much more fun!

And the Assets Workspace makes it easy to mark, drag and drop to relevant areas. 💙. And more! With Blender now supporting placing collections with a placement gizmo - the future is bright when it comes to layout and assets. 🧡.

This is thanks to @znightTrung ! Huge feat! 👀💙.

🏛️The Asset Shelf and Browser now supports linking in Blend file assets and automatically adding Library Overrides, only with Bforartists. Not to mention we have a top level opt in for instancing and set position to world center! 💙

🟦 This new release also comes with some social media preset dimensions and ratios for the modern era of media! Vertical, Square, Portrait, and Landscape proportions. To use, go to the output panel in the Properties Editor, use the presets dropdown from the header, and viola!

💙Bforartists 4.5.0 is about Asset Shelves: where you can drag object mode assets into the 3D View and Node Editors with automatic Library Overrides! And another 169 touches of love. Based on Blender 4.5 and Blender 5.0

And it's live! Download from the Blender Launcher v2, Windows appstore, website or github!.