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

*Windows builds coming soon

Thanks again for all love, feedback and art and help!

• Bforartists-4.4.3-Linux.tar.xz
• Bforartists-4.4.3-Mac-Intel.dmg
• Bforartists-4.4.3-Mac-Silicon.dmg
• Bforartists-4.4.3-universal.dmg
• Bforartists-4.4.3-Windows.zip
• Bforartists-4.4.3-x86_64.AppImage
• bforartists_4.4.3.deb
• Install_Bforartists4_443.exe
• releasenote_bforartists4_443.txt

Grease Pencil

• Edit Mode - Expose Grease Pencil operators to toolshelf #4979
• Edit Mode - Select menu - hide operators that don't work in Stroke Select mode #4743

3D View

• Grease Pencil - Edit Mode - Stroke header menu - Missing icons #4971
• Wireframe Mode - Viewport Shading dropdown - Show Object Outline float left #4972

Properties editor

• Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - Missing icon in right click menu #4964
• Grease Pencil object - Object Data Properties - Layer panel - right click menu - crash to desktop with merge group #4966

Asset Browser

• Only show header properties based on collection asset types #4978
• Regression - The header props are in a sub-menu when exposed to top level with icons. #4977

Preferences

• File Pather - Re-order library with buttons #4867

Linux

• Bforartists Thumbnail is crashing builds on Linux #4993

Interface

• Glitchy border theme issues #4992

Power User Tools

• Add an operator to open folder of current blend file #4983

Hotkeys

• Mac OS needs reverting #4976

Other

• Crash when exiting Bforartists #4916
• Restore dropping asset instance collection to scene origin #4975

Splashscreen is kindly provided by Andres Stephens, one of the core developers.

Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters