There is a new Blender version available, Blender 5.2.0 LTS, and so we release a new version of Bforartists too.
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.
This version comes with 56 new features from us. Splashscreen is kindly provided by Belzunze, the latest winner of the Splashscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
Thank you for using Bforartists while making art – and for sharing to this art community.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Shaley, Sean and all you arty people
💜 Join the official Discord server for weekly art challenges and live artist QnA interviews every now and then! And share your art.
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Krysidian and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) Team, the latest winner of the Splashsscreen submissions competition hosted in the Discord server! Thank you!
And finally! Thank you for using Bforartists, making art with it, and sharing this with the art community – this wouldn’t be possible without you.
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Hey my friends. I am happy and excited to tell you that there is now a book about UI UX design available that is based at all the experience that i have gathered in the last 25 years on various software and game projects, and of course the Bforartists development. Which has accompanied me for more than ten years now. The book aims at software developers and UI UX designers. And that’s what the content mainly is about. The first part provides an overview of how to get started as an UI UX designer as a carrer changer. Goes across the various rules that allows you to design a good UI. And gives practical tips on what you need to take care of, and what is better avoided. The second part of the book covers the development of Bforartists up to version 1.0, and gives practical examples. It contains of course lots of theory. The matter is complex. But also lots of practical tips. And explains more than one decision that we did in the Bforartists development.
Currently the book can be found at Amazon in Kindle format.
The title of the book is: Career Changer – From Developer to UI Designer: UI/UX Design Fundamentals with Practical Application in the Open Source Project Bforartists The english version can be found here: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G5NMCG5P The german version is located here: www.amazon.de/dp/B0G5P5XB34
There is a new Blender version available, and so we release a new version too. Bforartist 5 comes with all the massive changes from Blender 5. Plus lots of changes and improvements from our side.
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.
99 new Compositor assets, including shapes, patterns, lens effects, color adjustments, filters and more
New customizable colored backgrounds on nodes
New icons in collapsed icon headers
New customizable Node Editor Overlay for canvas center
Enhanced Asset Shelf user experience: New packed mode, and love to context menu operators for Armature Pose assets
Group Operators in Node Toolshelf: Node group operators moved to toolshelf for better accessibility
New icons for frames with new frame operators
New Apply operators: Apply with remesh, join, and boolean on selected meshes with one click
Presentation Addon Enhancement: New Slides operator for presentations
Interface Consistency Improvements: more robust columns for tabbed toolshelf
Region Toggle Pie Menu: Added to T key and exposed in header
Organized Node categories and groups for less bloat and better discoverability
New Animation Timeline Footers and Dopesheet editor mode
New quick toggle to Timeline with the Power User Tools
Consistent paint curve dropdowns in header and sidebar for jitter and pressure settings
Update to the Curves edit mode to be consistent with other modes
Adopted the new Blender “Built-in” sequencer scene sync with our legacy 3D Sequencer system with timeline gizmos
New Geometry Nodes assets and modifiers from Blender adopted to the Bforartists asset shelves
Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity assets gets material blending, performance modes, and an improved wizard user experience
Additional Features from this Blender 5.0.x and 5.1.x series:
Improved UV user experience with sync
New Compositor Sequencer Mode: New Sequencer modifier with access to using compositor nodes with Sequence Info strip integration
Minimized Theme Panel Visual Update
Frame Jump is now built into the timeline with seconds and frames
Geometry Nodes Improvements: Multiple new Grid, SDF, and Volume nodes
Performance Optimizations: Improved tessellation, subdivision, and general performance
New Radial Tiling vector node
New Repeat Zone for Shaders (with bundles and closures)
New & Updated MatCaps: optional specular lighting in MatCaps improves shading clarity, especially on dark surfaces.
Dope Sheet Cache Visualization – Clearer feedback on cached frames for animation performance monitoring.
Video Sequencer Overhaul: Dedicated Strip and Strip Modifiers tabs with drag-and-drop modifier stacks, icons, and search.
Multi-Scene Sequencer Workflows – Sequencer can now reference different scenes, with Sync Scene Time for seamless editing.
Grease Pencil Motion Blur: Adds natural blur to strokes with adjustable steps, enhancing animation quality.
Grease Pencil Corner Types: Per-point corner styles (Round, Sharp, Flat) for more precise stroke design.
Faster cycles and EEVEE
Netter Subsurface scattering, volumetrics and multi-scattering
New sky mode for environments
Faster unwrapping and field evaluation in Geometry Nodes
Better FBX, Alembix and USD compatibility
Adaptive subdivision in Cycles now official
Metallic Thin Film Iridescence for Cycles
Splashscreen is kindly provided by Bluenile3D, the latest winner of the Splashsscreen submissions competition hosted in our Discord server! Thank you!
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’t be possible
Draise, Reiner, Blenux (Juso), Znight (Trung Pham), Quackers, Eyad, Sean and all you arty supporters
Have fun with the new version. Enjoy Bforartists 🙂
There is a new Blender version, and so there is new version of Bforartists. Version 4.5.0. 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.
This is a major feature update with much love to the Asset Shelves usability with many new accumulated details and features from Bforartists and Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.5.0 and 5.0.0 to the date – with 169 new pieces of love from us.
Have fun with the new version. Enjoy Bforartists 🙂 Draise, Reiner, Iyad, Blenux, Sean, zNightlord and the rest of the team.
It’s been a while since i have added my last bit to this page here. But this turoial does not fit to my other pages, so i add it here.
It is server related. I always forget how i have set up my http tunnel for Webmin. I do this all five years or so. And then i am in trouble again. ChatGPT dreamed away and made me plain crazy when i asked it for help. So i did a web research instead and finally made it a tutorial for my personal needs.
As some of you might know, i followed my dreams to be a professional musician for a while. But now i have decided to stop the project. The music market has become too crowded. Spotify contains 100 million tracks nowadays. AI has arrived. And the share for us independent musicians becomes fewer and fewer. It simply makes no sense anymore to ride a dead horse. I will never stop making music, but my professional carreer is over. I will return to a hobby musician status now.
I want to thank everybody involved. It was me a pleasure. Live your dreams my friends 🙂
The music is no longer available. And the official page is already offline. But the AI content of it has moved to a subdomain of this page here haizytiles.reinerstilesets.de/
This page will now become my main project. AI content and free songs. See you at the other side 🙂
Hey friends, i nearly missed it, but it is now more than ten years that Bforartists, our Blender Fork, has seen the light of day. The official start of the project was 2.6.2015.
It was and is me a pleasure to work with all the people at the project. I want to take a moment to sincerely thank all of you — for your dedication, your smart ideas, your pull requests, your patience with bug reports, and above all, the open and constructive collaboration that has shaped our open source project into what it is today.
A special thank-you also goes out to our loyal users: your feedback, your issue reports, your suggestions, and simply your continued use of Bforartists show us that our work matters.
Open source thrives on community, trust, and a shared commitment to building something better. I’m truly grateful we’re on this journey together.
Here’s to many more releases, late-night coding (and coffee), and continued inspiration through working side by side!
