A complete, free and opensource 3D suite to create artistic content. It offers you the full 3D art pipeline to create game graphics, pre-rendered movies and stills, animation and assets. From modeling, drawing, sculpting, texturing, rigging, animation, lighting, rendering, post processing and video editing.
Bforartists stands for “Be For Artists”. A reminder to develop for artistic user, not the programmer! This is a fork of the popular open source 3D software Blender. This is maintained and developed by a few 3D enthusiasts in the community to make Blender even better. You can join our Discord server here: discord.com/invite/yKuR77v
Primary goal is to deliver a refined graphical UI and an alternative usability paradigm to Blender with a complete switch in the usage philosophy away from the hotkey centered UX towards a user friendly, discoverable and intuitive graphical UI.
Fully compatible with the entire Blender ecosystem of addons, themes and assets . Every feature that works in Blender should also work in Bforartists. We update every release to keep up to date with the newest Blender version. The toolset is the identical, differences lie the most is the GUI and the UX handling.
Try it out today. You can switch from Blender to Bforartists to Blender without problems and enjoy. 🙂
🔍 Features:
- An new default keymap, reduced to a minimal and necessary hotkey layout with 3D navigation that can be exclusively done by mouse.
- Cleaned up User Interface. Lots of unnecessary double, triple or even more identical menu entries are combined, removed and/or exposed.
- Extended User Interface. Many tools that were formerly hotkey only have a menu entry now.
- Rearranged User Interface. Some things are better accessible now, some less frequent operators are no-longer in the way anymore.
- Improved default settings.
- Colored Iconography with silhuette, color coding, form and detail consistently placed everywhere.
- A configurable toolbar with icon buttons.
- A pinnable tool shelf with the header based tools, exposed at a top-level in panels.
- Tabs in the toolshelf.
- A node add toolshelf for quick point and click
- Improved default workspace layouts.
- Left aligned checkboxes and text where possible.
- Indented titles for properties.
- Better and more tooltips.
- Better contrast on a readable standard theme.
- Some extra add-ons to improve usability, like the reset 3D View add-on, Brush Panels or the Set Dimensions add-on with which you can scale in world coordinates in edit mode.
- And lots of extra small details: like not so many delete confirm dialogs, quick editor toggles, scene management in the outliner, and more.
📚 More Info:
- The target audience for Bforartists are hobbyists and indie developers coming in from other software. Blender tries to target Blender professionals. That’s a completely different audience and development target.
- There also is an extended GUI reference manual. The Blender manual is unsearchable in big parts, has an odd structure mixing user experience with GUI, and still relies heavily on the Blender keymap to name a few flaws. This makes it nearly unusable as a reference for users. And that’s why we have rewritten it. With the tools, editors and operators in mind, not only the hotkeys. We also removed UX tips and tricks to keep it minimal and GUI orientated.
