Blender 4.2 LTS: User Interface¶
General¶
- Support for horizontal rules in vertical layouts, vertical rules in horizontal. (4c50e6992f)
- Improved user interface scaling. (85762d99ef, f85989f5db, 196cd48aad, 23aaf88233, 1f1fbda3ee)
- Icon changes. (42e7a720c9, 4e303751ff, 7b601464c3)
- Optimizations to the font shader. (a05adbef28)
- Interface font updated to Inter 4.0. (f235990009)
- Corrected coloring when hovering inactive UI items. (5bed08fc56)
- Tooltip changes. (3d85765e14, 08cd80a284)
- Improved square color picker when shown very wide. (857341a7a7)
- Tooltips for colors featuring large sample and values. (41bbbd2359)
- Asset Browser now supports Maximize Area. (2d5a83f294)
- Wavelength node now uses nanometer-scale inputs. (cc541f2c07)
Status Bar¶
- Improvements to Status Bar keymap display. (c4e5a70e07, 44606c5e4d, 42a8947eb1, dfe060ea6f, 03cd8b359b, 3fbc603137, 1391b7de41, 02798f8438)
- Status Bar now collapses multiple X/Y/Z operations to a more concise format. (49bd285529)
- Expanded Status Bar icons for keymap events. (d1b6621903)
- Tighter Status Bar keymap spacing. (65bfae2258)
- Status Bar mouse event icons are better aligned. (9cb298f706)
Dialogs¶
- Improved large confirmation dialogs. (00b4fdce2c, 6618755912, 3bacd93ba6, 2c8a3243ee, 5eda7c9fd3, 311e0270dd, d379897019)
- Improved small confirmation dialogs. (443ea628c5, 529b8786f8)
- Improved property dialogs. (8fee7c5fc7, da378e4d30, 615edb3f3c)
- Panels now supported in dialog popups. (aa03646a74)
- Some operator confirmations removed. (6dd0f6627e, 7226b52728)
- Improved confirmation when reverting the current file. (75a9cbed24, 8735a8a6be)
Menus¶
- Recent Items context menu now supports opening file location. (6789a88107)
- "Select" menus reorganized to be more consistent. (ede675705e, 4dbca26b5c)
- Menus in mesh sculpt mode were reorganized after gaining new items (1fe8fbd93a)
- Changes to menu separator padding. (48dee674f3)
- All Zoom menus now use a new consistent format. (7e2075b809)
3D Viewport¶
- Ability to toggle Camera Guides in Viewport Overlays. (392ac52ebb)
- Ability to toggle Camera Passepartout in Viewport Overlays. (2a287dc23c)
- Corrected initial viewport tilt. (913acaf395)
- More improvements to overlay text contrast. (3582e52f9c, 3ee8a75e8e)
- Reduced dead zone for 3Dconnexion SpaceMouse. (d739d27a2d)
- Object menu gains a Modifiers submenu. (e63c8bb3c2)
- Sidebar made a bit wider. (068e624ebc)
Properties Editor¶
- Add, remove, apply, and reorder modifiers of all selected objects by holding alt. (9a7f4a3b58)
- Changes to Modifer pinning. (7ee189416c)
- Add eyedropper button to camera focus distance. (7f8d4df410)
Text Editor¶
- GLSL syntax highlighting. (462c144f41)
- Drop strings & URLs into the text editor and Python console
(64843cb12d)
Drag URLs and texts to text and console editors
Node Editor¶
- Input sockets that don't allow editing the value don't show up in the sidebar anymore. (d27a1c47fa, d9d9ff1dcd).
- Slightly improved sorting in search when adding nodes (d1634b2a4a, 22c6831f63).
- Show tooltip with node description when over node title (749433f20b).
- Improved tooltips for dangling reroute nodes (fa66b52d0a).
- Improved tooltips for multi-input sockets (ed9921185a).
- Display node label for tooltips on reroute nodes (0bd6279504).
- Multiple images can be added at the same time using drag and drop (615100acda).
- Node groups can have descriptions now (6176e66636).
- Node group properties have been reorganized (125afb20d3).
- Node groups now have a color tag that affects the header color of group nodes (f4b9ca758a).
- When adding a frame around the selected nodes (ctrl+J), the new frame will now be added to the common root frame of these nodes (0f32291d15).
- Invalid (red) links now have some additional information for why they are invalid (399f6a1c60).
- Dragging a node onto a link does not remove the link anymore if it is incompatible. It's dimmed instead (ebb61ef30f).
- Resetting socket values now actually works, instead of always setting values to zero (6b6657405f).
- Using the shortcut (ctrl+shift+click) to connect to a viewer now also moves the viewer closer to the node (7be4d4f443).
- Some sockets can now be renamed directly in the node by Ctrl+Clicking on it (cd5eb4aa03).
- New overlay to reroute labels that are derived from upstream reroute nodes (db5d410164).
Outliner¶
- Ctrl-F can initiate Outliner filtering. (f5fdda776c)
- Orphan Data mode renamed to Unused Data. (72be662af4)
- Blender File mode now supports managing user counts. (d8f6ae7919)
Unused Datablocks¶
The Purge operator now pops up a dialog where user can choose which options to apply, and get instant feedback on the amounts of unused data-blocks will be deleted. (PR#117304) (0fd8f29e88)
The File > Cleanup menu has a new Manage Unused Data operation to open the outliner in Unused Data mode. (f04bd961fd)
Preferences¶
- New button to save custom themes. (ee38a7b723)
- Improved operators for adding/deleting custom themes. (a0a2e7e0dd)
- Improved operators for adding/deleting custom key configurations. (57729aa8bb)
- Preferences "Translation" section changed to "Language". (73d76d4360)
Splash¶
- Changes to Splash Screen for new versions. (d2d810f11a)
Platforms¶
- Linux: Registering & unregistering file-type associations is now supported on Linux.
This can be accessed via the system preferences "Operating System Settings" or via
command line arguments (
--register
,--register-allusers
), see--help
for details. (9cb3a17352). - Linux: Image copy and paste now works in Wayland. (692de6d380)
- Windows: Fixed pixel shift in clipboard image paste. (a677518cb5)
Translations¶
- The ability to edit PO files directly from the user interface has been removed. (details, b143cc1885)