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Blender 4.4: User Interface

Asset Browser

  • New option to sort assets by asset catalog instead of by name. This is the new default sorting method. (f49d0390a1)

Asset sort by catelog

  • New operator to remove the preview of an asset. Find it in the Asset Browser sidebar. (40b0185a8e)
  • Brush names are easier to read with Light theme. (dcec1d5)

Files

  • Default file names now capitalized as "Untitled". (0ee4ae89e4)
  • Full file name now shown on the Recent items tool-tips. (0e83b9c5ee)

Recent item tooltips showing full name

Fonts

  • Interface font, "Inter", updated to 4.1. (6696f11808)
  • Improved calculation of text string length for monospaced fonts. (7492c7aa6)
  • Improved selection from Fonts folder. (7a1e95ea91)

General

  • Centered dialogs can now be moved without them snapping back. (154ab16ee2)
  • Popup informational alerts, like Python script warning, adjust width based on contents. (0add2857a3)
  • Menu accelerators (underlined letters) now work with toggles. (ba9417470e)

Menu toggles with keyboard accellerators

  • Adjust Last Operation becomes unavailable after undoable interactions with UI elements. (1bde901bf2)
  • Increased contrast for transform cursors. (26c15292a7)

Improved transform cursor contrast

  • Larger alternative version of the "frame" cursor for high-DPI displays. (1f33b401b3)
  • Batch Rename: Add icons to data type menu. (e2e992a425)

Batch rename icons

  • Rename masking property to better reflect its usage. (18f145d1ac)
  • Eyedropper color picking operations can now be canceled without losing the original color. (96babd5e9f)
  • Preview images load faster and display with less artifacts on different sizes (315e7e04a8)
  • Image Editor view mode now uses "sample" as default tool. (15e367f31a)
  • UV Editor now has Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V shortcuts for copying and pasting UVs. (e95687796d)
  • Can now set a selected outline color for pulldowns. (be975efc9e)
  • "Material" icon design flipped horizontally to better differenciate from "World". (17c98a2c8c)
  • A warning message is shown when drag and drop of images fail. (5eb8101efa)
  • Light theme icon border is now closer in darkness to prior Blender versions. (05151fcd60)
  • Reset to Defaults in Redo Panel no longer closes it. (175d812797)
  • Preview items show a loading icon while loading or being rendered. (1f88645728)
  • Preview items show a slight background in menus. (4755503356)

Status Bar

  • Warning on Status Bar when active object has non-uniform or negative scale. (06a43d7d99)

Warning when active item has non-standard scale

  • Warning on Status Bar when transform operation has no effect. (40eadc75be)

Warning for invalid transform

  • Color Picker Status Help shown for MacOS for picking outside of Blender. (8c9446a0d7)
  • Improved Status Bar display for Mesh Point Normals. (8ad3653112)
  • Improved Status Bar display for UV Stitch. (bd3bc46b42)
  • Improved Status Bar display for Grease Pencil lines. (5a452884fc)
  • Improved Status Bar display for "Annotation Draw". (0b38b3b2b1)
  • Improved Status Bar display for “Add Marker at Click”. (8aafcc7f64)
  • Improved Status Bar display for “Blend Pose Asset”. (efe75841d3)
  • Improved Status Bar display at window and area edges. (b58ff3484f)
  • Improved Status Bar display for header regions. (34c135c30)
  • Improved Status Bar display for “Grease Pencil Fill”. (1a2b126d5c)
  • Improved Status Bar display for Key Blending operators. (46a418e7b5)
  • Improved Status Bar display for Pose Inbetweening. (f5a07e715f)
  • Box select now shows status bar key for deselect. (a9b863be43)
  • Bevel now uses "Profile Shape" name in header and in Status Bar. (3e11cfb1d0)
  • Status Bar no longer shows Confirms and Cancels that are not when Release on Confirm. (867e9d879a)
  • Status Bar notification banners are now truncated when very long. (0ba91e9870)
  • Improved Status Bar display for Walk Navigation. (3723906e30)
  • Improved Status Bar display for Fly Navigation. (02765b76cc)

Warning for invalid transform

3D Viewport

  • Default color for front face for Face Orientation overlay changed to transparent. (8bcb714b9e)
  • Overlays: Mesh indices overlay setting is now always visible, it no longer depends on Developer Extras. (ef2bff2004)
  • Notification shown when hiding objects. (bc5fcbe1c3)
  • Can delete "Measure" tool items when gizmos are turned off. (3f91350d4e)
  • Using Text Objects with a non-default font, missing characters are no longer loaded from other fonts. (6fa5295c1d)
  • Using Text Objects with a missing or invalid font, characters no longer used from default font. (5ce10722ab)
  • Collections can now be set to disabled in viewports. (06a2617107)
  • Can now play animation while in Sculpt mode. (1debbcae1e)
  • Viewport Render Animation now shows a progress bar. (627114ee54)
  • Expand brush/tool falloff curve presets in popovers (5e5c68fa62)
  • Use gizmo theme colors for knife tool overlay (9d5a4756ca)
  • Mesh indices are now more readable, similar style as Attribute Viewer (2536b04a21)
  • NDOF Orbit direction is now inverted when upside down. (a2b5cb5863)
  • Object data name show shown in text overlay. (55de54557c)
  • Cavity properties now in separate panel in Viewport Shading. (9627bdfab3)

Editors

  • Resizing editors now softly snaps to minimum and maximum. (62541bffc2)
  • Improved rounded edge for splitting preview. (c3ea941273)
  • Docking operation feedback descriptions improved. (09e6bab7bc)
  • Minimum size imposed for docking operation creation of new editor. (f339ab4325)
  • Splitting improvements including soft snapping and minimum size increased. (82667d5626)
  • Using separate specific mouse cursors for Join operations. (798a48f6ef)
  • Correct shortcuts now shown when hovering over Editor Change button. (9ed7b03e35)
  • Scroll-bar properly hidden for tiny editors. (b846797074)

Spreadsheet

  • The selection filter for meshes now gives expected results for non-vertex domains. (76e9dc0f04)

Nodes

  • The sidebar is see-through when Region Overlap is enabled in the Preferences, similar to the 3D Viewport (9b7e660fad).
  • Panels in node groups can now be nested (7dc630069b).
  • The name input in the Attribute node in the shader editor is wider now (ea8c45e10a).
  • Node title text truncation is improved (5edc68c442, 4ff47d85e0).
  • Long multicolumn lists in nodes will now collapse to single column when space limited. (fe071cd076)
  • Input values that don't affect the output are grayed out now. (80441190c6).
  • A color node is inserted when dropping a color into the node editor (22582bf6f0).

Outliner

  • Improved Outliner vertex group sorting. (531ed68061)
  • Outliner supports ctrl/shift for excluding collections. (a1fc2eb37a)
  • No more overlapping icons in Outliner with some display options. (25febbbb32)
  • Can now un-isolate collection when a linked collection is present. (f181262634)
  • Non-object active item text now drawn in "text high" color. (62a0350f6d)
  • Drag and drop to scene now updates the view. (340aa78724)
  • Child objects linked to other collections are now faded. (f4f2248a9c)

Properties Editor

  • Tree-views no longer forget their changed height after hiding/unhiding them, or reloading the file (if Load UI is enabled). (f0db870822)
  • Tree View displays lines correctly when local zoom changes. (5ec2547ab0)
  • UI Lists now be sorted in reversed alphabetical. (72a9990779)
  • Improved tab key navigation between inputs in the color picker. (93e8c231aa)
  • Opening context menu from numerical input now shows correct mouse cursor. (e6d941cdf4)
  • Custom integer properties no longer have -10000/10000 soft minimum and maximum. (9e6c884394)
  • Improved container/codec ordering in FFMPEG video drop-downs. (PR#118412)
  • Reset to Defaults now works with Camera field of view. (e5e45dc140)
  • Mesh Cache modifier "Flip Axis" toggles now work correctly. (d2418b89c3)

Preferences

  • More user preferences now reset to actual defaults. (6a06e87f85)
  • Language translation options are now preserved when changing languages. (b801615431)
  • Preference for UI Icon alpha no longer affects matcaps and studio lights. (2b7a968909)
  • Minimum User Scale preference increased to 0.5. (6922418a95)
  • Improved Studio Lights Editor interface layout. (f6bbcaba6d)
  • Extensions: Add button to quickly access an add-on's folder. (6ea8297477)

Studio Lights Editor Layout

Animation

  • Animated values for nodes, node sockets, and geometry nodes inputs have more useful names in the list (bd8edc7c27).
  • Auto keyframe toggle now works better if assigned to keyboard shortcut. (0e1313483a)
  • Improved feedback during Animation Playback timer test. (df57beb676)
  • Improved current frame indicator styling in movie clip and image editors. (PR#132911)

Tooltips

  • Tool-tips have improved vertical centering. (8dc8e48e9a)
  • Tooltip status colors work better on light backgrounds. (c5bce9d710)
  • Colorspace tooltips now show more information with expanded acronyms. (5bcde9cbff)
  • Color tooltips now propertly show colors that are without alpha. (dbe50711ce)

Color tooltips differ with alpha

  • Tooltips can now show while animation is playing. (a7334db09b)
  • Tooltips are removed quicker with Gizmo interation. (e8bc7ec68b)
  • Tooltips no longer redraw with minor mouse movement. (4450799673)

Keymap

  • UV Editor: Add shortcut to Copy/Paste UVs (Ctrl/Cmd+C, Ctrl/Cmd+V) (e95687796d)

Platforms

  • MacOS: OS Title bars now use theme colors. (ce42d92503)

MacOS Colors

  • Windows 11: OS Title bars now use theme colors. (3f4a1cabbf)

Windows 11 Colors

  • Windows: Copy and paste OS image paths into Image Editor. (0193579e90)
  • Windows: File system volume names display correctly with high-bit Unicode characters. (fe6609c4eb)
  • Windows: AltGr key (used in some keyboard layouts) is now treated as regular Alt key. (d99d19cd22)
  • macOS: Fixed title bar file icon not being cleared when creating a new file. (b99497bf21)
  • macOS: Improved color picking outside of Blender windows. (60a3f886c6)

    macOS Color Picking
    MacOS Status Bar information about color picking

  • macOS: keymaps can be searched with native key names. (001c3b0d4b)
  • macOS: Main window title improvements. (901119cf8)

    macOS Window Title Improvements

  • macOS: Preview blend file contents in a thumbnail in Finder, App Exposé and Spotlight. (b858319dd3)

    Grease Pencil Fundamentals by Blender Studio thumbnails in Finder
    Sprite Fright by Blender Studio thumbnail in Spotlight

  • Linux: Fixed text pasting from Blender to certain other applications (such as Firefox) not working under X11. (720fc44ca3)