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Blender 4.3 changes #7

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@paulmelis

Released 19 nov 2024. Some interesting updates relates to the course and its material:

  • Renaming behaviour was apparently changed in 4.1 in the case of having object A and A.001 and renaming A.001 to A: nothing happened. In 4.3 previous behaviour has been restored in that A.001 and A swap names in this specific case. Also, the Python API now allows more control on renaming. Added a new rename function to the ID class to allow more complex ID renaming behavior. Directly assigning to the ID.name property is not affected (3e03576b09).
  • HIP-RT support on Linux, for hw-raytracing on AMD GPUs
  • AMD and Intel GPU support from Metal backend has been removed (PR#123551)
  • GN: A new For Each Element zone has been added (6e5e01e630)
  • GN: It's now possible to add gizmos to node groups (24dc9a21b1)
  • GN: A new Warning node has been added that allows adding custom warnings to node groups (e8b81065bc)
  • GN: Geometries can be named with the new Set Geometry Name node (dc8e9678e1)
  • A new Metallic BSDF node has been added to the shader editor. (6ccb33e9fe)
  • Hover tooltips for the Data-block ID selector shows previews for images, movies, and fonts. (8937c0bcab)
  • Editor edge highlighting to indicate active area. (28e5c1412e, 89d7f00ff8, 44168c32ff). But it's really subtle grey in my case
  • New ability to move editor areas to any other area by dragging

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