Test Scene for Blender 4.3

 

Test scene

Blender 4.3 is very nice, although the major new features are in areas like sculpting and geometry nodes, which I don't use, at least not yet. I have been thinking about learning the basics of Geometry Nodes.

Blender 4.3 is 95% set up

 Yesterday's audit of add-ons was helpful as it gave me a list to work down. In the end, nothing seemed to obviously trip me up. I may be missing a scatter library or two, and there seems to be a glitch on True-Sky's UI, although it seems functional.

I even rediscovered a scatter library that I bought in 2021, which I had to manually turn into assets by loading, adjusting, and saving about thirty scene files.

I'm seeing some worrying stability issues, such as crashes while loading scenes where previous crashes only happened at the beginning of renders.

Time to do a test scene...

Add-ons and Extensions (November 2024)

Add-on Audit

As part of today's refresh, here is a list of the currently installed add-ons and extensions that will be re-added or not. Tier-3 add-ons won't be coming to 4.3. I may decide to drop others when I reflect further on stuff I don't use often but want to have ready versus stuff I don't use often and is very unlikely to get used.

Add-on	Version	Type	Use	Tier	Source
Alpha Trees Pro	2.3.1			1	Needs asset packs
Auto-Highlighter in Outliner	3.8.5			1
BagaPie Modifier	10.3.2		Yes	1	Needs asset packs
Bool Tool	1.1.1	Ext	Yes	1
BoxCutter	7.2	Add	Yes	2
BY-Gen	9.2.0	Add	Yes	2
Cablerator	NA	Add	Yes	1
CleanPanels	6.0.6	Add	Yes	1
ColorMate	1.3	Add	No	3
Copy Attribute Menu	NA	Ext	Yes	1
Copy Global Transform	NA	Ext	Yes	1
Creative Flow	1.7.2	Add	Yes	2
Curve Tools	0.4.6	Ext	Yes	2
DECALmachine	2.9.0	Add	Yes	2
Edit Mesh Tools	0.3.6	Ext	Yes	1
Engon	1.2.0	Add	Yes	1
Extra Curve Objects	0.1.8	Ext	Yes	2
Extra Mesh Objects	0.3.12	Ext	Yes	1
F2	1.8.4	Ext	Yes	1
FBX format	5.12.4	Built-in	Yes	1
Flared XT	1.9.54	Add	Yes	1
Fluent:Materializer	1.5.0	Add	Yes	1
Fluent:Power Trip	3.2	Ext	Yes	1
Geo-Scatter	5.4.2	Add	Yes	1
GeoSmim	1.4.0	Ext	Yes	2
GrassBlade	2.3	Add	Yes	1
Grid Modeler	1.37.1	Add	Yes	1	Gumroad
Hand Drawn Line Generator	2.8	Add	Yes	2
Hard Ops 9	0.9.88.5	Add	Yes	1
Human Generator 3D	4.0.17	Add	Yes	1
LoopTools	4.7.7	Ext	Yes	1
Machin3tools	1.9.0DeusEx	Add	Yes	1
MegaScans Plugin	3.7.0	Add	Yes	1	Investigate
MESHmachine	0.15.1	Add	Yes	1
Modifier Tools	0.2.6	Add	Yes	1
Node Wrangler	NA	Built-in	Yes	1
OCD-One Click Damage	1.8.2	Add	Yes	1
OmniStep	1.0.0	Ext	No	3
Panel Cutter	2.3.0	Add	Yes	2
Physical Celestial Objects	1.0.0	Add	Yes	1
Physical Open Water	1.2.0	Add	Yes	1
Physical Starlight and Atmo	1.8.1	Add	Yes	1
POPOTI Align Help	1.2.2	Ext	Yes	2	??
Random Flow	3.2.0	Ext	Yes	1
RanTools	3.3.5	Ext	Yes	2
Rigify	0.6.10	Ext	Yes	2
Rockify	1.3.0	Add	Yes	1
Sanctus	3.1.0	Add	Yes	1
TraceGenius Pro	3.1	Add	Yes	2
True Assets	4.5.10	Ext	Yes	1
True-Terrain | EARLY ACCESS	5.0.64	Add	Yes	1
True-Terrain ULTIMATE	4.4.4	Add	No	3	Superceded by 5.0
UV Layout	1.2.0	Add	Yes	1
UVToolkit	2.1.2	Add	Yes	1
World Creator Bridge	0.1.0	Add	Yes	2
Zen UV	4.4.2.2	Add	Yes	1