19 Sep 2022

Blendkit 3.2.0 release 🔗

We're happy to announce yet another release. We believe that the difference is something you'll rather feel than seethis time, since we worked on stability, speed and UX. Our amazing creators care for the 'new' stuff in

What's new 🔗

  • Radically improved speed of search: asset thumbnails are now downloaded and shown 5x faster
  • Startup tips now look much better and link to detailed description in documentation
  • Startup tips can also show important news from our website now.
  • Hand cursor is shown over assets to signal they can be dragged and dropped
  • Improved logging to the users, information and errors are now logged not only into console but also into Blender GUI
  • Background daemon process for downloading now does not lag Blender if fails to start
  • Online/offline status of daemon is now signaled in the Blender GUI (Blendkit (formerly BlenderKit) logo gets B&W when daemon offline, is in colour when is online)
  • Add-on dependencies are now copied outside add-on directory, so removal of add-on will no longer fail on Windows
  • Texture Limit Size is no longer reset when searching in Blender versions >= 3.3.0
  • Introduced automated tests to improve code-quality and stability of the add-on
  • Updated add-on dependencies for better security
  • Added support for pre-releases and beta testing
  • Changed versioning scheme of the add-on to: X.Y.Z.YYMMDD (Year-month-day) for better clarity during testing and beta-previews.

Bug fixes 🔗

  • Cannot remove the add-on: PermissionError: [WinError 5] Access denied
  • Commodo antivirus blocking Blendkit daemon from starting: OSError: [Errno 10013] error while attempting to bind on address - Give better feedback and tips how to resolve the problem to the users
  • Blendkit logo could signal if add-on has connection to BlenderKit.com
  • Use comments api in /api/v1
  • Comments validation
  • Fix automap
  • Fix scale
  • Log out after with invalid token search
  • Search timer renamed to search startup timer timer, now waits for daemon
  • Improve daemon error reports, cover OSError 10013
  • Fix pointer to areas in the ui code and cleanup

We also recommend to check out our GitHub page where you can find newest updates, issues page and much more. You can report us new bugs or looked through some older ones if you happen to have some problems you think somebody could have before you.

And as always don't forget to check out our gallery and support your favourite creators by commenting on their assets and using them in your scenes.

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