byte

added some more stuff to my public domain blender asset library including a table and chair, a bunch of tableware, and some concrete materials. also the whiskey bottle is real fancy and has a custom property on it to set the internal liquid level using geometry nodes, and it maintains the level if you tilt it

you can get it here: https://www.blender.org/download/
you can read about some of the new features here: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/4-0/

some things i'm particularly excited about:

• asset shelves, which are implemented and scriptable in 4.0, although this release doesn't actually have any shelves implemented, so you'll have to make your own if you want to use them (check out Scripting > Templates > Python > Ui Asset Shelf).
• bone collections instead of layers (finally!)
• the new AgX tonemapper, which makes lighting look way better.
• light linking, which lets you easily control which lights affect which objects and which objects cast shadows from which lights.
• possibly the most exciting of all, node tools! these let you turn geometry node graphs into tools you can run interactively in the editor. here's a good summary of them:

mostly some food/drink related stuff. as always, everything is attributed to the original source, though some of these models have been significantly altered/optimized.

https://github.com/trashbyte/blender-assets

me: wow rigify sucks, i could do better than this
[spends the next several weeks making my own thing that works how i want]
[the thing is still not done]
me: okay actually im just gonna use rigify