Photographer 5.6.1 is finally available. Compatible with Blender 4.5 and 5.0 alpha
13 comments
Write a comment
Very helpful and well written update information, I wish all updates were so well informed. Thank you Cafouin!
Creator
Thank you! I will continue to be post more about important changes and updates.
That is great thanks!
If I save the startup file as you have shown after installing the latest version of Photographer, will Blender automatically apply the changes?
Creator
Yes you should save the startup file after converting it, so you wont be bother with the conversion every time you open Blender.
Where is the link for multi-seat purchase?
Creator
My apologies, the email address was missing: chafouin.blend(at)gmail.com Let me know how many licenses you would like to purchase and I'll work a discount price for your company.
This is great to hear. 🔅 Currently, I have Blender 4.5.0 and Photographer 5.5.1. This is the first time I have experienced several issues with Photographer. For example, I can't change lenses from the default 25mm. I hope that the new update will resolve these issues. What is the best way to update Photographer from 5.5.1 to 5.6.1? Please advise. Thank you!
Creator
I am sorry to hear you are having issues with the version 5.5.1, I hope everything will work as expected with the latest version. If you have any issues, you can reach out to me by email by replying to any email update or to your purchase receipt. You can download the new version from the Product page > View Content button. Some issues have been reported in the past when installing the addon in the Blender Preferences over an already existing version, so I would recommend to navigate to your addons folder and delete the "photographer" folder first. Then you can unzip the new version in that same folder, or install it from the Blender Preferences > Extensions or Addons panels. More information is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/photographer-5-documentation/installation
Hey Chafouin, I'm having trouble with the latest release. It seems to break where the toggles in 4.5.1. The various functions seem to randomly after certain steps that seem random. The Depth of Field no longer respond, the exposure, and a few other options. Another significant problem is that if you select any object and try to pull up Shift+CTRL+C, you are not able to add a camera, you have to unselect everything before you can use the toggle to add a camera. Are there any plans for an update that could address these issues with Photographer 5.6.5? I really love this addon.
Creator
Hi! Sorry that you are having issues with the addon. The first problem you are reporting, if I understand correctly, is documented here: https://sites.google.com/view/photographer-5-documentation/known-issues Tl;dr: it is a Blender bug that affects several addons after rendering in the interface. https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/114455 The workaround is to restart Blender, render in Background, or try to wiggle the property 50 times until it unlocks (ridiculous, I know...). The second issue can be "fixed" by disabling the Contextual Menu option in the Preferences > UI panel. The default shortcut will always show the camera menu independently of what you have selected in the viewport. If you wish to invoke the light or mesh menus, you can duplicate the hotkey in your keymap and change its more value.
Amazing thank you Fabien. Are we waiting for Blender to send like a version 4.5.2 or something? What is the likely path forward since it's not your addon?
Creator
Apologies for the late reply. Other addon devs and myself have been pinging Blender devs, hoping to get some eyes on this issue. I've heard this happened a little less often with Blender 5.0 but it also seems to happen more often with Vulkan... pretty annoying.