21 November 2022 (Upcoming - finalized at 18:00 CET)

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

• Christoph Lendenfeld starts a dev grant for two days a week and will be helping on the Animation & Rigging module to bring the vision of animation 2025 into reality.

Modules & Projects

• 2022-11-15 Render & Cycles Meeting
• 2022-11-15 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
• 2022-11-15 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting
• 2022-11-17 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
• 2022-11-21 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting

Geometry Nodes

The Blender 3.5 initial targets are:

• Simulation
• Procedural hair nodes (and groups)
• Attribute editing in mesh edit mode
• Import nodes

A blog-post with the outcome of the post Blender-Conference workshop is planned for this week.

New Features and Changes

Geometry Nodes

• Image Info Node (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)
• Add “Exists” output to Named Attribute input node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Performance
  • Use Mesh instead of BMesh in split edges node (commit) (Wannes Malfait)
  • Disable unreachable nodes in evaluator (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• User interface
  • Simplify description for offset point in curve socket (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Nodes Editor

• Improve node context menu (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
• Allow pasting common nodes between editor types (commit) (Yann Doersam)
• Performance
  • Replace implementation of select next/previous type operator (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Slightly improve view panning when selecting node (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Grease Pencil

• Make “Ignore Transparent” option more consistent (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
• Rearrange grease pencil channels in the main dopesheet (commit) (Amelie Fondevilla)

Geometry

• Performance
  • Cache bounds min and max, share between data-blocks (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Mesh
    • Use shared cache for derived triangulation (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Move loose edge flag to a separate cache (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Don’t tag normals and triangluation dirty when translating (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Avoid calculating normals when building BVH tree (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Cycles

• Enable AMD RDNA3 GPUs and upgrade HIP compiler (commit) (Sayak Biswas)
• Improve adaptive sampling for overexposed scenes (commit) (Mikhail Matrosov)
• User interface
  • Sort properties in Path Guiding panel (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)

User Interface

• Allow joining of tiny screen areas (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Add gizmo toggle for movie clip editor (commit) (Ejner Fergo)
• Disable curve map & profile zoom buttons at max/min zoom level (commit) (Colin Basnett)
• Make info text when compiling shaders more clear (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
• Report messages from override ID template to the UI (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
• Translation
  • Make more messages translatable (commit, commit) (Damien Picard)
  • Improve keymap translations (commit) (Damien Picard)

Asset System

• Performance
  • Avoid quadratic complexity when freeing asset libraries (commit) (Julian Eisel)

Sculpt/Paint

• Performance
  • Remove some normal calculation with deformed sculpting (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Avoid retrieving vertices attribute when flushing positions (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Mask from Cavity operator can pull settings from 3 places (Operator, Scene, Brush) commit (Joe Eagar)

Python API

• Add Image.save() optional parameters quality and filepath (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Library overrides
  • Add option to make all overrides editable in override_hierarchy_create. (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Joe Eagar
• Julian Eisel
• Miguel Pozo
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges