Modules & Projects

Meeting notes

• 2023-10-05 Animation & Rigging module meeting
• 2023-10-05 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
• 2023-10-05 Pipeline, Assets & I/O meeting
• 2023-10-05 Grease Pencil Module Meeting
• 2023-10-09 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting

Nodes & Physics

• New blog-post: Blender 4.0: Node Tools

  

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New Features and Changes

EEVEE Next

• Planar Probe Pipeline (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
• Split Thickness Approximation (commit) (Clément Foucault)
• Refactor Light evaluation (commit) (Clément Foucault)
• Refactor Lightprobe irradiance evaluation (commit) (Clément Foucault)
• Make the shading lighting panel accessible (commit) (Clément Foucault)
• Add world clip plane support (commit) (Clément Foucault)
• Metal backend
  • Optimize Virtual shadow maps for Apple Silicon (commit) (Jason Fielder)

Nodes

• Use better default for color sockets (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Cycles

• Use tabulated Sobol for old files, for better compatibility (commit) (Alaska)
• Performance
  • Speed up principled BSDF when IOR = 1.0 (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Use hardware cos for oneAPI backend (commit) (Xavier Hallade)

User Interface

• Remove empty space in tool settings header with toolbar visible (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Display invalid cache as striped lines in the timeline (commit) (Leon Schittek)
• Recognize CJK punctuation when selecting text (commit) (ChengduLittleA)
• Add descriptions to a few geometry nodes (commit) (Arye Ramaty)
• Search
  • Start search in menu when pressing spacebar (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Use recent search for weighting only if the query is short (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Custom Properties
  • Add extra subtypes for float array (commit) (bonj)

Sculpt

• Dynamic topology
  • Add vertex interpolation (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
  • Improve support of face sets (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
  • Draw color attributes (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Vulkan

• Enable as Experimental Option (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
• Support Wayland Windowing (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

Grease Pencil V3

• Initial drawing tool (commit) (Falk David)

USD

• Improve camera import/export and round-tripping (commit) (Denis Kovacs)

Animation

• Warn when a bone is added to a hidden bone collection (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Add “move bone to collection” operator to pose mode menu (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Various changes to interface text (commit, commit, commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Remove bone group operators (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

• Realtime Compositor
  • Implement Keying Screen node (commit) (Omar Emara)
• Use RBF Interpolation in Keying Screen node (commit) (Omar Emara)

Python API

• Update BGL Deprecation Warning (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Christoph Lendenfeld
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Harley Acheson
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Miguel Pozo
• Nathan Vegdahl
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalík
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges