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Announcements
- Blender 4.1 development started and Blender 4.0 is in beta now.
- Weizhen is on a planned break from Blender development for the next 6 months.
Modules & Projects
New Features and Changes
Animation
- Warn when a bone is added to a hidden bone collection (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Change UI label from “Edit Bone Color” to just “Bone Color” (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add “move bone to collection” operator to pose mode menu (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add channel type options to the Bake Action operator (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
- Keymap
- Replace “show all layers” with “show all collections” (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Rename the “Skeleton” panel to “Pose” (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add overview of bone collections to bone property panel (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Move “solo bone collection” operator to menu and add “show all” (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Implement a new curve-aware vertex to B-Bone segment mapping mode (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
- Improve readability of channel colors in channel list (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add operator to “solo” the active bone collection (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add operator to sync bone colors between selected bones (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Bone color properties panel layout tweaks (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
User Interface
- Draw asset shelf, image editor, and 3D view tools header transparent with button backgrounds (commit, commit, commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Change snap icons (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
- Keymap
- Restore most used brush shortcuts (commit) (Julien Kaspar)
- Industry Compatible Keymap
- Minor adjustments based on user requests (commit) (Julien Kaspar)
- Regions shortcuts and fixed inconsistencies (commit) (Julien Kaspar)
- Node Editor
- Match Node Editor Node menu with Context menu (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Anchor right when double-clicking last word (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Show waiting mouse cursor while file loading (commit, commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Allow separate configuration of subpixel antialiasing (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Move Bone Wireframe Opacity to general overlays (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Change Overlay Text Size with Label Text Style (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Remove Masking dropdown from tool settings (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Remove “Modes” label in animation editors (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
- Remove redundant “Context Menu” in menu titles (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Move “Reset Recent” inside a menu (commit) (persun)
- Splash & About menus
- Reorganize splash buttons (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Small changes to links and labels (commit, commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Remove duplicate Make Library Override in Object menu (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Search
- Prioritize highlighted last words (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Performance
- Compute search scores in parallel (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Asset shelf
- Hide asset shelf by default (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Add asset library selector (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Geometry Nodes
- Node tools
- Move node tools out of experimental (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Store tool group in a separate editor property (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Expose non-asset tools (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Require modifier tag for add menu, show non-assets (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Support baking individual simulations (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Add utility to check for bad geometry element index dependence (commit, commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Add Inspection Index to Repeat Zone (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Realtime Compositor
- Use Int2 images in JFA algorithm (commit) (Omar Emara)
Video Sequence Editor
- Improve retiming UI (commit) (Richard Antalik)
EEVEE
- EEVEE-Next
- Add tracing options for diffuse rays (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Shadow Map Tracing Initial Implementation (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Object visibility settings for probes (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
- Irradiance Grid clip distance and probe alignment (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
- Port subsurface to compute shader (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Otimize principled BSDF by skipping unused components (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Add support for metallic F82 tint (commit) (Clément Foucault)
Curve
- Adjust behavior of invert selection for bezier handlers (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Mesh
- Show attribute name collision warning in more panels (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Shader Nodes
- Adjust names and organization of Principled BSDF inputs (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Clamp various shader inputs for Principled BSDF (commit) (Alaska)
- Change Specular input on Principled BSDF to affect IOR (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
- Use single Principled BSDF input for metallic and specular tint (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Change specular tint in Principled BSDF from float to color (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
Cycles
- Add Metallic Tint to Principled BSDF using F82-Tint model (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
- Light Linking
- Allow re-ordering in the light linking collections (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
- Use checkbox icons for state indication (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
- Metal
- Throttle MetalRT BVH builds to avoid exceeding working set limits (commit) (Michael Jones)
- oneAPI
- Fix performance regression by inlining svm_node_closure_bsdf (commit) (Xavier Hallade)
Import/Export
- USD
- Improve I/O of emission color in preview surface (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Hydra
- Export Blender shader nodes as MaterialX node graph (commit) (Bogdan Nagirniak)
Python API
- Add specular tint texture support to node_shader_utils (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Add
full_path attribute to AssetRepresentation (commit) (Colin Basnett)
Weekly Reports
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