Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Modules & Projects

• 2023-04-11 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
• 2023-04-11 Blender Admins Meeting
• 2023-04-17 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting
• 2023-04-17 Grease Pencil Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

UV Editing

• Add overlapping island support for UV packing (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)

Cycles

• Add instancing support in light tree (commit) (Weizhen Huang)

Geometry

• Performance
  • Use implicit sharing to reduce memory usage when copying geometry data (commit, commit) (Jacques Lucke, Hans Goudey)
  • Avoid unnecessarily initializing geometry data arrays (commit, commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Attributes
  • Add 2D integer vector attribute type (commit) (Hans Goudey)

User Interface

• Clipboard copy/paste images (Windows only) (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Add tooltips for assets (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Support slash character in fuzzy search initials mode (commit) (Daniel Salazar)
• Adjust color picker positioning (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Enable multi-propery editing for string buttons (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
• Node editor
  • Add slash separators to node compound names (commit, commit) (Daniel Salazar)
• 3D view
  • Improve visualization when dragging Gizmos (commit) (mano-wii)
  • Allow float kerning for text objects (commit) (Damien Picard)
• Quick tooltip showing tab name for Properties editor tabs (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Tweak interface text (commit) (Damien Picard)

Images

• Use OpenImageIO library for loading and saving a variety of image formats (commit) (Jesse Yurkovich)
• Improve performance and quality in image viewer (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

Python API

• Support multiple custom script directories in Preferences (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Add function to create links to virtual sockets (commit) (Damien Picard)

Platform: macOS

• Faster linkers LLD and Mold are easily usable by new options WITH_LINKER_LLD/MOLD (commit)(Ankit Meel)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Christoph Lendenfeld
• Clément Foucault
• Dalai Felinto
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Harley Acheson
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Joe Eagar
• Julian Eisel
• Lukas Tönne
• Miguel Pozo
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalík
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Weizhen Huang