Blender developers meeting notes – July 9th 2016
Here are the notes from today’s meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders.
Jonathan Williamson writes:
Hey all, here are the minutes from todays meeting on IRC in #blendercoders
Current Projects
- 2.78 is close but more discussion needed on what’s left. Ton proposes we get RC in four weeks, then aim for release by end of August
- ID Remap from Bastien needs more testing, user testing and feedback requested!
Other Projects
- Lukas Tonne reports the Strand GPU branch is ready for testing hair geometry generation on the GPU. This will lead to implementing physically correct shading models for hair. Branch here.
- Nimble Collective has given support for two devs to work on Depsgraph and BAM!
- Reminder, Mike Erwin has started several 2.8 System Design docs, related particularly to the Viewport Project. Please review and add feedback.
Closing note: discussion is being had on whether or not to move back to the Weekly Sunday dev meetings, rather than the thrice-monthly. Seems the new schedule can be a bit problematic. No decision yet.
Cheers!
Jonathan
Maybe I didn’t catch it, but when can we expect support for the GTX 1080 with the new CUDA kernal in cycle?
My understanding is that there is a dependency on NVIDIA to release CUDA 8 in August before Blender developers can provide full GTX 10xx support.
I hope Blender 2.8 doesn’t break the 2.7x series or so imcompatible. Too often, Blender older versions don’t work with new version. Or at least, we should have an import that supports older version.