Blender Development

Blender Developers meeting notes, February 12, 2017

Bart ·
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Here are the notes from today's meeting in irc.freenode.net #blendercoders. Most notably, some bugs crept into 2.78b which means we'll soon see a 2.78c release.

Ton writes:

1) Blender 2.78b performance release

  • Not everything went OK… three issues were reported that would need to be solved:
    1. OSX build had wrong cuda kernels.
    2. GLSL viewport is broken when Light Path node is used
    3. Crash of material preview when using Image sequences
  • Agreed is to update the 'b', to not confuse people we call it a 'c'. Most likely release will be on Wednesday.
  • BTW: Regression tests were updated to include the showstopper cases.

2) The 2.79 release targets

  • Check planning and targets here.
  • Luca Rood: Surface Deform modifier is pretty much ready for master now. SDef tech docs here.
  • Sergey Sharybin: review of catcher patch started, including user side testing.
  • Lukas Stockner: most of the non-essential Denoiser code has been removed locally, will be pushed later.
  • Denoiser needs good docs! Volunteers welcome (makes it faster to get Denoiser in master)
  • Alexander Romanov proposes to add this fix for custom ID properties in 2.79. Is under review still.

3) Blender 2.8 project

  • Julian Eisel wants to get more feedback on Tooltip Guidelines. Decision will be made/confirmed by UI module team via bf-interface list.
  • Bastien Montagne: Blender 2.8 branch gets a 2.8 add-on branch too, to help testing and fix changes in api.
  • Mike Erwin notes great progress on OpenGL task force. Graph is is on the move again.

4) Other projects

  • UPBGE. This topic is still open. We will ask Clement Foucault and Dalai Felinto to feedback on the Viewport/shader issues.
  • Ton Roosendaal suggests to have another midweek 2.8 meeting session, this time with as main topic 2.8. Call will go out in a week, after gathering feedback.
  • The Google Summer of Code application has been finalized. Bookmark this url to give to interested students.

Thanks,

-Ton-

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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