This Week in Blender Development: 11/25/17
Aaron Carlisle writes:
Hello, fellow Blenderers here is a short list of what has happened in the development in Blender this week.
To read more and to see the links for more details please see the full post here.
master:
- Speedup BMmeshnormals_update (40% improvement) rB43ddf0e9
- UI: Encoding output quality UI clarification rBf218e6d4
- Disable adding scene sequence strips into themselves rB175e8fdc
- UV Cube Project: improve default behavior rB65af15ad
- Add option not to select with un-hide rB0a69e3b3
- Bake Action operator: Added missing Bendy Bones support rBfc77676f
- Pasting poses now updates motion paths rBc01ffefb
- Vertex Paint: missed removing settings from UI rB10a11209
blender2.8:
- Eevee: Add SSS support in probes rB5dfeecf4
- Eevee: SSS: Add separated Albedo option rB7cbc7dd9
- Python API: expose base_flag settings (depsgraph) rB4493d0d0
- Cycles: add object level holdout property, to replace Z mask layer. rBf8fc77ec
- Python API: Allow structs to define tags for their properties rB23d148ec
- SceneRenderLayer Removal/Refactor rB3a95bdfc
- Eevee: SSS: Add Translucency support rB846cdf53
greasepencil-object:
- Add Hook Modifier rB9215e2a0
- Add grid option to grease pencil paper rB55170494
- Add new paper function for adding a solid color background rBe2adbc9b
- Add Build Modifier rBf43aecba
- Add some buttons to the bottom bar rB2a47ede6
- UI: Rename MultiEdit to MultiFrame rBa666a5d0
hair_guides:
- Material pointer in hair systems rB56c1388e
- Simplified API for generating hair follicles with a fixed max count rB5be3403a
- Extend the fur generate modifier to also create guide curves rB2d241893
- Start adding hair draw settings rBc6ddb6fd
New Patches:
- Cycles: Optical Vignetting and Depth of Field light distribution D2922
- VSE Scene Strip Render Engine Settings D2924
- Proposed fix for some mathcolorblend functions D2925
- Select similar for bones by action group index D2931
- Improving Video Sequencer performance with C++ and OpenCL T53374
Other Projects:
- Workspaces: Integrating Interaction Modes – Requirements T53388
- Workspaces: Integrating Interaction Modes – Proposals TT53389
Documentation:
- Blender 2.8 – priorities reconsideration proposal
“Improving Video Sequencer performance with C++ and OpenCL”
VSE news, Wow!
Would love to see this take off.
Dear blender developers,
you all do an amazing job, thank you.
Grease Pencil is much appreciated.
But when can it be rendered out like other normal blender objects via render layer at last (without the dull convert to mesh wasting hours of getting things done method)? Without an easy render workflow the powers of Grease Pencil can’t hardly be unleashed. No, the OpenGl render is no serious solution. Blender 2.8 seems to get a lot of new features. But why not finish/improve existing tools for getting essentially useable before concentrating on new ideas?
Nevertheless, blender rocks!
The render workflow for Grease Pencil is something we already have in our ToDo list for 2.8.
Aaron Carlisle – Thank you for these Blender dev roundups! I love hunting through them and spotting for features that are particularly exciting to me (and thus prompt a build download to play). It really feeds my Blender obsession and fills the gap between low level dev chatter and high level version release notes. You rock.