Brecht writes:
New Features and Changes
This week was mostly about bug triaging and fixing. About 80 bugs were fixed this week.
- NLA: insert keyframes now works correct for blending modes other than replace. This fixes an old problem, making the NLA much more practical as a tool for animation layering.
- Preferences: new option for header position at top/bottom.
- Grease pencil: new curve primitive tool (video).
- Optimizations for production .blend file loading, together around 10-25% faster on Spring files.
- FFmpeg: enable multi-threaded encoding of multiple frames, for a ~20% speedup.
- EEVEE: improve bent normal calculation for more accurate indirect lighting.
Other Projects
- Richard Antalík is the new maintainer of the video sequencer. He has done work towards real-time playback, with a cache and proxy management rework in progress already. Welcome! (mail)
- Bastien will do the first code review of mantaflow.
Weekly Reports
3 Comments
Right click inside 3d view under VMWare still freeze blender...
Preferences: new option for header position at top/bottom.
how it's work?, I can't find any different when I press shift + F1-F9.
Would they have time to port the shadow catcher to EEVEE? Is there a way to use both renderer using Cycles to render the shadow catcher and EEVEE for the rest? I would like to render scenes using EEVEE and compose them inside HITFILM and I need an alpha channel in my images...
At least EEVEE can render with an alpha channel now, but the shadow catcher feature of Cycles is missing. Found a video that show how to fake it but is too restrictive.