Dalai writes:
2.82 status
- Mantaflow will land today 16 December 2019.
- Bcon 2 will be in effect after Mantaflow lands. Dalai Felinto will notify bf-committers and update necessary pages to reflect new status.
- In Bcon2 note that
masterbranch is open for fixes and agreed improvements only. New work is to be conducted in feature branches.- Bcon2 will last until 9 January 2020.
Other issues
- Jeroen Bakker requests comments for T72007 -
Design: EEVEE Compositingtask- Jeroen Bakker will work with Sebastian Parborg on LANPR patch review.
- Dalai Felinto will post list of people to contact for issues with dev or infra for duration of the holiday season.
Changes / New Features
Cycles
- Custom render passes are now supported. They are added in the Shader AOVs panel in the view layer settings, with a name and data type. In shader nodes, an AOV Output node is then used to output either a value or color to the pass. ( Lukas Stockner )
GPencil
- Simplify options have been inverted. ( Antonio Vazquez )
Gizmo
- Add gizmos for translation, rotation and scale transforms in UV. ( Campbell Barton )
- Add view aligned gizmo for shear. ( Campbell Barton )
Keymap
- Added remesh shortcuts, support for context menu PC keyboard key, and support cycling for all tool shortcuts. ( William Reynish )
Shader nodes
- Add interpolation modes to Map Range node. ( Charlie Jolly )
- Noise and wave distortion now work uniformly instead of diagonally. ( Bartosz Moniewski )
UI
- Brush settings were overhauled. ( William Reynish )
Universal Scene Description
- Simple USD exporter added. ( Sybren Stüvel )
Weekly Progress Reports
