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Announcements
Blender 2.91
- bcon4 is next week, developers to double-check if all the new features are mentioned in the release log.
Blender 2.92
- New revised dates:
- bcon1: Oct 21, 2020
- bcon2: Dec 16, 2020
- bcon3: Jan 13, 2021
- bcon4: Feb 17, 2021
- bcon5/release: Feb 24, 2021
– - bug sprint: 4 - 8 Jan, 2021
- bug sprint: 25 - 29 Jan, 2021
- Line Art review is ongoing (D8758)
- Sebastian Parborg and Yiming Wu are waiting for feedback from Hans Goudey and Brecht Van Lommel.
- XR development by Peter Kim is ongoing (D9124).
- Julian Eisel will set some time before bcon2 to review it.
- Ivan Perevala is working on Camera projection mapping for brush texture
(T81662). - SVG exporter is still a target for 2.92 and will require the
pugiXML library (D8628). - Antonio Vazquez plans to merge GPencil Beziers to ´master´ in the next few days.
New Features and Changes
Blender 2.92
- Video Sequencer
- Transform options redesign (commit) (Richard Antalik)
- Cache optimization for still images (commit) (Richard Antalik)
- Don’t store proxy images in cache (commit) (Richard Antalik)
- Text strip: add background rectangle option (commit) (Paul Melis)
- Shaders:
- Make custom object properties available in Attribute node (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
- Add alpha output to Attribute node (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
- Cycles:
- Fast BVH refit for OptiX viewport rendering (commit ) (Kévin Dietrich)
- Transform:
- Move “Camera Parent Lock” from preferences to Object Relations (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Support individual origins for “To Sphere” (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Disable snap to plane-face intersection (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
- Animation:
- Move channel group colors setting to preferences (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Overrides: make some pose options overridable (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- User Interface:
- Layout and text improvements (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit ) (Nathan Craddock, Yevgeny Makarov, Pablo Vazquez, Campbell Barton, Jesse Y)
- Save state of top and status bar in .blend files (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Outliner: Add “Selectable” object filter (commit) (Jaggz H)
- 3D Viewport: take clipping into account for Frame All (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Annotations: automatically unhide when using an annotation tool (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
- macOS: follow system preference for natural trackpad scroll direction (commit) (Yevgeny Makarov)
- macOS: improved application icon progress bar (commit) (Yevgeny Makarov)
- Python API:
- Add Struct.ispropertyset(…, ghost) option (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Weekly Reports
About the Author
Bart Veldhuizen 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 Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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3 Comments
Too bad the asset manager design has been put on the backburner.
"This project is one of the 10 projects for 2020, starting with a clear and focused design, planned to be implemented and expanded over multiple releases."
https://code.blender.org/2020/03/asset-manager/
According to this thread, they are working on it, but keep in mind that it's a big task that can't be tackled lightly and carelessly. Take a look into the Data & I/O section: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2020-11-10-tuesday-talks-module-meetings/16086
I hope the Material Node will be added for 2.92. That plus the "Make custom object properties available in Attribute node" feature will be a game changer
https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/b7gbbc/