Announcements

• Blender 2.93 targets meeting.

Projects

• Library Overrides:
  • T83811 Library Override: Resync Improvements and auto-resync on file load (D10649, rB0a6ed7f0, rB96064c3b, rB534f4e90, rBa023c1a3, rB93f8c9b8).
  • New Resync Enforce operator to help fix broken overrides from older .blend files. rB74557ca4
  • New option to prevent auto-resync on file load (can cause more harm than do good on said broken older files).
• Geometry Nodes
  • The main design focus of past week was node groups, they will be explored further as prototypes:
    • Portals and levels node groups
    • Attribute processor node groups

New Features and Changes

New Spreadsheet Editor

• Add a new spreadsheet editor (commit, commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Expose more domains and point cloud data (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Geometry Nodes

• Add Attribute Remove Node (commit) (Fabian Schempp)
• Add Attribute Convert node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
• Expose “shade smooth” as an attribute (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add Attribute interpolation for polygon domains (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add “normal” attribute for face normals (commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Transfer polygon attributes to points in Point Distribute node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Support Vector Rotate node (commit) (Leon Leno)
• Improve performance of point distribute node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Rename subdivision nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Sculpt

• Add operator to initialize mask values (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
• Add option to initialize face sets by boundaries (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
• Unifiy Dyntopo Detail Size operators (commit) (Philipp Oeser)

Grease Pencil

• Remove limitation to use only one Lattice modifier (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
• Interpolate can use all keyframe types except breakdown (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)

Library Overrides

• Add a new operation to Outliner to enforce resync of hierarchies (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
• Automatically run resync process on file reading (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

User Interface

• Add operator to scroll to selected file in file browser (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Make multi-input sockets manually sortable (commit) (Fabian Schempp)
• Move group input and output nodes to a consistent menu location (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add Copy Full Data Path to RMB menu (commit) (Aaron Carlisle)
• Graph Editor: FCurve Show Extrapolation Toggle (commit) (Wayde Moss)
• Support Sculpt / Paint with the “Show Texture in texture tab” button (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
• CLOG: Add support for substring matching (blender --log "*undo*" to get all undo-related log messages e.g.) (D10647, rBef5782e2)

EEVEE

• GGX: Improve noise levels of screen-space reflections / refraction (commit) (Clément Foucault)
• Ambient Occlusion: Add sample parameter support for the AO node (commit) (Clément Foucault)

Cycles

• Alembic procedural: Add support for instancing (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Clément Foucault
• Dalai Felinto
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Howard Trickey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Kévin Dietrich
• Metin Seven
• Pablo Dobarro
• Philipp Oeser
• Richard Antalik
• Sebastián Barschkis
• Sebastian Parborg