Announcements

• Mesh Editing Optimization – Initial Steps.
• Pose Library v2.0

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

User Interface

• Add support for non-linear number input sliders (commit) (Henrik Dick)
  • Use for voxel remesh size, dynamic toplogy detail size, boolean modifier overlap threshold (commit) (Henrik Dick)
• Use textures (and shadows) for automatic object previews (commit) (Julian Eisel)

Geometry Nodes

• New geometry nodes evaluator for better performance (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Support for dynamic attributes on curve splines (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Improvements to material handling (Jacques Lucke)
  • Support changing materials during evaluation (commit)
  • Take materials into account when joining geometries and realizing instances (commit)
  • Change object materials when applying modifiers (commit)
  • Material Replace node (commit)
  • Material Input node (commit, commit)
  • Material Assign node (commit)

Grease Pencil

• Speed up Occlude Eraser (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
• Adding length modifier (commit) (YimingWu)

EEVEE

• Add Wavelength Node Support (commit) (Iyad Ahmed)
• Make hair tangent data from the Geometry Info node consistent with cycles (commit) (Mikhail Matrosov)

Cycles

• Avoid unnecessary data updates in viewport (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
• Disable OpenCL AO preview kernels (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Python API

• Mathutils: add a Matrix.LocRotScale constructor for combining channels. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
• Allow any vector sequence for poly_3d_calc(…) (commit) (Campbell Barton)

I/O

• Alembic: Read/write generated coordinates of meshes (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Collada Import: Use black for Base Color when missing (commit) (Gaia Clary)
• Collada Import: Respect zero-specularity shaders (commit) (Scurest)

Weekly Reports

• Ankit Meel
• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Dalai Felinto
• Falk David
• Hans Goudey
• Jeroen Bakker
• Kévin Dietrich
• Pablo Dobarro
• Philipp Oeser
• Richard Antalik
• Sebastian Parborg