Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• Buildbot updated.
• Blender 2.93 release is on track, estimate release June 2.
• Initial metrics support for patches.

 

New Articles

• Blender OSS and Licenses

 

Modules & Projects

• Line Art weekly meeting
• Geometry Nodes starts the week 6 of the current 6-8 project.
  • Focus for the wrapping up is curves, viewer node and attribute processor.

New Features and Changes

Geometry Nodes

• Add Mesh to Curve Node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Support interpolation between curve domains (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Draw curve data in the viewport (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Polish switch node UI (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Expose texture and material inputs to modifier (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add Shader Curve Nodes (commit) (Charlie Jolly)

Modeling / Performance

• Boolean: Parallelize raycasting with hole tolerant option turned on (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Mesh edit mode: Resolve inefficient memory use with multiple objects (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Use Compute Shader to Update Hair (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

User Interface

• Windows: Add launcher to hide the console window flash (commit) (Ray Molenkamp)

Library Overrides

• Add recursive resync of overrides (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Grease Pencil

• Add option to disable masks in view layer (commit) (Falk David)
• Bake GPencil object transforms into a new GPencil object (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
• Line Art: Optimization for tile linked data (commit) (Yiming Wu)

Weekly Reports

• Ankit Meel
• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Dalai Felinto
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Manuel Castilla
• Pablo Dobarro
• Philipp Oeser
• Richard Antalik
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sebastián Barschkis
• Sebastian Parborg