Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
Modules & Projects
- Geometry Nodes sprint planning:
- Compact nodes.
- Geometry node modifier for curve objects.
- Mockups for attribute workflow.
New Features and Changes
User Interface
- Improved File Browser Preview Image Scaling (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Display units for transform proportional edit value (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
Grease Pencil
- Duplicate Masks when separating layer and strokes (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
- Line Art Modifier
Mesh Editing
- Performance Improvements
- Remove redundant mesh duplication in edit-mode during transform (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Use multithreading to flush selection to edges and faces (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
- Improve edit-mode partial-update logic for faster updates during common transform operations (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Support flushing parameters without a full copy-on-write update (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Avoid storing an unecessary copy of the view’s depth buffer (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
- Fix long standing limitation selecting edges & bones partially out of the view (commit, commit) (Campbell Barton)
Cycles
- Add view layer option to disable motion blur, in the Filter panel (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Platform Support
- Linux
- Windows
- Use the Wintab tablet input API when verified against system input with mouse input (commit) (Nicholas Rishel)
Spreadsheet Editor
- Dataset region for spreadsheet editor (commit) (Fabian Schempp)
Compositor
- Performance Improvements
Geometry Nodes
- Join curve attributes when realizing instances (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Use multithreading for the curve to mesh node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Miscellaneous
- Enhanced statistics and reports for Blender file reading (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Voxel Remesher: Make smooth shading output automatic (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)