Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

• Jesse Yurkovich (deadpin) joins the “Platforms, Builds, Tests & Devices” module.

Announcements

• Google Summer of Code 1st evaluation deadline is Friday 16/July 20:00 CEST.
• Blender by the Nummbers 2020
• New performance testing framework in master.
  • Used for Cycles now, but developers are encouraged to use it for testing and tracking performance of more Blender features.

Modules & Projects

Geometry Nodes:

• Nodes workshop June 2021 write up

New Features and Changes

Mesh Editing

• Remove redundant mesh-backups from edit mesh operator API (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Tag the mesh instead of the object when editing with number buttons (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Compositor

• Constant folding for improved performance and memory usage (commit) (Manuel Castilla)
• Full-frame implementations of more nodes (commit, commit, commit, commit) (Manuel Castilla)

Geometry Nodes

• Replace the per-node view toggle with new viewer node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Curve Endpoints node to output the start and end points of curve splines (commit) (Angus Stanton)
• Add explicit Float to Integer conversion node (commit) (Nikhil Shringarpurey)
• Rename nodes for clarity between mesh and curve (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Curve Primitive Nodes:
  • Curve Primitive Line (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
  • Allow 3 points in curve star primitive (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Use same shape as mesh line in curve line node (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Alembic

• New evaluation mode option like the USD exporter (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
  • Remove non-functional “Renderable Objects” only option (commit) (Philipp Oeser)

Exact Boolean

• Various parallelizations and optimizations (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Fix performance regression due to exact triangulation (commit) (Howard Trickey)

User Interface

• Node Editor
  • Add a button to groups to change the type of inputs and outputs (commit) (Lukas Tönne)
• File Browser / Asset Browser
  • Select files and directories after renaming (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Keep assets active after renaming, ensure they are scrolled into view (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Various improvements, tweaks, and naming changes
  • Outliner: use ‘compacted’ row for bones as well (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
  • Center the Status Bar Progress Text (commit) (Vincent Blankfield)
  • Rename Scene’s embeded collections from “Master Collection” to “Scene Collection” (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Miscellaneous

• Tests: performance testing framework (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• VSE: Use snapping settings for scrubbing (commit) (Richard Antalik)
• Make Single User: support object data animation (commit) (Philipp Oeser)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Dalai Felinto
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Kévin Dietrich
• Manuel Castilla
• Pablo Dobarro
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sebastian Parborg
• Sebastián Barschkis
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• William Leeson