Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• All the Google Summer of Code projects passed the 1st evaluation.

New Features and Changes

Mesh Editing

• Performance Improvements
  • Avoid unecessary updates in the dependency graph for deform operations (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
  • Edit Mesh: use partial updates editing vertices from buttons (commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • Undo System: avoid redundant decoding on undo (commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • Undo: optimize edit-mode undo (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Asset Browser

• Initial Asset View UI template (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Open Blend File operator (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Temporarily apply pose when generating preview image (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Show asset path in asset browser sidebar (commit) (Julian Eisel)

Animation

• New pose library based on Asset Browser (commit, commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel, Julian Eisel)
• Add ability to blend Action into pose (commit, commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Geometry Nodes

• Initial version of socket inspection tooltips (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Curve Trim Node (commit, commit) (Angus Stanton, Hans Goudey)
• Curve Primitive Quadrilateral (commit) (Johnny Matthews)

Modifiers

• Surface Deform: support sparse binding mode for improving performance. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)

Keymap

• Use Alt-Q instead of D for transfer mode operator (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Revert using D-Key for the view-pie menu, use ~ instead (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Use Shift-Tab to toggle snap in the sequencer (commit) (Campbell Barton)

User Interface

• UI List Improvements
  • Support left-right arrow key walk navigation in UI lists (commit) (Nathan Craddock)
  • Support pressing Ctrl+F over UI lists to search (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Support UI list context menus, defined via Python scripts (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Node Editor
  • Dim links whose start and end sockets are not visible (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Various Tweaks and Improvements
  • Auto-scroll to keep active text buttons in view (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Flip driver editor debug lines (commit) (Red Mser)
  • Rename UI error message on attributes panel for name collisions (commit) (Dalai Felinto)

Compositor

• Full-frame implementations of more nodes (commit, commit) (Manuel Castilla)

Python API

• Add functions to ensure and clear IDProperties (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Delaunay Triangulation (also used in D11846)
  • Greatly improve speed of Delaunay when have a lot of holes (commit) (Howard Trickey)
  • Speed up raycasting process, especially with holes (commit) (Eric Abrahamsson)
  • Make it optional to track input->output mapping in delaunay_2d_calc (commit, commit) (Howard Trickey)

Video Sequence Editor

• Make pasted strip active (commit) (Richard Antalik)

Miscellaneous

• Vertex group names are now stored on object data instead of objects (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • In versioning, use the longest list of names for linked duplicate objects (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
• Add support for RISC-V architecture (commit) (Heinrich Schuchardt)
• Tests: support graphing peak memory in Cycles performance tests (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Dalai Felinto
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Julian Eisel
• Pablo Dobarro
• Peter Kim
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Sebastian Parborg
• Sebastián Barschkis