Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
New Features and Changes
User Interface
- Create data block previews using the current frame rather than the first (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
- Move Mark/Clear asset operators out of ID Data in Outliner context menu (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Show a notification when saving preferences (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Small tweaks to naming, layout, and consistency (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Julian Eisel, Pablo Vazquez)
- Geometry Nodes
- Add node labels to Attribute maths nodes (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
Asset Browser
- Resolve major asset view UI template limitation (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Python API
- Support multi-dimensional arrays for bpy.props vector types (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Rendering
- Disable Z pass by default, leave only Combined (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Video Sequence Editor
- Change grid line drawing (commit) (Richard Antalik)
- Turn off snapping by default (commit) (Richard Antalik)
- Add tooltips for add_effect_strips operator (commit) (Falk David)
- Draw strips transparent during transform overlap (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
Grease Pencil
- Line Art Modifier
- Add camera overscan option to create lines out of the camera’s frame (commit) (YimingWu)
File Reading
- Improve performance when reading complex files with a hash of already read data-blocks (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
Miscellaneous
- Regression Testing: Geometry nodes tests, improved testing framework (GSoC project) (commit) (Himanshi Kalra)
