8 November 2021
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Modules & Projects
Geometry Nodes
- 2021-11-1 - 2021-11-5 Geometry Nodes Sub-Module Meetings
- New sample file: Halloween Spider by Rahul Chaudhary
New Features and Changes
Geometry Nodes
- Add selection outputs to cone and cylinder mesh primitives (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
- Add length output to Curve Parameter node (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
- Support volumes in the set material node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Add selection input to Resample Curve node (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
- Add tooltips to primitive node inputs (commit) (Nikhil Shringarpurey)
- Performance improvements
- Improve check if object has geometry set instances (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Cycles
- Perform CPU film reading in the kernel, to use AVX2 half conversion (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
User Interface
- Include node name for socket animation channel UI (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
- Use arrow icon insteaf of a triangle in context paths (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Video Sequence Editor: Remove separator lines between rows (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Always show the 3D cursor while moving it (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Add preview image storage to node groups, for the asset browser (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Grease Pencil
- New option to merge all layers into the active layer (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
- Performance improvements
- Use cached depth to perform depth testing operations (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
Spreadsheet Editor
- Display geometry volume component grids (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Viewport
- Support selecting point cloud objects (commit) (Jarrett Johnson)
