Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- Next level support for AMD GPUs. code.blender.org
- Call for videos, “Blender is…” for the upcoming Blender 3.0 release. blender.org
Modules & Projects
Cycles
Geometry Nodes
New Features and Changes
User Interface
- Introduce View pie in more editors (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- 3D Viewport: Remove different outline color for instances (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Allow using floats for font point sizes (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Updated Blender Light theme for the Spreadsheet editor (commit) (Peter Sergay)
- Display warning when using Nishita sky texture node with Eevee (commit) (Thomas Dinges)
- Performance improvements:
- Avoid drawing buttons out of view (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Cycles
- Add sample offset option for combining samples from multiple sessions (commit) (Andrii)
- Enable HIP device and binaries on Windows on RDNA and RDNA2 GPUs (commit, commit, commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Geometry Nodes
- Add offset input to Set Handle Position node (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
- Add selection output for Outer Points of star primitive (commit) (Johnny Matthews)
- Change selection output order in Cylinder node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Text Editor
- Add an option to auto-close relevant characters (commit) (Matheus Santos)
Alembic Export
- Allow exporting animated vertex colors (commit) (Cody Winchester)
Grease Pencil
- Add an option to PDF exporter to include all of the scene’s frames (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
Python API
- Expose
BLI_string_flip_side_nameasbpy.utils.flip_name(commit) (Demeter Dzadik)
