22 November 2021

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• Blender 3.0 bcon4 planned for November 24, 2021.
• LTS Update: Blender 2.93.6 has been released and brings 28 fixes since last release.
• Add-Ons policy update: New key requirements for Add-ons have been added.
• New splash for the 3.x series for the development builds.

  

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Modules & Projects

Geometry Nodes

• 2021-11-15 - 2021-11-19 Geometry Nodes Sub-Module Meetings

EEVEE

• EEVEE rewrite progress is now centralized in this task ⚓ T93220 EEVEE rewrite

New Features and Changes

Geometry Nodes

• Geometry Nodes: Support custom instance attributes (commit, commit, commit) (Erik Abrahamsson, Hans Goudey)
• Add warning when retrieving modifier’s object’s geometry from the object info node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Decrease overhead of field evaluation with many nodes (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

User Interface

• Node Editor
  • Change minimum zoom level in the node editor (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
  • Skip socket drawing on low zoom (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Use asset catalog tree view system for the spreadsheet dataset panel (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Small tweaks to UI labels (commit, commit) (Nikhil Shringarpurey, Aaron Carlisle)

Video Sequence Editor

• Use alpha over as default blend mode (commit) (Richard Antalik)
• Improve performance of alpha over blending in some cases (commit) (Richard Antalik)

Asset Browser

• Disallow single file as asset library (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Include partial matches when filtering tags (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Cycles

• Reduce triangle memory usage with packed_float3 (commit, commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Python API

• Add meta.separate() Python API function (commit) (Félix)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Peter Kim
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• William Leeson