Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

• Aras Pranckevičius has been granted commit access, he recently worked on faster OBJ export. Welcome!

Modules & Projects

• 2022-02-21 - 2022-03-18 Geometry Nodes Sub-Module Meetings
• 2022-3-15 Blender Rendering Meeting
• 2022-3-16 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

Animation

• Add “Blend to Default” operator (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Library Overrides

• Display buttons to edit library override properties in the outliner (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Performance improvements
  • Relink multiple data-blocks at a time (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Curves

• Performance improvements
  • Port many geometry nodes to use the new curves data-block (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Add icons to curves sculpt mode icons (commit) (Dalai Felinto)

Cycles

• Allow Adaptive Sampling with Scrambling Distance (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Change Scrambling Distance Multiplier to a soft limit (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

3D Viewport

• Expose “Dolly View” in the menu (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Miscellaneous small changes to selection operator and picking (commit, commit, commit, commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Support select and tweak on LMB (with RMB-select key-map) (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Geometry Nodes

• Add named attribute nodes behind experimental flag (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Remove legacy nodes from 2.93 (commit) (Hans Goudey)

EEVEE

• Add new experimental “EEVEE Next” option to contain expose future developement (commit) (Clément Foucault)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Jon Denning
• Julian Eisel
• Lukas Stockner
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Sergey Sharybin
• Thomas Dinges
• Yiming Wu