Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• New Blender developer job openings
• The first biweekly geometry nodes submodule meeting will be this Wednesday: 2022-06-01 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting (upcoming)

Modules & Projects

• 2022-05-24 Render & Cycles Meeting
• 2022-5-25 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

User Interface

• Use visible regions when showing candidates for operators data-path (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Add missing tooltips for the shader node options (commit) (Arye Ramaty)
• Wayland
  • Support mouse buttons 4-7 (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Asset Browser
  • Show “Current File” icon in sidebar source field (commit) (Julian Eisel)

Geometry Nodes

• Skip Capture Attribute node if attribute output is not needed (commit) (Iliay Katueshenokc)

EEVEE

• Support Curves attributes rendering (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)

Cycles

• Add half precision float support for volumes with NanoVDB (commit) (Patrick Mours)

Grease Pencil

• Add a Ping pong effect to the Time modifier (commit) (Aleš Jelovčan)

Python API

• Add mathutils.Color functions to convert color spaces (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Add UI support for showing candidates for string properties (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Germano Cavalcante
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Jon Denning
• Julian Eisel
• Kévin Dietrich
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Yiming Wu