Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

Announcements

• VSE Workshop May 2022 Report on the code blog.

Modules & Projects

• 2022-6-1 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
• 2022-06-02 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
• 2022-06-01 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting

New Features and Changes

Import / Export

• STL: Add new C++ based STL importer (commit) (Iyad Ahmed)
• USD: Enable operator presets when exporting (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
• OBJ: Use filename as the default object name (commit) (Jesse Yurkovich)

Geometry Nodes

• Add nodes to access instance scale and rotation (commit, commit) (Johnny Matthews)
• Show supported types in geometry socket tooltips (commit) (Angus Stanton)
• Spreadsheet Editor
  • Support 8-bit integer attributes (commit) (Dalai Felinto)
• Performance improvements
  • Port bounding box node to the new curves type (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Use fields for delete geometry inversion (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Speedup preparing multi-function parameters (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

User Interface

• Show gizmo while transforming (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Offset scale gizmos instead of scaling their shape (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Align gizmo scale handles to both Y and Z axes (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Tweak Object duplicate-move operator tooltips (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Curves

• Add soft selection in sculpt mode (commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Hide internal UI attributes and disallow procedural access (commit, (commit) (Hans Goudey, Jacques Lucke)
• Use UV coordinates to attach curves to mesh (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Add surface UV map name property (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Sculpt

• Add elastic mode to transform tool (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)

Grease Pencil

• Add support to name new layer when moving to layer (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
• Line Art
  • Speedup construction of quad trees. (commit) (Yiming Wu)

Python API

• Expose background job info to Python (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Add pre/post/cancel handlers for compositor and background job info (commit) (Philipp Oeser)

Video Sequence Editor

• VSE: Make time operations self-contained (commit) (Richard Antalik)

Miscellaneous

• Color Management: add Filmic sRGB as an image colorspace (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jon Denning
• Lukas Stockner
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Yiming Wu