Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Modules & Projects

• 2022-06-14 Library Overrides Status Update
• 2022-06-15 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting
• 2022-06-16 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
• 2022-06-20 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

Geometry Nodes

• New Volume Cube node (commit) (Chris Clyne)
• Add an ‘Intersecting Edges’ selection output to the mesh boolean node (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
• Tweak Volume to Mesh threshold socket declaration (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Performance improvements
  • Speed up Separate XYZ node when not all outputs are used (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Decrease overhead in function executor used for fields (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

Import/Export

• OBJ
  • Support per-vertex colors in importer and exporter (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
  • Add an option for creating vertex groups when importing (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
• Performance improvements
  • Speed up large USD imports by not rebuilding material name map for each object (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
  • Speed up large Alembic & USD imports by doing fewer collection syncs (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)

User Interface

• Add fallback font stack (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• File browser
  • Add operator and shortcut to edit the file browser path (commit) (Damien Picard)
• Asset browser
  • Don’t show duplicated catalog name when dragging assets (commit) (Kevin Curry)
• Performance improvements
  • Only expand outliner sub-trees if necessary (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Add icons for the curve sculpt tools brushes (commit) (Dalai Felinto)
• Use “bl_order” for UI child panels (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Small tweak to custom property edit UI text (commit) (Dalai Felinto)

Library Overrides

• Handle dependencies in both directions in partial override cases (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
• Simplification and improvements of override creation in the 3D view (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Clip Editor

• Sort tracks alphabetically when they have matched error (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
• Default to average error sort in dopesheet (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
• Use Ascending/Descending order instead of “Inverse” (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)

Wayland

• Add tablet support (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Fractional scaling support (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Support displaying custom software cursors (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Workaround inability to access window position (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Hans Goudey
• Jeroen Bakker
• Jon Denning
• Lukas Stockner
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sergey Sharybin
• Thomas Dinges
• Yiming Wu

Google Summer of Code

• GSoC 2022: Many Lights Sampling in Cycles X (Weekly Report) - #8 by Jebbly
• GSoC 2022 : Soft body simulations using XPBD (Weekly Reports) - #7 by arcticblazer
• GSoC 2022 : 3D Text Usability Improvements (Weekly Reports) - #4 by yashhh
• GSoC 2022: Waveform Drawing Improvements Weekly Report - #4 by xsmingerfan