Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- Blender 3.2.2 has been released, fixing 26 bugs since 3.2.1.
- Blender 2.93.10 LTS has been released, fixing 9 bugs since 2.93.9.
Modules & Projects
New Features and Changes
EEVEE-Next
- Depth of field
- Use random sampling in slight focus gather (commit ) (Clément Foucault)
- Improve image stability (commit ) (Clément Foucault)
- Improve Temporal stability (commit ) (Clément Foucault)
- Make slight focus max coc more accurate (commit ) (Clément Foucault)
- Port implementation to compute shader (commit ) (Clément Foucault)
- Expose Motion blur shutter curve in render panel (commit ) (Clément Foucault)
Import/Export
- USD
- Grease Pencil SVG
- Allow import of several SVG files at a time (commit ) (Antonio Vazquez)
User Interface
- Outliner
- Use UI names and grouping for library overrides properties (commit ) (Julian Eisel)
- Image Editor
- Display image GPU layout in image info UI template (commit ) (Angus Stanton)
- Node editor
- Improve circle drawing of cursor for UV sculpting (commit ) (Chris Blackbourn)
- Make several parts of the UI translatable (commit ) (Damien Picard)
Sculpt
- Support gradient color mode in sculpt paint brush (commit ) (Ramil Roosileht)
Geomety Nodes
- Performance improvements
Miscellaneous
- Surfaces
- Enhanced edit mode extrude tool for NURBS (commit ) (Laurynas Duburas)
- Line Art
- Usability improvement for “Enclosed Shapes” (commit ) (YimingWu)
Python API
- Add more useful information when attempting to pass incorrect attributes to
GPUVertBuf.attr_fill
(commit ) (Colin Basnett)
Weekly Reports
- Bastien Montagne
- Campbell Barton
- Chris Blackbourn
- Germano Cavalcante
- Hans Goudey
- Joe Eagar
- Omar Emara
- Pratik Borhade
- Richard Antalik
- Sergey Sharybin
- Thomas Dinges