Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Modules & Projects

• 2022-8-9 Render & Cycles Meeting 
• 2022-08-11 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting 

New Features and Changes

Realtime Compositor

• Add evaluator and engine (commit ) (Omar Emara)
• Allow compositor in material preview mode (commit ) (Omar Emara)
• Implement input, output, distort, matte, convert, vector, and color nodes (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit ) (Omar Emara)
• Add stubs for unsupported nodes (commit ) (Omar Emara)

Cycles

• Improve denoiser update performance when rendering with multiple GPUs (commit ) (Patrick Mours)
• Improve ray tracing precision near triangle edges (commit ) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Take into account time limit for render progress bar (commit ) (Brecht Van Lommel)

User Interface

• Make more parts of the UI translatable (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Damien Picard)
• Outliner
  • Rework library overrides contextual menu (commit ) (Bastien Montagne)

EEVEE-Next

• New light module and evaluation support (commit, commit ) (Clément Foucault)

Dependency Graph

• Optimize evaluation of dependencies of disabled modifiers (commit, commit ) (Sergey Sharybin)
  Render: remove camera shift hard limits (commit ) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Import/Export

• OBJ: support importing multiple files at once (commit ) (Aras Pranckevicius)

Miscellaneous

• Mesh: Move hide flags to generic attributes (commit ) (Hans Goudey)
• Wayland: Support setting modifiers on window activation (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne 
• Campbell Barton 
• Chris Blackbourn 
• Germano Cavalcante 
• Jeroen Bakker 
• Omar Emara 
• Philipp Oeser 
• Pratik Borhade 
• Richard Antalik 
• Sergey Sharybin 
• Thomas Dinges 

Google Summer of Code

• GSoC 2022 : Soft body simulations using XPBD (Weekly Reports) - #15 by arcticblazer 
• GSoC 2022 : 3D Text Usability Improvements (Weekly Reports) - #12 by yashhh 
• GSoC 2022: Many Lights Sampling in Cycles X (Weekly Report) - #16 by Jebbly