Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 15 August 2022
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Modules & Projects
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
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
Another nice update.