Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 29 August 2022

Bart · August 30, 2022

Announcements

SIGGRAPH 2022 Report

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

Translations

Make addon info, new node group sockets, and workspaces translatable (commit, commit, commit) (Damien Picard)

Animation

Weight Paint
- Use coordinates from normal evaluated mesh if same topology. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)

Grease Pencil

Add feature to convert to outline in draw mode (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)

UV Editor

support constrain-to-bounds for uv rotation operator (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
improve consistency for scale parameter of uvcalc_randomize_transform (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)

Miscellaneous

Performance improvements
- Dependency graph
  - use more fine grained update tags for scenes (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Images
  - Optimize GPU memory usage by using 1 component format for grayscale images (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
- Curves
  - Avoid creating types array when unnecessary (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Python API

eturn faces instead of indices from bmesh_linked_uv_islands (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Weekly Reports

Google Summer of Code

Author Bart

I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.