Announcements

• Charge - Blender Open Movie has been released last Thursday.

Linux Platform

• Library upgrades for Blender 3.5.
  Linux developers using pre-built libraries will need to checkout new libraries.

Modules & Projects

• 2022-12-13 Render & Cycles Meeting
• 2022-12-15 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
• 2022-12-19 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

Cycles

• Take into account film exposure for light sampling threshold (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Limit the internal sample index of Sobol-Burley for performance (commit) (Nathan Vegdahl)
• Switch from pretabulated 2D PMJ02 to pretabulated 4D Sobol (commit) (Nathan Vegdahl)
• Disable light tree for existing scenes, enable on new scenes (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Nodes

• Add Exclusion color mix mode (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
• Add mirror image extension type to image nodes (commit) (Hallam Roberts)

Node Editor

• Allow skipping auto-attachment after dragging (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Geometry Nodes

• Output UV map from primitive nodes as anonymous attributes (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Support storing 2D vector attributes in Store Named Attribute node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Performance
  • Skip Set Position node processing when there is nothing to do (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Add error message when applying modifier with no mesh (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Mesh

• Performance
  • Reduce memory consumption when calculating corner normals (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Python API

• Store Mesh active & default color attributes with strings (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Miguel Pozo
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalik
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges