Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• Subversion to Git LFS Migration on Feb 22
• Extensions Platform - Alpha launch
• Blender has been accepted for GSoC 2024

Modules & Projects

• 2024-02-19 Grease Pencil Module Meeting
• 2024-02-20 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting
• 2024-02-20 Render & Cycles Meeting
• 2024-02-26 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

Anim

• Bone properties panel, add missing ‘solo’ property (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

• Use original hue in Hue Correct node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
• Unify Blur operation across CPU and GPU (commit) - (Omar Emara)
• Unify Denoise node between CPU and GPU (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Creator

• Add CPU check on startup (commit) - (Ray Molenkamp)

Cycles

• Adjust normal in Principled Hair Huang to be orthogonal to the tangent (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)
• Make Principled Hair Huang a near- and far-field model (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)

Despgraph

• Rename “copy-on-write” to “copy-on-evaluation” (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

EEVEE

• Reset samples when reflection probes are updated. (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

EEVEE-Next

• Implement Sphere Light-Probe convolution (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Support sphere probe falloff (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
• Add refraction roughness mapping (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Voronoi colors are pure emissive (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
• Do not use mip 1 for lightprobe sample in raytracing (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Update reflection probes when resolution changes (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
• Fix black world probe when disabling probes (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
• Concatenate info strings (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
• Make closure evaluation fully type agnostic (commit) - (Clément Foucault)

GPU

• Report on vertex attribute conversions (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

GPv3

• Hook modifier (commit) - (YimingWu)
• Add layer ‘pass_index’ attribute. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)
• General panel in offset modifier (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
• Select strokes by material operator (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
• Active layer poll (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

Geometry Nodes

• Align input and output sockets in simulation and repeat zone nodes (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
• Support wildcard in Remove Named Attribute node (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
• Support group ids in Geometry Proximity node (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
• Sample grid node (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Icons

• Update for now toolbar icons blend file location (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

Realtime Compositor

• Implement Legacy Cryptomatte (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Sculpt

• Add dyntopo size edit support for BRUSH and RELATIVE modes (commit) - (Sean Kim)

Text Editor

• Add support for GLSL syntax highlighting (commit) - (Gangneron)

UI

• Mac Incorrect Hand Cursor for Move (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
• Improvements to Confirmation of Unpack Linked Libraries (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
• Remove tool-tip message that non-editable properties are internal (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
• Prevent file-selector buttons operating on non-editable properties (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
• Improvements to Confirmation of Apply Transforms (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
• Improvements to Confirmation of Apply Modifier (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
• Improvements to Confirmation of Pack Resources (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

USD

• Fix varying interpolation import (commit) - (Michael Kowalski)

UV

• Support changing the opacity of the UV stretching overlay (commit) - (Samuel Bilek)

VSE

• Skip rendering lower strips that are behind opaque strips above them (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)
• Reduce playback stalls when new video clips start playing (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Video

• Remove non-ffmpeg AVI support (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Weekly Reports

• Aaron Carlisle
• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Christoph Lendenfeld
• Clément Foucault
• Dalai Felinto
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Harley Acheson
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Jesse Yurkovich
• Julian Eisel
• Lukas Stockner
• Lukas Tönne
• Miguel Pozo
• Nathan Vegdahl
• Omar Emara
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Raul Fernandez Hernandez
• Richard Antalík
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Weizhen Huang
• Wu Yiming