Blender Development

Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 8 April 2024

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org.

Anim

  • Update NLA “make single user” popup dialog (commit) – (Nate Rupsis)
  • Allow assigning Animation data-blocks (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Add a simple GUI for assigning Animation data-blocks (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Allow inserting keys in Animation data-block (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Show animated properties with the appropriate color in the GUI (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

  • Retain alpha in Color to Vector conversion (commit) – (Omar Emara)
  • Set W to 1 in Float to Vector conversion (commit) – (Omar Emara)
  • Port GPU Vector Blur to CPU (commit) – (Omar Emara)

Curves

  • Bezier handle selection support (commit) – (Laurynas Duburas)
  • Add toggle cyclic edit mode operator (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add edit mode operator to convert curve types (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add switch direction edit mode operator (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add subdivide curves edit mode operator (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)

EEVEE-Next

  • Allow raytacing for translucent BSDF without refraction (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Horizon scan Metal compiler tuning (commit) – (Jason Fielder)
  • Volume: Fragment shader voxelization (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GPv3

  • Onion Skinning (commit) – (Falk David)
  • Implement UV rotation mode for the noise modifier (commit) – (Lukas Tönne)

UI

  • Status Bar Keymap Spacing (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Clarify Playback “Play In” option (commit) – (Philipp Oeser)
  • Menu Status Text Clears Incorrectly (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Show Maximize Area on Asset Browser Header Context Menu (commit) – (Harley Acheson)

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