Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Modules & Projects

• 2024-03-18 Tablet Support: UX and other implications
• 2024-04-02 Sculpt, Paint, & Texture Module Meeting
• 2024-04-02 Extensions Platform - Backend
• 2024-04-04 Triaging module meeting
• 2024-04-04 Animation & Rigging module meeting
• 2024-04-08 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting

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)

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