Blender Development

Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 15 April 2024

n8n ·

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.

Alembic

  • Support new Curves object type for export (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)

Anim

  • Detailed report if no keyframes have been inserted (commit) – (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Avoid loading alpha channel from theme for keyframe drawing (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Add new keyframe type ‘GENERATED’ (commit) – (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Collection Exporters

  • Enable file exporters to be specified on Collections (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)
  • Add Alembic support (commit) – (Jesse Yurkovich)

Compositor

  • Allow inter-operation canceling (commit) – (Omar Emara)

Core

  • ID Management (commit) – (Bastien Montagne)

Curves

  • Add operator to set bezier handle types (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add menu to add some primitive curves in edit mode (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)

EEVEE-Next

  • Add back volume reprojection (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Add consistent support for thickness output (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
  • Changes to thickness output (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GHOST/Wayland

  • Use discrete zoom steps with multi-touch disabled (commit) – (Campbell Barton)
  • Resolve mouse wheel being treated like touchpad scroll (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

GPv3

  • Deselect everything from all visible drawings when pasting strokes (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
  • Initial sculpt mode (commit) – (Lukas Tönne)
  • Expose “Use Lights” option in the object data properties (commit) – (Falk David)
  • Add option to disable masks in viewlayer (commit) – (Falk David)

Geometry Nodes

  • Better support for tiny triangles in reverse uv sampling (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add invertable boolean output to invert matrix node (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Use rotation socket in Curve to Points node (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
  • Avoid repeated node tools lookup when empty (commit) – (Hans Goudey)
  • Log socket values for node tools (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Nodes

  • Display node label for tooltips on a free reroute (commit) – (Iliya Katueshenock)

PyAPI

  • include a filepath in preset pre_cb/post_cb callbacks (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Realtime Compositor

  • Support variable scaling (commit) – (Omar Emara)

UI

  • Splash Screen Import Changes (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Add Rename operator in bone collection context menu (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
  • Indicate type of search in keymap search button (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
  • Consistent Cursor Color (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Remove active vertex theme option for 3d view and UV editor (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
  • Rename “QT rle / QT Animation” to “QuickTime Animation” (commit) – (Aaron Carlisle)
  • Slight Adjust Last Operation Changes (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
  • Add tooltips for inputs of vector shaders nodes (commit) – (Bartosz Kosiorek)

Weekly Reports

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