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)

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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 15 April 2024