Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 22 April 2024

n8n · April 24, 2024

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Blender 4.1.1 was released on Tuesday, fixing 58 issues.
LTS updates: Blender 3.3.18 and Blender 3.6.11 were released on Tuesday.

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.

Assets

Speed up iterating over asset libraries (commit) – (Julian Eisel)

Compositor

Improve interactivity for GPU compositing (commit) – (Omar Emara)
Allow constant folding of set operations (commit) – (Omar Emara)

EEVEE-Next

UI: Light-Probe panels (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
UI: Improve volume lightprobe props name and tooltips (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
Light: Add transmission factor (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
Light: Add ray visbility support (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
UI: Render Panel (commit) – (Clément Foucault)
Volume: Add custom integration range (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GPv3

Separate header and operators in context menu (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
Primitive Tools: Line, Polyline, Arc, Curve, Box and Circle Tool (commit) – (casey bianco-davis)
Copy/Paste Keyframes (commit) – (Chao Li)

Geometry Nodes

Handle matrix to rotation conversion more gracefully (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
Rewrite Scale Elements node (commit) – (Iliya Katueshenock)
Remove experimental option for matrix socket and nodes (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)

Icons

Add Sculpt gesture icons (commit) – (Sean Kim)

Linux

Freedesktop support for file type association (commit) – (Campbell Barton)

Modifiers

Affect all selected objects when holding alt (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Physics

Enable liquid mesh generation by default (commit) – (Bartosz Kosiorek)

UI

Fix and improve a few messages (commit) – (Damien Picard)
Support adding a search weight to menu entries for menu-search (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
Tweaks to collection export (commit) – (Brecht Van Lommel)
Add tooltips to inputs of Color shader nodes (commit) – (Bartosz Kosiorek)
Remove Redundant Hidden File Check for Linux/Mac (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
Outliner “File Mode” Manage User Count (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
Fade all non-ID children if parent is hidden in outliner (commit) – (Pratik Borhade)
Add tooltip for Poly Build tool (commit) – (Bartosz Kosiorek)

VSE

Add RGB Parade Display Mode for sequencer (commit) – (Boltzmachine)

Weekly Reports

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