Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• Cycles: Remove support of Metal with AMD/Intel GPUs for 4.3 and onwards

Modules & Projects

• 2024-06-10 Sculpt, Paint, & Texture Module Meeting
• 2024-06-11 Blender Admins Meeting
• 2024-06-11 Render & Cycles Meeting
• 2024-06-13 Triaging module meeting
• 2024-06-13 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
• 2024-06-14 Extensions Platform
• 2024-06-17 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting
• 2024-06-17 Modeling Meeting
• 2024-06-17 Grease Pencil 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

• Add new keytype ‘generated’ styling to the Sequencer theme (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Reset idroot when adding a layer or binding to an Action (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
• Use keyframing user preferences for layered action keying (commit) - (Nathan Vegdahl)
• Change how un-assigning an action binding works (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

• Remove Auto Render option (commit) - (Omar Emara)

EEVEE

• Ensure materials use all available sampler slots (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
• Add Ray Visibility > Camera support (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
• Rename lightprobe volume single sided to backface cull (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Disable shadows in legacy files (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Enable world sun shadow in default scene (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Volume: Add artificial backface hit to close volumes (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Shadow (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
• Remove artificial bias (commit) - (Clément Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

• Add STL Import Node (commit) - (Devashish Lal)

Subdiv

• Skip interpolating topology attributes to improve performance (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

UI

• Remove Tooltip Zoom - Never Resize (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
• Draw loading label in File Browser when list is empty but loading (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
• Separate job type for asset library and file list loading (commit) - (Julian Eisel)

USD export

• Ignore selected-only for dome lights (commit) - (Michael Kowalski)

VSE

• Add movie clip panel (commit) - (Richard Antalik)

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
• Sean Kim
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Weizhen Huang
• Wu Yiming

Google Summer of Code - Week 3

• GSoC 2024: Sprucing up the Video Sequencer (Weekly Reports) - #4 by linen
• GSoC 2024: Sample Sound Node - #4 by megakite
• GSoC 2024: Geometry Nodes: File Import Nodes - #7 by Devashish_Lal
• GSOC 2024: UV Stitching Improvements - #4 by Anish_Bharadwaj
• GSoC 2024: Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience - Weekly Reports - #4 by Brainzman
• GSoC 2024: Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution - #4 by David_Zhang