Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• Blender 4.2 LTS has been released on Tuesday.
• LTS updates for 3.3 and 3.6.

Modules & Projects

Google Summer of Code – Midterm

The midterm evaluations have been submitted end of last week and all six contributors passed. Congratulations! Here a short overview of what has been done already by the contributors:

• Geometry Nodes: File Import Nodes:
  New nodes landed in main for OBJ and STL files for Geometry Nodes. Work started on caching.
• Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution:
  Support for pausing jobs in Flamenco landed.
• Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience:
  Several pull requests for macOS Inline-Titlebar, Colored Titlebar and fixes in main like Window title not properly updating on editor change.
• Sample Sound Node:
  Steady progress on the sound node, including implementation of a sound socket, the actual node and caching.
• Sprucing Up the Sequencer:
  Several improvements to the VSE like Add snapping in VSE Preview, several fixes for snapping and a draft for linked strips.
• UV stitch Tool Improvements:
  Work has been done on a UV seam-weld functionality with review and further improvements in progress.

Meeting Notes

• 2024-07-15 Modeling Meeting
• 2024-07-16 Animation & Rigging off-schedule module meeting
• 2024-07-18 Triaging module meeting
• 2024-07-18 User Interface 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

• Deselect Keys before inserting new keys (commit) – (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Curves

• Store active attribute index on curves geometry (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)

EEVEE

• Improve Pixel Size Upscaling (commit) – (Clément Foucault)

GPv3

• Edit mode overlay curve lines and bézier handles. (commit) – (casey bianco-davis)
• Render evaluated geometry (commit) – (Casey Bianco-Davis)

Geometry Nodes

• Support simulating and baking grease pencil geometry (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)
• Add conversion nodes for Grease Pencil and Curves (commit) – (Jacques Lucke)

Image Plane

• Add support for EEVEE (commit) – (Jeroen Bakker)

Overlay-Next

• Lattice (commit) – (Laurynas Duburas)

Sculpt

• Data oriented refactor for enhance details brush (commit) – (Hans Goudey)
• Simplify gathering of position data (commit) – (Hans Goudey)
• Data oriented refactor for “Set Pivot Position” operator (commit) – (Hans Goudey)

Sound

• Add channels and sample rate properties to mixdown operator (commit) – (Matthieu Carteron)

UI

• Remove unused brush tool icons (commit) – (Julian Eisel)
• Allow Use of Full-Color UI Icons (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Screen Area Docking Experimental Feature (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Icon Hover Brightness for Properties Items (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Remove “Widget Label” Text Style (commit) – (Harley Acheson)
• Don’t Dim Docking Remainders (commit) – (Harley Acheson)

VSE

• Reword the text of the movie add “use_framerate” option (commit) – (Sebastian Parborg)

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

Google Summer of Code – Week 8

• GSoC 2024: Sprucing up the Video Sequencer (Weekly Reports) – #8 by linen
• GSoC 2024: Sample Sound Node – #9 by megakite
• GSoC 2024: Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution – #9 by David_Zhang
• GSoC 2024: Geometry Nodes: File Import Nodes – #12 by Devashish_Lal
• GSoC 2024: Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience – Weekly Reports – #17 by Brainzman