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.

Anim

Rename ‘Baklava’ panel to ‘Animation Debug’ (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Backward compatibility API for Action.fcurves (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Action editor, show slot ID type icon on the right-hand side (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Add Action Slot selector to Action editor (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

Support multi-pass compositing for EEVEE (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Curves

Add Python API to remove and resize curves (commit) - (Falk David)

EEVEE

Move Cryptomatte normalization to film shader (commit) - (Omar Emara)

GHOST/NDOF

Extend NDOF devices support on Windows (commit) - (Kamil Galik)

GPU

Batch Compilation (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)
Improve the shader cache behavior (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)

GPv3

Add “Set Curve Resolution” operator (commit) - (Falk David)
Trace image operator (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)
Fill tool (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)
Bezier handles selection in pick operator (commit) - (Casey Bianco-Davis)
Initial transform operator support for bezier handles (commit) - (Casey Bianco-Davis)
Duplicate active keys operator (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
LineArt: Baking operators (commit) - (YimingWu)

Grease Pencil

Remove legacy python API (commit) - (Falk David)
Remove legacy modifiers (commit) - (Falk David)

Sculpt

Extract visibility calculation from BVH build, parallelize (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Extract bounds calculation from BVH build, parallelize (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Skip scaling deformation translations when unnecessary (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Data oriented refactor for surface smooth brush (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Refactor for color filter pre-smoothing (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Data oriented refactor for color filter tool (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Use Vector (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Data oriented refactor for pose brush deformation (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Sculpt/Paint

Push undo nodes in parallel in more cases (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Spreadsheet

Use fallback name when geometry has no name (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
Store original object pointer to access selection (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

UI

When Docking Use Movement Threshold for Dupli & Swap (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
Docking Split Order Areas As Previous (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
Use hyphen as separator for attribute lists (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
Custom Windows Cursors for VSE Handles (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
Text Style for Tooltips (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
Sculpt mesh filter status display (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Add title to asset shelf context menu (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
Custom VSE Handle Cursors for Mac (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
Tooltip Final Period and Other Typography (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
Always Use Mono Font for Python in Tooltips (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 29 July 2024