10 February 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
Modules & Projects
- 2025-02-03 Modeling Module Meeting
- 2025-02-03 Grease Pencil Module Meeting
- 2025-02-04 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting
- 2025-02-04 Render & Cycles Meeting
- 2025-02-06 Triaging Module Meeting
- 2025-02-07 Animation & Rigging 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
- Allow overriding transform locks on posed bones. (commit) - (Bastien Montagne)
- Create pose assets to different libraries (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
- Make copy-paste of keyframes slot-aware (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Compositor
- Avoid redundant output computations (commit) - (Omar Emara)
Cycles
- Burley diffuse closure for MaterialX compatibility (commit) - (Alex)
Grease Pencil
- Make layer locking operator also affect layer groups (commit) - (Janne Nylander)
- Make “Hide Others” layer operator take layer groups into account (commit) - (Janne Nylander)
Knife
- Improve precision at knife line intersections (commit) - (Germano Cavalcante)
NDOF
- Implement new methods to pick the orbit-center (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
- Enable “Auto” center & show orbit center guide by default (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
- Ignore orbit center lock when locked to object or 3D cursor (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
- Adjust when guides are shown (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
Sculpt
- Add ‘Plane’ brush type (commit) - (Nicola)
Sound
- Sync up the screen refresh timer to the audio when seeking (commit) - (Sebastian Parborg)
UI
- Rewrite asset shelf preview loading (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
- Draw loading icon while previews load (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
- Draw subtle background for preview items in menus (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
- Show successful export notification for obj, ply and stl (commit) - (Gilberto.R)
- Show object data name in 3D Viewport text overlay (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
- Shading: Move Cavity properties into a subpanel (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
- On Win11 Use WM Window Decoration Styles API (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
- Sort transform properties for custom bone shape (commit) - (Pasang Bomjan)
VSE
- Move snap toggle to global SequencerCommon (commit) - (John Kiril Swenson)
macOS
- Colored Titlebar and WM Window Decoration Styles API - GSoC 2024 (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)
Weekly Reports
- Aaron Carlisle
- Alaska
- Bastien Montagne
- Campbell Barton
- Christoph Lendenfeld
- Clément Foucault
- Dalai Felinto
- Falk David
- Germano Cavalcante
- Habib Gahbiche
- Hans Goudey
- Harley Acheson
- Jacques Lucke
- Jeroen Bakker
- Jesse Yurkovich
- John Swenson
- Julian Eisel
- Lukas Stockner
- Lukas Tönne
- Miguel Pozo
- Nathan Vegdahl
- Nika Kutsniashvili
- Omar Emara
- Pablo Vazquez
- Philipp Oeser
- Pratik Borhade
- Richard Antalík
- Sean Kim
- Sergey Sharybin
- Sybren Stüvel
- Thomas Dinges
- Weizhen Huang
- Wu Yiming