10 February 2025

10 February 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

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

  • 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

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