10 May 2021

Announcements Weekly Updates
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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

  • Google Summer of Code: Final accepted projects will be known Thursday 13/May at 20:00 CEST.

Modules & Projects

Geometry Nodes

Expanded the sample files. It now includes 2.93 files Metin Seven collected that are waiting to be officially distributed in the demo files page.

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Still Life by Erindale Woodford.

New Features and Changes

Animation Playback

  • Resolve performance issues with high resolution images
    • Improved display performance using GLSL to convert the color-space instead of the CPU for float images (commit) Richard Antalik
    • Support limiting the cache size using a memory limit instead of a fixed number of frames (commit) Campbell Barton
    • Image cache is now filled at startup to avoid frame-skipping during playback as frames load (commit) Campbell Barton

Geometry Nodes

  • Initial curve data support
    • Support for curve data, evaluation in nodes, add “Curve to Mesh” node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Apply tilt data to spline normal evaluation (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Add “Curve Resample” node to sample even length points (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Performance improvements
    • Parallelize attribute nodes (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Improve performance and parallelize point instance node (commit, commit, commit) (Hans Goudey, Jacques Lucke)
  • Add Attribute Curve Map Node (commit, commit) (Charlie Jolly)

Grease Pencil

  • Add operators to copy material slots between objects (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Add keymap items to increase/decrease brush size ([, ]) (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Expose “Dilate” parameter for Fill brush (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Expose options when adding line art object (commit) (YimingWu)
  • User interface fixes / tweaks for line art (commit, commit, commit) (Pablo Vazquez)

Library Overrides

  • Avoid preserving local overrides when their linked data disappear (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
  • Better handling of ‘orphaned’ Objects in override creation (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
  • Add proper reports when deleting user-edited overrides as part of resync (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

User Interface

  • Improve / clean up “File > External Data” menu (commit) (Dalai Felinto)
  • Display text indicator in the 3D Viewport when Clipping Region is on (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Show frame node label only when a label is set (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)

Video Sequence Editor

  • Set view transform based on strip colorspace (commit) (Richard Antalik)

Miscellaneous

  • Alembic export: export UV maps on every frame (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Movieclip: Use first clip frame for size detection (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
  • System info: Add OS version to sys_info.py (commit) (Ankit Meel)

Weekly Reports

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