14 December 2020

dfelinto · December 7, 2020, 5:49pm

Notes for meeting of Monday, 14 December 2020. 11:00 CET / UTC 10:00 on #blender-coders on blender.chat.

Announcements

Blender now has a license attribution document
- Any library maintainer should try to keep this up to date.
- This is valid for the svn lib folder as well as the libraries in //extern.
Rendering Meeting
Tuesday Talks - (placeholder link for the upcoming meeting)

There are a few crashes that could be ported already.
The suggestion is to aim at a 2.91.1 release in January when more developers are around.

bcon2 is on this Wednesday (December 16th).
Asset browser merge is still planned for today or tomorrow.
Point cloud will be moved to experimental again
- The geometry nodes project is working on not depending on it.
The grease pencil project still needs a final decision regarding libharu.

Geometry Nodes
- Support instancing collections (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Attribute Mix node (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Attribute Fill Node (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Make properties exposed in modifier overridable (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Click modifier icon to set active modifier (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Cycles
- Enable OpenCL rendering on recent Intel GPUs (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
- Add CPU + GPU rendering support with OptiX (commit) (Patrick Mours)
- Enable baking panel in OptiX and redirect those requests to CUDA for now (commit) (Patrick Mours)
Eevee: include volume transmittance in color render passes (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
Sculpt: Elastic deform type for Snake Hook (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
Overrides
- Initial support for adding new NLA tracks (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Reduce .blend file disk space for overrides on heavy datablocks (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
Grease Pencil: support linking effects with Ctrl+L (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
Weld Modifier: add Connected mode (commit) (Henrik Dick)
User Interface
- Improved script execution warning (commit) (Yevgeny Makarov)
- Update industry compatible keymap modifiers and property search changes (commit) (commit) (William Reynish, Hans Goudey)
- Various small layout and naming tweaks (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (Yevgeny Makarov, Thomas Beck, Hans Goudey, William Reynish)