14 February 2022
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- As part of the four 2022 Blender strategic targets, a workshop to help refine the Overrides topic was held during the week of the 17th of January at the Blender HQ in Amsterdam.
New Features and Changes
Cycles
- Support rendering attributes for Curves objects (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)
- macOS support
Library Overrides
- Use new ‘hierarchy root’ info in for more robust operations with complex heirarchies (commit, commit) (Bastien Montagne)
- Performance improvements
Grease Pencil
- Massively improve the performance of some operations using an update cache (commit) (Falk David, Yann Lanthony)
Compositor
- Add a “Sharpen Less” kernel for the Filter Compositor node (commit) (Colin Basnett)
User Interface
- Enable Filtering of woff and woff2 Fonts in the file browser(commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Node editor
- Change computation of node socket position to align with label (commit) (Dominik Fill)
- Improve node drop shadow with different zoom levels and high resolution displays (commit) (Leon Schittek)
- Use a dynamic header color for the Map Range node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
- Fix poor selection behavior inside frame nodes (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
- Geometry Nodes
- Show indicator when realize instances node is in legacy mode (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
EEVEE
- Performance improvements
- Support the no-op Bump node optimization like in Cycles. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
Modeling
- Add option to select mesh vertices by similar vertex crease (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)
Curves
- Rename in-development “Hair” data-block, types, and internal code to “Curves” (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Video Sequence Editor
- Add filter method to strip transform (commit) (Dimitry Kaplin)
- Use floats for transformation offset (commit) (Richard Antalik)