14 March 2022

Announcements Weekly Updates
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14 March 2022

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

Announcements

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

Curves

  • Sculpt mode
    • Add initial comb, grow and shrink brush (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
    • Actually delete curves with Delete brush (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
    • Disable stroke spacing for curve sculpt brushes (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
    • Rename initial brushes (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • NURBS
    • Improve NURBS knot generation modes (commit, commit) (Laurynas Duburas)
    • Slightly speed up NURBS evaluation and reduce memory usage (commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Increase default viewport resolution for curves object (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

User Interface

  • Individualize the option to use transform snapping per editor type (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
  • Improve aligmnent in number fields and value sliders (commit) (Leon Schittek)

Cycles/Rendering

  • Cycles
    • Show viewport hair settings when using Cycles (commit) (Ethan Hall)
    • Make smart interpolation fallback to cubic for GPU (commit) (Ethan Hall)
  • Shader nodes
    • Add Alpha output to Object Info node (commit) (Ethan Hall)
    • Add alpha mode selector to Image Texture node (commit) (Ethan Hall)

Event System

  • Key-press while dragging now activates drag first (commit, commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • Drag events no longer default to the drag start location (commit) (Campbell Barton)
  • 3D Mouse
    • Support changing NDOF button shortcuts (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Click/click-drag support for NDOF buttons (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Remove unused NDOF buttons (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Geometry Nodes

  • Performance improvements
    • Port realize instances node to the new curves data-block (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Port mesh to curve node to new curves data-block (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Tiny optimization to UV Sphere primitive (commit) (Hallam Roberts)
  • Implement CustomData interpolation for boolean data type (commit) (Aleksi Juvani)

Grease Pencil

  • New “Additive” mode for build modifier (commit) (Marc ChĂ©hab)
  • Performance improvements
    • Improve multi-user gpencil data performance with modifiers (commit) (Yann Lanthony, Falk David)

Library Overrides

  • Disable problematic/invalid operations in the outliner (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Python API

  • Add new annotation_pre & annotation_post handlers (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Performance improvements
    • Optimize dependency graph use in python drivers (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Improve performance of Text.from_string/to_string (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Weekly Reports

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