14 September 2020

Announcements Weekly Updates
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Announcements

Blender 2.90.1

  • The list of potential candidates for a 2.90.1 bugfix release. There appear to be some showstoppers in this list, no objections in the meeting to go ahead.

Blender 2.91

  • bcon2 on Wednesday, September 16 - any major new features and changes should have landed by then.
  • Pablo Dobarro urges for workflow improvement for multi-objects to be merged in time - but they may be fine for bcon2 too if not too close to bcon3.
  • Potrace is still not in, and it is required by some grease pencil patches.
  • Evan Wilson made a post about upgrading OIDN to v1.2.3 for 2.91 (it may fix macOS crashes). Brecht Van Lommel will look at that.

Tuesday Team Talks

  • There was the second round of Tuesday Talks last week.
  • Tomorrow we do it again - placeholder notes. (meeting will be held at the same link).
  • The goal is to do four rounds before we see whether to continue.
  • This week Sergey Sharybin will host it this week.

New Features and Changes

Blender 2.91

  • Image Editor: improved drawing performance and solve long-standing alpha blending and color management issues. (commit) (:cinema: video) (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Outliner (Nathan Craddock)
    • Use right click target element for context menu (commit)
    • Move mode toggling to left column (commit)
  • User Interface:
    • Improve search results by using fuzzy and prefix matching (commit) (:cinema: video) (Jacques Lucke)
    • Add option to instance object data on link/append (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Support dropping object data like meshes to create instances in the viewport (commit) (Campbell Barton)
    • Miscellaneous improved user interface layout and naming (Aaron Carlisle, Pablo Vazquez, Hans Goudey)
  • Sculpt (Pablo Dobarro)
    • Trimming gestures tools (commit)
    • Pen pressure for Scrape/Fill Area Radius (commit)
  • Boolean Modifier: support using collection of objects in addition to single objects. (commit) (Zachary, Howard Trickey)
  • Alembic (Sybren A. Stüvel)
    • Export custom properties (commit)
    • Export instanced object data (commit)
  • Python API:
    • New Mesh.attributes for accessing custom geometry attributes on meshes. The data types have been extended with 3D Float Vector, Byte Color and Float Color. (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
    • New HairKey.co_object_set to write hair key coordinates in object space. (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
  • Windows: colorized debug logging support for debug logging with --log argument. (commit) (Ray Molenkamp)

Weekly Reports

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