16 December 2024

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16 December 2024
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Modules & Projects

Overrides Workshop

The write-up for the overrides workshop is up. The workshop happened between the 3-4th of December 2024 at Blender HQ.

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The focus for the workshop was on how to make them easier to use and manage for productions.

New Features and Changes

This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org.

3D Text

  • Only use fallback characters for the default font (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Use placeholder glyph, resolve error handling inconsistencies (commit) - (Campbell Barton)

Anim

  • When creating action slot by keying, name it after last-used slot (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Make Slot::users_remove() gracefully deal with duplicate users(commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Explicity handle node trees when rebuilding action slot user cache (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)

Compositor

  • Optimize constant size Bokeh Blur node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Optimize Distance Dilate node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Always use the new CPU compositor (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)
  • Optimize Dilate Distance Threshold node (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Cycles

  • Make OSL shader compilation threadsafe and multi-threaded (commit) - (Lukas Stockner)
  • Support Mie Scattering with particle size smaller than 5um (commit) - (Weizhen Huang)

Geometry Nodes

  • Propagate vertex groups in join / realize instances nodes (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Grease Pencil

  • Add layer channel color property (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
  • Add lasso/box erase operators in draw mode (commit) - (Falk David)

Installer

  • Windows: Various tweaks and updates to the installer (commit) - (Ray Molenkamp)

Materials

  • Take object and geometry material slot counts into account (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Nodes

  • Remove labels and use placeholder in Attribute Node (commit) - (quackarooni)
  • Simplify location storage, remove hidden offfsets (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

PyGPU

  • Rename ‘program’ to ‘shader’ in documentation for ‘GPUBatch.draw’ (commit) - (Germano Cavalcante)
  • Show error for unsupported POLYLINE shader configurations (commit) - (Germano Cavalcante)

Sculpt

  • Simplify sphere mesh filter code (commit) - (Iliya Katueshenock)

Transform

  • Crazyspace support in edit mode for Curves and Grease Pencil (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)

UI

  • Allow passing named integers via context (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Use consistent naming for mode toggle on undo history (commit) - (Gilberto.R)
  • Outliner: Support ctrl/shift operations for exclude collection (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

USD

  • Add new get_prim_map API callable from python on_import hooks (commit) - (Charles Flèche)
  • on_material_import() and texture IO hooks (commit) - (Michael Kowalski)

VSE

  • Improve retiming code readability (commit) - (Richard Antalik)
  • Optimize and cleanup modifiers (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Vulkan

  • Updated NVIDIA/Linux driver support (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Add support for ReBAR (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

Workbench

  • Separate depth of field shaders (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

Weekly Reports

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