16 October 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Modules & Projects
- 2023-09-12 Blender Admins Meeting
- 2023-10-10 Blender Admins Meeting
- 2023-10-12 Animation & Rigging module meeting
- 2023-10-16 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting
- Vulkan Project Update — Developer Blog
New Features and Changes
Grease Pencil V3
- Initial Geometry Nodes support (commit) (Falk David)
- Implement expanding of Grease Pencil component in the spreadsheet (commit) (Falk David)
- Add grease pencil support to many curve nodes (commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit) (Dalai Felinto)
- Support crazyspace in selection code (commit) (Falk David)
- Rename layer domain to just “Layer” (commit) (Falk David)
- Insert keyframe when drawing if no key exists at current frame (commit) (Pratik Borhade)
User Interface
- Search all menus with space bar (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Use type to search for add menus (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Show input placeholders in selector buttons (commit, commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Window title Blender path changes (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Use dash and underscore as word separators in string search (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Highlight selected item in 3D viewport mode menu (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Batch rename
- Add brush and scene data types (commit) (Iyad Ahmed)
Geometry Nodes
- Add default input option for node groups (commit) (Hans Goudey)
EEVEE Next
- Move out of experimental option (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- UI cleanup of render settings panel (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Add back lightprobe influence (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Scene Reflection Probe Resolution (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
- Rename light probes (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
- Sphere Probe: Allow evaluation of volume probe (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Ray-Tracing
- Add Planar Tracing (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Support for Intel ARC GPUs (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
- Optional surfel backface culling (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
- Expose Thickness output (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
Compositor
- Allow variable size Kuwahara (commit) (Omar Emara)
- GPU Compositor
- Immediately realize transformations (commit) (Omar Emara)
Cycles
- Add option to control smoothing when using bump map (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
- oneAPI
Core
- Performance
Sculpt
- Support Float2 attributes for dynamic topology (commit) (Sergey Sharybin)
Animation
- Make bone colors library-overridable (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Animation Player
- Support dropping multiple files at once (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Don’t expand sequences when passing in multiple files (commit) (Campbell Barton)