18 November 2024
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
Modules & Projects
- 2024-11-12 Render & Cycles Meeting
- 2024-11-12 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting
- 2024-11-14 Core Meeting
- 2024-11-14 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
- 2024-11-14 Animation & Rigging module meeting
- 2024-11-18 Viewport & EEVEE Module Meeting
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.
Anim
- Add slot selector to NLA Action track buttons (commit) - (Sybren A. StĂĽvel)
Compositor
Ported more nodes to the new CPU compositor:
- Keying Screen (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Stabilize 2D (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- EWA filtering (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Plane Deform (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Corner Pin (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Flip node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Crop node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Zero boundary EWA sampling (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Movie Distortion (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Lens Distort (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Displace node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Map UV node (commit) - (Omar Emara)
Cycles
- oneAPI: build binaries for Battlemage GPUs (commit) - (Nikita Sirgienko)
Geometry Nodes
- Add “Limit Surface” option in subdivision surface node (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Nodes
- Remove wrong tweak handling for reroutes (commit) - (Leon Schittek)
- Slightly improve editor drawing performance with large node trees (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
USD
- Add option to merge shape with parent xform during import (commit) - (Charles Flèche)
VSE
- Add Box Roundness option to text strips (commit) - (kitt)
Vulkan
- Show supported device extensions in
system-info
output (commit) - (Lalit Shankar Chowdhury)
Weekly Reports
- Aaron Carlisle
- Alaska
- Bastien Montagne
- Campbell Barton
- Christoph Lendenfeld
- Clément Foucault
- Dalai Felinto
- Falk David
- Germano Cavalcante
- Hans Goudey
- Harley Acheson
- Jacques Lucke
- Jeroen Bakker
- Jesse Yurkovich
- Julian Eisel
- Lukas Stockner
- Lukas Tönne
- Miguel Pozo
- Nathan Vegdahl
- Omar Emara
- Pablo Vazquez
- Philipp Oeser
- Pratik Borhade
- Richard AntalĂk
- Sean Kim
- Sergey Sharybin
- Sybren StĂĽvel
- Thomas Dinges
- Weizhen Huang
- Wu Yiming