Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Welcome
- Ankit Meel is receiving a development grant to help with bug triaging.
Announcements
- Blender 2.93 bcon3 and 3.0 bcon1
- 10 years of Cycles this Friday, April 23.
- The GSoC deadline for students proposals is officially over.
- Potential mentors to help review them.
- Developers interested on helping review the proposals please contact Dalai Felinto.
Modules
No module activity reported this week.
Projects
No project activity reported this week.
New Features and Changes
Video Sequence Editor
- Adjust default proxy settings (commit) (Richard Antalik)
Spreadsheet Editor
- Breadcrumbs and node pinning (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Rename Point to Vertex for meshes in the spreadsheet (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Geometry Nodes
- Add domain and data type to attribute search (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Realize instances when applying node modifiers (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Improve speed of implicit attribute conversions (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Automatically convert data types when writing to builtin attributes (commit)
- Add custom tooltips for group input properties (commit) (Fabian Schempp)
Modeling
- Snap to cage geometry in the measure tool (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
User Interface
- Add a workspace for geometry nodes in the default startup file (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Improve feedback when adding node fails (e.g. on drag & drop) (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Remove (revert) the camera lock gizmo button (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Various naming tweaks (commit, commit) (Hans Goudey, Aaron Carlisle)
Sculpt
- Enable transfer mode functionality for switching objects in Sculpt Mode (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
- Update menu entries for new Expand operator (commit) (Pablo Dobarro)
Grease Pencil
- Invert color offsetting for Single and Object mode (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)