2 September 2024 (Upcoming)
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Modules & Projects
- 2024-08-27 Sequencer meeting notes
- 2024-08-27 Compositor meeting notes
- 2024-08-29 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting
- 2024-08-29 Animation & Rigging module meeting
- 2024-09-02 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
Animation
- New/Un-assign Slot operators (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add Action selectors to Material + Camera properties (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- F-Curve icons, return std::nullopt when RNA path cannot be resolved (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Find Action Slot users on embedded IDs (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Add operator for creating a new Action Slot to the dope sheet header (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Action editor, only show Action selector if there is an active object (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- Always allow unassigning the action slot (commit) (Sybren A. Stüvel)
User Interface
- Rename Asset Browser “All” to “All Libraries” (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Detailed Large File & Folder Icons (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Rename Clip Editor Dopesheet to Dope Sheet (commit) (Pablo Vazquez)
- Show Splash Version Text in White (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- clarify “show faces” description (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Hide Timeline Scrollbars When Very Short (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Show texture properties tab when fluid modifier uses texture (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Sculpt
- Split BVH nodes structs by geometry type (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Reduce size of undo node struct (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Avoid mutable retrieval of positions when building BVH (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Specialize some pose fake neighbors calculation (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Write brush types to brush asset metadata (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Geometry Nodes
- New Hash Value node (commit) (Charlie Jolly)
- Support custom warnings in node groups (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Support customizing warning propagation (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
- Use different icons for warning and error messages (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Core
- Optimize constructing IndexMask from bits and bools (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
Video Sequence Editor
- Faster and more consistent thumbnails (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
Compositor
- Add button to add a new texture in the Texture node (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
Materials
- Add Metallic BSDF Node (commit) (Alaska)
glTF IO
- Fix error message if hook failed (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Children type check refactoring (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Add logging level control for export (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Enable exporting joint leaf at tail of leaf bones (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Set udim material names with tile number (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Avoid double export (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Use wait cursor instead of empty % cursor (commit) (Julien Duroure)
- Manage Quaternion and Matrix attribute types for custom attributes (commit) (Julien Duroure)
Overlay Next
- In-Front support (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Add Alt+B clipping support (commit) (Clément FOUCAULT)
- Image (commit) (Laurynas Duburas)
- Fluid (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Xray Fade (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- Edit Curves (commit) (Clément FOUCAULT)
Vulkan
- Initial support for multiple windows (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
Weekly Reports
- Aaron Carlisle
- 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 Antalík
- Sean Kim
- Sergey Sharybin
- Sybren Stüvel
- Thomas Dinges
- Weizhen Huang
- Wu Yiming
Google Summer of Code - Final reports
- GSoC 2024: Improve Distributed Rendering & Task Execution - #14 by David_Zhang
- GSoC 2024: Sample Sound Node - #14 by megakite
- GSOC 2024: UV Stitching Improvements - #13 by Anish_Bharadwaj
- GSoC 2024: Sprucing up the Video Sequencer (Weekly Reports) - #14 by linen
- GSoC 2024: Improvements to the Blender macOS User Interface Experience - Weekly Reports - #23 by Brainzman
- GSoC 2024: Geometry Nodes: File Import Nodes - #18 by Devashish_Lal