20 February 2023

[ThomasDinges]

20 February 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

• Technical documentation day on Friday, Feb 24.

Modules & Projects

• 2023-02-16 Animation & Rigging module meeting
• 2023-02-20 Grease Pencil Module Meeting

New Features and Changes

Animation

• Add “Frame Channel” operators (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Curves

• Sculpt mode
  • Add optional cage overlay (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add Curve Parameter Falloff to comb brush (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Change collision radius for consistency with default radius (commit) (Jun Mizutani)
• Edit mode
  • Move edit mode out of experimental (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add transform tools to toolbar (commit) (Falk David)
  • Add delete operator to edit mode (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Add select more/less operators (commit) (Falk David)
  • Use deformed points in edit mode overlay (commit) (Falk David)
  • Draw point overlay only in point selection mode (commit) (Falk David)
• Replace quick fur operator, add to add menu (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Sculpt

• Vector displacement for the sculpting draw brush (commit) (Robin Hohnsbeen)
• Add support for last operator panel to mesh filter operator (commit) (Joseph Eagar)

Core

• Bundle “Essentials” assets with Blender (commit) (Jacques Lucke)

EEVEE

• Optimize material node graphs with secondary optimized shaders (commit) (Jason Fielder)

User Interface

• Gizmos
  • Add shift key option to scale 2D cage gizmos uniformly (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
  • Add gizmos for spot and point light radius (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
  • Make cage gizmo follow the cursor exactly when scaling (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
• Asset Browser
  • Show all assets by default instead of current file (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add preference for default import method for an asset library (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Use list for asset library preferences (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Rename “Import Type” to “Import Method” (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Hide import method menu for essentials (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Node Editor
  • Add ‘Online Manual’ to context menu (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
• Spreadsheet
  • Add original indices to mesh debug information (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Ignore edges when joining areas (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Add camera passepartout color to theme (commit) (Damien Picard)
• Ensure menus with and wutgiyt icons align (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Use dimensionless units for contraint Maintain Volume (commit) (Damien Picard)
• Performance
  • Improve online manual lookup time time (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)

Mesh

• Set active attribute values edit mode operator (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Geometry Nodes

• Add operator to wrap a modifier’s node group (commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Remove “normal” attribute from spreadsheet (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Cycles

• Replace resolution divider loop with an analytical formula (commit) (Alaska)
• Disable AMD GPU rendering binaries due to compiler bugs (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Import/Export

• OBJ: Support polylines with more than 2 vertices (commit) (Martin Heistermann)
• USD: USD Shapes support (commit) (Charles Wardlaw)

Python API

• Add option for clearing asset data to wmp.append operator (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Weekly Reports

• Bastien Montagne
• Campbell Barton
• Chris Blackbourn
• Christoph Lendenfeld
• Clément Foucault
• Falk David
• Germano Cavalcante
• Hans Goudey
• Jacques Lucke
• Jeroen Bakker
• Julian Eisel
• Miguel Pozo
• Philipp Oeser
• Pratik Borhade
• Richard Antalík
• Sergey Sharybin
• Sybren Stüvel
• Thomas Dinges
• Weizhen Huang

[julianeisel]

Edited the notes to mention the upcoming technical documentation day this Friday. Forgot to add it earlier, got sidetracked