20 January 2025

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20 January 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Modules & Projects

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

  • When upgrading legacy Actions, name their layer “Legacy Layer” (commit) - (Sybren A. Stüvel)
  • Declutter Action Editor header (commit) - (Nathan Vegdahl)
  • Support multi object editing when applying poses (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Compositor

  • Add Glare Highlights Smoothness and Max (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Reorganize Glare node in panels (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Normalize Bloom output (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Curves

  • Optimization in batch cache create (commit) - (Laurynas Duburas)

Grease Pencil

  • Convert from mesh to Grease Pencil (commit) - (YimingWu)
  • Option to subdivide last segment when closing stroke (commit) - (Casey Bianco-Davis)
  • Allow editing locked material properties (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)

MaterialX

  • Support linking color directly to surface shader (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

Nodes

  • Node Wrangler: Remove “Frame Selected” operator (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)

Paint

  • Allow executing 3D paint operators without location (commit) - (Sean Kim)

Selection

  • Improve Display as Bounds/Wires selection behavior (commit) - (Miguel Pozo)

Texture

  • Add an option for scaling all UDIM tiles when resizing images (commit) - (T0MIS0N)

Tools

  • Update company credits (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

UI

  • Capitalize default filenames from “untitled” to “Untitled” (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)
  • Remove “Adjust Last Operation” region when button sends undo push (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Always display mesh indices overlay setting (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Support canceling Eyedropper color picking operations (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)
  • Color Picker Status Bar Mac Information (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Add asset browser option to remove the preview of asset (commit) - (dupoxy)
  • Upgrade Inter font 4.0 → 4.1 (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Improve Status Bar Display for Mesh Point Normals (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Improved Initial Message for Mesh Bisect (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Viewport Render Animation operator using jobs system (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Improve Status Bar Display for GP Lines (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

USD

  • Support additional animated Basis Curves data during import/export (commit) - (Jesse Yurkovich)
  • Write extents out for Curves and more consistently for other types (commit) - (Jesse Yurkovich)

VSE

  • Python API: Rename RNA types from Sequence to Strip (commit) - (Falk David)

glTF

  • Manage slotted Actions (commit) - (Julien Duroure)

Weekly Reports

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