20 March 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- GSoC Contributors can start submitting their proposals now. For further infos check our GSoC docs.
Modules & Projects
- 2023-03-10 Eevee/Viewport Workshop (Planning 2023)
- 2023-03-14 Blender Admins Meeting
- 2023-03-14 Animation & Rigging off-schedule meeting
- 2023-03-20 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
UV Editing
- Improve UV Packing efficiency with non-square aspect ratio (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
Geometry Nodes
- Add first milestone of SDF Volume nodes as experimental feature (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
EEVEE Next
- Deferred Pipeline (commit) (Clément Foucault)
- IrradianceCache surfels debug display (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
Mesh
- Parallelize extraction of UV maps (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Remove unnecessary mesh position copying (commit) (Tuan N)
- Optimize BMesh to Mesh conversion with UV maps (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Import / Export
- PLY
Cycles
- Adjust resolution divider to achieve a more usable viewport (commit) (Alaska)
- Small optimizations to filtering in BVH (commit, commit, commit, commit) (Nikita Sirgienko)
User Interface
- Add scroll to sidebar tabs (commit) (guishe)
- Increase the size of the “Open Recent” list (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- File Browser
- Make full file name label draggable (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Remove info message that GPU subdivision being used (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Python API
- Implement ViewLayer.aovs.remove (commit) (Nischay-Raj)