20 November 2023

Announcements Weekly Updates
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20 November 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

Anim

  • Rename NLA “Channels” to “Tracks” (commit) - (Nate Rupsis)

Cycles

  • Add Intel GPU support for OpenImageDenoise (commit) - (Stefan Werner)

GPv3

  • Frame selected channels for grease pencil (commit) - (Amelie Fondevilla)
  • Show All Materials Operator (commit) - (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Delete operator (commit) - (casey bianco-davis)
  • Use immutable layer references (commit) - (Falk David)

Geometry Nodes

  • Add a Group ID input to the Fill Curve node (commit) - (Douglas Paul)
  • Consistent name for points node geometry output (commit) - (Amine Bensalem)
  • Support node tools in object mode (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Convert four nodes to use rotation socket (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Use dynamic declaration for some nodes (commit) - (Iliya Katueshenock)
  • Edge Paths to Selection node speedup (commit) - (Iliya Katueshenock)

IO

  • C++ STL exporter (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Mesh

  • Make edge_other_vert function branchless (commit) - (Iliya Katueshenock)
  • Add flag to store presence of overlapping topology (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Nodes

  • Ungroup all selected group nodes instead of just the active one (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Merge Musgrave node into Noise node (commit) - (Hoshinova)
  • Move ValueOrField struct into blenkernel (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)

Outliner

  • Clarify “Show Hierarchy” context menu entry (commit) - (Philipp Oeser)
  • Add “Expand/Collapse All” to view context menu (commit) - (Philipp Oeser)

UI

  • Icons for Horizontal and Vertical Split (commit) - (Stefan Heinz)
  • Add Area Split Icons to Header Context Menu (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • File Browser Display Narrowing (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Color Picker Position Indication (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

Viewport Compositor

  • Allow access to depth pass (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Vulkan

  • Initialize Pipeline State (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Implement Samplers (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Make Anisotropy Sampling Optional (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Make Command Pool, Descriptor Sets Context Specific (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Combine Data Transfer and Compute Commands (commit) - (Jeroen Bakker)

Weekly Reports

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