Tuesday Talks
Notes for module meetings of Tuesday, 22 September 2020.
Present: Dalai Felinto (all)
General Topics
- Last week review
Render & Cycles
Participants: Brecht Van Lommel.
- Status
-
93
bugs,0
high priority,19
unclassified -
5
patches
-
- Last week review
- Patches are ok for bcon2 so they were not rushed to bcon1.
- Follow ups:
- ☐ Keep tagging patches.
- The meeting next week will be replaced by a module-wide meeting.
- The weekly actions planning will be added to the Tuesday Talks (Brecht).
Modeling
Participants: Campbell Barton.
- Status
-
79
bugs,1
high priority,5
unclassified -
>20
patches - There is already a patch for the high priority issue.
- D8271 is approved for some time yet not committed (needs better commit message though).
-
- Last week review:
- Add object feedback from Daniel Bystedt (will work on that, was focused on house cleaning)
- Follow ups:
- Still put snap features to a Phabricator task.
- To poke Howard to put an image on release log for new boolean modifier (Campbell).
- Focus is in the Add-object tool (Campbell).
- Involve Germaon in patch review (Campbell).
Python & Add-ons
Participants: Campbell Barton.
- Status
-
25
bugs,0
high priority,0
unclassified -
5
patches
-
- Last week review:
- Queries were updated
- Patches
- The few existing patches will looked at (Campbell).
User Interface
Participants: Julian Eisel, Hans Goudey, Pablo Vazquez.
- Status
-
119
bugs,0
high priority,28
unclassified -
180
patches
-
- Plan of attack for reverting (or not) some of the rushed changes from recent releases
- Aim is 2.92, to be discussed in a UI meeting.
- To be tackled together with shortcut discussion.
- Append fake user default option (feedback from Pablico).
- Active tool presentation to be hosted by Julien Kaspar at the studio
- Follow-ups:
- Collect the proposed shortcut changes and run by the Studio (Pablo).
- Check with Pablico the best way to handle FakeUsers for appended actions (Pablo).
- Usermapping of poselibs (Julian).
- Final review of D8413 (Julian).
Sculpt, Paint, Texture
Participants: Pablo Dobarro.
- Status
-
50
bugs,2
high priority,24
unclassified -
12
patches
-
- Last week review:
- It is not clear if Sergey looked Simple Subdivide removal.
- Line stroke patch still not reviewed.
- Working on Stroke Performance.
- Pablo Dobarro did some quick tests for the proposed solution and the results are promising.
- If the final implementation has the same performance improvement for a brush.
- He will be working on rewriting all tools for the following weeks.
- Follow ups:
- ☐ In the next-next talk to Bastien about the undo high priority bug (Pablo).
- ☐ Sergey to look still into skeleton for removal of Simple Subdivide (Pablo).
- ☐ Drag Julian Eisel to final review the line stroke patch (Pablo).
- ☐ Final decision on stroke performance, and the go/no-go for the brushes refactors (Pablo).
- ☐ Decide with Julien the Fast Navigate default option (Pablo).
Animation & Rigging
Participants: No one.
- Status
-
14
bugs,?
high priority,5
unclassified -
>20
patches
-
- Module is in maintenance mode, no meeting this week.
Nodes & Physics
Participants: Jacques Lucke, Sebastián Barschkis, Sebastian Parborg.
- Status
-
88
bugs,1
high priority,15
unclassified -
2
patches - The high priority one is fixed already.
-
- Softbody GSoC won’t be merged as it is.
- There is still too much that would need to finish this project.
- Project author may pick it up, but there are no concrete plans.
- Rigidbody fixes are done
- Need Studio to final tests and sign off.
- Follow ups:
- ☐ Get a final approval from Studio on the rigid body (Sebastian Parborg).
- ☐ Send Studio presentation to Jacques Lucke (Sebastián).
VFX & Video
Participants: Sergey Sharybin, Francesco Siddi.
- Status
-
45
bugs,1
high priority,4
unclassified -
>20
patches
-
- Last week review
-
Review media transform (fix for animation is needed)
- ☐ Sergey will still help with past scale-down algorithm than
IMB_scalefastImBuf
-
- The refactor patch still need final review
- Follow ups:
- ☐ Update module roadmap (Sergey).
-
Pushed already approved patch(Sergey)
- ☐ Final sign off on view transform documetation (Sergey)
-
Performance need to show in release log (Sergey).
EEVEE & Viewport
Participants: Jeroen Bakker
- Status
-
43
bugs,0
high priority,25
unclassified -
10
patches
-
- Last week review:
- D2057 is fine for EEVEE (by Jeroen), still need testing and final Cycles
- We are currently in Bug Fixing mode.
- Due activities in other areas we can’t solely focus on bug fixing
- Cryptomatte is on hold until Jeroen can assess its feasibility with Clément.
- Follow ups:
-
Create Cryptomatte initial task (Jeroen).
- No meeting next week, Jeroen will join the Render meeting.
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Data, Assets & I/O
Participants: Bastien Montagne.
- Status
-
2
bugs,0
high priority,3
unclassified -
12
patches
-
- A few more continuous development is expected this week for liboverrides in 2.91.
- Then will be stabilization phase for 2.91, and initializing work for some 2.92 tasks.
- NVidia + USD collaboration kick off.
- Follow-ups:
- No meeting next week.
Grease Pencil
Participants: Antonio Vazquez.
- Status
-
10
bugs,1
high priority,3
unclassified -
6
patches
-
- Potrace library is in master
- Trace images and houldout are already implemented.
- Import SVG add-on is still on review.
- Default brush draw mode on review.
- Follow-ups:
- ☐ Check with Matias to review the SVG add-on (Antonio)
- ☐ Finish up documentation for tracer and holdout (Antonio).
- ☐ Update the module roadmap image.