2021-05-17 Geometry Nodes sub-Module Meeting

[HooglyBoogly]

Attending: Dalai Felinto, Hans Goudey, Jacques Lucke, Pablo Vazquez, Simon Thommes.

Agenda and notes for upcoming meeting at 14:00 CEST on blender.chat. Interested developers and artists are welcome to join.

Links

• Workboard
• Video call
• Chat channel

Agenda

• Confirm priorities for the next sprint
  • Wrap up previous week targets (curve, material, attribute list).
  • Viewer Node.
  • Attribute processor.

Design Discussions

• Selection workflow discussion
  • New attribute for the nodes (new_edge, …)
    • Reserved name, not a “real column” (cannot be removed?).
    • Nodes can (should) clear and re-populate those columns.
  • Explicit pipeline is better.
  • Nodes that could use the input:
    • Any nodes with a Geometry input except:
      [Join Geometry, Attribute nodes (if attribute processor), Separate/Combine XYZ (?)]
  • “Material Mask” vs. “Select by Material”

• Feedback from product demo:
  • Empty material slot on generated mesh data
  • Material datablocks don’t need their names.
  • Select by Material should wait until the [Tag/Selection discussion]
    (https://developer.blender.org/T86907) is over.
  • Jacques shared his thoughts on the selection.

Next planning meeting: 2021-05-24 at 14:00 CEST on geometry-nodes on blender.chat.