Practical Info
This is a weekly video chat meeting for planning and discussion of Blender Eevee/viewport module development. Any contributor (developer, UI/UX designer, writer, …) working on Eevee/viewport in Blender is welcome to join.
For users and other interested parties, we ask to read the meeting notes instead so that the meeting can remain focused.
- Google Meet
- Next Meeting: July 18, 2022, 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM Amsterdam Time (Your local time: 2022-07-18T09:30:00Z → 2022-07-18T10:00:00Z)
Attendees:
- Brecht van Lommel
- Omar Emara
- Jeroen Bakker
- Michael Parkin-White
Viewport compositing
- Comming together nicely. Blog post had great feedback so far.
- Apple support is planned via the Metal GPU backend. The Metal GPU backend will land before the viewport compositor will be removed from experimental feature.
- Unsupported/unimplemented nodes currently stops the execution. Proposal is to implement a dummy GPU function for each node. Before the viewport compositor is becomes a non experimental feature all nodes should have an implementation or for nodes that cannot be implemented a dummy implementation (passthrough). Nodes that cannot be supported are Denoising (depends on CPU library) and File output node (performance reasons).
- Complete work on GPU attributes and AOV outputs for shader operations.
Eevee Next
- Nothing to mention for the notes.
Metal Backend
- Good review interation on
- [Blender Archive - developer.blender.org]
- [Blender Archive - developer.blender.org]
- [Blender Archive - developer.blender.org] (still needs an iteration)
- Next steps would be Vertex buffer, Immediate Mode and partially reimplementing GPUShader due to recent changes in the GPU module.
Hair/Curve drawing
- Both patches curve selection overlay [(Blender Archive - developer.blender.org)] and object mode curve selection outline [ (Blender Archive - developer.blender.org)] have landed in master. Nice that both patches could be done in short notice.
Community patches
- Jeroen will focus this week on reviewing and committing community patches