Practical Info
This is a weekly video chat meeting for planning and discussion of development related to the sculpting and painting in Blender. Any contributor (developer, UI/UX designer, writer, …) working on these features in Blender is welcome to join and add proposed items to the agenda.
For users and other interested parties, we ask to read the meeting notes instead so that the meeting can remain focused.
- Upcoming Agenda
- Google Meet
- Time: Wednesday 6pm CET
- Next Meeting: August 24, 2022
Attendees
- Joe Eagar
- Julien Kaspar
- Daniel Bystedt
- Artur Mello Lattaro
Agenda
Needs Commit
None
High Prio Bugs
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T99288 Color attributes of index above 7 deletes after entering edit mode
Hans & Joe are working on it. Joe will get on that asap to commit a fix soon. -
T98889 Regression: Sculpting on a linked copy of an objects crashes Blender
This relies onD15428 PBVH Draw Cleanup.
We discussed if we can get a temporary fix for 3.3 LTS. Sadly this will likely not be possible. -
T99282 Regression: Object invisible in Sculpt Mode when using >8 color attributes
Also depending on PBVH Draw Cleanup.
In Review
Targeted for 3.4. We will set the priority to high:
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D15428 PBVH Draw Cleanup
Needs a from scratch rewrite based on the newly outlined design.
Joe is confident that this will take a minimal amount of time. -
D15025 Expose Face Sets In Python API
No update yet. -
D15496 Sculpt Attribute API
Joe will continue addressing the requested changes soon.
Lower priority:
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D14900 PBVH Texture Paint Node Splitting
Joe suggested we should commit this soon, even if it’s not used for a release yet. -
D15596 Convert Color Attribute operator
No update from Ramil yet.
Joe raised concerns on converting sRGB color attributes in general. We’ll check if there are any bugs currently. -
D15298 Support Automasking For Texture Paint
We will check with Jeroen & Dalai on planning for the Paint Mode project and developer availability.
In Progress
Targeted for 3.4 release. Deadline for Bcon2 = September 27
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D15122 Cavity Automasking Mode
This task still needs feedback adjustments, but these only concern UI polishing at this point.
For performance improvements, this patch relies onD15496 Sculpt Attribute API, so that will also be marked as a high priority.
Julien will provide more detailed mockup to resolve UI issues.
Daniel also provided feedback recently. This concerns brush and mode auto-masking being enabled at the same time, which can be confusing. These issues can be addressed soon with the Brush Management project and minor UI improvements. Julien will create a task for this. -
D15297 Normal Based Automasking Modes
Still needs feedback adjustments.
Undefined deadline:
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T96225 PBVH image texture painting implementation
- No updates yet.
To Do’s
Joe:
- Auto-masking features as high priority
- Remaining high priority bugs
- Afterwards: Continue on brush refactor design
- Joe will also write an overview of the featurs being worked on in sculpt-dev
Julien:
- Review and give feedback on auto-masking patches
- Discuss and create missing design tasks
New Tasks
None
Other Topics
Brush refactor backwards compatibility
Joe discovered that breaking backwards compatibility for brush assets after the planned brush refactor is now less likely
T100137 Brush Properties
This means this task has less pressure on it to happen before the brush asset implementation.
Input curves for brushes
We discussed how likely it is to mix more than one for a single brush property.
In some cases it could be useful, but there might be other solutions ot offer the same needed customisability.
A different implementation via texture nodes for example.
But in any case, for regular brush properties we’d need to define clear use cases to base the features on.
A previous suggestion to show uinput curves via a popup could save us space in the UI.
Cocnersn were raised on accidental closing of popups, whcih is a common problem with pen device users.
A solution would be to extend the margin of how far away the cursor needs to be from a popup for it to close. This would greatly improve usability with pen devices in general.,
Julien will create a design task for this.
Node editor for brushes
Joe suggested to have a public discussion and involvement with the community for node editor brush design. We agreed that this would be a good action to take once we have something more concrete.
But for now, the use cases and problem definitions are still not clear.
We need to very soon research what node brushes could be used for in sculpt mode and why.
Brush nodes were originally envisioned as a different way of customizing them. But there is also the concept of giving more lower level, per vertex control over them. The first approach is more desirable for existing brushes and brush development.
Texture nodes on the other hand would work per-vertex and can give the needed low level control.
Other ways of more freely cusotmising brushes like via property stacks can also be explored.
But the main concern that was raised is the importance of this feature.
So the highest priority for this project is that goals need to be clearly defined and aligned with users needs.
‘Roll’ texture mapping method
T98070 Improved Rake functionality
Daniel argued that a feature like this would have a big short term benefits to users.
We’ll talk with Dalai on a planning for features in upcoming releases and where this fits in
This seem like a small enough feature for Joe to work on the side on.
Auto-Masking UI improvment
There is still frequent confusion if brush or mode auto-masking options should be used.
While the brush management project can help with some UI features, there is a bigger issue to solve.
We need to make the auto-masking toggles in the options panel more accessible and discoverable.
Exposing them more directly in the header will be a good first step.
Julien will work out a design.
Moving module meeting to another day of the week
Daniel suggested to move away the meeting day from away from Wednesday.
Will check with rest of module members to pick a better day.