2023-02-07 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting

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The meeting will be open for anyone interested in joining the video call (link below).

Meeting time: 15:00-16 CET (Your local time: 2023-02-07T14:00:00Z)

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Present

  • Jacques Lucke
  • Simon Thommes
  • Hans Goudey
  • Iliya Katueshenock
  • Falk David
  • Joshua

Since the Last Meeting

  • Modifier execution time is exposed in Python API.
  • Jacques has been working on various features for curves sculpting-- an overlay for the original data and surface collision. Including the asset bundle in a release is also in progress.
  • Simon has been working on finishing the hair node group assets for 3.5
  • Jacques worked on a couple of UX improvements
    • The modifier no longer shows a warning with multiple geometry inputs (commit)
    • Object modifier inputs now have eye-dropper support (commit)
    • The menu location of the sample nodes has been tweaked for consistency (commit)
  • The material from guides is propagated in the Interpolate Curves node (commit)
  • Some performance improvements landed last week
    • Curves performance when using cached evaluated data can be much better (commit)
    • Edit mesh to evaluated mesh conversion has been parallelized (commit)
    • And the duplicate elements node should be a bit faster (more parallel) (commit)

General Discussion

  • Falk mentions that he’ll continue working on curves edit mode-- mainly selection, and gives a demo of box selection and selection picking.
  • Jacques mentions a new node that he added when working on the smooth normals for the distribute points on faces node.
    • It’s called “Axis to Euler”, like “Align Euler to Vector” but faster and simpler.
    • The node is technically redundant now already, but is easier to understand and more convenient.
    • The node could be replaced with matrix nodes eventually if that ends up being helpful.

Patch Review & Decision Time

Follow Up

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on Tuesday February 21, 15:00-16 CET (Your local time: 2023-02-21T14:00:00Z), which is 2 weeks from this meeting. The provisional meeting agenda will be linked in the #geometry-nodes channel before the meeting.

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