2023-06-27 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting

Check the overview thread for more information about the meeting.

Present

  • Dalai Felinto
  • Hans Goudey
  • Iliya Katueshenock
  • Jacques Lucke
  • Lukas Tönne

Since the Last Meeting

  • The team fixed the final bugs for the 3.6 release today.
  • Lukas continued work on the node panels, and settled on the basic design for the data structures involved.
  • Jacques has been working on serial loops, with the initial pull request finished.
    • As part of this work, the logging for “zones” like the simulation zone was formalized a bit.
  • Initial support for rotation sockets has been added, with a new attribute type, and support in many multi-type nodes.
    • The mix node supports supports rotations as well.
  • Vertex and edge creases for subdivision surface are now exposed as generic attributes, which means vertex creases can be edited in geometry nodes.
  • The team worked on various performance improvements as well.
  • Simulations UI recieved a few tweaks too
    • The simulation panel is ordered before other panels now.
    • The cache bake directory is cleared when duplicating a modifier.

Meeting Topics

  • Do we still need to add an empty material slot to primitive nodes?
    • Setting the material with a selection, when the default material was used before.
    • It’s causing problems like #105993: Applying geometry nodes modifier create an empty material slot for no reason
    • It may be possible to change this, we’d have to look into the original commit.
    • Or the empty material slots could be removed when applying the modifier.
    • Seeing the materials in the spreadsheet would help for cases like this. That’s a known todo.
  • We have three new sample files by Simon to demonstrate simulations for 3.6.
  • Curves/hair system in an animation context.
    • This didn’t make it into the agenda for 4.0
    • Simulation plays an important role, otherwise the hair will just rotate based on the face/UV it’s attached to.
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