The meeting will be on 2024-04-16T10:00:00Z. It is open for everybody interested to join the video call (link below).
Present: Christoph Lendenfeld, Eduardo Rubio, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, MohammadHossein Jamshidi, Nacho de Andrés, Pablo Fournier, Pierrick Picaut, Rik Schutte, Sybren Stüvel
People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referred to by full name.
Links
- Video Call. Note that there are no recordings of the meeting. This way everybody is free to say or show anything.
- A&R Module Meetings calendar for inclusion in your own calendar
- Previous & next meeting notes
- Issues & Pull Requests
- #animation-module chat channel
- Draft agenda for any upcoming meetings
Since the Last Meeting / Announcements
- Blender 4.1.1 will be released today.
Landed
Names are from the Git log. This list is limited to functional improvements & bugfixes.
Blender
- 0157fede800: Anim: don’t include handles when calculating FCurve bounds in Graph Editor (Christoph Lendenfeld) (2024-04
- 3eda9619f91: Anim: precalculate bounding indices for key drawing in the Graph Editor (Christoph Lendenfeld)
- 3fda0d5f8f9: Fix #119909: Unkeyable custom properties receive keyframes (Christoph Lendenfeld)
- 883af6dd63d: Anim: Add custom pre and post frame color to motion path (Christoph Lendenfeld)
- 51e1f29a68a: Anim: Add new keyframe type ‘GENERATED’ (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- 1315991ecbd: Anim: add keytype argument to
keyframe_insert()RNA function (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Add-ons
- 84814b82: Anim: add theme colors for new ‘GENERATED’ key type (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Technical Documentation
- f90dc69: Anim: add links to Graph Editor performance patches (Christoph Lendenfeld)
- 9c63dc7: Update docs/release_notes/4.2/animation_rigging.md (Christoph Lendenfeld)
- 2fb352a: 4.2: move animation_rigging into subdirectory (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- 4e63428: 4.2: Anim, add ‘Generated’ key type (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- 0af5fac: 4.2: Anim, add new keytype argument to keyframe_insert function (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Ongoing Work
- High Prio bugs:
- Christoph:
- Christoph’s weekly report
- Working on per-bone wire width (of the custom bone shape): #120176. Anti-aliasing is working now. Under review by Jeroen Bakker. Also needs some more work for compatibility with Apple devices.
- Nathan:
- Sybren:
- Sybren’s weekly report
- Will release update for Copy Global Transform this week, to aid in animating on 2s/3s/etc with camera motion on 1s.
- Is going to look into #120574: Broken animation when saving file with NLA tweak mode entered
- Created #120573: Anim: Make NLA Tweak Mode not affect library linking
Pierrick: NLA for game animation, without addons
- Pierrick uses the NLA to get layered animation for games.
- He can’t ‘push down’ an empty Action.
- Necessary for creating keys inside an Action that’s somewhere in the NLA stack.
- Sybren will create PR + test build with the “no empty Action” guards removed.
- Nacho: could also be an option when creating a new NLA track, to have an empty Action as well.
Nacho shows animation tools
Nacho shows off his animation tools add-on, for retiming, sculpting keys, and baking to camera.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on Thursday 2024-04-25T16:00:00Z. Again it will be open for everybody who’s interested. The provisionary meeting agenda will be updated before the meeting.
