2024-08-07 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting

Check the overview thread for more information about the meeting.

Present

  • Cartesian Caramel
  • Hans Goudey
  • Jacques Lucke
  • Simon Thommes
  • Iliya Katueshenock

Meeting Topics

  • Bake packing
    • Generally looks quite close.
    • It would be good to have the “Pack” button grayed out even when there is no bake. The button looks a bit like it’s floating.
    • The “Pack 251 Files” message could be improved to say the number of bakes later.
    • Bake target inheritance per node group would be helpful too, but that can also be done later.
  • Should bake buttons be on the simulation output node?
    • No consensus yet. It would be helpful to show new users that baking simulations is possible. But it doesn’t always make sense to bake simulations.
  • Node warnings
    • At some point we should add access to the modifier error message strings from Python.
    • The pass-through makes sure the warning doesn’t show up when it’s meant for unused parts of a node group. This works well for the switch node but less well for the index/menu switches where users need to add another switch node.
    • The header color should be black like the group input/output nodes.
  • Asset embedding
    • Just demonstrated the current behavior of the patch.
  • Should look into why Alembic Import/Export does not support attributes yet
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