2024-09-20 Projects Updates meeting

Meetings
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Attendees: Falk David, Fiona Cohen, Jeroen Bakker, Julian Eisel, Sergey Sharybin, Sybren Stüvel

Projects

  • Animation > Sybren

    • Still on plan, slotted actions for end of September
    • Plan to have it out of experimental beginning of October, and then debug + clean up code

  • Brush Assets > Julian

    • Reviews happened, most things merged
    • Still one PR in the works, almost done
    • Got more feedback from Blender Studio, some small features to add

  • Grease Pencil 3 > Falk

    • Still a few things in progress for feature parity (see GPv3: Feature Parity #123468)
    • Aim to have all done for Beta
    • Jacques is helping on the merge layers function
    • Getting user feedback, especially from Daniel Lara

  • Sculpting > Sergey

    • In wrap up phase
    • Will work on release notes afterward

  • Vulkan > Jeroen: documentation/status-reports.md at main - documentation - Blender Projects

    • Worked on improving the start-up time, now is way faster
    • Next up, still working on performance, fix threading issue

  • Overlay Next (Clement)

    • Done, need a couple of days of clean up
    • Still in experimental, will be released in 4.4

Action items

  • Sergey: Add a task to enable GPU interop with Vulkan in Cycles

Meeting from September 6th:

Attendees: Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Jeroen Bakker, Julian Eisel, Sergey Sharybin, Sybren Stüvel

Projects

  • Animation > Sybren

    • Slotted actions planning - every week of sept is planned
    • By the end of September it is done
    • Grouping of channels is done
    • Big “merge” for 4.4

  • Brush Assets > Julian

    • GP follow ups is done (development), waiting for reviews
    • Other modes comes after that

  • Grease Pencil 3 > Falk (on holidays)

  • Sculpting > Sergey

    • Planning to finish the project end September as per plan
    • Focusing on wrapping technical aspects
    • Fixes and further improvements will be worked on as a module work

  • Vulkan > Jeroen

  • Overlay Next > Clément

    • 80% done
    • Remaining:
      • GP
        • Clement unlocked wireframe mode
      • 2D UV space (editor?)
    • 2 weeks of work AT MOST
    • Need session with Campbell about selection
      • Will remove all the obscure selection method selections
    • For 4.4, so it’s easy from the planning perspective
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