2024-10-01 Render & Cycles Meeting

Attendees

  • Lukas Stockner (Blender)
  • Nikita Sirgienko (Intel)
  • Sahar A. Kashi (AMD)
  • Sergey Sharybin (Blender)
  • Thomas Dinges (Blender)
  • Weizhen Huang (Blender)

Notes

  • For 4.3
    • Reminder: beta is on Wdnesday
    • OptiX 7.4 has been deployed to builders, seems to have gone smooth
      • The OptiX 7.3 is better to keep around, as it helps Cycles adoption
    • Additional scattering phase functions
      • Still aiming for 4.3
    • HIP SDK 6.1.2 on Windows
      • Sahar will create a PR for extra compute targets
      • We land it when the SDK is updated on the workers
  • Other
    • The fix for wmic from Xavier has landed to the OpenData. We need to make a release of the script to be used by the launchers.
    • Weizhen is working on Unbiased volume rendering
    • Octahedral normals
      • Would help some of the upcoming Eevee normal baking
    • Lukas is looking into adding support for benchmarking PRs
    • Lukas is also solving some legacy CMake flags and usage
    • The refractive materials on the point clouds. What is the expected behavior (report)
      • Sergey will check

Practical Info

This is a weekly video chat meeting for planning and discussion of Blender rendering development. Any contributor (developer, UI/UX designer, writer, …) working on rendering in Blender is welcome to join and add proposed items to the agenda.

For users and other interested parties, we ask to read the meeting notes instead so that the meeting can remain focused.

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It seems the link is wrong. The link should be https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/127889

Edit: Has been fixed now

Ah, thanks for pointing it out! Fixed the link in the post now.