The meeting will be on 2024-11-19T11:00:00Z. It is open for everybody interested to join the video call (link below).
People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referred to by full name.
Present Christoph Lendenfeld, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, Ivan Cappiello, Jorn Boven, Nacho de Andrés, Nathan Vegdahl, Pablo Fournier, Rik Schutte, Sybren Stüvel
Links
- Video Call
- A&R Module Meetings calendar for inclusion in your own calendar app
- Previous meeting notes
- Issues & Pull Requests
- #module-animation chat channel
- Draft agenda for any upcoming meetings
Opening
- Please raise your hand when you don’t understand things for any reason. The purpose of these meetings is collaboration. It is absolutely fine to ask for explanations.
- There are no recordings of the meeting. This way everybody is free to say or show anything they want.
Since the Last Meeting / Announcements
- Blender 4.3 will be released today!
Landed
Names are from the Git log. This list is limited to functional improvements & bugfixes.
Blender
- b3af7e8cd66: Fix #130268: Assertion triggered when animate property from Material panel (Sybren A. Stüvel)
- 1c34e00ce12: Anim: draw prop as ‘orange’ when changed value with stashed Actions present (Sybren A. Stüvel)
Ongoing Work
- High Prio bugs:
- Christoph:
- Christoph’s weekly report
- #130338: Refactor: remove editor includes from animrig
- #129535: Fix #123875: FCurve noise modifier producing values out of range
- Feedback from Twitter: with default settings the noise modifier has no effect, because exactly on the frame the noise value is zero. Sybren: rename it to “Motion Blur Noise” and call it done
- Nathan: proposes to discuss this after the call, has experience with Perlin noise.
- Feedback from Twitter: with default settings the noise modifier has no effect, because exactly on the frame the noise value is zero. Sybren: rename it to “Motion Blur Noise” and call it done
- #130029: Pose Library Polish
- Nathan:
- Nathan’s weekly report
- Currently working on a bug fix: #130440
- Then will make slotted action API tweaks that Sybren and I discussed.
- Finally, will resume work on moving timeline functionality to the other animation editors.
- Sybren:
- Sybren’s weekly report
- Worked on a chat bot for our Blender Chat channel, to announce meetings, show a calendar of upcoming meetings, and more in the future. Development & testing happens in ##sybrens-chatbot-testing-ground
- #130425: Changing Preferences Outside of the Preferences Editor
- Hjalti’s Request: ‘Symmetrize Weights’ in weight painting mode, which either copies Left → Right, or Right → Left.
- Should be in two places:
- Weight Paint menu in the 3D Viewport (in weight paint mode).
- In the ‘Specials’ menu of the Vertex Groups (in Mesh properties).
- Hjalti: Demeter has an add-on that already does this.
- Sybren: probably better to write this in C++ (like the Mirror operator).
- Ivan: the Mirror operator is very old (2.6x-ish era), and has always worked like this.
- Sybren: while testing this, also missed a “Select vertices with non-zero weight” operator (for weight paint mode).
- Module agrees it’s good idea.
- Nathan is happy to add it to his todo list, after the timeline refactor stuff.
- Nathan will make it a To Do task on the tracker, so it’s free for anyone to pick up if they want to work on it before Nathan has time.
- Should be in two places:
Hjalti: orderable custom properties
- Hjalti had a conversation with Pablo Vazquez, bothered Hjalti that custom properties are always listed alphabetically. Doesn’t allow for grouping custom properties together.
- Pablo Vazquez said it makes total sense, to turn it more into a UI List (like vertex groups, etc.)
- Hjalti will make a mockup.
- Nathan: when working at the mockup, look at the inputs/outputs for node groups are managed, because that alreayd has a lot of what you want.
- Nacho: keep in mind that some custom properties cannot be deleted, because they are ‘API Defined’. Might impact the ordering as well.
Next Meeting
The next meeting will be on Thursday 2024-11-28T17:00:00Z. Again it will be open for everybody who’s interested. The provisionary meeting agenda will be updated before the meeting.