2025-02-18 Render & Cycles Meeting

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Attendees

• Brecht Van Lommel (Blender)
• Nikita Sirgienko (Intel)
• Patrick Mours (NVIDIA)
• Sahar A. Kashi (AMD)
• Sergey Sharybin (Blender)
• Thomas Dinges (Blender)
• Weizhen Huang (Blender)

Notes

• For Blender 4.4
  • High priority:
    • Workaround for oneAPI crash
      • #129596 - OneAPI: Embree crash on Simplify toggle - blender - Blender Projects
      • Disable multi-thread across multiple objects on update
    • Delete view layer during render
      • Should be simple fix
  • HIP-RT is getting into a good shape
• Other
  • Volume is feature complete. Working on improvements now (i.e. transmittance estimation)

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.

• Google Meet
• Google Calendar Event
• Next Meeting: March 4 2025, 3 to 4 PM Amsterdam Time (Your local time: 2025-03-04T14:00:00Z)