2025-04-01 Render & Cycles Meeting

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Attendees

  • Brecht Van Lommel (Blender)
  • Nikita Sirgienko (Intel)
  • Michael Jones (Apple)
  • Sebastian Herholz (Intel)
  • Sergey Sharybin (Blender)
  • Stefan Werner (Intel)
  • Thomas Dinges (Blender)
  • Weizhen Huang (Blender)
  • Xavier Hallade

Notes

  • For Blender 4.4.1
    • Everything seems to be backported. Ready from Cycles side for the 4.4.1!
  • Other
    • Brecht is working on the initial prototype for the texture cache.
    • Lukas is finishing the OSL camera. Getting very close to be done!
    • Weizhen is getting volumes to be ready for review.
    • Metal-RT:
      • Move to Debug
      • Always enable for users
    • Motion blur: prepare PR to land, land with the SRT disabled. Helps looking into the boundding box issues.
    • Xavier: oneAPI improvements on non-Intel hardware.
    • Blender SYCL will be presented at IWOCL 2025 Program - IWOCL
    • Nikita: Would be great to have oneAPI in the CI/CD.
      • This is being in the schedule for the infra team. Unfortunately, still no progress to report yet, but its getting closer in the agenda to be tackled.
    • Nikita is tackling all the oneAPI related bugs reported in the tracker.
    • Sebastian will look into PDF-independent path regularization based on accumulated roughness.

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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