2025-06-10 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting

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Check the overview thread for more information about the meeting.

Present

  • Habib Gahbiche
  • Hans Goudey
  • Jacques Lucke
  • Lukas Tönne
  • Simon Thommes

Since the Last Meeting

  • User Interface:
    • Frame bounding box takes node extra data into account (commit)
    • Improved socket usage inferencing when some inputs are unknown (Vector Math, Float/Integer/Boolean Math, Mix)
    • Minify value input nodes (commit)
    • Support searching for various input node sockets directly (commit)
    • Support searching for warning types directly (commit)
    • Support creating node group wrapper that keeps original interface (commit)
  • Nodes:
    • New Format String node (commit)
    • New “Power” and “Sign” operations in Vector Math node (commit)
  • Spreadsheet:
    • Support restoring temporarily unavailable columns (commit)
  • Release Notes for Blender 4.5:
  • Experimental features:
    • New socket structure types and display shapes (commit)
    • Initial support for fields in closures (commit)

Meeting Topics

  • Hair Dynamics Project
  • Grid Statistics node
    • Overall it seems good.
    • We’d like to use the same naming as the recently introduced field statistic nodes.
  • Node Editor Tools
    • Awesome! For now we’d skip the text editing tools since they might need a bit more design.
    • The first three tools (link muting, adding reroutes, and adding frames) can land in core Blender as-is. The frame adding tool seems to have a problem though: the frame doesn’t end up where you place it.
    • Another step could be to make cutting and muting work on click rather than drag, via preselection ighlighting.
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