2025-06-17 Animation & Rigging module meeting

Meetings
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People present are referred to by first name for brevity. Others are referred to by full name.

Present Christoph Lendenfeld, Hjalti Hjálmarsson, Jan-Willem van Dronkelaar Nacho de Andrés, Nathan Vegdahl, Pablo Fournier, Rik Schutte, Sybren Stüvel, Zophiecat

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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.
  • Zohpiekat uwu: Blender afficianado, here to listen in.

Landed

Names are from the Git log. This list is limited to functional improvements & bugfixes.

Blender

Ongoing Work

Rik’s quick question

#136468: Transform Gizmo: Use PoseBone Custom Transforms

  • Wayde Moss has been silent for more than a month.
  • Christoph can look into it, in between bugfixes.

Blender Conference workshop

Sybren wants to do another workshop, on the day before the conference.

  • Nathan & Christoph: yes!
  • Sybren: Choice of topics: layered anim vs. rigging nodes.
  • Nathan: Layered anim makes more sense, is more of an immediate target. If we discuss rigging nodes too early, things may be forgotten (even when we take good notes) once we actually start working on it.
  • Module agrees to workshop layered animation. Sybren will talk with Francesco about possibilities in the planning.
  • Nathan: when we at some point do discuss rigging nodes, we should include somebody from the geonodes team.

Jan-Willem’s sadness about lack of Armature in Geonodes

Context: Removing the "Multi Modifier" option of the armature modifier

  • Jan-Willem: shame that Lukas Tönne isn’t continuing the cleanup necessary to get an Armature Deform node in Geonodes
  • Nathan: he’s still working on it, fortunately. He’s just not removing the ‘Multi Modifier’ option from the Armature Deform modifier.
  • Jan-Willem expresses frustration about how vertex groups are treated as “2nd class citisen”. For example, when there is a geonodes modifier, weight painting is no longer working well. But also in the past bugreports about this have been closed without getting fixed, so I’m hesitant to spend another hour or so to report this properly.
  • Sybren: offers to help see if it’s worth reporting.

Help Needed

Next Meeting

The next meeting will be on 2025-06-05T16:00:00Z. Again it will be open for everybody who’s interested. The provisionary meeting agenda will be updated before the meeting.

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