21 March 2022
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Welcomes
- Aras Pranckevičius has been granted commit access, he recently worked on faster OBJ export. Welcome!
Modules & Projects
- 2022-02-21 - 2022-03-18 Geometry Nodes Sub-Module Meetings
- 2022-3-15 Blender Rendering Meeting
- 2022-3-16 Sculpt/Texture/Paint Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
Animation
- Add “Blend to Default” operator (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
Library Overrides
- Display buttons to edit library override properties in the outliner (commit) (Julian Eisel)
- Performance improvements
- Relink multiple data-blocks at a time (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
Curves
- Performance improvements
- Add icons to curves sculpt mode icons (commit) (Dalai Felinto)
Cycles
- Allow Adaptive Sampling with Scrambling Distance (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Change Scrambling Distance Multiplier to a soft limit (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
3D Viewport
- Expose “Dolly View” in the menu (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Miscellaneous small changes to selection operator and picking (commit, commit, commit, commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Support select and tweak on LMB (with RMB-select key-map) (commit) (Campbell Barton)
Geometry Nodes
- Add named attribute nodes behind experimental flag (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Remove legacy nodes from 2.93 (commit) (Hans Goudey)
EEVEE
- Add new experimental “EEVEE Next” option to contain expose future developement (commit) (Clément Foucault)