22 April 2024
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- Blender 4.1.1 was released on Tuesday, fixing 58 issues.
- LTS updates: Blender 3.3.18 and Blender 3.6.11 were released on Tuesday.
Modules & Projects
- 2024-04-16 Extensions Platform - Backend
- 2024-04-16 Animation & Rigging module meeting
- 2024-04-18 Triaging module meeting
- 2024-04-22 EEVEE/Viewport Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org.
Assets
- Speed up iterating over asset libraries (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
Compositor
- Improve interactivity for GPU compositing (commit) - (Omar Emara)
- Allow constant folding of set operations (commit) - (Omar Emara)
EEVEE-Next
- UI: Light-Probe panels (commit) - (CleÌment Foucault)
- UI: Improve volume lightprobe props name and tooltips (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
- Light: Add transmission factor (commit) - (CleÌment Foucault)
- Light: Add ray visbility support (commit) - (CleÌment Foucault)
- UI: Render Panel (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
- Volume: Add custom integration range (commit) - (Clément Foucault)
GPv3
- Separate header and operators in context menu (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
- Primitive Tools: Line, Polyline, Arc, Curve, Box and Circle Tool (commit) - (casey bianco-davis)
- Copy/Paste Keyframes (commit) - (Chao Li)
Geometry Nodes
- Handle matrix to rotation conversion more gracefully (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
- Rewrite Scale Elements node (commit) - (Iliya Katueshenock)
- Remove experimental option for matrix socket and nodes (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
Icons
- Add Sculpt gesture icons (commit) - (Sean Kim)
Linux
- Freedesktop support for file type association (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
Modifiers
- Affect all selected objects when holding alt (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
Physics
- Enable liquid mesh generation by default (commit) - (Bartosz Kosiorek)
UI
- Fix and improve a few messages (commit) - (Damien Picard)
- Support adding a search weight to menu entries for menu-search (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
- Tweaks to collection export (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)
- Add tooltips to inputs of Color shader nodes (commit) - (Bartosz Kosiorek)
- Remove Redundant Hidden File Check for Linux/Mac (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
- Outliner âFile Modeâ Manage User Count (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
- Fade all non-ID children if parent is hidden in outliner (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
- Add tooltip for Poly Build tool (commit) - (Bartosz Kosiorek)
VSE
- Add RGB Parade Display Mode for sequencer (commit) - (Boltzmachine)
Weekly Reports
- Aaron Carlisle
- Bastien Montagne
- Campbell Barton
- Christoph Lendenfeld
- Clément Foucault
- Dalai Felinto
- Falk David
- Germano Cavalcante
- Hans Goudey
- Harley Acheson
- Jacques Lucke
- Jeroen Bakker
- Jesse Yurkovich
- Julian Eisel
- Lukas Stockner
- Lukas Tönne
- Miguel Pozo
- Nathan Vegdahl
- Omar Emara
- Philipp Oeser
- Pratik Borhade
- Raul Fernandez Hernandez
- Richard AntalĂk
- Sergey Sharybin
- Sybren StĂŒvel
- Thomas Dinges
- Weizhen Huang
- Wu Yiming