23 May 2022

Announcements Weekly Updates
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23 May 2022 (Upcoming - finalized at 18:00 CET)

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

Announcements

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

Geometry Nodes

  • Rename string to curves max width input (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)

User Interface

  • Rename Hue/Saturation node to Hue Saturation Value in shaders and textures (commit) (Daniel Salazar)
  • Outliner
    • Revert removal of the “Remap data-block usages” operation (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
  • Performance improvements
    • Significantly reduce memory usage and improve speed of EXR thumbnails (commit) (Harley Acheson)

Curves

  • Use only current brush location for delete brush (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Support pressure in sculpt brushes (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Library Overrides

  • Add option to Hierarchy Creation to get all data user-editable by default. (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
  • Performance improvements

Video Sequence Editor

  • Remove still frame offsets (commit) (Richard Antalik)
  • Delete Strip and Scene Data in one step (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Add new Scene and Strip (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • New Change Scene option in Change menu (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Display sound sample rate and channels (commit) (Marcos Perez)

Grease Pencil

  • Avoid Automerge with Closed strokes (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Small UI tweaks (commit, commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Line Art
    • Use array instead of lists for edges pending occusion query (commit) (Yiming Wu)
    • Prioritize connecting chains from the same contour loop (commit) (Yiming Wu)

EEVEE-Next

  • Display error instead of crashing on unsupported hardware (commit) (ClĂ©ment Foucault)
  • Add Velocity module for motion blur (commit) (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

Subdivision

  • Support interpolating orco coordinates in subdivision surfaces (commit, commit) (Brecht Van Lommel, KĂ©vin Dietrich)

Sculpt/Paint

  • 3D texturing: Support undo (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

Python API

  • Make Image.save and Image.save_render more consistent with operator (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
  • Warn that the bgl module is deprecated in the docs (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Weekly Reports

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