25 July 2022

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25 July 2022

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

EEVEE-Next

  • Add temporal anti-aliasing (commit) (Clément Foucault)
  • Denoising
    • Make animated viewport non jittered when disabling denoising (commit) (Clément Foucault)
    • Add exposure awareness to denoising (commit) (Clément Foucault)
    • Add back option to disable TAA (Viewport Denoising) (commit) (Clément Foucault)
    • Make Anti-Flicker more strong (commit) (Clément Foucault)
  • Add back background opacity toggle (commit) (Clément Foucault)

Geometry Nodes

  • Copy parameters when creating a new curves data-block (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Performance improvements
    • Improve UV Sphere primive performance (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Port fillet node to the new data-block (commit) (Hans Goudey)
    • Port sample curves node to new data-block (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Import/Export

  • Performance improvements
    • Speed up import of large amounts of objects in USD/OBJ by pre-sorting objects by name (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
    • Speed up Alembic edge crease import (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)

Core

  • Performance improvements
    • Speed up data-block unique name assignment by tracking used names/basenames/suffixes (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)

Curves

  • Support sculpting on deformed curves (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Spreadsheet editor
    • Implement selection filter for curves sculpt mode (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Align surface and curves object in Empty Hair operator (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Hide snapping menu in curves sculpt mode (commit) (Hans Goudey)

UV Editor

  • Edge support for select shortest path operator (commit) (Siddhartha Jejurkar)
  • Add snap cursor to origin operator (commit) (Tomek Gubala)

Library Overrides

  • Support ‘make override’ for all selected items (commit) (Bastien Montagne)

Animation

  • Add a ‘Apply and Delete All’ operation to shapekeys. (commit) (Bastien Montagne)
  • Add a clear() method to FCurveKeyframePoints (commit) (Colin Basnett)

Rendering

  • Update lightgroup membership in objects and world if lightgroup is renamed (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
  • Nishita sky texture: Increase elevation range (commit) (Clément Foucault)

Weekly Reports

Google Summer of Code

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