26 August 2024

Announcements Weekly Updates
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26 August 2024 (Upcoming)
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Welcomes

Announcements

Modules & Projects

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.

Grease Pencil

  • Allow 3D cursor to snap to grease pencil geometry (commit) (Falk David)
  • Grease Pencil V3
    • Segment selection support (commit) (Lukas Tönne)
    • Soft mode for the Eraser tool (commit) (Amelie Fondevilla)
    • Canvas overlay (commit) (Casey Bianco-Davis)
    • Sculpt mode overlay. (commit) (Casey Bianco-Davis)
    • Import and export for SVG and PDF (commit) (Lukas Tönne)
    • Only select visible bezier handles for Circle, Lasso and Box selection tools. (commit) (casey bianco-davis)

User Interface

  • Improvement to screen area options menu invoke area join (commit) (Harley Acheson)
  • Editor docking
    • Add snapping to status bar entries (commit) (Harley Acheson)
    • Improvements from menu item or shortcut (commit) (Harley Acheson)
    • Add snapping (commit) (Harley Acheson)
    • Add interactive resizing (commit) (Harley Acheson)
  • Add frequency unit (commit) (Lleu Yang)
  • Disable “Render Active Object” for previews of incompatible object types (commit) (Julian Eisel)
  • Use the gizmo-group type name for undo steps (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Animation

  • Add channel groups to layered actions (commit) (Nathan Vegdahl)
  • UI template for Action selectors (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Video Sequence Editor

  • Set “box select” default tool for preview and show toolbars (commit) (John Kiril Swenson)
  • Ability to connect and disconnect strips in the VSE (commit) (John Kiril Swenson)

Sculpt

  • Remove duplicate BVH tree positions storage (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Simplify BVH node flag initialization, avoid normals update (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Specialize normal and topology mask expand operations (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Make BMesh BVH tree build similar to mesh/grids (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Compositor

  • New CPU compositor
    • Add Composite node (commit) (Omar Emara)
    • Implement type conversion (commit) (Omar Emara)
    • Support Image node (commit) (Omar Emara)

Core

  • Improve volume file cache and unloading (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
  • Speedups, fixes and cleanups to various image scaling functions (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)

Vulkan

  • Resource Pools (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Ensure rendering ends when deleting attached framebuffer (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Occlusion Queries (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

Overlay-Next

  • Particles support (commit) (ClĂ©ment Foucault)

Weekly Reports

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