27 January 2025

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27 January 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

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.

Animation

  • Add Action+Slot selector for:
    • Compositing Node Tree (commit) - (Nathan Vegdahl)
    • Masks (commit) - (Nathan Vegdahl)
    • Movie Clips (commit) - (Nathan Vegdahl)

Compositor

  • Support OIDN on Arm (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Use OCIO luminance for color to float conversion (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Delay transformations until realization (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • UI: Clarify warning in Render Layers node (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Curves

  • Make material index attribute builtin on curves geometry (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Cycles

  • OSL uniform_edf closure for better MaterialX compatibility (commit) - (Alex)

EEVEE

  • Use OpenColorIO for luminance (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

Geometry Nodes

  • Output proper face corner normals (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Use OpenColorIO for luminance (commit) - (Brecht Van Lommel)

Grease Pencil

  • Don’t show material preview as “disabled” (commit) - (Falk David)
  • Sculpt Mode Auto-Masking option (commit) - (Falk David)

Nodes

  • Automatically gray out input values that don’t affect the output (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
    • Support input socket usage inferencing for Mix and Mix Shader node (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Overlay

  • Fade Inactive Geometry filter on object being interactable (commit) - (Sean Kim)

Sculpt

  • Avoid adding “.sculpt_mask” attributes in certain cases (commit) - (Philipp Oeser)

UI

  • Use icons in UV Stitch Status Bar (commit) - (RedMser)
  • Add icons to Batch Rename data type menu (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)
  • Expand brush/tool falloff curve presets in popovers (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
  • Rename masking property to better reflect its usage (commit) - (Damien Picard)
  • Add customized status bar messages:
    • CLIP_OT_add_marker_at_click (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
    • POSELIB_OT_blend_pose_asset (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
    • GPENCIL_OT_annotate (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
    • For regions (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Use gizmo theme colors for knife tool overlay (commit) - (Nika Kutsniashvili)
  • Avoid double scaling of preview images, improve filtering (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Allow drawing icons as drag previews, use for dragging assets (commit) - (Julian Eisel)

glTF exporter

  • Add fallback interpolation option (commit) - (Julien Duroure)
  • Tweak for action filter in Collection Export (commit) - (Julien Duroure)

macOS

  • Main Window Title Improvements (commit) - (Jonas Holzman)

macOS/QuickLook

  • Support rich thumbnail in Finder (commit) - (Ankit Meel)

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