29 April 2019

Development

Developers have been testing the #blender-coders channel on blender.chat as an alternative to IRC, to make discussion more visible and lower the barrier to entry. A decision on moving there officially will be made soon.

There is a blog post on new module teams organization.

Clang-format is now used for formatting the Blender source code. All committers must use it for consistent style. For more information and how to update branches, see the wiki page.

There are three new design docs with ideas and plans for everything nodes: Mesh Type Requirements, Categorizing Modifiers, Simulation Architecture Proposal. (Jacques Lucke)

New Features and Changes

User Interface

  • The top bar with tool settings is now part of the 3D viewport and image editor headers instead of being global. Further changes are planned, this is not the final design yet. (Campbell Barton, Brecht Van Lommel)
  • The Adjust Last Operation panel can now be optionally hidden in the 3D viewport and other headers, from the view menu. In this case the menu can be accessed from the global Edit menu, or the F9 shortcut key. (Campbell Barton)
  • Industry Compatible Keymap: many updates based on user feedback. (William Reynish)
  • Outliner: show children of objects inside collections again. Child objects that are members of a different collection are drawn with a stippled line and greyed out. (commit) (Dalai Felinto)

3D Viewport

  • Display of edit mode vertices, edges and faces has been improved. (Clément Foucault)
  • Solid draw mode now supports displaying Vertex colors, next to Single, Object, Material and Random. (Jeroen Bakker)
  • Mesh Analysis display options in the viewport are now available again. (Jeroen Bakker)
  • The grid in side views and the grid floor in perspective views can now be enabled or disabled separately. (Jeroen Bakker)

Video Sequencer

The cache system was rewritten. There is now more user control, with settings about what to cache in the Proxy & Cache panel in the sidebar. Cached frames are now displayed in the sequencer timeline. (commit) (Richard Antalík)

More

  • Spline IK: support changing individual bone length via Y scaling. (commit) (Alexander Gavrilov)
  • Bendy Bones: split the Scale In/Out properties into X and Y values. (Alexander Gavrilov)
  • Grease Pencil:
    • New dots gradient. (commit) (Antonio Vazquez)
    • New normalize weights and normalize all operators for vertex groups. (Antonio Vazquez)
  • Text editor: convert tabs to spaces on paste, if the Tabs to Spaces setting is enabled. (Bruno Boaventura Scholl)
  • Images: packing of painted and baked images now works for float and multilayer images. (Brecht Van Lommel)

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