Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
- New Blender developer job openings
- The first biweekly geometry nodes submodule meeting will be this Wednesday: 2022-06-01 Geometry Nodes sub-module meeting (upcoming)
Modules & Projects
New Features and Changes
User Interface
- Use visible regions when showing candidates for operators data-path (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Add missing tooltips for the shader node options (commit) (Arye Ramaty)
- Wayland
- Support mouse buttons 4-7 (commit) (Campbell Barton)
- Asset Browser
- Show “Current File” icon in sidebar source field (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Geometry Nodes
- Skip Capture Attribute node if attribute output is not needed (commit) (Iliay Katueshenokc)
EEVEE
- Support Curves attributes rendering (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)
Cycles
- Add half precision float support for volumes with NanoVDB (commit) (Patrick Mours)
Grease Pencil
- Add a Ping pong effect to the Time modifier (commit) (Aleš Jelovčan)
Python API
- Add
mathutils.Color
functions to convert color spaces (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel) - Add UI support for showing candidates for string properties (commit) (Campbell Barton)