4 December 2023

Announcements Weekly Updates
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4 December 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.

Announcements

Modules & Projects

New Features and Changes

Anim

  • Change how Only Insert Needed works (commit) - (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Add “Add/delete” track operations to NLA context menu (commit) - (Nate Rupsis)
  • Refactoring NLA menu into more sensible format (commit) - (Nate Rupsis)

BLF

  • Support All Render and Bitmap Formats (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Fix Shader Type Conversion (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Rename Text Shader Depth to Component Len (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

Color management

  • Multi-thread IMB_colormanagement_transform_from_byte_threaded simple case (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Compositor

  • Better node visibility for default node tree (commit) - (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Make split viewer a regular split node (commit) - (Habib Gahbiche)
  • Disable preview of Split node by default (commit) - (Omar Emara)

EEVEE-Next

  • Optimize GBuffer Layout and writting (commit) - (Clément Foucault)

GHOST/Wayland

  • Improve tablet event handling (commit) - (Campbell Barton)
  • Animated cursor support (commit) - (Campbell Barton)

GPv3

  • Lock unselect materials operator (commit) - (Antonio Vazquez)
  • “Set Active Layer” operator and menu (commit) - (Clément Busschaert)
  • Duplicate Points operator (commit) - (casey bianco-davis)
  • Show and hide layers operators (commit) - (Matias Mendiola)
  • Menu to Select Material using U key (commit) - (Antonio Vazquez)

Geometry Nodes

  • Rewrite parts of extrude mesh node (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Remove drag & drop requirement of geometry input (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Remove experimental volume nodes (commit) - (Lukas Tönne)

Multires

  • Use IndexMask for Subdiv CCG face updates (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

OBJ

  • Add import option to create collection hierarchy by splitting names with a separator (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Realtime Compositor

  • Implement zero cost external images (commit) - (Omar Emara)
  • Add utilities to handle texture formats (commit) - (Omar Emara)

Text Editor

  • Use active text selection as search query (commit) - (Guillermo Venegas)

UI

  • Improve description of custom asset library type (commit) - (Julian Eisel)
  • Enable immediate typing for 'Select Pattern" operator (commit) - (Philipp Oeser)
  • Icons for Area Join and Swap (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

USD

  • Improved texture coordinate translation (UsdTransform2d) (commit) - (Charles Wardlaw)

VSE

  • Speedup timeline drawing, and improve waveform display (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)
  • Speedup Luma Waveform display output mode (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)
  • Speedup “show overexposed” option (commit) - (Aras Pranckevicius)

Weekly Reports

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