5 August 2024

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5 August 2024
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.

Anim

  • Implement ‘only show selected’ filter on slotted Actions (commit) - (Sybren A. StĂŒvel)

Collection Export

  • Allow renaming of exporters in the UI list (commit) - (Jesse Yurkovich)

Cycles

  • Add Central Cylindrical Panoramic camera model (commit) - (softyoda)

DRW

  • Primitive Expansion (commit) - (ClĂ©ment FOUCAULT)

GPv3

  • Delete active keyframe operator (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
  • Draw lines between frames (commit) - (Pratik Borhade)
  • Python API: Add function to get current frame on a layer (commit) - (Falk David)

Geometry Nodes

  • Unify bake state string between simulations and bake nodes (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Pass through in bake node if it is in a repeat zone (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Overlay-Next

  • Camera (commit) - (Laurynas Duburas)
  • Light (commit) - (Laurynas Duburas)
  • Object Bounds (commit) - (Laurynas Duburas)

Sculpt

  • Refactor for enhance details mesh filter preprocess (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Partial refactor of boundary brush (commit) - (Sean Kim)
  • Simplify/parallelize cloth brush array initialization (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Data oriented refactor for mask filter (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Data oriented refactor for cloth brush deformation (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Data oriented refactor for cloth filter force calculation (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Use new API for weight/vertex paint factors (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Remove color buffer from sculpt BVH tree (commit) - (Hans Goudey)
  • Refactor displacement eraser filter initialization (commit) - (Hans Goudey)

Spreadsheet

  • Support navigating instance trees (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)

Templates

  • Remove bl_info from addon_add_object (commit) - (Dalai Felinto)
  • Blender Manifest template (commit) - (Dalai Felinto)

UI

  • Update Internet Offline Icon to Remove Unused Masks (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • New Geometry Set icon (commit) - (Jacques Lucke)
  • Add padding to items in ui lists and tree views (commit) - (Leon Schittek)
  • Add scroll padding for the redo panel in the VSE, action and NLA editors (commit) - (Sebastian Parborg)
  • Changes to Linux VSE Handle Mouse Cursors (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Mouse Event Icon Alignment (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Screen Operations Status Bar (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Adding LTS to Title Bar and other Version Changes (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Add Periods to RNA multi-sentence descriptions (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Increase Size of Curve Control Points (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Always Show Version Patch Level (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Improve Icon Centering (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Add SVG Icons for Status Bar Event Use (commit) - (Harley Acheson)
  • Status Bar Using SVG Icons (commit) - (Harley Acheson)

USD

  • Use Asset Resolver to resolve texture paths (commit) - (Charles Wardlaw)
  • Support color4f types in addition to color3f (commit) - (Jesse Yurkovich)

VSE

  • Place modifier-specific properties first (commit) - (Pablo Vazquez)

Weekly Reports

Google Summer of Code - Week 10

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