5 June 2023 (Upcoming)
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Modules & Projects
Grease Pencil
Nodes & Physics
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- Custom normals
- Legacy instancing replacement
- Node Operators
- UI / UX
- Serial Loop
- Realtime Mode
- Modifier Context Setup Tool
- Standalone Node Tool
- Checkpoints
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Simulation nodes demo: Jiggly pudding by Mingwei Lim.
New features and changes
User Interface
- Allow opacity for theme outline colors (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- 3D view transform
- Add text editor zoom in/out to view menu (commit) (RedMser)
- File save incremental operator (commit) (Harley Acheson)
- Node Editor
- Donât change size of resize area for frame nodes with zoom (commit) (Leon Schittek)
Cycles
- More efficient and better-behaved sampling of spherical triangles (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
Grease Pencil
- Initial grease pencil 3.0 experimental feature (commit) (Falk David)
Animation
- Update NLA âTABâ tweak mode to be full stack evaluation (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
- Bidirectionality on graph editor sliders (breaking change) (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
Geometry Nodes
- Add Corners of Edge node (commit) (Soeren Schmidt-Clausen)
- Improve delete and separate geometry nodes performance by 2-4x (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Improve performance when inverting some selections (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Video Sequence Editor
- Freeze frame feature for retiming tool (commit) (Richard Antalik)
UV Editing
- Update UI for the UV pack islands operator (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
- Improve Suzanneâs UV map (commit) (Hallam Roberts)
EEVEE Next
- Image rendering and render passes fixes/improvements (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
Core
- Remove OBJ and PLY Python add-ons (breaking change) (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
- Forward compatibility with 4.0 generic bevel weight in 3.6 (commit) (Hans Goudey)
- Require evaluated dependency graph for some mesh operations (breaking change) (commit) (Hans Goudey)