5 October 2020

dfelinto · September 29, 2020, 3:39pm

Notes for meeting of Monday, 5 October 2020. 11:00 CEST / UTC 9:00 on #blender-coders on blender.chat.

Announcements

Welcome developer Henrik Dick (weasel) to the modeling module.
Animation & Rigging module meeting, with plans for bi-weekly meetings in the future.
Pose libs & asset browser notes, open for feedback by animators
Feedback wanted for the Monday meetings
Hristo Gueorguiev (nirved) started working on OpenCL compiler for AMD GPUs
The everything nodes project resume this week with a scrum approach
- For the (read-only) team discussions, follow #geometry-nodes-squad on blender.chat
- More details in the following weeks

Volumes (Jacques Lucke)
- Add Mesh to Volume modifier (commit)
- Support selection and outlines in viewport (commit)
- Simplify option to display lower resolution volumes in the viewport (commit)
Sculpt & Paint (Pablo Dobarro)
- Cloth simulation Dynamic Area mode (commit)
- Preserve Mesh visibility from edit mode using the Face Sets (commit)
- Line Project Gesture tool (commit)
- Optimized painting with arnchored strokes (commit)
Subdivision Surfaces: for compatibility with other software, a few options were added (Piotr Ostrowski)
- Option to match iterative subdivision and shrinking, by disabling the limit surface (commit)
- Option to smooth only boundary edges and keep boundary corners sharp (commit)
- Option to smooth entire boundary for UV coordinates, also including corners (commit)
Motion Tracking (Ivan Perevala)
- Brown-Conrady distortion model (commit)
Cycles
- Add command line option for overriding the compute device (commit) (Lukas Stockner)
- Add time statistics for scene update (commit) (Kévin Dietrich)
User Interface
- Outliner: Draw hierarchy lines dashed for object children (commit) (Nathan Craddock)
- Property Search: Improve panel expansion and visualization (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (commit) (Hans Goudey)
macOS:
- Support key repeat events in keymaps (commit) (Yevgeny Makarov)