Projects Weekly Updates

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As part of our efforts to organize the development team more efficiently, weekly meetings are now being held with project leads and development manager and coordinator.

June 21st, 2024
Attendees: Clément Foucault, Dalai Felinto, Falk David, Fiona Cohen, Jeroen Bakker, Sergey Sharybin, Thomas Dinges

Projects:

  • Baklava > Sybren (not present)

  • Brush Assets > @dfelinto

    • 4.3 target
    • Last round of feedback from Julien K on 20/06
    • Still missing documentation, @julianeisel will work on that, maybe @HooglyBoogly can help too
    • Will be ready for main in a couple of weeks

  • Eevee Next > @fclem

    • In main, documentation is done
    • Bug fixing in progress
    • Unknowns regarding Metal support: issues with that backend remain, which means that @Jeroen-Bakker has to spend time on it
    • Clement will keep focusing on addressing feedback and bug reports (Q3)

    NPR project with @pragma37 > have a one week workshop soon, in July or August?

    • To discuss and organize

  • Extensions > Dalai

    • Release ready
    • Still fixes to do for 4.2, but not concerned about stability
    • Concern about getting everything ready for bcon3 mid-July (documentation, translation…)
    • The multi-OS support is being implemented (website side)
    • @ideasman42 is still going to work on some tech debt (bug fix) for the next weeks,could be for later versions
    • What’s packaged with Blender, ‘core addons’: see dev talk feedback thread
      • If modules have a solid case for something to be added, then it can be added

  • Grease Pencil 3 > @filedescriptor

  • Sculpting > @sergey

    • In progress, with @HooglyBoogly, @roundsquare and @farsthary
    • Working on making more tests automated
    • Currently ‘only’ 6x faster, not yet 10x (for the base mesh sculpting)
    • Focusing on that refactor and speeding up, hopefully done by mid-July
    • Then do dynamic topology pt2

  • Vulkan > @Jeroen-Bakker

    • All Q2 goals were met + extended goals (make Eevee to work)
    • See if industry contributor want to join and contribute to this project
    • Goals for Q3: stabilize & improve to make Vulkan available in an official release. See all plan in Vulkan Planning
    • Notes on ‘Out of scope’: do one project to get OpenSubdiv to work on both Metal and Vulkan

Next meeting on Friday June 28th.

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