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20 March 2023
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules.
Announcements
GSoC Contributors can start submitting their proposals now. For further infos check our GSoC docs.
Modules & Projects
2023-03-10 Eevee/Viewport Workshop (Planning 2023)
2023-03-14 Blender Admins Meeting
2023-03-14 Animation & Rigging off-schedule meeting
2023-03-20 Eevee/Viewport Module Meeting
New Features and Changes
UV Editing
Improve UV Packing efficiency with non-square aspect ratio (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
Geometry Nodes
Add first milestone of SDF Volume nodes as experimental feature (commit) (Erik Abrahamsson)
EEVEE Next
Deferred Pipeline (commit) (Clément Foucault)
IrradianceCache surfels debug display (commit) (Miguel Pozo)
Mesh
Parallelize extraction of UV maps (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Remove unnecessary mesh position copying (commit) (Tuan N)
Optimize BMesh to Mesh conversion with UV maps (commit) (Hans Goudey)
Import / Export
PLY
Optimize new exporter (2x faster) (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
Improve robustness and performance of the new importer (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
Cycles
Adjust resolution divider to achieve a more usable viewport (commit) (Alaska)
Small optimizations to filtering in BVH (commit, commit, commit, commit) (Nikita Sirgienko)
User Interface
Add scroll to sidebar tabs (commit) (guishe)
Increase the size of the “Open Recent” list (commit) (Harley Acheson)
File Browser
Make full file name label draggable (commit) (Julian Eisel)
Remove info message that GPU subdivision being used (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
Python API
Implement ViewLayer.aovs.remove (commit) (Nischay-Raj)
Weekly Reports
Bastien Montagne
Campbell Barton
Chris Blackbourn
Clément Foucault
Dalai Felinto
Falk David
Germano Cavalcante
Hans Goudey
Harley Acheson
Jacques Lucke
Jeroen Bakker
Julian Eisel
Lukas Tönne
Miguel Pozo
Pratik Borhade
Richard Antalík
Sergey Sharybin
Sybren Stüvel
Thomas Dinges
Weizhen Huang
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