Blender Builders Assembly Notes: 17 April 2023

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing initiatives and modules.

UV Modifying

• Add overlapping island assist for UV packing (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)

Cycles

• Add instancing assist in mild tree (commit) (Weizhen Huang)

Geometry

• Efficiency
  • Use implicit sharing to scale back reminiscence utilization when copying geometry information (commit, commit) (Jacques Lucke, Hans Goudey)
  • Keep away from unnecessarily initializing geometry information arrays (commit, commit, commit) (Hans Goudey)
• Attributes
  • Add 2D integer vector attribute kind (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Person Interface

• Clipboard copy/paste photographs (Home windows solely) (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Add tooltips for belongings (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Assist slash character in fuzzy search initials mode (commit) (Daniel Salazar)
• Regulate colour picker positioning (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Allow multi-propery enhancing for string buttons (commit) (Philipp Oeser)
• Node editor
  • Add slash separators to node compound names (commit, commit) (Daniel Salazar)
• 3D view
  • Enhance visualization when dragging Gizmos (commit) (mano-wii)
  • Permit float kerning for textual content objects (commit) (Damien Picard)
• Fast tooltip exhibiting tab title for Properties editor tabs (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Tweak interface textual content (commit) (Damien Picard)

Photographs

• Use OpenImageIO library for loading and saving a wide range of picture codecs (commit) (Jesse Yurkovich)
• Enhance efficiency and high quality in picture viewer (commit) (Jeroen Bakker)

Python API

• Assist a number of customized script directories in Preferences (commit) (Julian Eisel)
• Add perform to create hyperlinks to digital sockets (commit) (Damien Picard)

Platform: macOS

• Sooner linkers LLD and Mildew are simply usable by new choices WITH_LINKER_LLD/MOLD (commit)(Ankit Meel)