Blender Builders Assembly Notes: 5 June 2023

Grease Pencil

Nodes & Physics

Consumer Interface

• Permit opacity for theme define colours (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• 3D view remodel
  • New function to edit the ‘Snap Base’ (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
  • Add loop choose for faces in paint modes (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)
  • Take away ‘Resize’ fallback from ‘Shrink/Fatten’ (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
• Add textual content editor zoom in/out to view menu (commit) (RedMser)
• File save incremental operator (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Node Editor
  • Don’t change measurement of resize space for body nodes with zoom (commit) (Leon Schittek)

Cycles

• Extra environment friendly and better-behaved sampling of spherical triangles (commit) (Weizhen Huang)

Grease Pencil

• Preliminary grease pencil 3.0 experimental function (commit) (Falk David)
  • Add preliminary edit mode overlay assist (commit) (Falk David)
  • Add operator to create new grease pencil object (commit, commit) (Falk David, Yiming Wu)

Animation

• Replace NLA “TAB” tweak mode to be full stack analysis (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
• Bidirectionality on graph editor sliders (breaking change) (commit) (Christoph Lendenfeld)

Geometry Nodes

• Add Corners of Edge node (commit) (Soeren Schmidt-Clausen)
• Enhance delete and separate geometry nodes efficiency by 2-4x (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Enhance efficiency with vertex teams (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Copy no free vert/edge standing (commit) (Hans Goudey)
  • Parallelize “All” mode edge choice conversion (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)
• Enhance efficiency when inverting some choices (commit) (Hans Goudey)

Video Sequence Editor

• Freeze body function for retiming device (commit) (Richard Antalik)

UV Modifying

• Replace UI for the UV pack islands operator (commit) (Chris Blackbourn)
• Enhance Suzanne’s UV map (commit) (Hallam Roberts)

EEVEE Subsequent

• Picture rendering and render passes fixes/enhancements (commit) (Miguel Pozo)

Core

• Take away OBJ and PLY Python add-ons (breaking change) (commit) (Aras Pranckevicius)
• Ahead 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)