Blender Builders Assembly Notes: 26 June 2023

Conferences

Core

Grease Pencil V3

• Preliminary layer tree consumer interface (commit, commit, commit) (Falk David)
• Choice
  • Curve area assist for choice operators (commit) (Sietse Brouwer)
  • Choose Alternate (commit, commit) (Falk David, Pratik Borhade)
  • Choose random operator (commit) (Falk David)

Compositor

• Realtime compositor
  • Add assist for node previews (commit, commit) (Omar Emara)
  • Implement Keying node (commit) (Omar Emara)
  • Cache GPU context for repeated executions (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)
• Enhance edge detection of Kuwahara filter (commit) (Habib Gahbiche)
• Cache render compositor for repeated executions (commit) (Brecht Van Lommel)

Geometry Nodes

• Keep away from pricey index lookup from index masks in just a few nodes (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)
• Barely enhance efficiency in duplicate parts face mode (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)
• Make analysis and logging system conscious of zones (commit) (Jacques Lucke)
• Transfer simulation panel greater in node editor sidebar (commit) (Iliya Katueshenock)

EEVEE Subsequent

• Preliminary implementation of irradiance cache (commit) (Clément Foucault)

Consumer Interface

• Present wait icon for file/asset browser previews whereas loading (commit) (Harley Acheson)
• Rework Snap
  • Enhance snap for bones (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
  • Help “Align Rotation to Goal” for bone factors (commit) (Germano Cavalcante)
• Change the UV packing pin possibility right into a toggle & drop-down (commit) (Campbell Barton)
• Resolve inconsistency with modifier labels whereas assigning shortcuts (commit) (Campbell Barton)

Cycles

• Change level gentle to double-sided sphere gentle (EEVEE too) (commit) (Weizhen Huang)
• Take away clamping of space lights at small unfold angles (commit) (Weizhen Huang)

Animation

• Add vertical reordering in NLA editor (commit) (Nate Rupsis)
• Change channel choice key preferences in industy appropriate keymap (commit) (Pratik Borhade)

Python API

• Require a unique_id for bl_ui.generic_ui_list (commit) (Campbell Barton)

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