2017-10-14: Weekly News

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Tip

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Changes to Blender

master

  • Cycles: Schedule more work for non-display and compute preemption CUDA cards. rBe360d003
  • UI: VSE strip menu reorganization rBe9d06f08
  • Cycles: Speedup up tangent space calculation rB4fce3c7a

blender2.8

  • Eevee: Improve cache performance by 13% rBf7db1a43
  • Manipulators: add cage3d scale widge rBc90ec276
  • Eevee: Probe: Add Cubemap Resolution option rBd4684210

greasepencil-object

asset-engine

  • Add initial, very basic/proof-of-concept for drag and drop linking rB504287b9

New Patches

  • VSE: Add new Blend Effect strip D2872
  • Cycles: Allow rendering with GPUs an CPUs at once D2873
  • Cycles: Speed up rendering by adding BVH8 D2875
  • UI Reorganize 3D View Menus: View, Add and Object Menu D2876
  • 2.8: New Viewport: Make the internal depth drawing of external engines optional (Proof of Concept) D2877
  • 2.8: Layers: Add new layer evaluation meathod D2878

Other Projects

  • New Tool System Proposal T53047

Documentation

As a reminder please read the Blender 2.8 Design Document