2017-11-04: Weekly News¶
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Changes to Blender¶
master
- Implement a new automatic handle algorithm to produce smooth F-Curves rB8bdc391c
- Fix for T48988 - Enabling bbone easing for posemode. rBa819ef65
- Tracking: Create mesh from selected tracks only rBf1c72433
- Alembic: added frame offset property rB6099b262
- Alembic: exporting MetaBalls as mesh rB89eb05a8
- Curve Decimate: new tool to simplify bezier curves (access from the curve clean-up menu) rB80465ba3
- Heap re-insertion optimization for decimate and beautify (~70% faster for decimate, only ~10% for beautify). rB336885be
blender2.8
- Mesh Auto-Smooth Split Normal Support See results rB59f238ba
- Experiment with adding output file meta data from render engine rB5296c2e0
- Collections: Bring back simple visibility behavior rB7553523a
- Draw Manager: re-enable edit-mesh text overlay rB8277bee7
asset-engine
- Add drag’n’drop-linking of material onto object in 3DView rB92a06831
- Amber: Add icon of data type to ‘all data’ assets add operator rB0e256653