2017-11-25: Weekly News¶
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Changes to Blender¶
master
- Speedup BM_mesh_normals_update (40% improvement) rB43ddf0e9
- UI: Encoding output quality UI clarification rBf218e6d4
- Disable adding scene sequence strips into themselves rB175e8fdc
- UV Cube Project: improve default behavior rB65af15ad
- Add option not to select with un-hide rB0a69e3b3
- Bake Action operator: Added missing Bendy Bones support rBfc77676f
- Pasting poses now updates motion paths rBc01ffefb
- Vertex Paint: missed removing settings from UI rB10a11209
blender2.8
- Eevee: Add SSS support in probes rB5dfeecf4
- Eevee: SSS: Add separated Albedo option rB7cbc7dd9
- Python API: expose base_flag settings (depsgraph) rB4493d0d0
- Cycles: add object level holdout property, to replace Z mask layer. rBf8fc77ec
- Python API: Allow structs to define tags for their properties rB23d148ec
- SceneRenderLayer Removal/Refactor rB3a95bdfc
- Eevee: SSS: Add Translucency support rB846cdf53
greasepencil-object
- Add Hook Modifier rB9215e2a0
- Add grid option to grease pencil paper rB55170494
- Add new paper function for adding a solid color background rBe2adbc9b
- Add Build Modifier rBf43aecba
- Add some buttons to the bottom bar rB2a47ede6
- UI: Rename MultiEdit to MultiFrame rBa666a5d0
hair_guides
- Material pointer in hair systems rB56c1388e
- Simplified API for generating hair follicles with a fixed max count rB5be3403a
- Extend the fur generate modifier to also create guide curves rB2d241893
- Start adding hair draw settings rBc6ddb6fd