2017-12-30: Weekly News

Again, sorry for missing last weeks report but due to the holidays last week has been included in this report. Next week will be back to normal.

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Changes to Blender

master

  • Fix scalability issue in threaded code of Mesh normals computation (Slight speedup) rBd130c66d
  • Subsurf: Avoid global lock for loops and orig index layers (4x speed up) rBdf0ecd73

blender2.8

  • Outliner/Collection: Interface for Master Collection Tree rBbbbdb27d
  • Outliner/Collection: Operator to delete selected collections rB4d08ef82
  • Outliner/Collection: Operator to create (nested) collections rB8252a414
  • Collections: Allow collections from different “parents” to have the same name rBc9cb5dc3
  • Collection: Name collection based on parent’s name rBc08dac00
  • Implement duplicator viewport/render visibility options rBb89f2276

greasepencil-object

fracture_modifier

  • Remesh modifier: support remeshing particle systems rB4945003f
  • Add acceleration maps which should be also be usable in playback rB16f161e5
  • Remesh modifier: support remeshing metaballs rBdf7d0e54
  • Add “self collision” option for constraint islands, and randomize option for sphere shape radius and margin rB7babce30
  • Add option to only output verts, meta threshold max is 100 now rB1010cdf4
  • Add option to only output centroids as vertices rBe8958954
  • Add grid fracture option rBfa7a666e

New Patches

  • Cycles: Allow for multi-gigapixel renders D2975
  • Allow loop cut placement with mouse after numeric input D2973
  • Viewport HMD integration using OpenVR D2970

Other Projects

  • None