2018-01-06: 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
- Cycles: CUDA support for rendering scenes that don’t fit on GPU rBc621832d
blender2.8
- Outliner: Support multiple-objects drag’n’drop into collections rBfb4cd136
- Outliner/Collections: Add remove selected objects operator rB10f0635d
- Outliner/Collections: Add selected objects operator rBeaf559d5
- Outliner: Right mouse menu for collections editing rBd9b4d6ee
- Outliner: Master Collection is always expanded rBa9fe9424
greasepencil-object
- Add new simplify fixed operator rBabdce7f6
- New option to fill using colors without fill rB2b0c317f
- Add simplify level rB96e33c42
- Make boundary lines display optional rB889a0707
- Use a brush for filling rBb2630799
- New reprojection mode: Axis rBb3848230
fracture_modifier
- Deform motionblur support for FM and remesher with variable topology rB054d6d7a
New Patches¶
- Add Cubic B-Spline with Prefilter Algorithm D2984
- Support for UVs generated for Curves, Surfaces and Texts D2986
- Nodes: Display image name if any in the Image node title D2988
- Add deformation axis selection to the Simple Deform modifier D2989
- Curve Edit Mode: support for curve handle-type theme colors D2990
Other Projects¶
- None