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.

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Blender Development! Blender is the free and opensource 3D creation suite for the next generation of artist. Follow the development on Twitter @BlenderDev.

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Tip

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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

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