2018-03-10: Weekly News¶
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Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: add roughness baking support, using squared roughness convention rB23ccf576
- Cycles: switch to squared roughness convention for all nodes rB7613ffc9
- Cycles: support arbitrary number of motion blur steps for cameras rB78c20636 rBdb333d9e
- T54233: NLA “Push Down” discards Blend Mode, Extrapolation, and Influence rB7e2100e4
blender2.8
- Eevee: Planar Reflection: Add refraction support for reflected objects rB92c2e2f3
- Eevee: Probes: Add culling for planar probes rB13b99b7b
- Eevee: Render: Add progress rB872df463
- Draw Manager: Simplify the algorithm that extract the BoundingSphere of a Frustum rB267e816b
- DRW: Shader Deferred compilation: Use a wmJob for threading rB94fadd00
- DRW: Deferred compilation initial implementation rB3a209c28
- Eevee: Optimize shadows drawing rBdd611dd0
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
Documentation¶
- None