Feed¶
2018-04-14: Weekly News¶
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
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
Note
Due to the code quest much of this week was spent planning and doing smaller internal changes.
blender2.8
- BGL: Expose OpenGL API for FrameBuffers and RenderBuffers rBb107e77e
New Patches¶
- None
Other Projects¶
- 2.8: Code-Quest (Topics we plan to cover) T54387
- devtalk.blender.org. – Devtalk is a new forum website to help new developers get into Blender development
- Workbench render engine: (T54592)
Documentation¶
2018-04-07: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- PyAPI: Add PyC_Tuple_Pack_F64 utility rB31f2a675
- New utility to fix broken utf8 strings in old .blend files. rB96f565b3
- Write the scene render frame range to image/video files rB6c3110a6
- Added support for the WEBM/VP9 video codec rB7e39d151
- Use the newer version of the bullet 6dof spring constraint for rigidbody. rB26a283de
blender2.8
- Collections: Move to Collection: Popup for naming new collection rB0faa065e
- Workspaces: Remove workspace object mode rB1c24c04e
greasepencil-object
- Add Lock to Focal Plane to Blur VFX rBe32c22d3
- New Line Primitive rB23c5eee2
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
- 2.8: Code-Quest (Topics we plan to cover) T54387
- devtalk.blender.org. – Devtalk is a new forum website to help new developers get into Blender development
Documentation¶
2018-03-31: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: take into account diffuse roughness for roughness baking rBe3f1d980
- UI: Edit mode move edge data tool into a menu rB354dfdac
- New C logging system rB891c1cfc
- Undo: unified undo system w/ linear history rB651b8fb1
blender2.8
- Collections: New Move to Collection operator rBf167226b
- Collections: Move to Collection: Add option to add to a new collection. rB6456d59b
- Collections: Add support for Select Group rB53491625
Other Projects¶
- 2.8: Code-Quest (Topics we plan to cover) T54387
- devtalk.blender.org. – Devtalk is a new forum website to help new developers get into Blender development
Documentation¶
2018-03-24: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- UI: Optional prompt to quit for non win32 systems rB5ba5254e
- UI: 4-column layout for the editor-type selector menu rB60712d12
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
- Blender Interactive Mode Outline T54389
- 2.8: Code-Quest (Topics we plan to cover) T54387
- devtalk.blender.org. – Devtalk is a new forum website to help new developers get into Blender development
Documentation¶
- None
2018-03-17: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- GHOST: Support Unity taskbar progress API rB41149ca1
blender2.8
- UV/Image Editor: Optimize UV Drawing rBcca1e1b7
- Clay: Refactor: Port clay to a deferred pipeline rBb4209b13
- Eevee: Render: Allow cancel during probe update rB266cdf95
Other Projects¶
- None
Documentation¶
- None
2018-03-10: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
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
2018-03-03: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles volume: fast empty space optimization (up to 2x speedup) rB7377d411
- Collada: Adding support for Matrix Transformation export rBa024da55
- Smoke: expose empty space clipping property to the UI rB4403ca80
- Cycles: add Principled Volume shader. rB0aec2dcd
- Cycles: Speedup rendering of dense volumes (30% speedup) rB5d5c6bb5
- Animation: When scaling keyframes, merge (by-averaging) selected keys that end up on the same frame rBac717928
blender2.8
- WorkSpace: show/hide opt-out support for add-ons rB61c8ed40
- WorkSpace: UI filtering for add-ons rBd937d06c
- Cycles: add back point density texture support rB000002e4
- EEVEE: Compositing and rendering of multi-layers support rB06420c5f
- Viewport: Speed up many unique objects (up to 3x speedup) rB241c90c9
- Eevee: add Principled Volume shader rB38ccd1fe
- WorkSpace: object-mode switching support rB4ab002bc
- Viewport: Small speedup. rBc5eba46d
greasepencil-object
- New Eraser brush rB32c4bc34
- New Draw mode “Boxes” rB5a37f694
- Interpolate mouse movement for fast drawing rBa636f3fb
- Add UV rotation option to Smooth and Noise modifiers rB803f80c6
- Apply Smooth and Random sculpt to UV rotation rB71f0e59b
- New UI parameter to define UV rotation randomness rB11910fdb
- New point fields for UV data rBf0419a4a
fracture_modifier
- Add vertex group to influence metaball radii rBc381b3fa
- Optionally restore old activation behavior with broken constraints rBfb8acd8b
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
- None
2018-02-17: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: Remove Fermi support rB2eaf90b3
- Simple hair children: Make twist affected by texture rB6d4022f6
- Simple hair children: Make twist affected by vertex group rB67cec973
- Simple hair children: Initial implementation of twist control rBffde74a8
- Cycles: Implement index output for hair node rB37f65e9d
- Nodes: Display image name if any in the Cycles Image and Environment Texture node title rBd640ce40
fracture_modifier
- Brickify fracture support rB97a677e7
- External constraints support rB4eb44b86
New Patches¶
- None
Other Projects¶
- None
Documentation¶
- None
2018-02-10: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
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Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: add random walk subsurface scattering to Principled BSDF rBa6968e87
- Cycles: random walk subsurface scattering rB0df9b2c7
- Mesh: Remove Carve boolean rBe0597bae
- Dopesheet: Synchronize selection on bones when selecting everything rB5f2b4002
blender2.8
- Outliner: Add object(s) to new collection rB77b61b55
- Outliner: Operator to delete outliner selected elements from collection rB9631c1ac
- Eevee: Pixel Filter: Add parameter & rescale final LUT rB23d2f708
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
- None
Documentation¶
- None
2018-02-03: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: add Vector Displacement node and extend Displacement node rBf9ea097a
- Apply Pose as Rest Pose: Bendy Bone support rB5dd52869
- Cycles: rename displacement methods, default to displace rBda4c3f30
- Cycles: add Displacement node. rB4a5ee1a5
blender2.8
- Eevee: Render: Add ambient occlusion pass support rB36b259fa
- Collections: Operator to duplicate a collection rBc7c070c2
- Collections: Operator to select collection objects rBa4d2b102
- Eevee: Render: Add support for multiview rB00f1bc16
- Eevee: Add mist pass support rBe52c5bcd
- Eevee: Render: Add Transparent Background option rBab5f86a0
- Eevee: Render: Add Subsurface Pass support rB253b412a
- Eevee: Render: Add Normal pass output rB55a238ed
- Eevee: Add Z pass render result rB376d4230
- Eevee: Add new “render samples” properties rB8cce3391
- Eevee: Add support for TAA/SuperSampling for final render rBf107af35
- Eevee: Probes: Add support for intensity tweak rB777e1d35
greasepencil-object
- New Split operator rBd7a36693
- New option to separate Points rB27e3b782
- New Separate operator rBe5989702
- New Lazy Mouse option rBe44fa493
- Add option to reproject fill on Surface rBfa4c1ad5
fracture_modifier
- Add a limit / search radius for animated mesh binding rBd68f53a3
New Patches¶
Documentation¶
- None
2018-01-20: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Loop Cut: Allow mouse placement w/ numeric input rB235f578a
- Add “Delete Invalid Drivers” operator rBc38ebf93
- Sculpting: Add an option to hide mask in viewport rB4d8b78b0
blender2.8
- Outliner: Get rid of Search Menu rB51bcf7bd
- Outliner: Remove User Preferences rBefe1af3d
- Outliner Filtering System rB37913cf5
- Eevee: Implement Sun area lighting rB03e432bc
- Outliner: Alphabetical sorting rB60eb897f
- Outliner: Rename “Active View Layer” > “View Layer” rB74f872df
- Outliner: View Layer: add option to add a new collection to the current view layer rB33ddd926
- Eevee: AO: Removes samples and denoise options rB9fd28c77
- Eevee: SSR: Remove ray count rB3cb2b295
- Deps Graph: Get rid of legacy extra recalc flags rBbf9460e3
greasepencil-object
- Remove simplify render options rBb0c08068
- New operator to clean boundary strokes rBd1f89c93
fracture_modifier
- UI: move animated mesh settings to new panel rB80671518
New Patches¶
Documentation¶
- None
2018-01-13: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: adaptive subdivision support for panoramic cameras rB5bd9b12d
- User Prefs: app-template option to hide the cursor rB93d30d62
- User Prefs: add new flag for app-template options rBff4c9d69
- Cycles: option to make background visible through glass transparent rB322f0223
- Cycles: add offscreen dicing scale and dicing camera rBcce280dd
- Modifiers: Speed up Multires 8.7ms –> 2.7ms rB6695e390
- Modifiers: Speed up Multires 4.5ms –> 1.4ms rB90cd856a
- Modifiers: Speedup Subsurf 40% speedup rBc276fef4
- UI: option not to show screen splitting widgets rB717090f4
- Cycles: support animated object scale in motion blur rB25b794a3
- Modifiers: Add deform axis for Simple Deform rB65542078
- Nodes: Display image name if any in the Image and Texture Image node title rB87607254
blender2.8
- Eevee: Lamps: Optimize lamps CPU/Memory usage rB01422645
- Curve/Surface Display: UV support rB3c6e19b3
- Curve Edit Mode: Use curve handle theme colors rB375d27f2
greasepencil-object
- Add Ctrl keymap while fill for free drawing rBcefa6ca4
- New Weight Smooth operator rB807c7b78
- Include Thickness of new Fill Stroke rB40229d2a
- New Weight Invert operator rB0562da81
fracture_modifier
- Experimental bind of animated vertices (other object) to shards rB2a41da1d
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
- None
Documentation¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
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
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.
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
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
- New duplicate frame operator and special menu rB919cdad3
- New rounded end caps rB95dcd183
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¶
Other Projects¶
- None
2017-12-16: Weekly News¶
Sorry for missing the post last week there was not much development so I decided to skip a week and include that content in today’s report. Also, due to the holidays there will likly not be a report next week either.
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Add eyedropper to color-ramp widget rB7ae4c3a0
- Modelling: Better bevel profile at extreme values of profile rBbdc15061
- Modelling: Array Modifier: option to offset UV’s rB6d31eb01
blender2.8
- Manipulators: view3d navigation buttons (see video) rB468ac903
- Group collections: viewport/render options and remove collection visibility rB1f5106de
- PyAPI: Message bus replacement for property notifiers rB7a8ac1b0
- Eevee: Add Irradiance Visibility rB5b6cfa70
greasepencil-object
- New Eraser with Lasso select rBc4dbe944
- Add Erase stroke with Ctrl key rBfa2cd280
- Add new option to simplify alternate points rB740506c7
- New Normalize thickness parameter rBc4e595aa
- New Vertex Group menu with Ctrl+G in Edit mode rBfc385754
- Add default grey color with fill to default Palette rB7335e091
- New Draw Specials menu with X key rB568f55e3
- Change default onion mode to keyframes rB9c350fa9
- New VFX light modifier rBa3930268
New Patches¶
Documentation¶
Again, have a look at the 2.8 WIP release notes: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.80
2017-12-02: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- 5% speed improvement for subsurf modifier rB1d33843e
- Haiku OS Support rB28d2148b
- Cycles: Improve denoising speed on GPUs with small tile sizes rBfa3d50af
- Select similar for bones by group index rB099a99db
- Cycles: add object level holdout property rBe4b54f44
- Cycles: 1-2% speed improvement rB7e349f27
- PyAPI: add function to check any mathutils type rBc17c6557
- PyAPI: Allow structs to define tags for their properties rBad625acd
- Speed up stabilization tracking by 50% rBbf5b931d
- Sequencer: Add option to render OpenGL preview with DoF rB9b42b3e1
- Speedup mask drawing by 5-10% rB440aa2bf
- Speedup mask rendering by 25% rB06e64058
- Speedup movie tracking by tracking 10-15% rB440a49a2
- Speed up subdividing by 20% rB2b6f3455
- Improve edge rotate when edges share faces rB329bf8e1
cycles_texture_cache
This branch adds a texture cache feature for rendering a large number of largely sized textures in a pre-defined modest memory footprint.
See This email for more information.
cycles_embree
This adds the Embree raytracing kernels developed by Intel into Cycles.
See This email for more information.
fluid-mantaflow
- Split viscosity settings into base and exponent rBbc6ab0f0
- Add settings for fluid diffusion (i.e. viscosity and surface tension) rB02b27194
blender2.8
- Groups and collection: create group from collection rBaeaf87bb
- Groups and collection: initial integration rBbe9e469e
- ID static override: add basic support for overriding animation rB75eb219a
- ID static override: make basic object & bones transformations overridable rB20ae4f92
- ID static override: make most Image properties overridable rBbde39e51
- ID Static Override: add basic generic UI tools to control override of properties rB00078736
- ID Static Override: add basic UI feedback rBe36b5f00
- Merge ID static override, part I: core changes in DNA, BKE and .blend read/write rB39b8a330
greasepencil-object
- New Gauss bell curve preset rB4cbd5933
- Implement new cuve for multiframe falloff rBc7874196
- GP Build Modifier - Layer Masking support rBf86f826f
- New Grease Pencil Offset modifier rB0ecbe217
- New VFX Flip modifier rB2392dc82
- Dopesheet jump frame in active layer rBc29174ee
Other Projects¶
Documentation¶
Have a look at the 2.8 WIP release notes: https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.80
2017-11-25: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
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
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
Documentation¶
2017-11-18: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Add select similar custom bone shape rBcd1d9950
- Mikktspace/Cycles: Speed up the merging of identical vertices (speeds up rendering) rB119846a6
- Cycles: Add per-tile render time debug pass rB40f528a7
- Cycles: Add Volume Direct and Volume Indirect passes for volume-scattered light rBa0c02e4d
- Fix UV Projection Center Calculation rB759b50b2
- Remove default ‘Clear loc/rot/scale delta transform’ shortcuts rB556b13f0
- Fix AMD Thread-Ripper rendering performance issues. rB55696b56
- Cycles: Make per-object random value output also work for Lamps rB212a8d9e
- BMesh Py API: Expose color alpha rBaae8e211
blender2.8
- Eevee: SSS: Add cubic profile for the sake of completeness. rB936ddde3
- Eevee: SSS: Add SSS to the principled shader rBfcbb8e71
- Eevee: SSS: Add Christensen-Burley diffusion profile rB57c3fbd3
- Draw Manager: Support for Metaball Drawing rB88c88c46
- Eevee: Add SSS objects to probe rendering rBe70c563a
- Eevee: SSS: Add Quality settings rB289f9f42
- Eevee: Initial Separable Subsurface Scattering implementation rBf8b14305
greasepencil-object
- Enable antialiasing while drawing rBe6a0b442
- Smooth Strength and Thickness properties too rB0b7c2ef2
- Improve subdivide stroke while drawing rBaaed5779
- Check minimum tablet pressure rB5819ab66
- Cleanup UI and unused fields rB330febba
- New Smooth modifier rB8b97a539
- Remove smooth lower limit rB541d7415
- Smooth Thickness and Strength rB333e32e0
fluid-mantaflow
- Re-enabled bubble rise factor and some small snd particles fixes rB91ef5780
hair_guides
- Operator for generating hair follicles of the fur modifier rBc8ef6904
New Patches¶
- Cycles: Speed up split kernel builds by splitting svm_eval_nodes out of direct_emission functions D2916
- Notifier system (event publish/subscribe) D2917
- Temporary fix for T53257: Too many color management transforms to display in the menu D2918
- SceneRenderLayer Removal/Refactor D2919
- Add initial UDIM support to BlenKernel, Image Editor and Cycles D2921
Other Projects¶
- None
Documentation¶
- None
2017-11-11: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Small (7%) performance increase in metaball tessellation rBd95eabf0
- Cycles: better distance sampling for chromatic volume extinction (see link for comparison images) rBa466d7ae
- Cycles: add bevel shader, for raytrace based rounded edges (see the link in the commit message for example images) rB26f39e63
- Cycles: antialias normal baking if the mesh has a bump map rBd0af56fe
- Cycles: reduce closure memory usage for emission/shadow shader data (30% memory improvement) rB8a72be76
- Cycles: fix inefficient attribute map storage, saves 615MB in victor scene. rBcac3d4d1
blender2.8
- Manipulators: add a new ruler tool rB0260fad9
- Small speedup for viewport data caching (60% improvement) rBed555750
- Support Auto-Smooth in Edit-Mode rB5d70e847
- UI: show tool-tips for each tools shortcuts rBfbfda21f
greasepencil-object
Along with the noted changes below, there was a lot of work done to have the changes reading to be merged into the blender2.8 branch.
- Add smoothing to the stroke thickness rBfce610ee
- Add drawing parameter to adjust stroke stabilization rBa051c2e8
- Add more parameters to define how the stroke is stabilized rB526e2291
New Patches¶
- Optionally cancel render when a texture is missing D2908
- Experimental hashing lookup of ID’s, replacing linked list lookups D2910
- Cycles: Reducing amount of operations per intersect check (8% speed improvement) D2911
- Array Modifier: option to offset UV’s D2912
- blender2.8: support for metaball drawing D2914
Other Projects¶
- None
Documentation¶
- None
2017-11-04: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Implement a new automatic handle algorithm to produce smooth F-Curves rB8bdc391c
- Fix for T48988 - Enabling bbone easing for posemode. rBa819ef65
- Tracking: Create mesh from selected tracks only rBf1c72433
- Alembic: added frame offset property rB6099b262
- Alembic: exporting MetaBalls as mesh rB89eb05a8
- Curve Decimate: new tool to simplify bezier curves (access from the curve clean-up menu) rB80465ba3
- Heap re-insertion optimization for decimate and beautify (~70% faster for decimate, only ~10% for beautify). rB336885be
blender2.8
- Mesh Auto-Smooth Split Normal Support See results rB59f238ba
- Experiment with adding output file meta data from render engine rB5296c2e0
- Collections: Bring back simple visibility behavior rB7553523a
- Draw Manager: re-enable edit-mesh text overlay rB8277bee7
asset-engine
- Add drag’n’drop-linking of material onto object in 3DView rB92a06831
- Amber: Add icon of data type to ‘all data’ assets add operator rB0e256653
New Patches¶
2017-10-28: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: Disable progressive refine if denoising or save buffers is used rB6199a606
- Modeling: Speed up Polyfill Beautify by 33% rB6dfe4cbc
- VSE: draw grid lines at every second rBcc96cdd9
- Cycles: use AO factor to let user adjust intensity of AO bounces rB171c4e98
blender2.8
- Initial Tool System rBe1e7b6db
- Manipulator: move ‘Scale Cage’ to its own tool rBd3fafa30
- Tool System: add an experimental low-poly construction tool (see demo video) rBcd3c31b2
- Remove background images from 3D view and add them to the camera rBef96f36e
- Eevee: Volumetrics: Add volumetric support to alpha blended meshes. rB310f1db7
- Eevee: Overhaul the volumetric system. rB66d8f82b
- Eevee: Volumetrics: Add Volume object support. rB4f7665c8
- Eevee: Volumetrics: Support Smoke simulation textures rBbc7c0335
topbar
- Operator settings: Add simple “More…” button to show all settings rB3ebfd533
asset-engine
- Amber: Add a way to remove Amber repo, and initial step for previews rBe5243701
- Amber: Add initial real asset preview. rB7a68cd02
- Amber: General development working on filtering and adding assets rB0f72a291
- Amber: add new assets with relative path to repository rBdce7e076
- Use a more ‘generic’ way to select datablock to add as an asset rBb9f4a8d7
New Patches¶
Other Projects¶
Documentation¶
Note
As a reminder please read the Blender 2.8 Design Document
2017-10-21: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Render Settings: Add basic 4K render presets rBf4b5d0ba
- Animation: Make auto handle placement aware of cyclic extrapolation rB1cb884be
- UI: 3D View “View” menu reorganization rBa6fdec30
- UI: 3D View Mesh “Select” menu reorganization rBb82b55a3
- UI: 3D View, minor menu reorganization rBa8fb08b1
- UI: 3D View, undo menu reorganization rB0aa6d44a
- UI: 3D View, object menu reorganization rB351222c2
blender2.8
- Workspace: Move engines to workspaces and cleanup the Properties Editor UI rBe4f2b2be
- Change the default engine to the clay engine rB0bcb61b2
- Depsgraph: Make Copy-on-Write a command line option (can be used to enable modifiers and animations again) rB3e8abc05
greasepencil-object
- Rename Panel Primitives to Shapes rB5c3dcad7
- Add new Select Alternate operator rB07ec03d4
- Add rectangle and circle Grease Pencil primitives rB1363002b
asset-engine
- UI: Add one main ‘Edit’ toggle to Amber rB9fb243f9
- Amber assets: Expose more tools to the UI rBbac215bc
New Patches¶
- blender2.8: Support Marking Operator Properties as Basic or Advanced D2881
- blender2.8: Initial Tool System D2882
- blender2.8 RNA-property tagging using tags defined by struct (+ operator properties tagged ‘BASIC’) D2883
- Implement a new automatic handle algorithm to produce smooth F-Curves D2884
- Add eyedropper to colorramp node D2886
- Grease Pencil Branch (greasepencil-object) D2889
- Cycles: Add out of view dicing falloff and dicing camera D2891
- blender2.8: Initial work for groups in collections D2892
Documentation¶
Note
As a reminder please read the Blender 2.8 Design Document
2017-10-14: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Cycles: Schedule more work for non-display and compute preemption CUDA cards. rBe360d003
- UI: VSE strip menu reorganization rBe9d06f08
- Cycles: Speedup up tangent space calculation rB4fce3c7a
blender2.8
- Eevee: Improve cache performance by 13% rBf7db1a43
- Manipulators: add cage3d scale widge rBc90ec276
- Eevee: Probe: Add Cubemap Resolution option rBd4684210
greasepencil-object
- Enable MSAA for strokes rB049eb49f
asset-engine
- Add initial, very basic/proof-of-concept for drag and drop linking rB504287b9
New Patches¶
- VSE: Add new Blend Effect strip D2872
- Cycles: Allow rendering with GPUs an CPUs at once D2873
- Cycles: Speed up rendering by adding BVH8 D2875
- UI Reorganize 3D View Menus: View, Add and Object Menu D2876
- 2.8: New Viewport: Make the internal depth drawing of external engines optional (Proof of Concept) D2877
- 2.8: Layers: Add new layer evaluation meathod D2878
Documentation¶
As a reminder please read the Blender 2.8 Design Document
2017-10-07: Weekly News¶
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.
This Week in Blender Development is openly developed on Github so please report any recommendations, bugs, or PRs for this website there.
If you have idea for some great feature that you think should be part of Blender try making a post on https://blender.community/c/rightclickselect/
Tip
Remember, you can test any changes done in master or blender2.8 by going to the developmental builds download page
Changes to Blender¶
master
- Support CUDA 9 toolkit, and automatically disable
sm_2xbinaries rBf55735e5 - Vertex Paint: Add projection options (matching projection painting) rBb2a10fa6
- Weight Paint: disable multi-threaded weight paint when mirroring is enabled. rB88dd45e1
- Weight Paint: add some color blending modes rB6092ded1
- Vertex Paint: expose old Spray option as Accumulate (matching sculpt mode) rBf4b1f9b9
- Weight Paint: use brush falloff to blend results of the smear tool rBa4721c05
- Python: bump minimum version to 3.6 rBcbe07d98
- Cycles: CUDA faster rendering of small tiles, using multiple samples like OpenCL. rB6da6f8d3
- Sculpt Mode: Add 2D falloff option rBd8509b34
- Vertex Paint: use brush front-face setting rB8ef757df
- Vertex Paint: move normal falloff into the brush rB471be7e7
- Cycles: CUDA bicubic and tricubic texture interpolation rB2d92988f
- Cycles: OpenCL bicubic and tricubic texture interpolation support rBf61c340b
blender2.8
- Eevee: Lamps: Change ESM default exponent rBdc327e27
- Eevee: Shadows: Add Contact Shadows rBdfcdec91
topbar
- Add ‘x’ icon to active workspace tab to delete workspace rB33bed112
greasepencil-object
- Add curve options to Thick modifier rBef4c69a7
- Add new color pallet slot system rB7c9467ae
- Add a work in progress implmentation of FXAA rBcf87d575
fluid-mantaflow
- Fluid particles: UI update rB949316d0
- Big fluid particles update rBc1fb55b4