Hi all, Here are the notes for the developer meeting of 26 August 2019. With questions please ask either on the mailing-list bf-committers, in #blender-coders on blender.chat or directly at nat...@blender.org .
The next meeting is 2 September 2019 in #blender-coders on blender.chat at 18:00 CEST (16:00 UTC). Announcements ----------------------- * Release date for 2.81 is currently set to 14 November 2019 * Cut-off date (major changes and features in by) 13 September 2019 * Stabilizing branch creation 1 October 2019 * master branch will be open from then on, i.o.w. no freeze while 2.81 is being stabilized Projects ----------- * Quadriflow integration, cloth patches (Sebastian Paborg) * Cycles patch review continued (Brecht Van Lommel) New Features and Changes --------------------------------------- * Transform: new snapping options to snap to the center of edges, and perpendicular to edges. (Germano Cavalcante) * Transform: new option to transform object origins in object mode, found in the pivot popover. (Campbell Barton) * Viewport: side views now show the grid units again in the top left corner. (Germano Cavalcante) * Outliner: range select with shift+click now also supports extending the selection with ctrl+shift+click. (Nathan Craddock) * Grease Pencil: improved reproject operator, that does not suffer from stairstepping artifacts. (Lukas W, Antonio Vazquez) * New shaders for Cycles and Eevee. (Omar Ahmad) * Volume Info node, for convenient access to Color, Density, Flame, and Temperature attributes of smoke domains. * White Noise node, producing a random number based on input values. * Vector Math node: new operations, and show number of inputs depending on the operation. * Object Info node now has the object color. * User Interface: improved layout and text for save/close dialog. (Harley Acheson, Yevgeny Makarov) * Python API: support for displaying node sockets with square and diamond shapes, using the new `NodeSocket.display_shape` property. (Charlie Jolly) Other Projects --------------------- * Workflow improvement patches started by Brecht (Nathan Letwory) Weekly reports ---------------------- For the links to the weekly reports please refer to the devtalk meeting notes for this meeting at https://devtalk.blender.org/t/26-august-2019/9051 A phenomenal week to everybody! /Nathan _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers